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Creativity and Insanity - discuss
Slick:
So Tommy was keen on a video of a rotating mask of Charlie Chaplin a little while ago if I recall correctly, wherein, when viewing the back of the rotating mask, it appears to be rotating the other way because of visual cues from the relief of the mask. Apparently, schizophrenics do not suffer from this delusion which I think is what Tommy was going on about?
Anyways, I bring that up because, I think, something that can make a brilliant artist is the ability to see things that other people can't, and if you're crazy, you're certainly seeing things other people aren't. If you're just a little crazy, maybe you've got just a little bit of something extra going on that you're looking with that gives you an edge creatively.
Of course, I just spent eight hours listening to a crazy man ramble about this and that and he wasn't very creative, he just kept spouting the same stuff about lucifer and the world melting and how he can't die over and over again.
(I really hope tania comes in here and is like 'james are you making things up or talking about your weird life again?' and then I will be like 'it was a crazy man in guelph named bob do you know him' and then she will be like 'OMG YES')
Boro_Bandito:
--- Quote from: ruyi on 03 May 2009, 23:38 ---Asperger's syndrome is not as simple as your brain being forced to stay on one subject. You might be thinking of something else, Phil.
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I was just going off of a quote from that article someone linked up top earlier, truth be told I don't know a whole lot about it and I'm sorry if I let my ignorance show too much here, here's the quote:
--- Quote from: That article ---More recently, a number of history's most brilliant minds have been retrospectively diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome – a high functioning form of autism characterised by narrow interests and 'workaholism'. In fact, some researchers believe that these two types of mental illness might confer traits that are conducive to genius.
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someone linked it up top a while ago but I'll post it again for clarity.
ruyi:
--- Quote ---Had Sir Isaac Newton been alive today, he would have been a Harry Potter fan.
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welp
Zingoleb:
Okay, so I don't have synaesthesia (fuck the spelling), then. :laugh: Probably a good thing, if I have too many things on my list of what's wrong with me I'll start to look like a hypochondriac. I mean, seriously. I have every disorder BUT hypochondria, I think.
pwhodges:
Er, haven't you just pretty much defined hypochondria?
Also, I was playing with the thought of the inhabitants of this thread starting Synaesthetes Anonymous... it has a nice ring to it (or should that be colour?).
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