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Artist Manipulates Water With The Power Of Her Mind. "Man is something that shall be overcome.

Artist Manipulates Water With The Power Of Her Mind

What have you done to overcome him?” Asked existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. NY-based artist Lisa Park took this prompt as an invitation to extend the potential of man beyond our bodily limitations in the performative art project Eunoia, which means “beautiful thought” in Greek. Exploring questions of vulnerability, self-control, and liberation, Park recreates a scene that looks as if it's been lifted from your favorite Kung-Fu movie or an outtake from Kill Bill.

Creativity Matters - The Creative Leadership Forum - Collaborate - Create - Commercialise & Transformational Change. As I stake out my position on the couch this evening – close enough to reach the pretzels and my beer, but with an optimal view of the TV – it will be nice to imagine that the spectacle about to unfold is a sporting event.It shouldn’t be too hard: after all, there on the screen will be the field, Brian Urlacher stretching out his quads, Peyton Manning tossing a football, referees in their freshly-starched zebra uniforms milling about.Yes, I’ll think to myself, this has all the makings of a football game.

Creativity Matters - The Creative Leadership Forum - Collaborate - Create - Commercialise & Transformational Change

How foolish. The Super Bowl isn’t about sports; it’s about making money.And with 90 million or so viewers, there is a lot of money to be made. The Creative Brain - Mark Beeman, Neuroscience Northwestern University. Joan Roughgarden - Neuroscience of creativity on the brain + Psychedelics influence. The Neuroscience of Imagination. Albert Einstein said of the theory of relativity, "I thought of it while riding my bicycle.

The Neuroscience of Imagination

" Anyone who exercises regularly knows that your thinking process changes when you are walking, jogging, biking, swimming, riding the elliptical trainer, etc. New ideas tend to bubble up and crystallize when you are inside the aerobic zone.

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