My trip to the Getty

i was there last may, such an awesome museum. The Getty's have stupid amounts of money.

when i was there they had one of yoko ono's pieces. it was just a phone. apparently she called it about once a week and talked to whoever picked up.

thats a sick place to go. the architecture looks amazing.

Hahahaha, That phone idea is great.

There was this one neat piece made by a popular video artist. He takes hi res video of people in these odd, intense personal situations, and the exhibit is the video played back is very slow motion so you can see the nuances and detail of their expressions. Pretty neat, but hard to capture with a camera.

ahaha, I'm sure that video would be awkward as hell. Just think of all the random weird things you do during conversations like that. That's one impressive place they have there.

very interesting architecture...cool post

Microcosm, there is a technique known as "Thin Slicing", it's not widely used by your average psychologist yet, but universities have been studying the technique for decades.

You can basically break down very complex social interactions by studying only a few minutes of video, and analyzing it frame by frame. With those few minutes, experts can view all the emotions people have with one-another during their conversation like contempt, respect, ignorance, etc... Using this data, that has been tested for over 2 decades, the researchers have achieved a 95% accuracy of predicting if marriages will fail - with only a 5 minute video slice of an argument!! They look for certain cues of emotions that typically result in failed marriages like contempt for each other.

Another example is that with as little as 5 second long videos of teachers teaching, students who never met the teacher were able to decide whether or not the teacher was good or not. And the results had a high correlation with the actual end-of-term surveys done on each teacher by their actual students.

The moral is that your face gives away so much information about yourself it's almost scary. That's what drives our ability to decide whether or not you like somebody with as little as a glance or short interaction. Your mind subconsciously does the thin slicing, and you end up with the result in a split second. We call it intuition.

The book is named "Blink!" for anybody interested.

The video at the gallery was meant to allow guests to view this behavior for themselves. It was neat.

I now know something to check out if ever head that far down the coast.

Very cool.

Holy Ottawa snow!

Hey, thanks for extra info man. That's a crazy study. The teacher one I understand, first impressions are everything, but the argument one is really interesting. Same with the face, if you study someones face there's so much you could learn if you know what to look for.

what does WMG stand for???? Is it public? I should invest...

very cool trip. We were just talking about the Getty estate in Art History, because apparently they ahve this classical Roman garden with all kinds of statues around it.

Wow

The Getty is so rad. I was there yesterday. I can't imagine being the curator for the facility.