Dad gets the kids while mom gets the ice creams in Bird Box Studio’s delightful Sketch Ice Creams.
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Of all the bad dreams I have been having every now and then, last night’s takes the cake. I won’t even elaborate on it because I’m trying my best to forget it as quickly possible. I woke up shaking and feeling sick and then immediately burst into tears. In some way I think I should feel relieved as I doubt I will ever dream anything else as bad as that but instead, I’m terrified to go back to sleep, fearing the same dream could return.
Paul Claudel
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Song of the day: “Never Stop” by Chilly Gonzales
Your Brain On Computers
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah — Todd Braver emerges from a tent nestled against the canyon wall. He has a slight tan, except for a slim pale band around his wrist.
For the first time in three days in the wilderness, Mr. Braver is not wearing his watch. “I forgot,” he says.
It is a small thing, the kind of change many vacationers notice in themselves as they unwind and lose track of time. But for Mr. Braver and his companions, these moments lead to a question: What is happening to our brains?
Mr. Braver, a psychology professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was one of five neuroscientists on an unusual journey. They spent a week in late May in this remote area of southern Utah, rafting the San Juan River, camping on the soft banks and hiking the tributary canyons.
It was a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects.
Cellphones do not work here, e-mail is inaccessible and laptops have been left behind. It is a trip into the heart of silence — increasingly rare now that people can get online even in far-flung vacation spots.
As they head down the tight curves the San Juan has carved from ancient sandstone, the travelers will, not surprisingly, unwind, sleep better and lose the nagging feeling to check for a phone in the pocket. But the significance of such changes is a matter of debate for them.
Some of the scientists say a vacation like this hardly warrants much scrutiny. But the trip’s organizer, David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah, says that studying what happens when we step away from our devices and rest our brains — in particular, how attention, memory and learning are affected — is important science.
“Attention is the holy grail,” Mr. Strayer says.
“Everything that you’re conscious of, everything you let in, everything you remember and you forget, depends on it.”
Echoing other researchers, Mr. Strayer says that understanding how attention works could help in the treatment of a host of maladies, like attention deficit disorder, schizophrenia and depression. And he says that on a day-to-day basis, too much digital stimulation can “take people who would be functioning O.K. and put them in a range where they’re not psychologically healthy.”
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Where’s your favorite place to buy clothes?
Oh man, probably Varga. The have a store in Santa Monica and one in West LA. If it wasn’t so expensive, I’d also say Speed on Melrose. Forever 21 and H&M make for good runners up though.
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“It’s about enjoying an unhurried creative process. As you build your collection, the pencils become your story and your experience.”
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The Japanese company Felissimo has created something akin to a ‘Colored Pencils of the Month Club’ but hold on, it’s way cooler than that. Each month for 20 months, 25 colors arrive by mail from Japan - packaged in like tones and hues. Each pencil is its own story. A unique hue with an inventive name to inspire the far corners of your creativity. Together, the colors suggest infinite possibilities.
“It’s about enjoying an unhurried creative process. As you build your collection, the pencils become your story and your experience.”
While the colored pencils from Felissimo are in fact art tools, they aren’t intended so much for creating art, but more for being art. Along with the pencils, Felissimo sends clear holders that can be combined to create an artistic design. You can choose one of the desktop holders, the freestanding “color wave” or my favorite (as shown above) the large modular wall display which, from afar, looks like a riot of color—only close up can one recognize the component parts. [via.]
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