* (restored)
—-

 

1.

‘Do you ever wonder why some people don’t seem to “get” you?
Have you ever felt you just didn’t “connect” with a business prospect?
Are you enjoying lots of first dates, but second dates don’t happen?
The answers are literally staring you in the face!

‘The most unforgettable and unique feature of a human is his/her face. A trained face reader can read each facial feature and line on a face to develop an accurate profile of its owner. Each face reflects in its structures and lines its owner’s personal history, mental attitudes, intimacy needs, ethics, emotional style, and verbal communication. Almost anything you want to know about a person is literally as plain as the nose on their face. Face reading gives you the facts you need to make important decisions, and alerts your perceptions to develop a deeper understanding of every person you will ever interact with.’ –– Lin Klaassen, Facereadingsbylin.com

 

____________
2.

 

____________
3.

 

WESTERN STYLE FACE READING

THE FOUR BASIC FACE SHAPES

You can easily recognise a “watery”, emotional human being as the short and stocky type. If your facial shape and body structure is distinctly rounded and tending to a somewhat fleshy look, you’ll fall into this category. Another designation for you is an endomorph. (the entirety)

THE HAIR

Your hair is a measure of physical insulation, endurance and overall strength. If your hair is fine, delicate and silky, you are sensitive and also likely to be fragile physically especially if you are of a slender build. Thick wiry hair is an indication of your physical prowess and your resilience in life. You have great recuperative powers and may like a challenge in life.

THE FOREHEAD

The Forehead can be broadly categorised as follows – A wide forehead expresses your cleverness and practicality – being someone capable of executing duty diligently. This gives you high idealism and a wealth of ideas. A high rounded and deep forehead depicts your idealism, but with a focus on strong friendship. A narrow forehead is considered an obstacle to fulfilment,especially in social situations. Constraints in family life. Need to think things through. (cont.)

THE EYES

The late Princess Diana and Michael Jackson share a feature of the eyes. They possess floating irises also known as sampaku. The whites are visible under the iris. This indicates an inner turbulence – a person at odds with the world. Though spiritual in nature, they are hard to please or understand and have very high expectations of others. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln also shared these traits. (the entirety)

THE EYEBROWS

The eyebrow speaks of reputation, fame and temperament too. In many cases I have found a developed brow line also shows a high degree of dexterity or ability with the hands (engineers, electronics, civil engineers, drafts persons and architects). Individuals who are observant and who have to combine refined measurements with dexterity will have the brow line well developed. (cont.)

THE NOSE

The Ideal nose has a high, straight, full and fleshy tip with gently flared but protected nostrils. The fleshy tip indicates cordiality and warmth of personality. Deep empathy with others. Set high standards for themselves and are good mannered (Lailin). Oversized nose tip results in violent tendencies. The larger – the more prone to an act of violence. (the entirety)

THE PHILTRUM

The groove on the upper lip, below the nose is worth mentioning. It is called the philtrum. If it is clearly marked, deep and long, it augurs well for a strong and healthy energy levels and vitality. Flat, weak and unpronounced philtrums are a mark of reduced life force and drive.

THE MOUTH

If the lips are large it means an expensive and somewhat luxurious taste – but an expressive and generous temperament nonetheless. Often the large mouthed person can be very vocal under pressure, needing to verbalise, sometimes excessively, their dissatisfaction and frustration. (the entirety)

THE CHIN

This relates to the stamina of the individual and the stronger the jaw line the greater the degree of stamina and endurance. People with very strong jaw lines can sometimes be considered stubborn. If the jaw line exceeds the balance of other features in the face, don’t be too hasty in your judgement as this may simply mean a person who has strong convictions and who is not easily swayed by the opinions of others. (cont.)

THE EARS

The ears should exhibit good, fleshy inner and outer helixes. Thin and poorly shaped outer helixes may reveal diminishing health. (the entirety)

THE CHEEKS

In describing the ideal cheeks, Santa Clause may spring to mind with his rosy and shiny set of chubby cheeks. But according to eastern opinion, the excessively shiny cheek is indicative of digestive trouble. The cheeks are a pretty good barometer of health changes from time to time. Keep a close watch on your own biological gauge your cheeks. (the entirety)

 

____________
4.

 

TWENTY CELEBRITY FACE READINGS

1. The Face of Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy’s outspoken manner has worked both for and against the famous rock star but at least he is dead honest! We are also aware of his trying health throughout the last two years and this is due to the hand of Saturn. His physical condition may yet have to suffer even more because of this. Notwithstanding the success of his television show and record sales, financial concerns after 2006 will also cause quite a bit of strain on him and his family. He will now need to carefully assess his fortunes in the light of this declining health. At heart Ozzy is kind and loving but has always exceeded his capacity for temperance. He obviously works and plays very hard. If Ozzy can sort out his finances just now, the next eighteen months will continue to be very successful for him and his popularity will increase as well. Some karmic influence with his eldest child will create a breakthrough in that relationship.

