Core77’s editors spend time combing through the news so you don’t have to. Here’s a weekly roundup of our favorite stories from the World Wide Web.
Temporary Highs
Temporary Highs is an exhibition that brings together artists who are exploring how the structure of the internet enables reward-seeking behavior in a compulsive cycle of (over-)sharing and consumption. While the physical show opened this week in New York and will run through July 31, the works can also be viewed on temporaryhighs.net, an extension of the show online that rewards users for engaging with its content.
—Carly Ayres, columnist, In the Details
Workshop Reorganization
Today I’m reading woodworker Steve Branam’s 4-part blog series on how he designed and built the organization system for his workshop.
—Rain Noe, senior editor
Rapping, Deconstructed
If you’re into good infographics and love rap (and even more if you don’t like rap), this illuminating look at rhyme phrasing and patterning in rap lyrics might change your life. Jump on the Spotify playlist too. ‘Cause it’s Friday, and I don’t care if you got shit to do.
—Kat Bauman, contributing writer
The Netflix of Dreaming
<span id='d17ff7_4283’ contenteditable='true’ class='caption public_hide’></span></div>A short film on Luciding, a tech startup in Kiev, Ukraine engineering a wearable that allows you to lucid dream whenever you wish. All Orwellian jokes aside, the report reveals a few strange truths regarding our evolving relationship with technology and certain sociological consequences of our particular time in history.
–Allison Fonder, community manager
On Mood & Architecture
I’ve been enjoying a series of interviews with architectural historian Beatriz Colomina, on the ways in which our everyday surroundings impact our emotions. Architecture and mood are “more than intertwined,” says Colomina, “they are inseparable…because our sense of safety is very much at the basis of architecture…every form of architecture has been the result of a fear, of a need for protection from some kind of danger whether it’s real or imagined.” The four parts explore fear & creativity, anxiety & awe, health & hedonism and entertainment & control.
—Alexandra Alexa, editorial assistant
http://www.core77.com/posts/53649/A-Startup-Seeks-to-Make-Lucid-Dreaming-as-Accessible-as-Netflix-and-Exploring-How-Architecture-is-Designed-to-Affect-Our-Mood