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ooooohh, aaaaaahhh! APM
Battle of Branchage from seeper on Vimeo.
This blew my mind when I saw it. Thanks to Richard Perry for passing it along. A canvas like this is brimming with potential. Staring at the glasshouse, I can't help but think what a great canvas that would make. I have no idea what it would do to traffic patterns on Southfield Freeway, though. Enjoy.
Follow up: since posting this yesterday, I've developed a healthy obsession with these large-format projections. There are some more examples here on UrbanScreen's you tube channel. This is not the same group that put together the projection above, but there are some great examples there.
Sweatshoppe, The Landing (video-painters)
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In an effort to establish new platforms for public art and performance, the multimedia duo SWEATSHOPPE has developed a new interactive technology that enables them to explore the relationship between video, mark making and architecture. Dubbed "video painting", this technology allows them to essentially "paint" video onto any surface. Shooting in Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, the duo spent weeks documenting their work in urban settings to create "The Landing" the first in a series of episodes that showcases their work as artist, technologist and performers.
Berlin's Festival of Lights
Berlin's 5th annual festival of lights is running at the moment, and
has already yielded some mesmerising photography. City landmarks are
staged impressively by means of light, events, projections and
fireworks. Complementary to the festival, there are numerous cultural
events dealing with the subject of light. Wish I could see in person,
but in the meantime I'll have to content myself with these offerings
from Flickr. Images by Mr 172, Mind Produktion, Jøy and C Drewing.
defense mechanisms
On posts about mental health disorders, at the bottom of the post I'll refer to where it is specifically listed or generically referred to in the DSM-IV-TR, the manual used to diagnose mental disorders. This particular post doesn't refer to a diagnosable mental health disorder but a subconscious behavior that all humans exhibit.
Defense mechanisms are strategies that are utilized by individuals to cope with reality and maintain self-image. Unlike most of the psych sunday seven posts (except phobias) defense mechanisms are not rare and are very common. They do not describe a particular psychological disorder, but an action that all individuals engage in, in the protection of the ego. The more accurate term is ego defense mechanism. When someone hears another individual say a common phrase such as "he is in denial," what they are really referring to is an ego defense mechanism.
1) Sigmund Freud, considered the father of modern psychology, created a structural model that included three parts: the id, the ego and the superego. The id refers to the childish, primitive, impulse and pleasure-oriented part of the psyche that cannot delay gratification. The ego refers to the moderator that seeks compromise between the id and superego. The superego refers to the area with socialized standards of what is good and what is bad. It is the area of the psyche that aims for perfection. All three form the triad that makes the psyche. When anxiety becomes overwhelming, or a struggle between the id and superego occurs, the ego employs an ego defense mechanism to "protect" the individual. The primary functions of an ego defense mechanism is to minimize anxiety, protect the ego and maintain repression.
2) The types of anxiety that Freud identified that ego defense mechanisms seek to assuage include: neurotic anxiety (unconscious worry about the id "taking over"), reality anxiety (fear of real world events) and moral anxiety (fear of violating one's own moral principles).
3) Ego defense mechanisms can be divided into categories or levels. George Vaillant characterized them as such: Level I - psychotic defenses, Level II - immature defenses, Level III - neurotic defenses and Level IV - mature defenses. Level I includes ego defense mechanisms that are often pathological and include denial (refusal to accept reality because of its potentially threatening nature). Level II occurs more often in adolescents, as Level I is often seen in children (though all can engage in denial). Level II includes projection (delusions about reality and falsely attributing unacceptable feelings, thoughts or impulses to another person) and acting out (dealing with emotional stressors and feelings through actions rather than reflections, without awareness that the feeling is what is causing the action).
4) Level III includes defense mechanisms that are considered neurotic (functional mental disorders) but are still quite common in adults. Some of those include displacement (the transferring of emotional conflict and feelings from one person to a less threatening person), intellectualization (concentration on the intellectual components of a situation or facts instead of the emotion), rationalization (the use of self-serving explanations instead of confronting the true emotional conflict) and reaction formation (dealing with emotional conflict by substituting behavior, thoughts and feelings that are diametrically opposed to the unacceptable thoughts and feelings--which are often repressed). Level IV occurs in emotionally health adults and include introjection (identifying with an object so deeply that it becomes a part of the person's identity) and sublimation (transforming negative feelings into acceptable behaviors i.e. sports, exercise etc.).
5) There are many more ego defense mechanisms outlined on a variety of sites. There isn't a complete census on the total number of ego defense mechanisms, but the DSM-IV-TR outlines 27 of them. Here is a link to view more: ego defense mechanisms.
6) Some people use the term coping mechanism interchangeably with defense mechanism. An ego defense mechanism refers to the original definitions as theorized by Freud and are a type of coping mechanism. Coping mechanisms, in general, can be conscious or subconscious. As stated above, clearly some defense mechanisms go into play without the conscious knowledge or acceptance of the individual.
7) Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna Freud, wrote a publication in 1936 called The Ego and Mechanisms of Defence where she introduced the concept of signal anxiety. She believed that a signal was occurring in the ego of an anticipated tension, not a response to a conflict or tension. She believed it was a response, or protection mechanism that could potentially protect the individual from danger or threat to equilibrium. The ego defense mechanism would push the id's impulses into acceptable forms, whether the block occurred consciously or subconsciously.
DSM-IV-TR - Glossary of Specific Defense Mechanisms and Coping Styles, under Appendix B - Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study
Related Blog Posts: folie à deux, phobias, pibloktoq
This post is for informational/educational purposes only and should not be used to self-diagnose. No diagnosis of an individual is implied by any post.
How cool is this? 3D Projection on a wall - Frankfurt 2009
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This is from a Volvo campaign in Frankfurt 2009
3D projection and production by NuFormer in coorporation with Saatchi & Saatchi.
Animated Digital Wallpaper Doesn't Require You To Dress as Tron Guy - digital wallpaper - Gizmodo
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