I like these works a lot, for in addition to their pleasurable juxtaposition of material and design, they suggest that the mysteriousness of taste is somehow navigable by intellect.
In his view, the best collages combined the "memory aspect" — recognition of the source material — with the pleasurable violence of transformation.
Interestingly, recent research finds that "wanting" material things is more pleasurable than actually "having" them.
Over the past six months, I've redirected my impulse to narrate my day into my journal, and it's a more forgiving and pleasurable medium to work out my material.
Value attributions occur when students evaluate their engagement with tasks, materials and contents as inherently pleasurable and/or instrumentally useful for attaining further-reaching goals, for example, a successful graduation.
And if there are others that work on new compounds that give new sensations or new designs we may be able to take advantage of what they're doing but use a new material and maybe advance some of their work if our materials are more skin-like and more pleasurable.
Is waiting for an experience more pleasurable and less aversive than waiting for a new material possession?
Many of these projects focus on how we put on condoms, reducing psychological barriers to usage, innovative new materials, or lubricants and gels to make them more pleasurable.
His works are pleasurable and meant to be surprising in the straightforward sense that hard materials are used to create soft, fluid, complex movement.
People's sensorial or psycho-physical judgments (by touch) of the roughness, softness, slipperiness and warmth of 37 material samples are reported as well as their affective judgments, such as how pleasurable, exciting, indulgent, the samples felt.
"This will be achieved by combining the strength of graphene with the elasticity of latex to produce a new material which can be thinner, stronger, more stretchy, safer and, perhaps most importantly, more pleasurable".
