Joe Moran

Slightly depressing satire-fail, reading through the comments section on Joe Moran's recent CiF post 'Society for Unread Authors'.

Anyways... Made me wonder who he was and that, and in perusing his blog came across this article about life and the meaning of twitter.

Pretty good. Presents some ideas about limitations to the value of nearer-instantaneous communications (and interaction v broadcast) other than the usual 'verbal diarrhoea' argument.

It does have a bit of unnecessary wrap-up at the end, but it would still be a great article if broke off on the paragraph ending,

"We could spend our whole lives texting but there will always be part of us that is infinitely remote."

music videos with (semi) naked people / keith scholfield

unconscious suggestion / derren brown

So Derren Brown comes across as a bit of a prick. That lottery thing - what was the point?

Some of his other stuff, though, is annoyingly impressive.

This is pretty good:
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Psych? Magic? I guess it'll be about 30 years til some secrets come out, if the former cameramen get desperate enough for cash to do some retrospective documentary or something.

In the meantime, this is a pretty good article on unconscious influences.(pdf)
[from The Psychologist - A research journal "in a form suitable for our wide-ranging non-specialist audience" (ie. pop psychology that's not bullshit)]

Just seen there's another one, with guys from Saatchi&Saatchi.
American Version

tender is the psych

F Scott Fitzgerald

Just finished The Great Gatsby.

Not read Tender is the Night, but like the fact that someone's done a bit of a psych-filtered analysis. And a bit of an insight into Fitzgerald.

From The Psychologist.

ethical offsetting?

Could I somehow offset my narcissistic fixations/admirations/desires for the disposable bread of capitalism (clothes and that) by just showing some kind of awareness of the back of the picture?









I guess probably not.



..pics from adbusters.