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Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great for Creativity. Here’s a brain teaser: Your task is to move a single line so that the false arithmetic statement below becomes true.

Why Being Sleepy and Drunk Are Great for Creativity

Did you get it? In this case, the solution is rather obvious – you should move the first “I” to the right side of the “V,” so that the statement now reads: VI = III + III. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of people (92 percent) quickly solve this problem, as it requires a standard problem-solving approach in which only the answer is altered. What’s perhaps a bit more surprising is that nearly 90 percent of patients with brain damage to the prefrontal lobes — this leaves them with severe attentional deficits, unable to control their mental spotlight — are also able to find the answer. Beautiful/Decay Cult of the Creative Arts - StumbleUpon.

Gabriel Moreno does beautiful work with such basic materials: a pen and a brush.

Beautiful/Decay Cult of the Creative Arts - StumbleUpon

His illustrations begin in black and white, upon which Moreno builds, adding layers of color and images of other places and people tattooed into their skin. Flowers, birds, and faces organically expand from his subjects, as if a rush of creativity, or a dream, is escaping them. Archives. Коледно четиво: Сериозна причина, за да повярваш в Дядо Коледа (Тери Пратчет) The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci - StumbleUpon.

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