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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"daydreams"”.
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Daydreams
<p>I wanted to make large platters using porcelain, addressing my experiences and personifications of social media and pop culture by illustrating them, using sgraffito, and a pallet of colored slips. Social media websites such as Facebook, twitter and countless message boards give us an …
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Making Space for Daydreams
… the creation of my exhibition Making Space for Daydreams, containing two large sculptures and a collection of conversational audio recordings. The sculptural artworks utilize interdisciplinary techniques and both digital fabrication and handcrafted approaches, including: woodworking, hand-cut …
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The relationship between daydreams and manifest needs
… the needs of an individual are expressed in his daydreams or fantasies. The purpose of the present study was, then, to investigate empirically the relationship between reported daydreaming behavior and manifest needs.</p>
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My pins are my dreams : Pinterest, collective daydreams, and the aspirational gap
In the early twentieth century, the emergence of national market and maturation of color printing technologies brought a revolution in advertising. Consumers received and collected many colorful advertising images and pasted them into scrapbooks. Nowadays, a group of visually-driven social commerce …
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Decolonial Daydreams │Taba Aiboli An exploration of the construction of female power Amongst the Lozi people
This thesis offers an exploration of the construction of female power amongst the Lozi people of the western province of Zambia, also known as Barotseland. Colonial empirical texts, contemporary literature on Lozi social history, heritage and public culture gloss over the matriarchal roots of Lozi …
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Mental Life and Medical Illness: A Study of General Practice Patients
… They did, nevertheless, report more negative daydreams (than the norm). Patients unable to maintain sufficient mental control reported more negative daydreams, but not more (or fewer) positive daydreams. More negative daydreams predicted lower mental health. Patients reported fewer positive …
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Leave Space
<p>Leaves segue into daydreams, which start with the observation of color, light, and transparent quality. Viewing commonplace objects on a daily basis, blindness overcomes, but the shapes of leaves, their colors and how light is seen through them is a captivating stronghold.</p> <p>The mind is a …
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Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy
… to reject hope but, rather, to educate our own daydreams, to learn and move forward. These chapters examine didacticism and the development of colonial metonymy in Thomas More’s <em>Utopia</em>, the way metaphor operates through time in Edward Bellamy’s <em>Looking Backward: 2000-1887</em>, and …
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Attention modes in consumer decision making: attending to the physical environment makes price more important
… environment-independent thoughts, feelings, and daydreams. The framework developed and tested in this research predicts how this spectrum of attention affects the relative weight consumers place on price information in their judgments and decisions. Six studies provide empirical support for the …
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Anglofile
… to an old English castle. However her weekly daydreams come to a halt when not only does she encounter her real-life Prince William, but Emily decides to make a return appearance after a nearly six year absence. Ultimately, Anglofile is the story of a girl too wrapped up in a culture that’s …
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Silhouettes of Alice
… rests, evoking the imagination, memories and daydreams - the writer's essential tools .
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Naves em rotas pelo procedimento cerâmico: uma jornada poética por micro e macro espaços
… to the introversion and extroversion of daydreams, in accordance with the poetic truth, reaching in continuity, an articulated understanding of art-life-art that removes dichotomous thoughts. To corroborate with interdisciplinary theoretical reflections, texts by philosophers and writers …
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Unlocking the psychology of character: imagery of the subconscious in the works of F.M. Dostoevskii
… 1 looks at imagery arising through characters’ daydreams, while the author’s recurrent theme of childhood memories is also analysed as a type of nostalgic daydream. Chapter 2 examines the ‘greyer’ area of dreamlike reality, which in itself operates at two poles: confusion between dream and …
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Consumption in the everyday imagination: how consumer culture gives shape to everyday thinking .
… of pleasurable, future orientated, desire-based daydreams created around consumer goods and experiences, where such goods are considered central to, and key resources in, the creation of imagined scenarios. I argue that the methodological framing of this dominant approach may restrict a broader …
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Interfacing with Dreams : Novel Technologies and Protocols for Targeted Dream Incubation
… shows that TDI can be used to influence daydreams as well as night dreams, and enables controlled comparisons of these brainstates. This experiment employs and validates a non-contact version of TDI, in which dream incubation is effective simply via timed audio cues on a Dormio web …