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Choices. A crucial point in every life and endeavour. You choose, you take a different path.
A blog (sequences of words evoking concepts, pictures and maybe videos) about decision paths, reality & fiction, the power of stortelling, art & film reviews and everyday poetry.
If you accept to always be inside the tropic of choice, you realize that choices become your story, your life.
DISCLAIMER / WARNING: this blog deals with aesthetic choices in arts, entertainment and everyday life in a personal and opinionated way. It offers (1) no advice; (2) no warranties; (3) no professional assistance; (4) is not limiting your liability; (5) is not limiting your ability to choose, but rather is conceived to expand it. Do not hold the contents of this blog or its creator accountable for your change of mind.
The little selection of articles here is written edited and maintained by a former brain scientist researching the grey zones of fiction and reality. An humble attempt to make sense of our world through observing media artifacts as meaningful disruptors of thought and action, rippling through our society of brains.
Who does not care about decision-making? It is not just a question of analysis, science or practise of aesthetic choices, its a basic human condition which may get cultivated more or less in life and training. We as human beings hit the point of no return – the tropic where a choice is made – every day a thousand times. Artists, writers, filmmakers, painters etc. filter experiences into the seeds of creating art forming them to objects, spectacles, performances, bodies of knowledge and emotion. In all our tropical brains, in the tropical games of life, we form our personal and professional stories with aesthetic decisions every day – or we delay them through neglect and fear.
In terms of interactive narrative, the creative challenges really boil down to how much choice will you give viewers in skipping ahead in a story, what choices to offer that would enrich the story, and the pacing/visibility of these choices. [Zeega]
One creates a sequence of images or writes about a scene, a human feeling. A door opens. A path diverges. The tropic of choice gets fulfilled and is presented to be relished, consumed, analysed. Films, books, photos, science, literature, games, paintings, poems, personal evolution, sex, relationships, all that may be reflected in the science and art of decision-making. Sometimes we refrain from really execute a decision we already “made” – so it might not become a real decision, or it stays negative space in a drawing, giving the scene “breath”. Other times we may have tricked ourselves to make poor choices – or the state, a film, a series or an encounter has.
Indeed, many of the conflicts and barbarities in the world are sustained through the illusion of a unique and choiceless identity. [Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence]
As a former brain scientist turned narrative interaction designer I love, research, consume and ponder a lot about how aesthetic decisions do feel filtered with my own singular body and brain, how they perturbate my system – and if there is any general or peculiar reason to be found. Therefore all this here is far from a scientific and objective process of evaluation. To collect external and internal factors which play a role in the stories presented to us by entertainment, politics or society in our everyday-life may shed a light on transformative moments.
I hope to entertain you in your own journey exploring the artefacts presented to us and I do apologise for any inconvenience arising from where our opinions might not positively interfere and become resonant with mine.
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Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them.
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Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them.
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Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there’s the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them.
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For instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts.
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For instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts.
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I ought to just try that with my boss; I’d get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. If I didn’t have my parents to think about I’d have given in my notice a long time ago, I’d have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He’d fall right off his desk! And it’s a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.
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He’d fall right off his desk! And it’s a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.
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Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to him – another five or six years I suppose – that’s definitely what I’ll do. That’s when I’ll make the big change. First of all though, I’ve got to get up, my train leaves at five. ” And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of drawers. “God in Heaven! ” he thought. It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He could see from the bed that it had been set for four o’clock as it should have been; it certainly must have rung. 
True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch the train he would not avoid his boss’s anger as the office assistant would have been there to see the five o’clock train go, he would have put in his report about Gregor’s not being there a long time ago. The office assistant was the boss’s man, spineless, and with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of service Gregor had never once yet been ill.
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Zas half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He could see from the bed that it had been set for four o’clock as it should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply because of that. What should he do now? He could see from the bed that it had been set for four o’clock as it should have been; it certainly must have rung. He could see from the bed that it had been set for four o’clock as it should have been; it certainly must have rung.
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