Empty as lack of meaning: DADA

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

"It's too idiotic to be schizophrenic"

Carl Jung on the Dada productions

"Dada means nothing. It 's just a product of the mouth"
Dada Manifesto, Tristan Tzara, 1918

Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war.

Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.

Raoul Hausmann - ABCD (Self-portrait) 1923

Dada was not art, it was "anti-art". Everything for which art stood, Dada represented the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics, the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.

The Dada's goal was to have no message, because the interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the individual.

As Hugo Ball expressed it, "For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in."

A reviewer from the American Art News stated at the time that "Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man." Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, a "reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide."

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as "a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path. [It was] a systematic work of destruction and demoralization... In the end it became nothing but an act of sacrilege."

 

 

Cover of Anna Blume, Dichtungen, 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

Meaningful phrases

Love: Love is a camara, full of memories.


Plate: My plate is already too full.


Cage: His mind was caged by depression.


Colorful: A colorful remark.


http://www.metaphorlist.net/#f

gol ya pooch

 

Can this photo remind you a memory?

But had you ever imagine that in another part of the world could be a similar action that is part of a simple but popular game?

Gol  Ya  Pooch?

Means:  Flower   or   Null?

GOL in farsi means flower but here means the object that can be whatever a seed or a piece of waste paper.

As it seems in pictures one player hide Gol in one hand and other should guess that where it should be hidden. Whenever can discover the correct post game turns and Gol should be given to the other.

But it will be more interesting when you are in two team and using different techniques to hide it in front of the eyes of other competitors. In this way you have points if you could guess it sooner. For example if there is eight closed hand and you point directly to the correct hand you can obtain all of eight point in the other hand each hand that will be open you will loose one point and even you guess right you can't catch a good point.

you can try virtual ones on internet like the games that are accessible in below addresses:

http://www.y8.com/games/Where_is_the_Ball

http://www.funtoosh.com/flash_games/game.php?id=10

Spherical Metaphor

This technology demonstration offers a innovative method for visualizing multi-dimensional data on a half-sphere (full-dome) Geoscope. The intent is to realize the Geoscope vision of R. Buckminster Fuller as stated in his Critical Path, "With the Geoscope humanity would be able to recognize formerly invisible patterns and thereby to forecast and plan in vastly greater magnitude than heretofore."

for more information you can watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neeC23RW1B0

Oasis - Full On

Oasis - Full on - Lyric

I hear my heart beatin faster
I feel it in my bones
I want it now 'cos I have ta
But why, no-one knows
I'm like the angel on the a train
I'm like the angel of the a train
My eyes are diamond white
From the cradle till your insane
For life you have to fight
But no-one knows why there's a spirit in the sky, there's escape for no-one
He will understand, while I take him by the hand, that life's time tunnel is long
Well it will be alright
If you stay tonight
It's where we both belong
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on

I hear my heart beatin faster
I feel it in my bones
I want it now 'cos I have ta
But why, no-one knows
I'm like the angel on the a train
I'm like the angel of the A train
My eyes are diamond white
From the cradle till your insane
For life you have to fight
But no-one knows why there's a spirit in the sky, there's escape for no-one
He will understand, while I take him by the hand, that life's time tunnel is long
Well it will be alright
If you stay tonight
It's where we both belong
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on

It's gonna be alright
You're gonna stay tonight
It's where we both belong
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on
It's gonna be full on

Live Life as an Optimist

Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism

 Di Susan C. Vaughan

Why do some people lead positive, hope-filled lives, while others wallow in pessimism? In her groundbreaking book, Half Empty, Half Full, leading psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher Susan C. Vaughan reveals the specific character traits that produce highly hopeful individuals and offers fresh and helpful advice on how to become a more optimistic person.

Examining the origins of optimism in early childhood and presenting new evidence for the role of biology in how we interpret our experiences, Vaughan shows how optimism is a process, not a state, that is within the grasp of everyone. Informative and uplifting, Half Empty, Half Full offers some unusual but proven tricks and techniques to fool the brain's circuitry into looking on the bright side of life.

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780156011006

This Sale Litres

PETER (Harry Dorgu) dreams of a better life. He dreams of having enough money to marry, GLORIA, his long time university sweet heart. However, Gloria’s older sister, ALERO would rather die than see her younger sister marry a poor petrol attendant. 

