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After The Onion
for "theonion.com"
Does anybody know if they really use onions to make actors cry? I am always astonished when someone with almost no expression of emotion can have tears streaming down their face. It always raises this question in my mind, as the other night, bored and flipping the channels, when I came to a scene with Jennifer Love Hewitt staring at something, when a stream suddenly propelled itself from both eyes. Perhaps they read a few lines from some terribly written prose or poetry.
Reading as a cognitive process may seem to be solely a function of the eyes, actually stimulates a number of portions of the brain, including areas for memory, perception, judgment, and triggers complex and parallel relative conceptions, understanding, discovery, and creativity.
Some reading, such as fiction, seems to lead to a parallel of imaginative experience as well.
Reading poetry, on the other hand, actually stimulates all of these areas, and very often leads to a sense of transcendence. Through memory, perception, understanding, emotion and transcendence, poetry actually moves blood and nutrients from other parts of your body to the brain.
Some people may not realize that the human brain consists of something like 94% fat. Reading poetry can help you lose weight by relieving stress that causes fat to form in other parts of the body.
Reading enough of anything will improve your outlook and self esteem, your ability to do mathematics, in turn measurements, design, and solve complex and even multiple problems. Reading can improve your ability to spell and remember words, learn new words, and develop better skills and thought processes such as writing and speaking, or conveying your ideas to others.
Doing things with the hands and eyes has a similar effect on cognitive development. Because we can do and think at the same time, working with the hands can be a form of meditation. Hand and eye tasks, and I don't mean working at a computer necessarily, but doing something like drawing, painting, sculpture, folding paper, book binding, sewing or knitting, playing a musical instrument, carpentry, these kinds of things, have been found to be a form of furthering brain cognition in young people and developmentally challenged individuals. Don't you think everyone benefits from creative tasks using the hands and eyes?
From a rare text:
"A long time ago men and women made everything by hand, the hand fashioned the world of men and women. It was through the hand that shapes were formed of wood and stone and information was copied and recorded. The tools people used to make other useful things with were also made by hand for the hand to use. There was more harmony in the world because the hand was an equitable element."
Letter forms were a creation of the hand. The first forms are called pictographs because they resemble images rather than graphic or calligraphic designs, and are the basis transformed over time, for the letter forms we use today. Most of the letter forms or typefaces we know were created by the Romans and later around the time of the Renaissance in Europe and have gone unchanged to this day. Except for digitization, these forms were originally designed with roots in the calligraphy and manuscript hands of previous decades leading up to the renaissance and the invention of printing from movable type. At this time the letter designs corresponded to the process of cutting letter punches and making molds for printing types, and reading the inked impression of the letters on handmade laid paper.
The entire relationship of letters on a page and the design of a page, which began with stone carving and manuscripts of earlier centuries, had the act of reading from a book form as a primary developing factor. Over time, this concern for readability became a great interest and discipline of designers of type and of books. The nature of letters and the relationship between the letters in the alphabet and the words they form is one intended for reading. This relationship for reading is not sensational but goes unnoticed, as it should, because that is the nature of it's merit, to function smoothly as the eye glances over the letters. In fact this is the mystery of book design, unlike some kinds of graphic design, it does not intend to draw attention to itself, but to function unnoticed. Very often the case is that the typography allows us to read, and if there is a beautiful typeface used, we tend to notice the type design rather than the design of the page or book. But of course the book, the page, the type, is all an integrated creation of balance and proportion in a beautiful book. The designs and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright are a good example of integrated and associated design.
More of my designing.
Does anybody know if they really use onions to make actors cry? I am always astonished when someone with almost no expression of emotion can have tears streaming down their face. It always raises this question in my mind, as the other night, bored and flipping the channels, when I came to a scene with Jennifer Love Hewitt staring at something, when a stream suddenly propelled itself from both eyes. Perhaps they read a few lines from some terribly written prose or poetry.
Reading as a cognitive process may seem to be solely a function of the eyes, actually stimulates a number of portions of the brain, including areas for memory, perception, judgment, and triggers complex and parallel relative conceptions, understanding, discovery, and creativity.
Some reading, such as fiction, seems to lead to a parallel of imaginative experience as well.
Reading poetry, on the other hand, actually stimulates all of these areas, and very often leads to a sense of transcendence. Through memory, perception, understanding, emotion and transcendence, poetry actually moves blood and nutrients from other parts of your body to the brain.
Some people may not realize that the human brain consists of something like 94% fat. Reading poetry can help you lose weight by relieving stress that causes fat to form in other parts of the body.
Reading enough of anything will improve your outlook and self esteem, your ability to do mathematics, in turn measurements, design, and solve complex and even multiple problems. Reading can improve your ability to spell and remember words, learn new words, and develop better skills and thought processes such as writing and speaking, or conveying your ideas to others.
Doing things with the hands and eyes has a similar effect on cognitive development. Because we can do and think at the same time, working with the hands can be a form of meditation. Hand and eye tasks, and I don't mean working at a computer necessarily, but doing something like drawing, painting, sculpture, folding paper, book binding, sewing or knitting, playing a musical instrument, carpentry, these kinds of things, have been found to be a form of furthering brain cognition in young people and developmentally challenged individuals. Don't you think everyone benefits from creative tasks using the hands and eyes?
From a rare text:
"A long time ago men and women made everything by hand, the hand fashioned the world of men and women. It was through the hand that shapes were formed of wood and stone and information was copied and recorded. The tools people used to make other useful things with were also made by hand for the hand to use. There was more harmony in the world because the hand was an equitable element."
Letter forms were a creation of the hand. The first forms are called pictographs because they resemble images rather than graphic or calligraphic designs, and are the basis transformed over time, for the letter forms we use today. Most of the letter forms or typefaces we know were created by the Romans and later around the time of the Renaissance in Europe and have gone unchanged to this day. Except for digitization, these forms were originally designed with roots in the calligraphy and manuscript hands of previous decades leading up to the renaissance and the invention of printing from movable type. At this time the letter designs corresponded to the process of cutting letter punches and making molds for printing types, and reading the inked impression of the letters on handmade laid paper.
The entire relationship of letters on a page and the design of a page, which began with stone carving and manuscripts of earlier centuries, had the act of reading from a book form as a primary developing factor. Over time, this concern for readability became a great interest and discipline of designers of type and of books. The nature of letters and the relationship between the letters in the alphabet and the words they form is one intended for reading. This relationship for reading is not sensational but goes unnoticed, as it should, because that is the nature of it's merit, to function smoothly as the eye glances over the letters. In fact this is the mystery of book design, unlike some kinds of graphic design, it does not intend to draw attention to itself, but to function unnoticed. Very often the case is that the typography allows us to read, and if there is a beautiful typeface used, we tend to notice the type design rather than the design of the page or book. But of course the book, the page, the type, is all an integrated creation of balance and proportion in a beautiful book. The designs and architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright are a good example of integrated and associated design.
More of my designing.
