Woah, figures 7 and 8 blew my mind. This reminds me of the various Pinterest boards I've curated in the past. I would set a theme and try to collect visual items in that theme.
Sometimes I could not describe the theme in mind clearly, for example "foresty-earthy suburban adolescent feelings with little-to-no ruggedness but with a bit of a punk edge". Of course, no single image could fulfill the entirety of that theme (probably), so it's fascinating to wonder how aesthetic preferences emerge in the mind, though it's possible that with a description like that another person could filter images to match that description.
Are we combining various specific preferences (the color green, for example), or are we driven by the emotional flavor of a whole aesthetic object (a haze-covered mountain range evoking nostalgia for childhood hikes with siblings leading to the specific preference for pine trees leading to the specific preference for the color green, etc), basically top-down, bottom-up or a combo? Just some thoughts...
Yeah, this is applicable to huge swathes of Internet culture. Tons of Pinterest boards, tumblrs, and subreddits are just collections of images that fit a particular aesthetic. What will the web look like when almost all curation can be automated?
Sometimes I could not describe the theme in mind clearly, for example "foresty-earthy suburban adolescent feelings with little-to-no ruggedness but with a bit of a punk edge". Of course, no single image could fulfill the entirety of that theme (probably), so it's fascinating to wonder how aesthetic preferences emerge in the mind, though it's possible that with a description like that another person could filter images to match that description.
Are we combining various specific preferences (the color green, for example), or are we driven by the emotional flavor of a whole aesthetic object (a haze-covered mountain range evoking nostalgia for childhood hikes with siblings leading to the specific preference for pine trees leading to the specific preference for the color green, etc), basically top-down, bottom-up or a combo? Just some thoughts...