framing emotions

Photo courtesy of Fürcho GmbH

Here’s a delightful video on a recent immersive exhibit on shifting visual and olfactory perception. “Emotions” was at the Mianki Gallery in Berlin and featured Jakob Kupfer’s beautifully blurry plays on light and Christophe Laudamiel‘s scent squares. If only the video had smell-o-vision cards or atomizers, or the splashy new Ophone duo to go with it.

EMOTIONS (subtitled) from mianki. Gallery on Vimeo.

seducing visitors through their noses

The English city of York may have taken a cue from its sister city, New York, in an innovative tourist strategy. New York city recently inspired a scratch and sniff children’s book on the Big Apple, New York, Phew York. It hardly seems a coincidence that now the York tourism board is turning to a scented guide designed to lure visitors