Head Orgasms, Triggers & Bob Ross
Some days, all I want to do is watch soap cutting videos, and today is your lucky day
Have a listen to one of the most popular episodes of the Say What podcast and let me know if you feel the tingles!
Many years ago, I found a series of videos on YouTube of people making miniature food. Actual food like a burger, the size of a coin, sushi no bigger than a pebble. To make this food, faceless (I think regularly sizes) people use working miniature kitchens and utensils to prepare and cook the meals. It’s food for Barbie and Ken. And this food is edible.
This is ASMR - Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Chances are, even if you haven’t gone out of your way to watch or listen to ASMR, you have experienced it without even realising.
It’s the whispering by Amelie in the classic French movie, and when she plunges her hands into sacks of dry beans at the market. It’s Diane Weiss applying makeup to Edward Scissorhands, gentle brushing and stroking. It’s the silent rustle of linen and silk fabric and of charcoal pencil against canvas in Portrait of a Lady on Fire. And it’s Bob Ross in The Joy of Painting – everything - the brush strokes, his soothing voice, his concentration.
ASMR can be defined as a combination of positive feelings, relaxation and a distinct, static-like tingling sensation on the skin.
Notes:
Mini Spaghetti and meatballs:
Here’s more than two hours of miniature cooking from YouTube’s “Tiny Cakes”, which has 6.34 million subscribers:
“Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR): a flow-like mental state”: https://peerj.com/articles/851/
Is ASMR Real - Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-asmr-real-or-just-a-pseudoscience/
Soap cutting!
SAS ASMR: https://www.youtube.com/c/SASASMR
Reddit ASMR Poll: https://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/comments/sbd6mt/question_do_you_prefer_asmr_audio_video_or_both/
The results:
I swear I could smell those soaps as they scraped them. And every color smelled differently. Wild. It both mesmerized and annoyed me.
Great podcast — and the soap cutting! Have you seen Cooking tree? Korean cake-making channel on YouTube… soooo relaxing. Interestingly, I can’t bear listening to people eat or that saliva sound in the background of a whisper.