AndreiVajnaII

In this post I try to explain abstract art - those kind of paintings that are just some shapes and squiggles that don't represent anything, and they look like a kid drew them or that they can be done by anyone in Paint.

My approach is to explain one of Piet Mondrian's paintings, but first I explain what abstraction is. I do that by taking a short text (any Monkey Island fans out there?), that is full of descriptions, and abstract it over and over again, until there is barely anything left of the original. Then I explain how that same process works for graphical arts, and what it all means.

I recently read "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Feldman Barrett and I wanted to write in my own words the mechanisms she described, so I can understand them better.

Since today is World Mental Health Day, I thought I'd share some things I've learned over the past few years from dealing with anxiety issues. Perhaps it will be helpful to others.

I've found this site something like 10 years ago and changed how I tie my shoes. I do a double loop thing and I never have to stop to tie them back because they came loose. Whenever I see a soccer player stop to tie his laces I laugh and say that that should be the first thing the coaches teach and this site would be a great resource for that.

The motivation for the title is specified right in the article.

I agree - kind of a cheap magic trick if you ask me...

Your explanation has just made the movie more interesting to me. Until now I thought it was quite idiotic, but your revelations do make sense.

Though I still think that the ending scene is badly handled. If the point is that Cobb doesn't care any more about the outcome of the spinning top, then Nolan should have just slided from the image of the top to Cobb and his children.

By zooming in on the top and cutting the shot right before it should falls, it just adds this unneeded baggage of questioning whether all that happened is real or not. Like some sort of magic trick. "Do you doubt what you've just seen?" And I just didn't find that that was the point of the movie.