When OGA, the station manager, is summoned to head office over some fradulent accounting, Peter (helped by his friends, Bassey and London John) stumbles upon a wicked plot to marry Gloria off to a very wealthy old businessman

In his debut movie role, Big Brother's Gideon Okeke plays Peter’s best friend, LONDON JOHN, the charming womaniser, on the verge of renewing his visa and travelling back to his London. But not before he reveals his big secret... and not before Peter, Alero and the chief have their showdown. 

Bassey (Jude Chukwuka) is a happy-go-lucky father of three. And through his eyes, we take a peek at a day in the lives of the colourful character that routinely patronize the petrol station.

Chinedu Amah is the comical OFFICER OLOPADE, a pot bellied, singlet and slippers wearing police officer, who lives by the 'man must chop‘ school of policing.

Nollywood’s own, Imbrahim Musa plays the wisecracking pure water seller, BUSINESS BOY. A sharp nine year old kid with an eye for a profit.


In a role Dakore Ogbuson was originally cast to play, Funmi Eko puts in an oscar-like performance as the manipulative and feisty, station mart check out girl, Alero.

Hip Hop veteran, Elajoe, is SCARFACE the leader of a gang of fueding area boy, stuck in a black maria which has run out of fuel. 

Writer & Producer: Walter [Waltbanger] Taylaur
Co – Producers: Diare Osera / Obi Nnaya
Executive Producer : DDD ENTERTAINMENT
Director: Achor Yusef


http://www.halfemptythemovie.com

Empty and Full: An Exhibition of Paintings

Yogendra Tripathi - Acrylic on Canvas

An Exhibition of Paintings: Empty and Full at AAKRITI ART GALLERY was inaugurated on Tuesday 9th September 2008, with Akhilesh, Amitava Dhar, Manish Pushkale Samindranath Majumdar, Sunil De, Yogendra Tripathi. 

The above six artists presented in this show have significantly contributed to the contemporary Indian art, with their innovative use of the pictorial language, and have made a new beginning in terms of visual vocabulary. They are eager to explore their artistic tools, a 'terrain' and firmament which in itself seem to be waiting to reveal certain potent images. The method of exploration  of the concepts Empty and Full, used by each artist is very distinct.

The way the 'findings' are deposited in a particular work, with alacrity, is singular from one to the other. Thus the show offers not just six important artists of a generation; it offers six different sets of listening, perceiving and registering certain momentous happenings. It is not the style per se of the artists, which enchants and mesmerizes us, but their sensitive handling of the works, and forces to fix our gaze time and again on every tiny detail.

Yogendra Tripathi offers visions of parched and moist earth, or a ground filled with an imminent light or some marks seen by a voyager; hinting that much more is to be unearthed. His works are also absorbing in their figurine feel. Samindranathís findings suggest some turbulence in the atmospheric realm, or indicate towards a capacious horizon.

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/09/11/35187.html

IIlusionist hands

Magic is a performing art that entertains an audience by creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats, using purely natural means. These feats are called magic tricks, effects or illusions.
One who performs such illusions is called a magician or an illusionist. Some performers may also be referred to by names reflecting the type of magical effects they present, such as prestidigitators, conjurors, mentalists, or escape artists.

• Vanish: The magician makes something disappear—a coin, a cage of doves, milk from a newspaper, an assistant from a cabinet, or even the Statue of Liberty. A vanish, being the reverse of a production, may use a similar technique, in reverse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(illusion)#Categories_of_effects

War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake

The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War, as told in Virgil's Latin epic poem The Aeneid and by Quintus of Smyrna. The events in this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer's Iliad, and before his Odyssey. It was the stratagem that allowed the Greeks finally to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict. In one version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of 30 men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greek army entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse

The Hole in the substance

 

Henry Moore sculpture in his garden

 

Henry Moore - Three Piece Reclining Figure Draped (1976)

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Henry Moore, Bronx Botanical Garden

Henry Moore - Nuclear Energy - Hide Park

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art.

Moore's signature form is a reclining figure. Moore's exploration of this form, under the influence of the Toltec-Mayan figure he had seen at the Louvre, was to lead him to increasing abstraction as he turned his thoughts towards experimentation with the elements of design. Moore's earlier reclining figures deal principally with mass, while his later ones contrast the solid elements of the sculpture with the space, not only round them but generally through them as he pierced the forms with openings, wiht holes.

