Philip K. Dick
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This is weird, then, cause all the link is http://www.codeproject.com/<br> Chris Meech It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan I can't help getting older, but I refuse to grow up. Roger Wright I've been meaning to change my sig. Thanks! Alvaro Mendez
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he's probably trying to FUD the clickety police :cool:
"Vierteile den, der sie Hure schimpft mit einem türkischen Säbel."
mlog || Agile Programming | doxygenLOL. :-D I get it, he's taunting the clickety police. Catch me if you can, knda thing. Talk about living on the edge, eh! :) Chris Meech It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan I can't help getting older, but I refuse to grow up. Roger Wright I've been meaning to change my sig. Thanks! Alvaro Mendez
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LOL. :-D I get it, he's taunting the clickety police. Catch me if you can, knda thing. Talk about living on the edge, eh! :) Chris Meech It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan I can't help getting older, but I refuse to grow up. Roger Wright I've been meaning to change my sig. Thanks! Alvaro Mendez
Thanks, it got confused over the length of the URL, put in a br for some odd reason: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/philip.html?pg=1&topic=&topic\_set= regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Admitedly I have not read very much of Dick, but what I have is grand. Wired have an interesting article on him; The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick. Largely about his work being used in Hollywood (e.g. Minority Report). Quite sad really; Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. I want to ask; Philip was a paranoid, drug addicted nut. 5 marriages testify to that. Is that a requirement for brilliant work? Seems quite a few of our revered master artists (visual, music, fiction etc.) are quite plainly one end tag short of validating*. Now I am not talking about people who were declared insane by society because they had some visionary ideas, i.e. ahead of their time. I am talking about people like Dick who feared Disney Land or orange M&Ms. * with permission from David Wulff, who takes no responsibility for such a heinously bad quip. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: Is that a requirement for brilliant work? It would be interesting to dig up some statistics on this, I think. My gut says it is likely a myth propagated by the media to help sell/promote stories. After all there are also numerous very creative and talented people who are not nutso. Sadly he was just a very brilliant nut among writers. Paul Watson wrote: one end tag short of validating That is a great description. I'll have to begin using that one. :-D Chris Meech It's much easier to get rich telling people what they want to hear. Chistopher Duncan I can't help getting older, but I refuse to grow up. Roger Wright I've been meaning to change my sig. Thanks! Alvaro Mendez
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Admitedly I have not read very much of Dick, but what I have is grand. Wired have an interesting article on him; The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick. Largely about his work being used in Hollywood (e.g. Minority Report). Quite sad really; Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. I want to ask; Philip was a paranoid, drug addicted nut. 5 marriages testify to that. Is that a requirement for brilliant work? Seems quite a few of our revered master artists (visual, music, fiction etc.) are quite plainly one end tag short of validating*. Now I am not talking about people who were declared insane by society because they had some visionary ideas, i.e. ahead of their time. I am talking about people like Dick who feared Disney Land or orange M&Ms. * with permission from David Wulff, who takes no responsibility for such a heinously bad quip. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. Dick earned $2500 for optioning the script. He died before the movie was released. Should also point out that Blade Runner (one of my favorite movies) didn't break even for years. I personally find his writing tedious. He sets up great stories, which then meander around aimlessly before simply ending. As for the main question, my own feeling is that whatever it is in the brain that the very thing that makes someone tremendously creative is also what makes anyone "nutty". In other words, the creativity flows from the ability to see the world and life in an unusual way. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Paul Watson wrote: Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. Dick earned $2500 for optioning the script. He died before the movie was released. Should also point out that Blade Runner (one of my favorite movies) didn't break even for years. I personally find his writing tedious. He sets up great stories, which then meander around aimlessly before simply ending. As for the main question, my own feeling is that whatever it is in the brain that the very thing that makes someone tremendously creative is also what makes anyone "nutty". In other words, the creativity flows from the ability to see the world and life in an unusual way. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Indeed, it mentions that in the article (optioning, death and breaking even). Find it quite amazing that we often don't recognize the worth of someone within their own life time. > In other words, the creativity flows from the ability to see the world and life in an unusual way. I agree with that. But there is a line between lateral thinking and paranoia. I wonder how much of each is required. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Admitedly I have not read very much of Dick, but what I have is grand. Wired have an interesting article on him; The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick. Largely about his work being used in Hollywood (e.g. Minority Report). Quite sad really; Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. I want to ask; Philip was a paranoid, drug addicted nut. 5 marriages testify to that. Is that a requirement for brilliant work? Seems quite a few of our revered master artists (visual, music, fiction etc.) are quite plainly one end tag short of validating*. Now I am not talking about people who were declared insane by society because they had some visionary ideas, i.e. ahead of their time. I am talking about people like Dick who feared Disney Land or orange M&Ms. * with permission from David Wulff, who takes no responsibility for such a heinously bad quip. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Paul Watson wrote: Is that a requirement for brilliant work? Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) jokes that if he had ever had dates during high school, these shows never would have been. "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives
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Admitedly I have not read very much of Dick, but what I have is grand. Wired have an interesting article on him; The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick. Largely about his work being used in Hollywood (e.g. Minority Report). Quite sad really; Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. I want to ask; Philip was a paranoid, drug addicted nut. 5 marriages testify to that. Is that a requirement for brilliant work? Seems quite a few of our revered master artists (visual, music, fiction etc.) are quite plainly one end tag short of validating*. Now I am not talking about people who were declared insane by society because they had some visionary ideas, i.e. ahead of their time. I am talking about people like Dick who feared Disney Land or orange M&Ms. * with permission from David Wulff, who takes no responsibility for such a heinously bad quip. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Brian Welsch wrote: "blah blah blah, maybe a potato?" while translating my Afrikaans. Crikey! ain't life grand?
