My body and soul dance in complicity.
Empathy, Art & Entertainment
At his Google talk (“The Neuroscience of Empathy”), UCSF’s Dr. Thomas Lewis answers the question:
Are depictions of destruction and pain in art designed to blunt our sense of empathy?:
“If art works, it makes you feel something and often, say in a novel in which you identify with the characters, if something bad happens to them it is somewhat painful for you. So I think good art evokes [empathy]. I think entertainment blunts it. So, say if you see a mass market entertainment film…I just saw the Bruce Willis film —not to say it’s bad, which it’s not, but— Bruce Willis is tossed about like a rag doll throughout the course of the film. Nothing bad happens to him. He doesn’t break any bones. He doesn’t suffer visibly at any point. That, I think, does blunt our empathy: entertainment. But art shouldn’t do that. And actually it is one of the fundamental distinctions between art and entertainment that’s worth describing.”
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Trailer: THE BLING RING… Sofia Coppola + Emma Watson + Sleigh Bells.
La historia trata sobre un grupo de adolescentes que roban en casas de famosos.
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90s Nostalgia of the Day: Pictures We Didn’t Take Before Digital Cameras
Webcomic artist TwentyPixels brings this list of things that we take pictures of now that we wouldn’t have before during the age of film photography.
Audrey’s iconic hairstyles are being used for Tresemme’s ‘Woman’s Hair History Month’ campaign.
All days are nights to see till I see thee
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me