Monthly Archives: April 2011

Botox, Empathy, and the Rise of the Robots

Anyone who’s watched a few episodes of The Real Housewives can attest: it’s difficult to decipher emotions on a heavily Botoxed face. Now a new study suggests that Botox may also decrease its users’ ability to perceive the emotions of others. But there’s another irony: as we humans, in our anti-aging quest, get closer to smoothing our faces into inscrutable masks, robots are being built with more of these expressions and quirks. And they’re being built this way so that …

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Gerald DeCock: Magic and Muses

“I believe in magic.”

Gerald DeCock travels between creative worlds: hairstylist, painter, and now collaborator on two photography projects. A hairstylist by trade, his effortless-looking work appears regularly in photographs by Bruce Weber and Dewey Nicks, and he maintains a regular clientele of fashion, music, and art world insiders. A painter as well, his use of his apartment as a canvas is almost as well known as he is.

But for the past few years, Gerald has been quietly collaborating …

"I believe in magic."
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