{"id":1208,"date":"2016-05-12T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T04:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2016-05-13T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T05:19:45","slug":"atlas-of-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/atlas-of-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas of Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasofemotions.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/xxlama-web2\/xxlama-web2-master675.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/xxlama-web2\/xxlama-web2-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"A diagram from the Atlas of Emotions.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Paul Ekman\" \/><\/a>For a few weeks last spring I had the tremendous pleasure of working with my dear friend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hi.stamen.com\/in-2014-the-dalai-lama-asked-his-friend-scientist-dr-2a46f0c6bd80#.k02sjb74b\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Rodenbeck<\/a>\u00a0on an amazing project: an <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasofemotions.com\" target=\"_blank\">Atlas of Emotions.<\/a> Commissioned by the Dalai Lama, and based on decades of scientific research by Paul Ekman and his colleagues, the project aims to help people find a path through the complex landscape of their feelings toward a state of calm and happiness.<\/p>\n<p>This was such a fresh and exciting experience. First, because Stamen is an absolutely lovely place to spend time for any reason. (Seriously: pineapple plants and bubble machines!) Second, because it forced a connection between parts of my brain that had never met before: emotion brain, meet design brain. Well, hello!\u00a0My time on the project was brief and my contribution very small, but will that stop me from kvelling? No it will not!\u00a0The rest of my feelings can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/atlasofemotions.com\/#states:enjoyment\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few weeks last spring I had the tremendous pleasure of working with my dear friend\u00a0Eric Rodenbeck\u00a0on an amazing project: an Atlas of Emotions. Commissioned by the Dalai Lama, and based on decades of scientific research by Paul Ekman and his colleagues, the project aims to help people find a path through the complex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/atlas-of-emotions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atlas of Emotions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,17,22,27],"tags":[157,156,155,158],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive","category-personal","category-self-reference","category-visualization","tag-atlas","tag-emotions","tag-kvelling","tag-stamen-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}