Porcelain Unicorn

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Can a three minute film really be compelling and tell a complete story?

British film director Sir Ridley Scott launched a global film-making contest for aspiring directors. It’s titled, “Tell It Your Way.” There were over 600 entries.

The film could be no longer than three minutes, contain only six lines of narrative and be a compelling story.

The winner was “Porcelain Unicorn” from American director Keegan Wilcox. It’s a story of the lifetimes of two people who are totally opposite, yet, very much the same – all told in less than 3 minutes.

You’ll see why it won.

Reposted from OyiaBrown

Virtual Employment

   

Want to stop wasting fossil fuel and help end global warming? Easy, just stay home!

  
Given the surface technology that’s rapidly becoming available, nearly 90% of today’s white-collar workforce will soon no longer find it necessary to be physically present at their workplace in order to do their job. As you will see in the video above, it is now becoming ‘virtually’ possible to be almost anywhere, anytime…and with anyone…without leaving your home.

And this same technology is also about to transform the future of education. Whether its a class at the local grade school, high school, community college, or Harvard Law School, it won’t be any further away than your bedroom wall.

Of course, you won’t see much benefit if you’re a carpenter. But, hey…all you have to do is ‘turn on’ your living room wall and spend a little time learning a new, stay-at-home way to earn your pay! Or maybe holster your hammer and take up card dealing for a virtual casino on your kitchen counter? The possibilities are virtually endless. ;-)

Graphic Stimulus (25)

 

‘Stimulated’ by the graphic on Subtlekate’s post, “Things I Covet”

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A picture is worth a thousand words? Yes, but sometimes imaginatively mixing them results in a much larger multiplier!

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Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or “Wild West”-era United States—that incorporates elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology includes such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the contemporary authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld and China Mieville.

Other examples of steampunk contain alternative history-style presentations of such technology as lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s Analytical engine.

Various modern utilitarian objects have been modded by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.

From Wikipedia

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Rock + Water = Time

If nothing changes, does it happen in time?

The concept of change effectively defines what is meant by identity. More specifically, for something to have a distinct identity it must exhibit resistance to change.

For example, pick up and try biting a rock. What you immediately discover is that it likes being what it is, and isn’t terribly interested in changing either its position or size. Yet, over time, it will inevitably do both…when it comes into direct contact with another, equally resistant identity. Of course if it is floating in space, unless it strikes another rock it will likely retain its unique ‘state of being’ for a very long time. But if it resides at the bottom of a stream, or the edge of a river, it will inevitably be reduced over time to bits of sand, and then be further reduced to smaller particles (e.g., molecules) which will eventually dissolve and become part of the surrounding water. So…first rock, then water.*

And thus it is ‘change’ (in terms of ‘identity’) that defines time. So…slow change, slow time. Fast change, fast time. No change, no time. (If you wonder about the difference between fast and slow time, in terms of change…imagine being an electron in the middle of a nuclear explosion. Then imagine that same electron residing deep in an iceberg. ;-)

*Which then eventually evaporates and separates into air and sand…and may again become a rock, given enough time. (But that’s another story.)

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Quiz: If you take a picture of a rock, develop and frame it, then hang it on your wall…will the photo of that rock never change? Or is it now an ‘identity’ (independent of the rock it depicts) who’s time has just begun…changing, as it slowly fades away in the light of day?

This post was ‘stimulated’ by Rivenrod’s Ca3(PO4)2 – pt. 10

Junk Food Threatens Environment!

Following are the harmful effects of junk food on the environment:

Fuel consumption

In the US around 19 percent of total energy consumed in the country is used for producing food and supplying it to different places. Currently, most of the energy demand is met using nonrenewable sources of energy, making it important for us to look for ways to reduce the fuel consumption. Research shows that energy consumption can be lowered around 50 percent by the adoption of traditional farming and following a healthier diet pattern. The energy required to produce junk and processed foods is much more than what is used to produce staple foods. If Americans were to reduce their junk food consumption it would affect fuel consumption in a major way, and also substantially improve overall health.

Snappy vs. Prozac

Graphic ‘stimulus’ from HerdersDaughter

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911? My name is Mrs. Cuthbert, and I want to report some obscene behavior across the street from my house!

Around 5:30 AM his cell phone began to ring. Chris reached over the bed, grabbed his pants off the floor, rummaged through pockets until he found his phone, flipped it open, checked the number (it was Carrie, his next door neighbor), then pressed the “talk” button.