The Google Embedded Eye
We know Google knows more about our neighbors than we know about ourselves — but when hard numbers are presented against Google — we begin to fill its pricking chill with no escape hatch available:
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Correcting the Slit-Eye
In “Mocking the Slit-Eye” we investigated the racist and stereotypical tendency of some cultures to make fun of the “Asian Eye” by pulling down the skin next to the eye toward the ear to create the “Classic Asian Look.” As you can see below, the “Slit-Eye” is considered such a problem for some Asians that they surgically “correct” what nature and genetics provided straight out of the box. Teen sensation Miley Cyrus was even caught making the “Slit-Eye” gesture on camera.
Miley Cyrus Captured in Racist Slit-Eye
Miley Cyrus was recently caught in a photograph making the universal, infamous, and insulting “Slit-Eye” gesture to condescend the form of the Asian eye:
Can Eye Doctors Be Colorblind?
One of my blessings is the ability to expertly discern color even in the most complex variations of hues and tones. If there’s such a thing as “Super Color Perception” — I have it in spades. I always do extremely well on “What Number Do You See?” color exams like the one you see below. Can you see the number 29 in the image? If you have red-green deficiencies, you will see 70 instead of 29. If you have total colorblindness you won’t see any numbers.
Mocking the Slit-Eye: Racist or Stereotypical?
Some disturbing photographs have peeled the eyes off of Internet readers over the last few days as the Asian “slit-eye” gesture has made the news. The first image to hit the eye was this one of the Spanish basketball team in Beijing mocking the “slit-eyes” of their host nation:
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The Nature of the Designer
The nature of the designer in society is to give shape and form to the abstract.
That means if an abstraction requires an unidentifiable form, the designer must work to provide cultural clues and provoke shared norms to make that unfamiliar form recognizable in the abstract unknown.
The designer’s strength is in the semiotic — but the world runs on the semantic — and so the designer must become the ultimate translator between the real and the imagined.
That transliteration of economy leads to a richness of the human spirit and a flying out of the depths of worldly compromise.
If form is a factor that shapes vision, then the designer constructs the bones of the living.
Without design, we collapse into ourselves for a lack of infrastructure and we suffer the loss understanding indicating what we are and where we are going.
Big Bloody Eyeball
Today I will have an eye exam. I always leave the doctor’s office looking like this:
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