Some thoughts on affect

During class last week I was reminded of a chapter in a book by Oliver Sacks. The book is called "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and contains chapters about different patients with different neurological disorders and what life looked like for each of them. The chapters I was reminded of is called "The President's Speech" about patients who had agnosias...couldn't understand words. They could still get affect though, and laughed at the President's speech because his affect was comical w/o the sense of the words. Sacks explains that it often takes a long time to identify these patients, because they don't realize they have lost the ability to understand words, and they can understand an amazing amount just through the affect and body language of the speaker. They often have to go to great lengths, eliminating all affect from voice (as with a computer synthesized voice) before the patient realized that they weren't understanding the actual words but inferring everything from the non-linguistic cues. Wow! So interesting, and affect to the extreme!

a video clip!

I've been working on learning DVD Pro, and Final Cut Pro. The footage I've been experimenting with is some Cirque du Soleil recorded off of television several years ago. Here is a short clip of some crazy flexibility and balance!

A picture!

While preparing for a workshop, I ran across some funny signs...these ones I thought were particularly entertaining.

First post for t560

Good Morning and welcome to my world.

It seems...nothing has happened yet!

Tell me something fun that has happened to you lately....