A friend who works in a marketing agency recently introduced me to a S.C.A.M.P.E.R Substitute Method. A method that helps you generate ideas for new products and services (and in many cases art) by encouraging you to ask seven types of questions, which are designed...
Simulated reality is the hypothesis that reality could be simulated—for example by quantum computer simulation—to a degree indistinguishable from "true" reality. It could contain conscious minds that may or may not know that they live inside a simulation. This is quite different from the current,...
David LaChapelle was born in Connecticut in 1963 and attended high school at North Carolina School of The Arts. Originally enrolled as a painter, David began to experiment in the medium of photography developing an analogue technique of hand-painting his own negatives to achieve a...
Crux philologorum The symbol usually used in the classical filology used to mark a space in the ancient texts that according to the publisher were irreversibly distorted. It is also a mathematical symbol often used in quantum theory. It is used, to denote the operation of...
Meditation commonly gives rise to the feeling that the self and the surrounding world are no longer separate, as if the boundary between them has dissolved. We propose this may occur due to alterations in representations of peripersonal space (PPS), the reachable space surrounding the...
The action of the novel takes place in the North American Federation, in the futuristic version of 1992, where the technology is so advanced that it allows civilians to fly to the moon, and psionic abilities are widely believed to be real. The protagonist, Joe...
There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences Jane Austen’ Mansfield Park I found a very interesting paper by Elizabeth A. Kensinger where she analises how does...
Looking at what is happening in the World at the moment While coming back from London I was sat on the train, I played in my favourite story-telling game of "what ifs" It was a technique I was introduced to by Professor Neil Gaiman. It is simple...
In an abstract of an article by: Evelien M Barendse, Marc PH Hendriks, Jacobus FA Jansen, Walter H Backes, Paul AM Hofman, Geert Thoonen, Roy PC Kessels & Albert P Aldenkamp We can read that: "Working memory is a temporary storage system under attentional control. It is believed to play a central...
Natalia Lach-Lachowicz (born 18 April 1937), known as Natalia LL, is a Polish artist who works with paint, photography, drawing, performance and video art. Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2017, described her as "a neglected early-1970s Polish-born pioneer of feminist avant garde image...