Hey guys! Just wanted to share quickly a few things I found, while looking for inspiration on the Net for a project of mine.
I found the brands "Dolce & Banana" and "Cupcake couture" and I can say "me likey!"- they're creative and cool, and I like their marketing strategy ((; Here is the Logo of "D&B"(a company for hand made stuff: www.dolceandbanana.com) and some of the products of "Cupcake couture" (www.cupcakecoutureusa.com)
this cupcake is called Berry Wang
this one is called Yves Saint Lemon
I also liked the design of the entrance of Tim Burton's exhibition @ MOMA in NY, which you can see on the picture above :)))
and the Army Smart design...
And some creative stuff I like that probably you're all familiar with...(for more check this link: http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2009/11/80-cool-creative-gadgets-for-daily-life.html)
Last, but not least, I can't help, but share the following and here I'll stop writing, because "a picture is worth a thousand words". Here are some examples of how creativity could save humankind
banana guard box
the "must have" home light
can't apply your lipstick properly?...you just need to get that...thing :S
just in case it's raining...
hat with a bonus: cheek-hat
summer's coming girls...here's a very nice pair for all occasions...
I have reoccurring Déjà vu that is the original inspiration of today’s topic. Being a psychologist is really nice and fun and it’s kind of my dream profession (along with ice-cream manufacturer and Caribbean Islands pirate). However, there is a catch. Actually I decided that I’m writing this article on Saturday when my strange Déjà vutook place twice. Here’s the thing- every time I meet new people they seem happy to be introduced to me, but only until the moment they hear what is that I do. As a brainwashed scientist I couldn’t help but structure this experience in the form of a small study. My improvised study was purely qualitative at the beginning, but with the time it became quantitative in nature, with a large representative sample of participants. Here is the mean reaction that I’ve managed to estimate even without the help of SPSS:
“You’re a psychologist!!!- The person usually says with a fake high-pitched voice. Then a fake smile follows, which is accompanied by eyes widening, and afterward, again using the fake voice the person typically says: “Now I have to be really careful what I say”- nearly 99% of the people try to make this sound like a joke (with no success) and 1% express their true frustration. I suspect that the initial 15 minutes are literally spent in a hard attempt to look “normal”.
The second thing that people say is “what is my psychological profile? Did you figure me out?” When I reassure them that I don’t work for free in my spare time the usual reply, which is always expressed with suspicious voice is “You couldn’t help but analyze! Now you’re thinking something about me! Tell me what it is!” In other words, with the presence of a psychologist, almost everybody get a wrong impression and weird atmosphere is formed, especially before the necessary several reassurances from my behalf that- “No, I’m not labeling, psychoanalyzing, diagnosing, categorizing.” However, here the study gets a bit more complicated and the sample could be divided into two categories. Nearly half of the people are relieved to hear that they’re not being psychoanalyzed. But there is the other half, that feels irritated by that fact, and they insistently start sharing intimate details of their lives, hoping that they could get a nice bonus of a free psychological profile. Some even get further, and start talking about friends and relatives, but I’m not getting into that now…
However, the thing that really irritates me, and not because I hear it, but because I don't have such abilities is "You’re looking at me like you’re scanning me”. I don’t know if people are biased and they see scanners in the face of psychologists, or I really look like an HP product, but it’s an interesting observation. I tested it and found out that when being psychologist-aware most people become delusional and see scanners. I’ve made a control study, in which I’ve pretended to be a cashier, or a gardener, or a professional sky-diver, and people do not notice the scanner…(or it might turn off when I'm pretending…can’t be sure). The only ability (disorder) that I’ve obviously developed is a research disorder of categorizing and automatically SPSS-ing data from the everyday life. In fact, developing this condition was the price to pay for being a freaking first class student (…just a small vanity moment…)J. Anyhow, if someday I develop scanning abilities, I promise to tell the world about it. I’ll write a letter to Oprah maybe, or I’ll go to work for NASA or something. Until then, I’m just being a usual everyday psychologist with ordinary terrestrial abilities…boring… yeah I know. Now that I’m thinking about it…I have to go guys, sorry! I have new skills to work on…
P.S. A bonus study that I made is “estimating the percentage of people that correctly identify my profession” The results show that 0% of the participants guess correctly”. Sometimes that makes me feel like a psychologist under cover. Cool ha? These days someone almost got me by guessing that I'm a helicopter pilot! :)))