Earlier figures are pierced in a conventional manner, in which bent limbs separate from and rejoin the body. The later, more abstract figures are often penetrated by spaces directly through the body, by which means Moore explores and alternates concave and convex shapes.

www.thebronxrocks.com/2008/09/more-on-moore
www.hydeparkhistory.org
www.chilterndfas.org.uk

Full of Memories

Your clothes are full of memories, take care of them
with Omino Bianco laundry detergent.

Agency: Publicis, Milan, Italy
Creative Director: Alasdhair Macgregor-Hastie
Art Director: Patrizia Modena
Copywriter: Cinzia Crociani
Photographer: Giovanni Altana


http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/omino_bianco_clothes

The Big Empty

The Big Empty is a 2003 science-fiction film directed and written by Steve Anderson. It stars Jon Favreau as a struggling actor with a bizarre request from his neighbor to deliver a suitcase that he cannot open. While there, he meets an unusual cast of characters, and starts to think this delivery might be more than it seems.

Would be-Hollywood actor John Person always considered his bizarre neighbor Neely a conspiracy theory nut-case. Still he accepts a simple task to wipe out his over $27,000 debt: delivering a blue suitcase to some Cowboy at Baker, in the empty desert. The place proves a nest of weirdos, including extremely jealous Randy and his girl Ruthie, who seduces John. He learns Neely was murdered, and FBI agent Banks grills him as prime suspect. Yet the weirdest is still to come once Cowboy turns up.

http://www.imdb.com

The Void at the biginning of the WORLD

Chaos (Greek ; in English pronounced /ˈkeɪ.ɒs/) in Greek mythology and cosmology referred to empty, the original dark void from which everything else appeared at the beginning of the world, or more generally the initial, formless state of the universe. (the antithetical, or possibly complementary, concept was cosmos).

Later uses of the term by philosophers varied over time. In modern English, the word is used in classical studies with the original meaning; in mathematics and science to refer to a very specific kind of unpredictability; and informally to mean a state of confusion. In philosophy, and in popular culture, the word can occur with all three meanings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos

Blank X

GERMANY- BOOKLET PANES (MARKENHEFTCHENBOGEN)

1931, German Eagle, pane of ten, including six blank "X" labels and block four stamps of 20pf gray blue

http://www.stampcircuit.com/Stamp_Auction_Prices_Realized/showitems.php?dirname=Stamp_Auction_Prices_Realized&class=Stamp&sale_id=1748&start_print=500

The Language of Chinese Painting

Empty and Full: the Language of Chinese Painting,

by François Cheng

Empty and Full: the Language of Chinese Painting, by François Cheng, disciple of Lacan and perhaps the first book of Lacanian aesthetics. The Oriental void, which Cheng will consider neither as a noumenon nor a phenomenon, may grant the possibility of the painting: "the stroke is to extract oneness from the void," yet the void is not only the condition for color, stroke and texture to emerge, but also the "vital breath" animating the body (how to avoid mentioning the topological structure of the body, that Lacan writes with the figure of the torus showing how the human body envelopes the void). It's in 1953 that Cheng speaks of a center exterior to language which has to do with the "presence of death" in speech. http://www.lacan.com/frameXI6.htm

Fuel Consumption

A Diesel engine makes all difference in the fuel consumption.

ML 320 CDI with new Diesel engine 224hp.

Advertising Agency: Duecom, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Creative Director / Art Director: Juliano Weide
Copywriters: João Ricardo Mello, Duda Couto
Published: December 2008


http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/mercedesbenz_emptyfull

Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me

 

Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me - Lyric

Memory comes when memory's old
I am never the first to know
Following the stream up North
Where do people like us float

There is room in my lap
For bruises, asses, handclaps
I will never disappear
Forever, I'll be here

Whispering
Morning, keep the streets empty for me

I learned to not eat the snow
My fur is hot, my tongue is cold
On a bed of spider web
I think about to change myself

A lot of hope in a one man tent
There's no room for innocence
Take me home before the storm
Velvet mites will keep us warm

Whispering
Morning, keep the streets empty for me

Uncover our heads and reveal our souls
We were hungry before we were born

Be careful of Music!

