“For those not schooled on Homer Simpson, he has difficulty thinking, planning, organising, problem solving, and has a lot of trouble controlling his emotions and behaviour.” Continue reading
Author Archives: julianfrankpearce
Monitoring your moods with an app and a hat
Currently in development is a device with the aim of monitoring your moods. All you have to do is put it on your head and press some buttons on an app. This wearable device, named ‘Thync’ boasts it will“shift your state of mind” and help you “conquer life”. Thync device in use. Image located from … Continue reading
Surrealistic art can be reassuring when contemplating your mortality
“[Surrealistic] art offers access to reassurance on a different level of understanding.” Continue reading
Tickle me schizophrenic
“…[Our] brains may reduce the sensation of our own actions in order to increase the sensation of alien force” Continue reading
Bump in the night: The Babadook and what I think it represents
“The Babadook itself could be seen as a Freudian-like representation –an embodiment of the grief that haunts Amelia and Samuel…” Continue reading
Patrick Bateman of American Psycho: A sexual profile
“This hyper-masculinity controls the narrative of the story; the sex Bateman has, the violence he commits, the clothes he wears, the job he has, are all told through a male vernacular of the time and place he’s from..” Continue reading
