tooyoungforthelivingdead:

Credit: Laurent Laveder

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mineralspirits:

Photographer Julian Wolkenstein puts together a mirror image of the left and right half faces of different people. The result is a very different person.

This is a series of photographic portraits completed in 2010. The subjects were specifically cast for their individual facial features. They were photographed front to camera and in the same position. They were asked not to express emotions or character.

This initial study focusing on facial symmetry, is part of a larger piece revolving around facial features, facial proportions and facial symmetry.

-Wolkenstein

iheartmyart:

Revital Cohen (Israeli, born 1981), Design Interactions Department (est. 1989), The Royal College of Art (UK, est. 1837), Phantom Recorder (concept, 2010), Glass, leather, electronics, steam, 11.8 x 19.7 x 13.8” (30 x 50 x 35 cm), Photo Credit: Revital Cohen.

When a limb is lost, the mind often develops a phantom sensation. The phantom owner is suddenly endowed with a unique and personal appendage, invisible to others and sometimes capable of extraordinary hyperabilities. As strategies for repair focus on practical solutions, they tend to overlook poetic functions of our body, but what if one could record and keep their phantom sensation, to be awoken on request? A novel peripheral nerve interface allows regenerating axons to grow into microchannels incorporating embedded electrodes. This neural implant enables sensations to be inserted to the device, or for activity to be recorded from movements. Could we use this technology to record illusions of the mind? What if our imagination could be captured through our nerves?