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February 22, 2012
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A Brief History of the To-Do List and the Psychology of Its Success | Brain Pickings

…In fact, our brain appears to be wired to nag about unfinished to-do list items as uncompleted tasks and unmet goals continue to pop up into our minds. This is called the Zeigarnik effect and explains phenomena like earworms — when you hear only a portion of song, the song is likely to run through your mind at odd intervals as your brain struggles to finish it. Originally, the Zeigarnik effect was believed to be the brain’s way of ensuring goals are eventually accomplished, by prodding you into urgency until they are. But recent research has shed new light on the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious in our cognitive to-do lists.

[It] turns out that the Zeigarnik effect is not, as was assumed for decades, a reminder that continues unabated until the task gets done. The persistence of distracting thoughts is not an indication that the unconscious is working to finish the task. Nor is it the unconscious nagging the conscious mind to finish the task right away. Instead, the unconscious is asking the conscious mind tomake a plan. The unconscious mind apparently can’t do this on its own, so it nags the conscious mind to make a plan with specifics like time, place, and opportunity. Once the plan is formed, the unconscious can stop nagging the conscious mind with reminders.”

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February 1, 2012
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Counterfactual thinking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

oh my god my life.

Counterfactual Definiteness

MIT on Counterfactuals and Counterfactual Fallacies

Counterfactuals and truth on/according to Triple Canopy:

Much as the actual untruth of the proposition is irrelevant to the conclusions drawn in the result clause, so the truth of the crime (in name only) hardly matters by the time we come to the end of the sentence. Though out of time, the if clause sets in motion a provisional series of events. Something appears from what is now not not not the case—or, rather, from what was not not written. 

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June 26, 2011
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(via Rafaël Rozendaal Official Website - websites) Thinking and talking a lot about Net Art

(via Rafaël Rozendaal Official Website - websites)

Thinking and talking a lot about Net Art

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May 1, 2011
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Two To-Do Lists. For Finals and Myself.

1.

  • Print Digital Photo Final. First, make the images B&W. After anally color-correcting all the blues to the exact same hue, my professor prefers the B&W. Whatever, at least now I’ll have them both ways for myself. Does this mean I should print them on matte instead of luster?)
  • Print Elements Final. I’m gonna post it on here, despite it’s somewhat personal nature, and despite the fact that someone out there might be made uncomfortable by it. I just don’t care, I like the piece. I just need to see if the print center will let me print over the same sheet twice, to get the effect I’m looking for with it.
  • Gather all of my past Elements projects from this semester. Somehow get them all to my final crit. I need more hands, or to go back in time and document my work in a more portable way. By that I mean, I should have documented it period.
  • Gather semester’s drawing work for crit. This isn’t difficult. I finished my final project already.
  • Fix past elements pieces for better grades? If I have time, which I’m not sure I do by Tuesday.
  • Finish my first painting and start and finish the second one. This isn’t due till Thursday night, so I’m not really worried.

2.

  • Print the zine I originally made for Elements that my teacher didn’t like. I really like it and I spent all that time on it anyway, so I might as well print a bunch of copies.
  • PACK. I’m out of here in 8 days. Fuck. Bring shit to storage, throw out/give shit away, send crap home, dismantle collapsable furniture. Then clean my apartment. It’s desperately in need..
  • Email the woman about the Paris apartment, cause I need a place to live this summer.
  • Organize my life: my negatives/prints, my planner, my computer files, lightroom catalogues, my new apartment when I get back to Baltimore in June.
  • MAKE WORK MAKE WORK MAKE WORK. I need to shoot this summer. I need to I need to I need to. I need to shoot, and I need to write. I’m not working, so I have absolutely no excuse. Plus I’ll be in Paris, so a lack of inspiration is impossible.
  • Maybe I should practice my French with some Rosetta Stone exercises…

November 7, 2010
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Majoring in Photo

Concentrating in Book Arts

Minoring in Creative Writing

so, yeah. that’s the plan.

looking forward to it.

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