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People’s graphical representations of feelings.
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The short was made as a comment on how current censorship will look to future generations. It is a series of scenes cut from old films because they didn’t “meet the local moral standards of the time”.
I can understand why some of these scenes were cut. There was a time when bare ankles and shoulders were considered risque and suggestive. For some, it still is.
Silhouettes teased the imagination and eroticism was about what you weren’t able to see as much as it was what you did.
But aside from the query about whether future generations will think what we censor is ridiculous, I have to wonder if it can also be construed as a comment on how crass and overt modern society has become.
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In Amsterdam, one company places etchings of a fly at the bottom of urinals. They have worked out that giving guys something to aim at reduces spillage by 80%.
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How to slip a little creativity into your day to day activities. And a little always leads to a little more. An interesting way to look at creativity in our lives.
One thing I noted as interesting is that they mention decorating your cubicle or work area in blue because blue is known to encourage creativity. From colour therapy though, blue is to encourage calm and some blues help you to sleep (and dark blue bedspreads will make it harder to get out of bed). Oranges on the other hand encourage activity.
I suppose activity isn’t actually creativity, but fire is an element that inspires creativity and passion and its colours are red/orange/yellow.
Curious!
I think this warrants further research…
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Good grief, I should print and laminate this, and wear it around my neck. Never has an Internet item been so relevant.
omg. It’s like it knows me! It should be made bigger and blockmounted.
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Witzelsucht, from the German witzeln, meaning to joke or wisecrack, and sucht meaning addiction or yearning (sucht means searching), is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by the patient’s uncontrollable tendency to pun, tell inappropriate jokes and pointless or irrelevant stories at inconvenient moments. The patient nevertheless finds these utterances intensely amusing. (via lonelysandwich)
I found the name of the affliction known to affect some of my friends and my family!
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A veteran investigative reporter looks into his own beating and finds himself confronting harsh and lingering questions of race.
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Ironically, Big Pharma’s attempt to dominate the central nervous system has ended up revealing how powerful the brain really is. The placebo response doesn’t care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That’s potent medicine.
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