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Almost human: Photographer's intimate studio portraits that show wild creatures making unnervingly similar gestures to us

Almost human: Photographer's intimate studio portraits that show wild creatures making unnervingly similar gestures to us
By Leon Watson Published: 20:31 GMT, 14 November 2012 | Updated: 17:27 GMT, 15 November 2012 How he got them to sit still, we don't know. But somehow award-winning UK-based photographer Tim Flach managed it, and this was the result. The 54-year-old has created a collection of incredible photographic portraits of animals so intimate they reveal the complex emotions of their subjects. And the emotions on show look strikingly familiar to our own. These stunning pictures were created by UK-based photographer Tim Flach, who has made a name taking intimate photos of animals Mr Flach is known for his highly-stylized animal portraits. Almost humanlike: Turned away from the camera, this gorilla was captured for a spectacularly intimate shot After receiving worldwide attention for his photographs of dogs and horses in projects titled Dogs Gods and Equus, Mr Flach, from London, turned his attention to more exotic creatures. Near naked: A chicken pictured mid-stride with one eye on the camera

Yoann Lemoine I was born in 1983, and grew up in a captivating environment full of World War II stories, travels to Eastern Europe, where my family’s roots are, music and 90’s advertising, where both my parents worked. My father slipped a pencil into my hand when I was a kid and I never really dropped it. That’s how I really started to express myself. Later, I discovered directors like Wim Wenders, Elia Kazan, Terrence Mallick, Michel Gondry or Gus Van Sant, painters like John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, photographers like Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld. I started learning illustration and animation at Emile Cohl School, Lyon, and screen-printing techniques at Swindon College, London. Call me a do-it-yourselfer. All these techniques, in principle very different, are really linked together for me, as they are all grounded in my will to materialize my emotions, regardless of the means. I am also a songwriter and singer under the name of Woodkid.

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How do rappers freestyle on the spot? Freestyle rappers such as Eminem and Philadelphia's Cassidy make up and bust out rhymes on the spot — a hugely challenging art form. Now, however, researchers have learned how the brain does it. A new study finds that when rappers improvise, parts of their brains linked to motivation, organization and integration get active, while portions responsible for self-monitoring and control get quiet. The findings suggest freestyle rappers essentially shut down the parts of their brains that might disrupt their creative flow. "If an athlete starts paying attention to what they're doing, how they're going to move their body to catch a ball, they'll clutch and they won't do it," said study researcher Allen Braun, the chief of the language section of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a part of the National Institutes of Health. Freestyle rappers may face a similar challenge when making up rhymes, Braun told LiveScience. The improvising brain Freestyle flow

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Ernestomccausland.com Los 30 años de mi carrera profesional han transcurrido principalmente en la región Caribe colombiana, a la que he recorrido ya sea como periodista de televisión, de prensa, o de radio. Casi nunca me ha faltado, como fiel compañera, una cámara fotográfica: es como una exigencia de esta región, única, exuberante, bullente. Personajes, paisajes han pasado ante mis ojos y —aun en los grandes apuros— jamás ha faltado la voluntad para detenernos y hacer un efusivo "click". No permito que mi cámara se deje subyugar por un personaje al que ésta no juzgue auténtico. Una familia muestra más de sí misma desde sus cachivaches de desecho que desde un retrato formal de sus miembros; una ciudad termina siendo la paradoja de la luz de un semáforo al pie de una obra monumental. Uno quisiera que una foto fuera autonarrativa, no requiriera de explicación alguna, sino que relatara por sí misma la historia completa.

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