Musical chairs is a game played by a group of people (usually children), often in an informal setting purely for entertainment such as a birthday party. The game starts with any number of players and a number of chairs one fewer than the number of players; the chairs are arranged in a circle (or other closed figure if space is constrained; a double line is sometimes used) facing outward, with the people standing in a circle just outside of that. A non-playing individual plays recorded music or a musical instrument. While the music is playing, the players in the circle walk in unison around the chairs. When the music player suddenly stops the music, everyone must race to sit down in one of the chairs. The player who is left without a chair is eliminated from the game, and one chair is also removed to ensure that there will always be one fewer chair than there are players. The music resumes and the cycle repeats until there is only one player left in the game, who is the winner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_chairs

Sacco pieno e sacco vuoto

The game bag full and empty sack is a game played in primary schools (including nursery schools) during the hours of physical activity, it is a game-sport. As simple as this game is addictive and fun as it is based on the readiness of the reflections from the participants.

Game Rules

At first, all the participants have lined up in front of the instructor who will direct three types of commands (described below) in order variable, and participants must be able to follow them in a growing of speed, those who make mistakes will be disqualified (if seen by someone or autodicente, difficult though that is not seen but a small mistake could escape) until only one remains: the winner. The three commands are: sack when you have to stand up, empty bag when you have to completely fall (down by bending your knees, how to prepare for a leap toward the top) and half sack (or half a sack), which must fall just a little 'and then stand in between sack and empty bag. He realizes then that lot is the person itself must be emptied (down) and fill (rising) just like a lot. It may seem very easy but, apart from the increasing speed, other factors can be cataloged (basically three, one is actually a variant) that reversed this idea

Il gioco del sacco pieno e sacco vuoto è un gioco praticato nelle scuole elementari (anche materne) durante le ore di attività motoria, infatti è un gioco-sport. Per quanto semplice questo gioco è coinvolgente e divertente in quanto si basa sulla prontezza dei riflessi da parte dei partecipanti.

Regole del gioco 

All'inizio tutti i partecipanti si dispongono in fila, davanti all'istruttore che impartirà tre tipi di comandi (descritti in seguito) in ordine variabile, ed i partecipanti devono riuscire a seguirli in un crescendo di velocità, chi sbaglia sarà squalificato (se visto da qualcuno o autodicente, difficile comunque che non venga visto ma un piccolo errore potrebbe sfuggire) fino a quando non ne rimarrà uno solo: il vincitore. I tre comandi sono: sacco pieno in cui bisogna stare in piedi, sacco vuoto in cui bisogna abbassarsi completamente (scendere piegando le ginocchia, come per prepararsi ad un balzo verso l'alto) e sacco mezzo (o mezzo sacco) in cui bisogna abbassarsi solo un po' quindi stare a metà tra sacco pieno e sacco vuoto. Si intuisce quindi che per sacco si intende la persona stessa che deve svuotarsi (abbassandosi) e riempirsi (alzandosi) proprio come un sacco. Può sembrare molto facile ma, a parte il crescendo di velocità, si possono catalogare altri fattori (tre fondamentalmente, uno è in realtà una variante) che capovolgono quest'idea


http://accoglienzalari.blogspot.com/

Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Empty Glasses

Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Empty Glasses - Lyric

Faded pictures of the life that I once loved
With the flash, the moments gone
I gave up all I had for
Something that never brought me any comfort now
I've been lost too long

[Chorus:]
Deny it, but I am alone here
I always feared this place
I never thought it'd end this way
Deny it, but I am alone
Another nameless face
Deny it, but I am alone here
I always feared this place
I never thought it'd end this way
Deny it, but I am alone
Please don't forget my name
Deny it, but I am alone

Empty pages haunt me and
I can't move on
The words I never said were wrong
I never needed to feel connected
And now I'm only loved by empty glasses
It's gone on too long
I need to find a way to just move on

[Chorus:]
Deny it, but I am alone here
I always feared this place
I never thought it'd end this way
Deny it, but I am alone
Another nameless face
Deny it, but I am alone here
I always feared this place
I never thought it'd end this way
Deny it, but I am alone
Please don't forget my name
Deny it, but I am alone

I'm tired of you wishing me the best of luck
It's a long ride home, a long ride home

[Chorus:]
Deny it, but I am alone here
I always feared this place
I never thought it'd end this way
Deny it, but I am alone
Another nameless face
Deny it, but I am alone here
I always feared this place
I never thought it'd end this way
Deny it, but I am alone
Please don't forget my name
Deny it, but I am alone

Take only what you need

Take only what you need.

