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The 100 Sequences That Shaped Animation Eric Vilas-Boas and John Maher, Vulture From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, the history of an art form that continues to draw us in. Save to Pocket

7500 BC flint arts

Lumpy flint figurines maybe some of the earliest depictions of real people

By Tom Metcalfe - Live Science Contributor 6 hours ago

Archaeologists now think the Neolithic flint artifacts found at Kharaysin in Jordan are the earliest-known portrayals of real human beings in the Near East.

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Archaeologists at an ancient burial site in Jordan thought one of their team might have sunstroke when he suggested some rough flints he'd found could represent people. But now his discovery could change how scientists think about the Neolithic Near East.

More than 100 of the unusual flint artifacts dating back to about 7500 B.C. have been discovered at 

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La photographie : un œil pour voir le monde

Descendue de son piédestal, utilisée par tout un chacun, la photographie donne lieu aujourd'hui à des millions d’images par jour. Il y a celles que nous faisons et celles que nous voyons, et aussi celles que nous ne voyons même plus. Dans cette aventure passionnante, il devient essentiel de prendre le temps de regarder pour faire la différence entre ce qui est sans lendemain et ce qui se construit et se lit dans la durée. De la qualité de notre regard dépendent la vie de ces photographies mais aussi celle de notre esprit.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Did Leonardo da Vinci have ADHD?

Leonardo da Vinci produced some of the world’s most iconic art, but historical accounts of his work practices and behaviour show that he struggled to complete projects. Drawing on these accounts, Professor Catani lays out the evidence supporting his hypothesis that, as well as explaining his chronic procrastination, ADHD could have been a factor in Leonardo’s extraordinary creativity and achievements across the arts and sciences.

Professor Catani, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s, says: ‘While impossible to make a post-mortem diagnosis for someone who lived 500 years ago, I am confident that ADHD is the most convincing and scientifically plausible hypothesis to explain Leonardo’s difficulty in finishing his works. Historical records show Leonardo spent excessive time planning projects but lacked perseverance. ADHD could explain aspects of Leonardo’s temperament and his strange mercurial genius.’

ADHD is a behavioural disorder characterised by continuous procrastination, the inability to complete tasks, mind-wandering and a restlessness of the body and mind. While most commonly recognised in childhood, ADHD is increasingly being diagnosed among adults including university students and people with successful careers.

Leonardo’s difficulties with sticking to tasks were pervasive from childhood. Accounts from biographers and contemporaries show Leonardo was constantly on the go, often jumping from task to task. Like many of those suffering with ADHD, he slept very little and worked continuously night and day by alternating rapid cycles of short naps and time awake.

Alongside reports of erratic behaviour and incomplete projects from fellow artists and patrons, including Pope Leone X, there is indirect evidence to suggest that Leonardo’s brain was organised differently compared to average. He was left-handed and likely to be both dyslexic and have a dominance for language in the right-hand side of his brain, all of which are common among people with ADHD.

Perhaps the most distinctive and yet disruptive side of Leonardo’s mind was his voracious curiosity, which both propelled his creativity and also distracted him. Professor Catani suggests ADHD can have positive effects, for example mind-wandering can fuel creativity and originality. However, while beneficial in the initial stages of the creative process, the same traits can be a hindrance when interest shifts to something else.

Professor Catani, who specialises in treating neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and ADHD, says: ‘There is a prevailing misconception that ADHD is typical of misbehaving children with low intelligence, destined for a troubled life. On the contrary, most of the adults I see in my clinic report having been bright, intuitive children but develop symptoms of anxiety and depression later in life for having failed to achieve their potential.’

‘It is incredible that Leonardo considered himself as someone who had failed in life. I hope that the case of Leonardo shows that ADHD is not linked to low IQ or lack of creativity but rather the difficulty of capitalising on natural talents. I hope that Leonardo’s legacy can help us to change some of the stigma around ADHD.’

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Aretha Louise Franklin

Today's encore selection - from Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul by Mark Bego. The black neighborhoods of Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s were teeming with teenaged musical talent—Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Otis Williams and others. Most passed through the doors of the 4,500 seat New Bethel Baptist Church, pastored by the "flashy bon vivant" Reverend C.L. Franklin—so high-profile that he merited mention in Time magazine. In the decades leading up to the 1950s, more blacks from the South had poured into Detroit—filling churches like Reverend Franklin's—than any other Northern city, seeking the solid-paying jobs of the automobile industry. The young singing star of Reverend Franklin's church, a touring gospel star by the time she was 14 and an object of fascination for teens in the neighborhood, was his daughter Aretha:/.../

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Maurice Ravel, in full Joseph-Maurice Ravel, (born March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France—died December 28, 1937, Paris), French composer of Swiss-Basque descent, noted for his musical craftsmanship and perfection of form and style in such works as Boléro (1928), Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899; Pavane for a Dead Princess), Rapsodie espagnole (1907), the ballet Daphnis et Chloé (first performed 1912), and the opera L’Enfant et les sortilèges (1925; The Child and the Enchantments).

The art of seeing

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“The art of seeing has to be learned.” The great French novelist, playwright, essayist, and filmmaker Marguerite Duras died on this day in 1996, leaving us her trailblazing art and her beautiful reflections on the art of seeing and the essence of life

Marguerite Duras on the Art of Seeing and the Essence of Life, Illustrated

“The art of seeing has to be learned.”

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Dance

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Nietzsche’s fascination with dance was connected to his enduring motivation to teach readers how to affirm life here and now on Earth http://ow.ly/sNEc50yB7oe

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For Nietzsche, life’s ultimate question was: ‘Does it dance?’ – Kimerer LaMothe | Aeon Ideas

For Friedrich Nietzsche, dance was the way to teach his readers to affirm life here and now, with our human bodily selves

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