Soothing gals

 

Recalling Mrs DLG

 

 

Under the bridges of Paris with you, I’ll make your dreams come true.

 

 

 

Portraits of Redhead Women

 

Posted: 01 Aug 2015 09:00 AM PDT

La photographe bosniaque Maja Topčagić centre son travail sur une partie précise de la population : des jeunes et jolies femmes aux cheveux roux. Sachant que seulement 1 à 2% de la population mondiale peut se targuer de posséder des cheveux d’une telle couleur, l’artiste parvient à magnifier les jeunes femmes immortalisées, à découvrir dans la suite dans une série de portraits.

 

source:fubiz.net

Donec eris felix…

 

 

Eu achei esta expressão, este olhar de Emma Watson muito especial, mas muito mesmo. Agora, você deve estar me perguntando : Mas porque as outras imagens? Bem, só sua imagem ficaria um tanto quanto solitária, a não ser que o tamanho fosse bem maior. E eu acho que esta foto é uma das melhores dessa doçura. Dá vontade de ficar namorando….  Mas existe uma razão para essa expressão, esse olhar tão especial….Consegue adivinhar?   Emma devia ter uns 20 anos nessa foto. Hoje continua bem jovem ainda, claro, mas já dá para notar algumas diferenças.  A coisa é assim, gente : O tempo passa, MESMO.

 

Playful Vibrant Rope Installation

Posted: 21 Jul 2015 10:00 AM PDT

L’architecte Inés Esnal a créé une installation ludique et originale. Baptisée Prism, elle est installée dans un complexe résidentiel de Brooklyn. Installée dans le hall de l’immeuble, l’oeuvre est constituée de cordes élastiques colorées, offrant un contraste avec les murs bétonnés et froids. Les formes géométriques de la sculpture évoluent selon le point de vue, donnant du relief au lieu.

 

Sono venuti da Pluto

 

Belas ao cair da noite

 

Honeymooners at last alone…

Suntanned, windblown…

Pleasant smells increase facial attractiveness

 

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Women's faces are rated as more attractive in the presence of pleasant odors.

New research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center reveals that women's faces are rated as more attractive in the presence of pleasant odors. In contrast, odor pleasantness had less effect on the evaluation of age. The findings suggest that the use of scented products such as perfumes may, to some extent, alter how people perceive one another.

"Odor pleasantness and facial attractiveness integrate into one joint emotional evaluation," said lead author Janina Seubert, PhD, a cognitive neuroscientist who was a postdoctoral fellow at Monell at the time the research was conducted. "This may indicate a common site of neural processing in the brain."

Perfumes and scented products have been used for centuries as a way to enhance overall personal appearance. Previous studies had shown perception of facial attractiveness could be influenced when using unpleasant vs. pleasant odors. However, it was not known whether odors influence the actual visual perception of facial features or alternatively, how faces are emotionally evaluated by the brain.

The current study design centered on the principle that judging attractiveness and age involve two distinct perceptual processing methods: attractiveness is regarded as an emotional process while judgments of age are believed to be cognitive, or rationally-based.

In the study, published in open access journal PLOS ONE, 18 young adults, two thirds of whom were female, were asked to rate the attractiveness and age of eight female faces, presented as photographs. The images varied in terms of natural aging features.

While evaluating the images, one of five odors was simultaneously released. These were a blend of fish oil (unpleasant) and rose oil (pleasant) that ranged from predominantly fish oil to predominantly rose oil. The subjects were asked to rate the age of the face in the photograph, the attractiveness of the face and the pleasantness of the odor.

Across the range of odors, odor pleasantness directly influenced ratings of facial attractiveness. This suggests that olfactory and visual cues independently influence judgments of facial attractiveness.

With regard to the cognitive task of age evaluation, visual age cues (more wrinkles and blemishes) were linked to older age perception.

However, odor pleasantness had a mixed effect. Visual age cues strongly influenced age perception during pleasant odor stimulation, making older faces look older and younger faces look younger. This effect was weakened in the presence of unpleasant odors, so that younger and older faces were perceived to be more similar in age.

Jean-Marc Dessirier, Lead Scientist at Unilever and a co-author on the study said, "These findings have fascinating implications in terms of how pleasant smells may help enhance natural appearance within social settings. The next step will be to see if the findings extend to evaluation of male facial attractiveness."

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The above story is based on materials provided by Monell Chemical Senses Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

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Journal Reference:

1. Janina Seubert, Kristen M. Gregory, Jessica Chamberland, Jean-Marc Dessirier, Johan N. Lundström. Odor Valence Linearly Modulates Attractiveness, but Not Age Assessment, of Invariant Facial Features in a Memory-Based Rating Task. PLoS ONE, 2014; 9 (5): e98347 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098347