applied hedonics

a pine nut in hot white bread

[appliedhedonics]

Stockholm to Turku

[valentineua]

The Yellow Scale (1907) - František Kupka (1871-1957)

[gottaseesomeart]

Vivian Greven’s suggestive paintings pair classical forms with digital-age aesthetics. The artist renders her subjects with soft, smooth brushstrokes and pastel hues. As she draws a connection between the idealized forms of Greco-Roman sculpture and the performative images on social media, Greven investigates the timeless pursuit of beauty and its attendant disappointments.

[annaxmalina]

{2015} from laser dreams  (digital photography, laser prints, collage)

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[humanoidhistory]

NASA's Reduced Gravity Simulator at Langley Research Center, 1965.

[annaxmalina]

{2025} _pulse

[jareckiworld]

Tuula Lehtinen — Van Huysum VI (oil on canvas, 2023)

[cosmonautroger]

Carol Kaye

[martineden666]

Photographer Elizaveta Porodina

[venusimleder]

“Familiar”, 2003.

Ph. Anneè Olofsson

[appliedhedonics]

From the series Tompo, Alexey Vasilyev

[joeinct]

Peter Sellers, Photo © Philippe Halsman, 1966

[annaxmalina]

{2026} autophagia

[gacougnol]

Nico Jesse (Dutch, 1911 - 1976)

London, 1959

[laeliatenebrosa]

[annaxmalina]

{2026} rouge écarlate

carving imagined kisses on the inside of the skin, trying to hold onto the pulsating fever, while felt inner time and performed outer time have split and are drifting apart with increasing force :: "She is 'dressed in purple and scarlet,' (...)" -𝘙𝘦𝘥 - 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳, p.83 :: "Eros comes out of nowhere, on wings, to invest the lover, to deprive his body of vital organs and material substance, to enfeeble his mind and distort its thinking, to replace normal conditions of health and sanity with disease and madness. The poets represent eros as an invasion, an illness, an insanity, a wild animal, a natural disaster. His action is to melt, break down, bite into, burn, devour, wear away, whirl around, sting, pierce, wound, poison, suffocate, drag off or grind the lover to a powder. Eros employs nets, arrows, fire, hammers, hurricanes, fevers, boxing gloves or bits and bridles in making his assault." -𝘌𝘳𝘰𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵, p.148 ~

[appliedhedonics]

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