(the other nineteen)

 

_____________
5.

Emotional Face Processing Research at Duke University (2:13)

Pet face reader Alan Ngan Shui Lun (2:07)

Lynn Scheurell reads Becky Waters (3:26)

Barbara Roberts reads Marianne (1:58)

 

____________
6.

 

CHINESE FACE READING: THE WOOD FACE

The wood type has a long face and long nose, a broad and high forehead and narrow cheeks. The eyes should have a kindly look, and the hair and eyebrows should not be thick or wiry. The forehead should be high and wide in wood as mental direction is important for this elemental type. Wood has the energy of growth, seeing the overall picture and a vision of the future, planning and seeing through projects. Wood types with balanced faces are leaders, administrators and organisers with strong ideals. They are capable of shouldering much responsibility and willing to work for the benefit of others. They need to grow and achieve, as this is the way they learn about themselves and their path in life. One of the challenges of the wood element is to be able to “see the wood for the trees” and not get enmeshed in structures. The Chinese say that a balanced wood face is a pre-requisite for Government. THE FIRE FACE The fire type also has a long face with narrow, prominent cheekbones, pointed chin and a more pointed forehead than the wood type. They may have freckles, red, curly or wiry hair, rapid speech and quick body movements. The fire element brings warmth and enthusiasm to the personality with a capacity to inspire and get people “fired up”. They are active and outdoorsy, goal centred, fast paced and adventurous. They can sometimes take crazy risks, and constantly seek stimulation and excitement. THE EARTH FACE Earth personalities are characterised by short square faces with distinct jawlines, sallow complexions, thickset bodies and deep voices. The features can be large, especially the mouth which relates to the stomach and intestines. Earth has the ability to be still and to build a solid base in life. THE METAL FACE The metal face is oval with widely set, chevron cheekbones and a pale complexion. Usually good looking, they have clear, shining eyes with a lot of energy coming out of them. The eyebrows are pale, the speech is clipped and the hair is usually straight. They are good advisers, lawyers and counsellors. Metal is the element of the mind and so they are strong willed and solve their own problems. A good sense of humour, lively outlook and hardworking attitudes are all facets of metal at its best. At its worst, it can become toxic with negative thoughts, cut off and caustic, with a “why is this happening to me?” mentality. Metal types also make good teachers and healers. When depressed, they suffer with diseases of the respiratory system and lower intestines. It is important for them to breathe deeply to let in the heavenly Qi and to make sure that they eat good quality food with lots of minerals, and stay away from junk food which can be difficult for them to eliminate. They tend to respond well to psychotherapy, homoeopathy, Bach flower remedies and treatment protocols which are rational and well thought out. To feel happy, they need to express their creativity or the bright shining metal gets dull and rusty. Classic metal faces: Charlotte Rampling and Lauren Bacall who used their metal creativity in their acting careers. THE WATER FACE Water personalities can be recognised by their round, chubby, soft faces and sometimes, rotund bodies. Large soft eyes are a water feature as is dark hair and colouring. Water people are quiet and gentle, much ruled by sensation and susceptible to any appeal to the emotions. They are good communicators and storytellers and are sensitive, and aware of trends either at work or society. They can be psychic and make good listeners, carers and counsellors. There is an aliveness and vitality about clear water which can attract what it needs like a magnet, unlike wood types, for example, who decide what they want and then make a plan about how to get it. If the water is clear, they have strong reserves and the ability to flow freely in any situation. If it gets stagnant through unexpressed emotions, the skin can develop a blue tinge with dark rings under the eyes. Chinese Face Reading for Health

 

____________
7.

THE EFFECT OF REALISTIC APPEARANCE OF VIRTUAL CHARACTERS IN IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS
by Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara and Rachel McDonnell

Virtual reality, in which people have particular or all their senses completely immersed in an artificially created world, is becoming important in areas such as education, medicine, entertainment, etc. Currently, major corporations such as Facebook, are investigating the efficacy of communication between avatars in virtual reality, since users will be able to modify the appearance of their own self-representations. However, the appearance of an avatar could influence the way a mes- sage is communicated: the seriousness of an emotional situation, for example, could be assessed as unimportant simply because it is com- municated with an unrealistic virtual character. This could have crucial consequences in applications, such as medicine and training, where the accuracy of transmitted information is vital.

