Showing posts with label Optical Alternatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Optical Alternatives. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Do You See Red When You See Red?

“When infant eyes absorb a world of virgin visions, colors are processed purely, in a pre-linguistic parts of the brain,” reports an older post from Wired . “As adults, colors are processed in the brain’s language centers, refracted by the concepts we have for them. How does that switch take place? And does it affect our subjective experience of color?”


Sunday, January 23, 2011

CT Optician and Artsy Frames Featured

"For glasses, Fairfield-based Optical Alternatives is offering art that you can wear," goes the StamfordAdvocate post about the store run by Glen Bemus and Dorothy Reynolds. "Although the nearly year-old independent eyeglass store carries frames from 10 countries, the newest line, designed by Israeli artist Ronit Furst, has caught customers' attention.Formerly a ceramic artist creating soup pots and decorative cookware, Furst began using her artistic talents painting eyeglass frames in 2002."