Jun. 13th, 2008

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The wanted poster worked! Soon I shall be returning Sanzo's lost property! :D
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Jeffrey Friedl has photos of Kanazawa Station, including a really nifty clock.

[livejournal.com profile] ursulav has been doing small pictures of animals as saints for an upcoming con, and has a small rant on religious history for the earnest-but-young Pagans apparently unaware of Roman and early European history who informed her that no, it was the Christians who burned the Pagans.

The World's Fair is looking for tales of you you may have humiliated yourself in the name of science.
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For the first time I got more hits from my own posts (the cosplay one in [livejournal.com profile] saiyuki, and yesterday's A-Kon pics) than any one blog posting the meme. :D The majority of traffic is still the meme, but I suspect the big hype is over unless it gets picked up by a well-known blog I'm holding out for Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

I find it interesting that one blog described the scale as having "turned itself into a quiz," as if it did this all by itself. More sign that we perceive these things as viral in nature? :D
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The Frontal Cortex reports on The Neuroscience of Fandom. Sports fandom, in particular, but it talks about mirror neurons, which in a 1996 experiment with monkey were shown to become active not only when the monkey was performing an action, but when the monkey observed another one performing a similar action.
In other words, these peculiar cells mirror, on our inside, the outside world; they enable us to internalize the actions of another. They collapse the distinction between seeing and doing.

This suggests that when I watch Kobe glide to the basket for a dunk, a few deluded cells in my premotor cortex are convinced that I, myself, am touching the rim. And when he hits a three pointer, my mirror neurons light up as I've just made the crucial shot. They are what bind me to the game, breaking down that 4th wall separating fan from player. I'm not upset because my team lost: I'm upset because it literally feels like I lost, as if I had been on the court.

Obviously, this is all rampant speculation. But when you think about all the things that people love to watch, from sports to porn, you begin to realize that the brain must have some mechanism for blurring the distinction between audience and stage.
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I just made a forum post to DA asking for con artist alley advice. Linking it here so as to have the URL for subtle bumping purposes when it ages off the page. XD http://forum.deviantart.com/community/art/1113302/
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Note 2 self - style schoo
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Via [livejournal.com profile] the_z: one of her LJ friends is holding an art contest featuring summoned monsters. With a cash prize! Link here!
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One of my LJ friends pointed out [livejournal.com profile] elysesewell. She's a model working in China at the moment who posts hilarious things about her experiences. And what made me think more people here [livejournal.com profile] oyceter and [livejournal.com profile] rachelmanija would like to read her blog is that she does a lot of foodblogging. :) And now I'm hungry again.

Also! [livejournal.com profile] sartorias has a Manifesto! Seek out your local branch of the Social Harmony Activist Movement for Bonding Living and Extra-Living!
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Remember when I posted about The Men Who Stare at Goats? No? Ah well. [livejournal.com profile] rachelmanija borrowed it and reviews it here.

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