When addressing the question of how the appearance of the virtual character influences one’s perception, the most common concern is that of visual realism. The uncanny valley, proposed by Mori, describes a negative response from the user who is observing a near photo–realistic character. While the existence of the uncanny valley is still an ongoing investigation, the most common problem is the variety of stimuli used to represent increasing levels of realism. In our research, we approached this problem by designing levels of visual realism of a character by changing its render style1, while keeping the realism of motion and shape constant.

The second concern is – does realism matter in an immersive environment? Previous studies have put more importance on matching behavior and appearance of the character, but proposed that the interaction between behaviour and appearance is complex. To study one such behavior which is commonly expe- rienced in real life interactions with people, we designed characters, who exhibit personality traits. We expected that the type of personality would interact with the character’s appearance, where negative person- alities might either lower the appeal of unpleasant looking characters, or might actually make them more appealing due to the match between appearance and expected behaviours. The novelty of our study is there- fore, that we looked at complex but naturally present behavior when observing other people (personality traits), and we limited the concept of realism to only changing the render style of the character, without modifying the actual geometry or motion of the virtual character’s model.

To establish a possible relationship between personality and render style in virtual reality and how it mediates the response towards virtual characters, we created an immersive, game–like scenario experiment, and displayed it to members of the general public, visitors to a Science Gallery Dublin2 exhibition. Because of this, we were able to collect responses on an exceptionally large sample (1106 individuals). This study provides a valuable insight into how the character’s appearance influences our response to virtual characters and the role the character’s personality plays in perception. Our contribution to the field extends the question in an engaging, virtual reality environment, and provides guidelines for this developing platform. (continued)

 

____________
8.

 

 

 

*

p.s. Hey. ** Joseph Mills, Hi. Well, you’ve shown up under your full name, but the commenting section section is very glitchy — some people can’t even see them, for instance — and irreparably so, apparently, so all bets are always off when commenting here these days, sadly. But welcome back! I hear you on the dread. I’m assuming it’s like here, i.e. masks, plastic partitions, and hand washing stations, and I guess in your case a lot of book sanitising? I hope it’s a surprising pleasure in practice. Possible? ** David Ehrenstein, I get the interesting as a phenom thing, and her using her considerable power for the good is a big, big plus. ** Misanthrope, Ah. I think manga/anime is a great form, but I hear you. Learning experience: yes, one can hope he’s learning. And, yes, do put some of your kind of generosity in service of yourself, buddy. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, B. The thing I’m working on re: Guro is very early on, so I’m not sure what it’ll be or what form it’ll take quite yet. I like that name: Jon_e. You know, it will very likely be that what you see as overly Bateman-ish will not seem so whatsoever to outsiders. It’s funny how that works. ** Right. Here’s a curious, very old, formerly dead post that I thought I would re-foist on you. Hopefully I did the right thing. See you tomorrow.

 

‘Guro, also sometimes called Ero guro (エログロ), is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence. As a term, it is used to denote something that is both erotic and grotesque. The term itself is an example of wasei-eigo, a Japanese combination of English words or abbreviated words: ero from “ero(tic)”, guro from “gro(tesque)”, and nansensu from “nonsense”. In actuality the “grotesqueness” implied in the term refers to things that are malformed, unnatural, or horrific. While items that are pornographic and bloody are not necessarily ero guro, and vice versa, the term is often used to mean “gore”—depictions of horror, blood, and guts.

‘Ero guro nansensu, characterized as a “prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself to explorations of the deviant, the bizarre, and the ridiculous,” manifested in the popular culture of Taishō Tokyo during the 1920s. Writer Ian Buruma describes the social atmosphere of the time as “a skittish, sometimes nihilistic hedonism that brings Weimar Berlin to mind.” Its roots go back to artists such as Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, who, besides erotic shunga, also produced woodblock prints showing decapitations and acts of violence from Japanese history. Ukiyo-e artists such as Utagawa Kuniyoshi presented similar themes with bondage, rape and erotic crucifixion.

‘Ero guro nansensu’s first distinct appearance began in 1920s and 1930s Japanese literature. The Sada Abe Incident of 1936, where a woman strangled her lover to death and castrated his corpse, struck a chord with the ero guro movement and came to represent that genre for years to come. Other like activities and movements were generally suppressed in Japan during World War II, but re-emerged in the postwar period, especially in manga and music.

