Found 176 posts tagged ‘laugh’ |
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Restoring the Lost Sense –
February 23, 2016 |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Only Funny If ... –
September 18, 2015 |
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier –
January 22, 2013 |
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Pre-dating the hilarious comedy series " Childrens Hospital" [sic] about a clown doctor who heals through the power of laughter, here's an illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine. The caption reads: "Bravo Slap-Bang!" |
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led –
June 25, 2011 |
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"You have to be able to laugh at anything and everything. The statues of the Buddha all smile, and not without reason, whilst the Christian saints are all bathed in tears. If people would smile more often, there would probably be fewer wars." —Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face
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Pre-dating the hilarious comedy series " Childrens Hospital" [sic], about a clown doctor who heals through the power of laughter, here's an illustration from an 1891 issue of The Strand magazine. The text reads: "'Doctor,' said the clown to the physician, 'do not be jealous, but it seems to me that my tomfooleries have done more good than your prescriptions.'" The caption reads, 'Thank you, Slap-Bang." |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
June 16, 2008 |
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"In the psychological development of the child, there is a step-by-step progression from the primal smile to the smile of embarrassment, joyful laughter, laughter at a comic situation, laughter in a group, aggressive laughter at an outsider, and finally (a somewhat depressing climax) the laugher of Schadenfreude. ... [A]t each step laughter signifies an experience of relief ( Entlastung), both physically and psychologically." — Peter Berger, Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (1997)
The evolution of the smile and laugh, from Frans de Waal's "Darwin's Legacy and the Study of Primate Visual Communication" ( PDF), via Cystalpunk.
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Forgotten Wisdom –
January 14, 2008 |
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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:
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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle. |
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