Amber Larson, CC Liu, and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; the artist Saara (Arkiharha) |
| Saara (Arkiharha) pondering art and free expression in Finland (Weekday-Illusion) |
The fun Finnish cartoonist,
devi, and graphic artist noticed our coverage.
Saara is an obscure but prolific talent. We love her work, which can be found at many outlets like
such as Arkiharha and
such as Weekday-Illusion (our nod to awkward beauty
pageant contestant Miss South Carolina).
She is expressing herself in her work and in a letter to us:
"Wow, it's crazy to find a post full of my pictures and comics! Nice analysis, too. Maybe I kinda succeeded to pass on my thoughts in a visual way, because you get the idea from most of them -- even when they are written in Finnish!"
See Wisdom Quarterly coverage here:
My cartoon ART is your perception
REPLY: Saara, send in art you are eager for the world to see, like your beautiful sketches of the Buddha. We would be overjoyed to feature more.
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| Comic vignettes as art "Kuva" (Saara/Arkiharha/flickr) |
If you have "class" you know a bottle of "fine" wine and classical string instruments like a Stratavarious are the only things to sip or listen to. But you're wrong. Science says you're wrong. So surely when you add that only oil on canvas can be art and not no people pleasing cartoony comics, you're wrong, too. Don't tell us. We like classical. Tell it to science:
The way to get people to better enjoy
craapy fermented grape juice that sells for thousands of dollars is to say it sells for more. Just a better bottle and a price change, or serving it with an elegant story of its venerable origins, its pedigree, is enough to make it "taste" better. How classy of study participants.
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| Can comics and webcam colors be called art? |
fMRI scans prove bad alcohol actually tastes better when it's two-buck-chuck
krup is said to be something more expensive and classy.
Expensive wine tastes better. Let's call it "
neuromarketing." Marketers have known about this effect for years regarding other foods. Before they started loading fruit juices with added flavorants (cynically called "natural flavors"
not because they're natural but because they synthetically mimic something "natural" rather than something artificial) and artificial colorants.
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| My doggy, my doggy...oh, you've come back! "Sarjis 12.8" (Saara/Arkiharha/flickr) |
Flavorless red colors make things taste better. Blindfolded we might not be able to tell a difference or say which drink is what fruit. We use color as a clue, and it works. The flavor of dull tasting juice is brightened
just by brightening its color. Such is the illusion we live in and the hypnotic states we fall into every other moment.
If we would meditate, we could emerge and be dehypnotized.
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| Hungry ghost, psychic ("Bobb") |
But we love our illusions, delusions, and dreams. And we would directly-personally-verifiably find that we are
(w)holistic beings, not mind (intangible processes)/body (senses) possessing spirits like it seems.
Today a study is making headlines saying that an old Stradavarius violin sounds no better than a modern one. In fact, if one believes this study, the modern one sounds better. More musicians prefer it. (But maybe they are voting for the one they think is the Strad which is the one they fear the study would find inferior?)
The Distortions  |
| It's all how we look at the world we are creating each and every without realizing what we're choosing. Art can sensitize and teach us as we clear our mental perception of the distortions/perversions (Wisdom Quarterly). "Hiljattain päivitetty" (Saara/Arkiharha). |
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| Audio Test: Can we tell the difference between expensive and overpriced instruments? |
