Once Upon A Time https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug24_Post.mp4 We humans love a good story. The entire storytelling industry is in the billions. Movies, TV, fiction, graphic novels, even video games all satisfy this storytelling need. We need stories like we need food and sex. Imagine what it must have been like way back before […]
Einstein’s Theory Of Hypnosis
Make Time Fly https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July16_Post.mp4 One of the problems of science is it outside of our intuition. Even things like large numbers are hard to understand. So when they make infographics showing how much different sums of money, it makes it more “real.” Like the government will pass some bill to spend a […]
The Ambiguity Attraction Pattern
Own Your Answer https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar18_Post.mp4 We humans love ambiguity. We love the feeling that we can decide what things mean. We also love the feeling of figuring things out. Not necessarily to get an objectively “correct” answer. But to come up with answer we feel is the right answer, for us. […]
Moving Pictures Seductive Ideas
Terrifying Realism https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Feb28_Post.mp4 Way back in the day, when movies were first created, it must have been pretty impressive. One such movie had a train driving right at the audience. And people thought it was going to come out of the screen and crash into them. Silly, yes. But when new […]
CIA Remote Seduction
Lame Sci Fi Movie I saw what I thought was going to be an interesting movie the other night but I ended up not even finishing it. It had an interesting concept, but this turned out to be a gimmick. One that wasn’t enough to overcome the weak story and character development. […]
Psychic Seduction Mall
Let’s Go Shopping A couple of friends of mine and I decided to kill an afternoon at our local mall. Our plan was to do some window shopping see if anything looks interesting, buy some things, grab a bite to eat, have a couple of drinks and then see a movie. There were […]
Trigger Happy Alien Spirits
Secret Assassin There’s a pretty common idea that is in a lot of movies about government trained assassins. That you are a trained assassin, but you don’t remember this. That if somebody called you and said your trigger word, you would suddenly remember all your assassin training and go kill the targets. […]
The Juggler
Stoplight I was driving home from somewhere a few weeks ago I stopped at a stoplight. It was about three in the afternoon. The traffic was fairly light. There was maybe two or three other cars at this intersection. Unexpectedly this guy ran out into the intersection. My first response was he was some […]
Ancient Black Magicians
Movie About Financial Collapse A couple of weeks ago I saw a movie that was a very shallow metaphor about the financial crisis from 2008. There was a scene in the movie that is similar to many scenes in many movies where they have the expert looking at another character and explaining to this other […]