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Are we more creative in the pub?

By March 29 2012, 9:55 am 1 Comment

We’ve all had ‘Black Pencil’ ideas, pints in hand, outside a sunny Soho pub. Maybe we just never sobered up quick enough to write them down. Now scientists at the University of Illinois, Chicago, have suggested that alcohol can help with creative problem solving by freeing up the mind to wander and connect more disparate ideas.

Before we quickly revert to a nostalgic tumbler of whisky in the hand culture the study refers to men who are ‘tipsy’. The tests detailed in Consciousness and Cognition involved 20 men who drank enough vodka cranberry to reach a 0.075% level of intoxication – that’s just below the legal cut-off point for legal intoxication in the US. They were tested alongside 20 men who were sober. Read more »

SOPA is great for creativity

By January 18 2012, 10:13 pm 1 Comment

You can’t fail to have noticed that some of the biggest names on the web have come out against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and it’s twin sister Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Critics claim that if passed, these Acts will destroy freedom on the Internet. This may well be true, but so far SOPA/PIPA have been great for creativity.

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The Amplification of Silence

By January 17 2012, 6:00 pm Leave a comment

The Artist, a film directed by Micheal Hazanavicius, is brilliant.

It’s a brave film in that it flies in the face of convention, it’s beautifully directed and tells an engaging story. But it does so without any dialogue. Even the musical numbers are mute and we never actually hear the voice of Peggy Miller, the young starlet whose career takes off in the ‘talkies’ as an entertainer. We never hear the flirtatious chat between her and George Valentin, the Douglas Fairbanks look-alike leading man because it doesn’t exist – other than in a few inter-title boards.

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