Advertising School: Cuca Escola de Criativos, São Paulo, Brazil
Copywriter: Gustavo Costa
Art Director: Breno Ribeiro


http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/amazon_kindle_cartoon

Open/Closed, Big/Small, Full/Empty, On/Off

The Western Bridge gallery explored Martin Creed's oppositions in Open/Closed, Big/Small, Full/Empty, On/Off, which includes the continuous residency of a Chihuahua and an Irish wolfhound, just hanging out in the gallery together during exhibition hours.

In Creed's works, the world is made strange through simple and straightforward interventions. His focus is always on the experience of the viewer, as he described in a recent interview in the Guardian. "I think that the best things get under people's skin, make them remember them. People aren't stupid. They know what's fake and what's not. They respond to things. Art is just things in the world, usually an arrangement of colour and shapes. It's people who have the feelings and the reactions."

http://www.westernbridge.org/exhibits.htm                       

Full & Empty of People

Population density (in agriculture standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key geographic term. Population density is population divided by total land area.

Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and lead to further reduced fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it. Different species have different expected densities.

For humans, population density is the number of people per unit of area usually per square kilometer or mile (which may include or exclude cultivated or potentially productive area). Commonly this may be calculated for a county, city, country, another territory, or the entire world.

The world's population is 6.8 billion, and Earth's total area (including land and water) is 510 million square kilometers (197 million square miles). Therefore the worldwide human population density is 6.8 billion ÷ 510 million = 13.3 per km² (34.5 per sq. mile). If only the Earth's land area of 150 million km² (58 million sq. miles) is taken into account, then human population density increases to 45.3 per km² (117.2 per sq. mile). Several of the most densely-populated territories in the world are city-states, microstates, micronations, or dependencies. These territories share a relatively small area and a high urbanization level, with an economically specialized city population drawing also on rural resources outside the area, illustrating the difference between high population density and overpopulation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density

Transparent:Empty = Matt:Full

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

For centuries construction of the façade in the classic sense was governed by the exact ratio between the proportions of key elements: windows, partitions, ashlars, reliefs, decorations. For centuries the rule behind composition represented the main purpose of architecture, committed to calibrating the relationship between full and empty volumes, between windows and walls.

Until the early decades of the last century architecture was a matter of styles and tastes rather than concepts, and the constraints imposed by the materials and techniques available meant that constructions were characterised primarily by massive structures. The development of new materials and production processes after the industrial revolution led to rapid, bold changes in the rules of construction. 

First iron and glass then reinforced concrete allowed cladding to be broken down and separated from its structural function, permitting new forms of experimentation leading to widespread renewal of architecture. These processes had repercussions for the role of cladding in architecture and for the expressive potential of the new materials, at times revolutionary.

Apple Store, New York



http://www.archinfo.it/involucro-storia-e-tecnologie/0,1254,53_ART_2416,00.html

Mass per volume

The mass density or density of a material is defined as its mass per unit volume. The symbol most often used for density is ρ (the Greek letter rho). In some cases (for instance, in the United States oil and gas industry), density is also defined as its weight per unit volume; although, this quantity is more properly called specific weight. Different materials usually have different densities, so density is an important concept regarding buoyancy, purity and packaging. Osmium is the densest known substance at standard conditions for temperature and pressure.
The mass density of a material varies with temperature and pressure. (The variance is typically small for solids and liquids and much greater for gasses.) Increasing the pressure on an object will decrease the volume of the object and therefore increase its density. Increasing the temperature of a substance (with some exceptions) decrease its density by increasing the volume of that substance.

Mathematically, density is defined as mass divided by volume:

where ρ is the density, m is the mass, and V is the volume. From this equation, mass density must have units of a unit of mass per unit of volume. As there are many units of mass and volume covering many different magnitudes there are a large number of units for mass density in use.
The SI unit of kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m³) and the cgs unit of gram per cubic centimetre (g/cm³) are probably the most common used units for density. (The cubic centimeter can be alternately called a millilitre or a cc.) One g/cm³ equals 1000 kg/m³. In industry, other larger or smaller units of mass and or volume are often more practical and US customary units may be used. See below for a list of some of the most common units of density. Further, density may be expressed in terms of weight density (the weight of the material per unit volume) or as a ratio of the density with the density of a common material such as air or water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density

