Gianfranco Ferlazzo. Vintage Soul.
Charlotte Caron. Painted animal on photographic portrait.
Aigle.
Sardine.
Erik Olson. Falling, 2012. Oil on canvas, 20 x 16”.
DO YOU WANT TO GET SOME APPLEBEE’S OR SOMETHING? MAYBE SOME OUTBACK?
I THOUGHT WE WERE SAVING FOR VACATION.
IS A BLOOMIN’ ONION GOING TO DRAIN THE VACATION FUND?
… NO.
EXACTLY. SO LET’S GO GET ONE.
I’m so tired of all these “debates” over when a fetus becomes a baby. They are completely pointless and only serve to distract from the real issue- that of providing people with wombs the same bodily autonomy granted to cis, white, hetero men. You can call it whatever you fucking want, call it Marie bloody Antoinette if it suits your fancy, the fact of the matter is that if it is living off of my body, & cannot live without my body, I DECIDE what happens to it. Period. The end.
How to use the Hypnagogic for Creative Problem Solving
The hypnagogic is the ultimate paradigm-busting tool. As your brain slips into an associative, impressionistic state, it is no longer bound by conventional wisdom. In addition to making new factual and ideational links on the “rational” plane, you also get visual images linked to concepts, or mathematical formulas linked to sounds, or physical experiences linked to emotions. This cross-platform synaesthetic mixing is the primeval soup of creative thought, and while something similar may also be happening in regular dreaming, in this case there is a crucial difference: the waking state continues to wield influence in the hypnagogic; thought structures – although loose – maintain a bit of that cause-and-effect robustness. Thus dreamers are able, as another commentator has put it, “to critically evaluate images while they’re still before the eyes.”
Oooo yesss.