shamash says...

What Art Movement Are You?

You Are Expressionism

Moody, emotional, and even a bit angsty... you certainly know how to express your emotions. At times, you tend to lack perspective on your life, probably as a result of looking inward too much. This introspection does give you a flair for the dramatic. And it's even maybe made you cultivate some artistic talents! You have a true artist's temperament... which is a blessing and a curse.

What Art Movement Are You?

Optical Illusions and Color's Affect on our Brains

The Persistence of Vision:

Go here. Take the 30 second exercise. This optical illusion freaked me out!  (Thanks, Brown Belt, for sending me the link and to John Sadowski for being brilliant.)

I also hooked another brain exercise over at Musings from the Void, who snagged it from the book Brain Age:

Say the color of these words as fast as you can:

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Green Red Blue
Yellow Blue Yellow

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Easy, yes? Now try this one, say the color, not the word:

Blue Yellow Red
Green Yellow Green

Did you go notice the lag? It's one of the exercises used to assess your "brain age."

My brain has aged quite a bit over the last few weeks of studying here Plymouth. I've living on only a few hours of sleep, and after staring at the computer screen for hours on end and learning new programs, the whole world begins to look like John Sadowski's photo BEFORE you move the mouse over the image!

One Word: Don't Think, Just Write

This site

Is really cool.

You have 60 seconds to write about ONE WORD

Don’t think,  just write.

Via moon river

Gratitude to My Favorite Bloggers

This posting is dedicated to my favorite bloggers who have found a way to make me smile, even on the most dismal of days. Look below the fold.

13 Ways of Looking at Words

"I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after."

–Wallace Stevens

Image from Carl Hammer Gallery

Which Book Are You?

You're A Prayer for Owen Meany!
by John Irving
Despite humble and perhaps literally small beginnings, you inspire faith in almost everyone you know. You are an agent of higher powers, and you manifest this fact in mysterious and loud ways. A sense of destiny pervades your every waking moment, and you prepare with great detail for destiny fulfilled. When you speak, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS!
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

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