Eating Disorders

Full Mouse, Empty Mouse, Author: Dina Zeckhausen   Illustrated by: Brian Boyd

Full Mouse, Empty Mouse is a story that addresses the complex problem of eating disorders in a language that young children(ages 3-8) can understand. It is a beautifully illustrated book telling the story of two mice who use food in an effort to cope with the stress in their lives. "Mouse stress" involves an ever-present cat, mouse-traps, a dog, and a rat who chase the small mice. The boy mouse, Billy Blue, overeats for comfort and solace. His sister, Sally Rose, undereats in an attempt to reduce her size in order to be safe. While Billy is teased for being fat, his sister is admired for her tiny body. Their parents, though well intentioned, are distracted by work and compulsive cleaning. Their wise aunt teaches the children to listen to their bodies, tune in to their feelings and get their needs met in more effective ways.

Artist and graphic designer Brian Boyd has captured the adventures of this mouse family in lush, vivid illustrations. The rich colors and humorous details will capture the imagination of children and adults alike. This book will serve as a catalyst for important adult-child discussions about body size and weightism, the value of sharing feelings with concerned adults, and the problems that arise when people use food to cope with life.

http://www.bulimia.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1535

If it's full Empty it!

If there’s one thing that Mums are sick of, it’s having to ask family members to do the same things over and over when they don’t listen.

And if there’s one thing Dads are sick of, it’s listening to Mum saying things over and over (because they really don’t listen in the first place). That dangerous thought is behind BCM’s latest campaign for Pelikan Artline’s permanent markers. It’s entitled, ‘Stop repeating yourself’ and presents the markers as the solution to this problem in and around the home.

Lynn from Artline said, ‘It’s a fun concept and will definitely strike a chord with all Mums and with any luck, strike fear into those family members who don’t listen the first time!’

I just think the approach shows Artline understands their (rather bossy) target. And with any luck it should do a lot for noise pollution in this country. (I hope my wife doesn’t read this blog.)

The campaign has just started running in womens’ magazines and newspaper supplements and we’re now looking to extend it online, where women might be able to send in their own shots and comments’.

By the way, if anyone’s interested, that’s Sutts’ dunny.

Geoff Reid is BCM Sydney’s Creative Director

http://blog.bcm.com.au/2009/bcm/you-should-only-have-to-say-things-once/

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Empty Cities of the Full Moon, a science fiction novel
by Howard V. Hendrix

The novel revolves around the near extinction of the humanity by an artificial prion originally designed to help the mentally ill but which becomes ashamanistic pandemic of madness, shape-shifting and death. There are 2 plots-lines which each follow the same set of characters before and after this near extinction.

Explanation of the novel's title

The title of the novel comes from both the correlation between the pandemic's symptoms and the full moon, and that the pandemic effectively emptied the cities.

The novel opens in 1999 with a car accident occurring in parallel universes. In Universe A, the universe in which Hendrix's previous novel Better Angels occurs, the accident is avoided allowing 3 of the major characters in that novel to be born. However in Universe A Prime the accident does occur and the resulting deaths prevent those characters from being born. The 3 characters are brothers Jiro and Seiji Ansel Yamaguchi, and their cousin John Drinan.

Years later in 2032 the process of Jiro's transcendence, which occurs at the end of Better Angels, results in John being thrown from Universe A to Universe A Prime. Empty Cities of the Full Moon takes place in Universe A Prime after this.


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Full & Empty Alphabet

 

 

A: Arena

B: Bag

C: Cage

D: Dispeser

E: Entrance

F: Farm

G: Garage

H: Hole

I: Igloo

J: Jar

K: Karavan

L: Land

M: Memory

N: Notebook

O: Oven

P: Pack

Q: Quarry

R: Recycle bin

S: Stadium

T: Theater

U: Urinary bladder

V: Vase

W: Well 

X: X-ray tube

Y: Yard

Z: Zone

0 or 1

A binary code is any system of representing text or computer processor instructions by the use of the binary number system's two-binary digits "0" and "1".

This is accomplished by assigning a number to each particular symbol or instruction. A binary string of eight digits (bits), for example, can represent any of 256 possible values and can therefore correspond to a variety of different symbols, letters or instructions. In the 8-bit ASCII code, a lowercase "a" is represented by the bit string 01100001



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