What could a sane person possibly create that another sane person would want to experience?
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Paul Watson wrote: Blade Runner earned $28m, Dick was paid just $1250. He spent only a few short years out of poverty before he died. Dick earned $2500 for optioning the script. He died before the movie was released. Should also point out that Blade Runner (one of my favorite movies) didn't break even for years. I personally find his writing tedious. He sets up great stories, which then meander around aimlessly before simply ending. As for the main question, my own feeling is that whatever it is in the brain that the very thing that makes someone tremendously creative is also what makes anyone "nutty". In other words, the creativity flows from the ability to see the world and life in an unusual way. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
There was an article in Scientific American back in the 80s that studied how many "great artists" were Manic/Depressive and correlated their phases of art with their phases of, er, episodes. Very interesting. Couple of years ago I went searching on the net for the article to no avail. Perhaps it'll be available now.... hmm
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There was an article in Scientific American back in the 80s that studied how many "great artists" were Manic/Depressive and correlated their phases of art with their phases of, er, episodes. Very interesting. Couple of years ago I went searching on the net for the article to no avail. Perhaps it'll be available now.... hmm
In a study of 47 distinguished British writers and visual artists, I found that 38 percent had in fact been previously treated for a mood disorder; Here is part of the article: Manic-Depressive Illness and Creativity by Kay Redfield Jamison, published in Scientific American, February, 1995, Vol. 272 Scores of influential 18th- and 19th-century poets, notably William Blake, Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote about the extreme mood swings they endured. Modern American poets John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz and Anne Sexton were all hospitalized for either mania or depression during their lives. And many painters and composers, among them Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Mingus and Robert Schumann, have been similarly afflicted. Biographical studies of earlier generations of artists and writers also show consistently high rates of suicide, depression and manic-depression--up to 18 times the rate of suicide seen in the general population, eight to 10 times that of depression and 10 to 20 times that of manic-depressive illness and its milder variants. Joseph J. Schildkraut and his co-workers at Harvard concluded that approximately half of the 15 20th-century abstract-expressionist artists they studied suffered from depressive or manic-depressive illness; the suicide rate in this group was at least 13 times the current U.S. national rate. In 1992 Arnold M. Ludwig's survey of 1,005 famous 20th-century artists and writers, he discovered that they experienced two to three times the rate of psychosis, suicide attempts, mood disorders and substance abuse than did comparably successful people in business, science and public life. The poets in this sample had most often been manic or psychotic and hospitalized; they also proved to be some 18 times more likely to commit suicide than is the general public. In a study of 47 distinguished British writers and visual artists, I found that 38 percent had in fact been previously treated for a mood disorder; three fourths of those treated had required medication or hospitalization, or both. And half of the poets -- the largest fraction from any one group -- had needed such extensive care. Modern medicine has confirmed that manic-depression and creativity tend to run in certain families. Studies of twins provide strong evidence for the heritability of manic-depressive illness. If an identical twin has manic-depressive illness, the other twin has a 70 to 100 percent chan
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In a study of 47 distinguished British writers and visual artists, I found that 38 percent had in fact been previously treated for a mood disorder; Here is part of the article: Manic-Depressive Illness and Creativity by Kay Redfield Jamison, published in Scientific American, February, 1995, Vol. 272 Scores of influential 18th- and 19th-century poets, notably William Blake, Lord Byron and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote about the extreme mood swings they endured. Modern American poets John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz and Anne Sexton were all hospitalized for either mania or depression during their lives. And many painters and composers, among them Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Mingus and Robert Schumann, have been similarly afflicted. Biographical studies of earlier generations of artists and writers also show consistently high rates of suicide, depression and manic-depression--up to 18 times the rate of suicide seen in the general population, eight to 10 times that of depression and 10 to 20 times that of manic-depressive illness and its milder variants. Joseph J. Schildkraut and his co-workers at Harvard concluded that approximately half of the 15 20th-century abstract-expressionist artists they studied suffered from depressive or manic-depressive illness; the suicide rate in this group was at least 13 times the current U.S. national rate. In 1992 Arnold M. Ludwig's survey of 1,005 famous 20th-century artists and writers, he discovered that they experienced two to three times the rate of psychosis, suicide attempts, mood disorders and substance abuse than did comparably successful people in business, science and public life. The poets in this sample had most often been manic or psychotic and hospitalized; they also proved to be some 18 times more likely to commit suicide than is the general public. In a study of 47 distinguished British writers and visual artists, I found that 38 percent had in fact been previously treated for a mood disorder; three fourths of those treated had required medication or hospitalization, or both. And half of the poets -- the largest fraction from any one group -- had needed such extensive care. Modern medicine has confirmed that manic-depression and creativity tend to run in certain families. Studies of twins provide strong evidence for the heritability of manic-depressive illness. If an identical twin has manic-depressive illness, the other twin has a 70 to 100 percent chan
Interesting article. Thanks. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke