Not Much Choice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct17_Post.mp3 Way back in the day, a normal life went through some basic phases. We didn’t have a choice. We were very much constrained by our environment. We were born and we were kids for a while. We were utterly dependent on adults. We asked, and if […]
Think Beyond Reality
Embrace Limits https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug01_Post.mp4 Working within constraints is something we tend to avoid. But at the same time, constraints can help create fantastic results. For example, if you are making a raunchy R rated comedy, you can do a lot of gags. Sex gags, f-bomb gags, etc. But if you were making […]
The Motorboat Mind Trap
Metaphors Are Descriptions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27_Post.mp4 There’s a common metaphor about the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. And like many metaphors, it sort of sounds good, but it’s not very helpful. Metaphors, are by their nature, less complex than the thing they are describing. And metaphors ARE descriptions. Not […]
Highway Hypnosis Origins
How’d I Get Here? The most common form of hypnosis is highway hypnosis. You get in your car, intending to drive to your destination, and next thing you know you’re already there. You forgot everything that happened on the way. Classic Recipe https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr02Loop.mp4 One of the criteria of a good movie is […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
Inter Mental Magic
Best Twenty Five Cents Ever I went to a local coffee shop a couple of weeks ago. I’d been downtown wandering around and I found this used book store. I like bookstores, especially used bookstores. In the movies these are always places you can find ancient books on magic. Like somehow the most powerful […]
Collateral Attraction
Bar Investigation A few years ago I moved to a new city. Whenever I go to a new city, one of the things I like to do is check out the local night spots. Not to try and meet anybody, I find that these places are good places to people watch. To kind of feel […]
Global Hive Mind
Universal People There is a guy named Brown who is an anthropologist. He wanted to study people from all over the world to see if he could come up with something called Universal People. A set of characteristics that every single human on earth shares regardless of how advanced or how primitive their technology […]
Limits Of Free Will
Impossible Physics I was watching a very interesting set of videos the other night called “Impossible Physics.” They were using fiction and fictional science as a starting point to understand why those fictional science ideas would be impossible according to the real laws of physics. They were doing this to try to make movies […]
Your Three Part Brain And How To Make Use Of It
Some have said that the measure of civilization is how well we can suppress our instincts. Meaning that we humans are still animals with millions of years of evolution programmed into us. Anytime our species has picked up skills along our long evolutionary past, they old ones aren’t replaced by the new ones. The new […]