‘There are modern guro artists, some of whom cite Erotic Grotesque Nonsense as an influence on their work. These artists explore the macabre intermingled with sexual overtones. Often the erotic element, even when not explicit, is merged with grotesque themes and features similar to the works of H. R. Giger. Others produce ero guro as a genre of Japanese pornography and hentai involving blood, gore, disfiguration, violence, mutilation, urine, enemas, or feces.’ — collaged

 

Find/search Guro art

Gurochan (currently defunct)
Twitter
reddit
Pixiv
Pinterest
Deviant Art
Instagram
Premium Hentai

 

Q & A

Posted byu/albert_ara
I do not understand how people can be into gore/guro Pornography.

If you do not know what that is, please don’t google it.

Guro is a category of porn (I hope always drawn, usually in an anime style) where for example someone is having sex with another person they just cut open their stomach and their intestines are gushing out while that person is in agonising pain. Just explaining this makes my stomach turn.

I just want to understand why someone would like that without being completely crazy (I knew a girl that was alright but liked guro, she wasn’t willing to explain why). I just want to understand why.

Posted by Crayshack
Most porn contains an idealized exaggeration of something that the consumer is attracted to in real life. For most people, this is only slightly exaggerated, but for others it is exaggerated past the point of the fantasy being something that is realistically attainable. For example, someone who is attracted to fit women might look at porn like this. At the same time, some people might look at a version exaggerated past the point they are likely to ever encounter such as this. It is the same concept, but taken to the extreme. When you enter the realm of drawn images rather than simple porn photos, you can take the extreme even further past the point of what is even physically possible such as this.

Unrelated to that, sadomasochism exists. It is completely understandable why some people might have difficulty grasping why someone might be a sadist or a masochist, but for me the reason is quite simple. When you experience pain, your body releases adrenaline. The purpose of this is so that you can feel the pain and know something might be damaged, but then have the pain dulled enough to continue whatever task you are doing. However, under the right conditions for some people they can trigger an adrenal release that is more powerful than the pain they experience. For these situations, it turns experiencing pain into a literal high. Once you have enough experiencing pain as way of accessing an adrenaline high, you build a Pavlovian relationship in your mind and start to enjoy the pain itself. Sadism is simply being the one on the outside.

When you combine the concepts, there is a very clear pattern. There is porn of realistic depictions of pain play that do closely resemble how most people do it in real life. Then there are depictions that go beyond what most might try in real life but are still physically doable such as this. Then you have the ones that are physically impossible (at least without killing your partner) such as this.

For both examples of the gradient, some people will realize that they are getting into weirder and weirder shit as they make their way down it. However, sometimes they won’t notice until they are pretty far along because there will not be many sudden jumps. Instead, they are one day asking themselves “What the fuck did I just fap to?” and find that even once they acknowledge it is fucked up it still turns them on because sexual attraction is not something decided by the conscious part of the brain.

Most people if you ask them, would not be able to articulate this process of how they got into what they are into. At best, they can give you some of the details they fixate on and what little things turn a gore pic from general gore to porn for them. However, that does not mean that they have not gone through this sort of development. Everyone goes through a similar kind of association when it comes to sexual attraction. They start by being attracted to something simple and common, but then they start seeking something similar to that initial influence and start building associative relationships. However, most people simply find themselves spinning back around to something else that is common (for example, someone instinctively attracted to breasts might have known a large breasted redhead when they were younger and they are now also attracted to redheads). There are just a few fringe groups that have managed to developed a sexual association with something more bizarre. Guro is not the only strange fetish you can find on the internet, it just might be the one that is the most disturbing to anyone who has not found there way to it naturally.

 

Show *
Except where identified in the image the artists are unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*

p.s. RIP Peter Green. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. I’ll check out the Rebekah Harkness story, maybe not the song. ** Joseph Mills, Hey, Joe! How great to see you! Is the new WordPress blog differently configured vis-a-vis commenting? I don’t even know. It sure is glitchier. Such a great post you made there, I am forever grateful and honored to be its location’s doer. I hope you’re doing really well. ** _Black_Acrylic, Pretty place you got out to. Yeah, I think with careful social distancing stuff, the outdoors is pretty safe, and it sure does the brain, etc. a world of good. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Everyone, Mr. Erickson has written about Brian De Palma’s film ‘Dressed To Kill’ to mark its 40th birthday. No doubt a keeper of a piece. And it’s here. I’m sure I’ll overhear the singles from that TS album in public locations somewhere, and I think that’ll be enough for me. ** Okay, then. I’ve been doing a re-investigation of Guro related to something I’m working on, and I thought I would share some of the more interesting and milder (trust me) things I’ve found out there if anyone else is game for the trip. See you tomorrow.