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ONE!
From experience, a basic human assumption is that sensation is reciprocal. If I can see and hear you, you can see and hear me. If I can feel you, you can feel me. This is why the blind, the deaf, the mute and others are so shocking to us: Our brain has to reverse this assumption. An interesting experiment that I have carried out, rather unscientifically, many times is to wander out into the world, having deprived yourself of a single sense. The easiest and safest way to do this that I have found is to listen to music in headphones loudly enough that it blocks out all normal human speech. Then wait for someone to interact with you. If you manage to observe them before they realize that you have noticed them, you will probably see them acting unsure of themselves. The expected result of their vocal action has not occurred, and they don't know what to do. Come up and touch you? Get into your field of vision and gesture? Either one would work, but both are deviations from the standard code of conduct that we've become adjusted to.
Strange!
One B)
The whole "take away one sense, heighten the others" thing is bullshit. You totally use your senses in a completely interdependent manner, and so taking away one _weakens_ the others. Splinter and Daredevil are both still awesome, though.
TWOOO
I am in eager anticipation of finding a couple hours to sit and watch Paprika, a movie which I will not attempt to describe but will simply link you to a trailer of. To keep myself sated until I do watch, I've been listening to the soundtrack over and over. You can grab the movie at piratebay, and the soundtrack on oink, if you are of that persuasion. I recommend both.
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/papr
Downloading the movie, I feel, is semi-permissible given its limited release (NY & LA)
3HREE
Eagle Vs. Shark looks like, pretty much, the best movie ever. Again, I refer you to the trailer.
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/e
Movie Site (Flashy but amusing): http://www.eaglevsshark.net/
Four. (Surprise!)
I just finished JPod, by Douglas Coupland, of Microserfs fame. It's really terrific, and I flew through it in two days. I can't say it had the same deep effect on my life that Microserfs did (though I may refute that several years down the road), and it's a good deal more fiction-y than Microserfs, but definitely captures and satirizes what I feel to be "my" culture. So, a fun read, and if you're like me, you'll like it! Also if you aren't, probably!
Who wouldn't like this book: Luddites, Smuggled Humans, Steve in Marketing (pre-heroin addiction).
From experience, a basic human assumption is that sensation is reciprocal. If I can see and hear you, you can see and hear me. If I can feel you, you can feel me. This is why the blind, the deaf, the mute and others are so shocking to us: Our brain has to reverse this assumption. An interesting experiment that I have carried out, rather unscientifically, many times is to wander out into the world, having deprived yourself of a single sense. The easiest and safest way to do this that I have found is to listen to music in headphones loudly enough that it blocks out all normal human speech. Then wait for someone to interact with you. If you manage to observe them before they realize that you have noticed them, you will probably see them acting unsure of themselves. The expected result of their vocal action has not occurred, and they don't know what to do. Come up and touch you? Get into your field of vision and gesture? Either one would work, but both are deviations from the standard code of conduct that we've become adjusted to.
Strange!
One B)
The whole "take away one sense, heighten the others" thing is bullshit. You totally use your senses in a completely interdependent manner, and so taking away one _weakens_ the others. Splinter and Daredevil are both still awesome, though.
TWOOO
I am in eager anticipation of finding a couple hours to sit and watch Paprika, a movie which I will not attempt to describe but will simply link you to a trailer of. To keep myself sated until I do watch, I've been listening to the soundtrack over and over. You can grab the movie at piratebay, and the soundtrack on oink, if you are of that persuasion. I recommend both.
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/papr
Downloading the movie, I feel, is semi-permissible given its limited release (NY & LA)
3HREE
Eagle Vs. Shark looks like, pretty much, the best movie ever. Again, I refer you to the trailer.
Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/e
Movie Site (Flashy but amusing): http://www.eaglevsshark.net/
Four. (Surprise!)
I just finished JPod, by Douglas Coupland, of Microserfs fame. It's really terrific, and I flew through it in two days. I can't say it had the same deep effect on my life that Microserfs did (though I may refute that several years down the road), and it's a good deal more fiction-y than Microserfs, but definitely captures and satirizes what I feel to be "my" culture. So, a fun read, and if you're like me, you'll like it! Also if you aren't, probably!
Who wouldn't like this book: Luddites, Smuggled Humans, Steve in Marketing (pre-heroin addiction).
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