Share on Tumblr Let’s try a little experiment . . . follow my directions and you’re in for a visual and mental treat. First, stare at the center of the first image below for a solid thirty seconds or more. Just keep your focus on that middle dot. Second, look down at the second...
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Share on Tumblr A lot of brouhaha is being made about how the Korean beauty queen contestants all look exactly the same or very much like clones and the blame is being put on plastic surgery . . . I would suggest that while there is a LOT of similarity here, that a similar...
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Share on Tumblr On 23 September 2012, Brian David Phillips conducted an online guided meditation on HYPNOROLEPLAY: eXperiential Hypnosis and LARP/RPG Play via online webinar chat. The HYPNOROLEPLAY online webinar is an introduction to concepts related to hypnotically enhancing character identification and the experience of roleplaying games, live and table top. Of particular interest...
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Share on Tumblr Dennis Lubbers (http://lubbersdennis.wix.com) asks the question regarding values, ideals, and murder in regard to the fascinating online video game DayZ, an adaptation of the military simulation ARMA II to the world of surviving a zombie apocalypse. One thing that happens in the game is that while many players form teams to...
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Share on Tumblr In honor of the Firefly Ten Year Reuninon at Comicon, let’s take a look at show in terms of the Chinese used with video to boot. Now, I’ve seen really crappy Chinese in movies but this show is in a class all unto itself. The first time I watched it with...
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Share on Tumblr I imagine after watching the New Lands music video, there are a whole slew of university kids sitting around bullshitting on how they could play the mashup sport portrayed for real. Well, without the baseball bat to the head or the high tech lazer balls. This looks like a kick ass...
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Share on Tumblr If you like, you can say this is not awesome . . . if you like . . . you’d be absofuckinloutely wrong but you can still say it. Yes, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is a stage drama that takes place just after the apocalypse with a group of survivors...
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Share on Tumblr As my Social Influence and Communication students know, for decades and decades advertisers have been looking for a magick bullet or holy grail of persuasion that allows them to maximize their effectiveness in controlling consumer behaviors while governments have been looking even longer. Well, what it someone . . . someone...
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Share on Tumblr So . . . zombies are all the craze right now . . . comic books, movies, television shows, and video games. Well, what if you could use hypnosis to experientially enter into the game and experience the events of the game as if it were real? Nope, we’re not talkin’...
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Share on Tumblr Okay, I know this will appeal to a very particular sort of person but I absolutely got a kick out of it. Peter Serafinowicz began speculating what the Daleks have been up to since taking a hiatus from Doctor Who. His supposition? They were off recording an absolutely chilling New Age...
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Share on Tumblr My favorite steampunk band, Abney Park, returns to their Steampunk Studio to film the music video for the song Evil Man. This is from the Off the Grid album which is currently what I listen to while driving to and from the university. This song is particularly fun. Enjoy. - Brian...
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Share on Tumblr Uhm, I’m a fan of the ol’ Schrodinger’s Cat thought experiment, more so than probably the next guy . . . but . . . the folks taking it to the next level as an experiment that violently proves or disproves the existence of the multiverse are missing a few marbles...
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Share on Tumblr It was a bit of a special episode of Craig Ferguson‘s Late Late Show (pretty much the only late night program I watch) as his cold open featured my absolutely favorite song from the Rocky Horror Show and then later special musical guest Amanda Palmer performed a rendition of another Rocky...
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Share on Tumblr Mass hysteria is a very real thing and every once in awhile it rears its ugly head in the form of a group of young people exhibiting odd or unusual behavior. Sometimes this relates to seeing things or feeling the symptoms of illnesses or the like. Not long ago, there were...
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