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my next instrumental frontier
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Dominique Rollet on ARTchipel.com | Trois points sur le i on Tumblr - Récréations - Direction édredon. Photographie, papier et fil de coton, vendu avec cadre, 21x16 cm (2012) original available here >
Series of 20 pictures of the construction of a high school near Paris in the 1960s, reworked: collage and embroidery. The whole series can be found on artist’s Tumblr Trois points sur le i and available via ARTchipel
Using just wood and paint, Oslo, Norway-based artist Ole Martin Lund Bo created this anamorphic piece of art with a thought-provoking message. Called (Deceptive Outward Appearance), this installation seems as if someone just photoshopped those words onto an already existing image. Look at the other pictures (above), however, and you’ll soon realize that the three words have been carefully painting onto the white walls and wood sticks, becoming what seems like random black marks when viewed from different angles.
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‘Comfy cargo chair’ piece of furniture which does not predetermine the surface for the user. Designed by Stephan SchulzCredits: Images taken from the author’s website
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Someone asked me to give more information about PTSD, so I thought I would do a couple posts about it. After depression and substance abuse, PTSD is one of the most prevalent mental disorders. An estimate of 70% of people in the US are exposed to a traumatic event in their lifetime (car accident, combat, physical/sexual assault), but only about 14-24% of these people will develop PTSD. It has slightly higher prevalence for women (10-14%) than men (5-6%), but is much higher in soldiers than civilians. For instance, 30% of Vietnam veterans had PTSD and almost half of prisoners of war developed PTSD in their lifetimes.
It is important to note that PTSD cannot be diagnosed until 30 days after a traumatic event, since some of the symptoms are “normal” to be seen immediately following the event. It is their persistence that creates a problem.
The criteria for diagnosis of PTSD are:
Criterion A - Exposure to a traumatic stressor.
Criterion B - Re-experiencing symptoms.
Criterion C - Avoidance and numbing symptoms.
Criterion D - Symptoms of increased arousal (i.e. hyper-vigilance).
Criterion E - Duration of at least one month.
Criterion F - Significant distress or impairment of functioning.In the image above taken from the NIMH site, you can see the VMPFC and amygdala are highlighted. That is because the amygdala creates a fear response and the VMPFC is able to extinct a fear response. In PTSD, it is thought that this system is somehow hindered and the individual is unable to extinct the fear response.
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Chechnya, Inside, Up Close.
A photo essay about the lives of Chechen women on the website of The Boston Globe.
Photojournalist Diana Markosian spent the last year and half covering Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region. This year she started a personal project entitled “Goodbye My Chechnya” documenting the lives of young Chechen women as they come of age in the aftermath of war. She writes, “For young women in Chechnya the most innocent acts could mean breaking the law. A Chechen girl caught smoking is cause for arrest; while rumors of a couple engaging in pre-martial relations can result in her killing. The few girls who dare to rebel become targets in the eyes of Chechen authorities. After nearly two decades of vicious war and 70 years of Soviet rule, during which religious participation was banned, modern-day Chechnya is going through Islamic revival. The Chechen government is building mosques in every village, prayer rooms in public schools, and enforcing a stricter Islamic dress code for both men and women. This photo essay chronicles the lives of young Muslim girls who witnessed the horrors of two wars and are now coming of age in a republic that is rapidly redefining itself as a Muslim state.”
For more about the treatment of women by the current Chechen authorities, go here. For something about the perils of working toward change, read this.
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Scenes from a wedding in Grozny, Chechnya’s capital. By Diana Markosian.
Here are some photos of Tom Cruise from the June issue of W. In an interview with the magazine, all of which you can read here, Tom talked about how he used to love to dance as a teenager, why he decided to make his character Stacee Jax in his new flick Rock of Ages be more serious, and that Stacee’s monkey in the movie was his idea. Ah can you believe that Tom is almost 50? He looks bloody amazing these photos!
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