Two quick videos showing makeup, lighting, photoshop and commerce in time-lapse action:
Tag: beauty
See that hair
Lisa Wade chose these images — one you may find beautiful, the other disgusting — to illustrate a psychological notion. She writes: “Hair in the drain, like dirt in the house, is out-of-place. It doesn’t belong there. In both cases, our reaction is disgust. Hair on the head, in contrast, is beautiful and becoming.”
Beauty in the Gonads
Beauty — the concept and the experience — fascinates some researchers: “Beauty: In the Gonads of the Beholder — and the Beheld,” Peter T. Ellison, Hormones and Behavior, vol. 53, no. 1, January 2008, Pages 11-3. (Thanks to Amy Brand for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Harvard University, explains in the final […]
Aesthetic Judgment of Beauty (1)
“Neural Correlates of Beauty,” Hideaki Kawabata and Semir Zeki, Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 91, 2004, pp. 1699–1705 (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1152 /jn.00696.2003). The researchers, at University College, London, report: A comparison of ugly versus beautiful produced activity in the motor cortex bilaterally, whereas the contrast ugly versus neutral produced no activity. Thus the areas that are involved […]