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Author Archives: julianfrankpearce

So It’s Come to This: A Homer Simpson Profile (Part 1)
The Arts

So It’s Come to This: A Homer Simpson Profile (Part 1)

Posted on March 13, 2015 by julianfrankpearce • 1 Comment

“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 →

Monitoring your moods with an app and a hat
The Helpful / Thought

Monitoring your moods with an app and a hat

Posted on February 8, 2015 by julianfrankpearce • 1 Comment

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
The Arts / The Helpful / Thought

Surrealistic art can be reassuring when contemplating your mortality

Posted on January 21, 2015 by julianfrankpearce • Leave a comment

“[Surrealistic] art offers access to reassurance on a different level of understanding.” Continue reading →

Tickle me schizophrenic
Biology / Thought

Tickle me schizophrenic

Posted on January 15, 2015 by julianfrankpearce • Leave a comment

“…[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 Arts

Bump in the night: The Babadook and what I think it represents

Posted on January 7, 2015 by julianfrankpearce • 1 Comment

“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
The Arts / The Helpful / Thought

Patrick Bateman of American Psycho: A sexual profile

Posted on November 30, 2014 by julianfrankpearce • Leave a comment

“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 →

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