movement

I've been hooked on this tv show, called Lie to Me. It's about this scientist who helps with investigations by analyzing facial expressions and involuntary body language. I've always been into observing peoples' different mannerisms....but it's pretty cool how there's universal facial and body languages that we aren't even aware of most of the time.

Now that I'm more aware of those micro-expressions, or whatever they're called, I keep catching myself. ...like when I'm angry, my fist clenches or my right eye tends to twitch a little. Haha...ok, maybe those examples are a little too obvious. According to this show, you can sometimes tell how people truly feel by the way their lips move. You can also tell when someone is faking anger when it comes on too strong and fast, because true anger comes in phases.

It just makes me think of how a body is almost a prophet to our souls. I remember reading about how when we smile, even if we aren't happy, we can start to feel happiness. I guess body language can become a self fulfilling prophesy.

It makes sense why we're told to kneel when we pray. It's a posture that makes you realize that God is someone to be respected and revered. If you know how to read body language, you can understand what a person is communicating, whether they are aware of it or not...or trying to mask an emotion...weird...E-motion. If you watch someone's face in slow motion, who is trying to hide emotion, you can see their true feelings through their facial expressions.

From a design standpoint, I think it's interesting to become aware of this stuff. When communicating through visual mediums, every detail needs to be thought through. Yes...I just threw that in to relate the post to design. hehe...and this is how the post will end.