Comments on: Visualizing emotions

Visualizing emotions

desjardins — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:22:27 -0800

How do you ask a stranger (not necessarily fluent in English) to recall and describe their private emotions? A research project visually displays anger, joy, fear, sadness, and love.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:44:22 -0800

I really like how it appears that everyone feels love in their whole body, and it goes out in every direction.

By: Phire

Phire — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:52:43 -0800

This is really really trippy and cool. I started reading one of the paragraphs on the front page without reading the process or any explanation, and it sounded like it was being said by someone really really frustrated trying to explain something as best they could, but just falling short. Very neat.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:08:30 -0800

I pink, pink, red, blue, yellow, teal this. All over my body.

By: LMGM

LMGM — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:30:36 -0800

Ambrosia: photos, please. This is a fascinating post, tho. It reminds me a bit of some other emotion-based visualization projects, like We Feel Fine.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:46:34 -0800

If you liked that, take a look at Fleshmap. It uses similar body visualizations concentrating on the emotion desire.

By: decagon

decagon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:31:53 -0800

If I could change my username to "new-seeing well-getting party," I probably would. Either that or "friends no others rejection sad to world."

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:33:55 -0800

This is a totally great idea. Good, succinct visual correlations. The drawings of the sensory locus and directionality particularly interested me. Very chakra-like. The colors! wow. Odd to have to wait for the concept of visualizing emotions by talking with strangers not fluent in English, when realizing this playfully, beautifully, creatively across a number of senses is long overdue in plain old English. The color palettes are nicely done. A sort of chromatography of feelings. When I went to google the site with the lovely color combos, ColourLovers, I found another site, Color Matters, that tries to tie emotions to colors but doesn't really cut it creatively. In Mahayana Buddhist symbolism, the Five Dhyani (meditation) Buddhas have colors that correspond to emotions in their unawakened form and aspects of enlightenment in their awakened form. white = ignorance/sloth ->all accommodating wisdom blue = anger -> discriminating awareness-> yellow = greed/pride ->equanimity/equality red = lust ->discriminating awareness/compassion green= jealousy ->all accomplishing There is also the Chinese medicine correlations [pdf] Love this post.. Thanks desjardins.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:21:00 -0800

s/emotions/parts and I'm far more interested in this project.

By: signal

signal — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:31:35 -0800

Gorgeous. Love the methodology as well as the result. Always hard to visualize non discursive attributes.

By: krautland

krautland — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:36:28 -0800

not necessarily fluent in English ya mean johnny foreigner?