Clara on the streets

Clara Abi Nader

 

Barbara van Zijll de Jong, El Cazador!

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"The question you never asked yourself" by Fred Eerdekens

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Why elite athletes can maintain their focus even under high pressure.

Psychologists and neuroscientists have now identified some of the common mental processes that mark out elite athletes such as Williams. And one of the most intriguing aspects appears to be a phenomenon known as the “quiet eye” – a kind of enhanced visual perception that allows the athlete to eliminate any distractions as they plan their next move.
 Intriguingly, quiet eye appears to be particularly important at times of stress, preventing the athlete from ‘choking’ at moments of high pressure. It may even lead to the mysterious ‘flow state’.
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The New Yorker

“Here’s your problem—it looks like you’re paying attention to what’s going on.” 

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Banksy

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Ella Frances Sanders

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Books Are...

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Bowling pin, enjoying a White Russian

Marc Johns

 

»Dividing Lines« by Lorna Simpson

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Mix of collage and embroidery by artist Rhed Fawell

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The Necronomicon by Skinner

The Necronomicon Pop-Up Book contains five pop-up spreads, each of which illustrates key moments in seminal H.P. Lovecraft stories: “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Shadow Out of Time,” “The Call of Cthulhu,” “At The Mountains of Madness,” and “The Colour Out of Space.”
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Musk accused of stealing farting unicorn

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has been accused of using an image of a farting unicorn for his business without permission or compensation.
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Tourists in the Vatican Museum by Francesco Bongiorni

In these works, the pieces of art and the tourists who are visiting the Vatican Museums, start to interact. They talk to each other, they help each other, they laugh and, sometimes, they get pissed off and argue. In short words: Art teaches people good manners.

 

David Rice’s Paintings

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Monumental Nobodies

Matthew Quick

 

“A Student’s Dream” by Mario Moore

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What We're Reading.

 Many therapists think that self-help books are useless. Gregg Williams, for example, says that change is hard, improvements happen unevenly, involve many steps and take a lot of time. Nothing even remotely close to what the self-help reads are preaching.
Luckily, Johan Deckmann has something that's way better. By day, Deckmann analyzes the human behavior; by night, he writes down his observations as titles for fictional self-help publications.

 

Word on the Street.

By John Fekner

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