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A Case for Otium
Author W. Somerset Maugham Reading | Photo By Alfred Eisenstaedt It is better to lie on the naked ground and be at ease than to have a golden coach and a rich table and be worried. – Epicurean...
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A Case for Mindbody
Still from David Cronenberg’s 1981 film Scanners Sometimes we have knee-jerk reactions to concepts without fully understanding why. For instance the term psychosomatic gets a really bad rap. To be told...
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A Case for an infinity of yous
Maya Deren in a still from Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 It’s safe to say that we are all intrigued by the possibility of meeting our physical double – our Doppelganger. The term has often been used to...
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A Case for Making Faces
Elizabeth Taylor. Photo by ? When we talk about making faces we don’t necessarily mean sticking your tongue out and crossing your eyes. In fact, we’re talking about the day-to-day action of...
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A Case for Randomness
Chances are that you’ve heard of automatic writing and automatic drawing; you may even have used these techniques as a way of accessing your subconscious and channeling a creative force within you that...
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A case for Oneirology
Salvador Dali photographed by Philippe Halsmann Marie-Jean Léon Lecoq was the first person to coin the term réve lucide (lucid dream). The sinologist turned oneirologist (specialist in the study of...
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A case for watching paint dry
Francesca Woodman | Space2, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 A case for watching paint dry ‘If you look upon an old wall covered with dirt, or the odd appearance of some streaked stones, you may discover...
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A case for sharing your wildest theories
Goethe Color Wheel Most likely, when you hear the name Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, you’ll think of the literary heavyweight; perhaps you’ll think of one of his epic novels such as Faust or The Sorrows...
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A case for going beyond words
Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner | Photo by Hans Namuth What do you consider the best form of communication? Is it words, gestures, or something else? For most, in day-to-day life, language would...
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A case for walking where no one walks
Photo by Will Kitson It may be a bit of a cliché to call the city a concrete jungle, but there’s more truth in it than you’d think. Of course, you’re unlikely to find any tigers or chimpanzees roaming...
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A case for music of the everyday
“Everything in the world has a spirit that can be released through its sound.” – Oskar Fischinger Total silence is often associated with idyllic pure tranquility; yet the question that begs to...
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A Case for Feeding the Genius
Duane Michals | The Illuminated Man, 1968. Nowadays, we tend to define genius as a gift of an exceptional nature; usually one that is creative or intellectual. Interestingly, we often think of genius...
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A Case for Kinaesthesia
Harold Edgerton Stroboscope Photo, 1938 Summer is tennis season and while we talk about the mind a lot at Seymour, watching all these incredible tennis players play Roland Garros and Wimbledon got us...
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A case for thinking like a goat
We recently stumbled across these bizarre images of Moroccan goats suspended in the most precarious of positions upon the spindly branches of Argan trees. No they’re not fake, and yes the goats got...
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A Case for being Pronoid
Photo by Henry Peach Robinson (British, 1830 – 1901) ‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.‘ – Hamlet As the above musing from Shakespeare’s Hamlet suggests, life is rarely...
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A Case For: Flying your freak flag
Creative Commons, Music HQ A Case For: Flying your freak flag The weirdos from Staten Island’s Wu-Tang Clan burst onto the rap scene in the early 1990s with the critically-acclaimed ‘Enter The...
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A Case For: Showering Differently
from Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ A Case For: Showering Differently Wash, rinse, and repeat. It’s not a coincidence that our showering activities have become an idiom for cyclical, mundane actions. Get off...
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A Case For: Seeing Certainties as Questions
A Case For: Seeing Certainties as Questions Since the term “atom” was coined by Greek philosophers two thousand years ago, the scientific community operated on the certitude that this particle was...
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A Case For: Freestyling
A Case For: Freestyling Improvisation has hypnotized audiences from the moment someone stepped on a stage and went off script. Scat singing, jazz solos, and improv theater are integral parts of...
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A case for changing the function
Vintage photo A case for changing the function Here’s a familiar scene: it’s the early evening, you’re out and about with friends, and you all start to get hungry. Choices are thrown out – ‘Chinese?...
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