Someone left this in a prominent place on a high street.  I - and I am sure, they - hope that everyone who walked past saw it and took it on board.  It's a small town - say 200 people noticed that sign in a day, and began to live by its message.  They then pass on the message to 10 friends each, who pass it on to 10 more...theoretically, pretty much the entire World becomes a more forgiving and tolerant place.  Well, even if this doesn't happen, at least whoever left the notice there can feel happy that they at least tried to start something.

What was the question?

Drugs may be addictive, but creativity is too.

Sorealism's tagline is 'Tell it like it is'.

Go figure.

For a man remembered chiefly as a mathematician, Einstein had some beautiful philosophies.

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...................   http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm

 Great video showing a compilating of 100 years of special effects, but to be honest, it is over dominated by the last 20.

I must say (except for Benjamin Button 'youthing' of Brad Pitt)  the digital effects post Tron are somehow disappointing. Why? They're much more real in some way - which is part of the problem. The old stop action trickery Harryhausen, or indeed the simple magic of matteing or cut edits, is much more obvious, but somehow more satisfying. It plays to what film does best - portraying reality, if edited and composed - whereas computer graphics create a new digital reality which, though detailed and realistic, somehow lacks the grain of real life.

I wrote about the limits of digital versus analogue 15 years ago in The Work of Art in the Digital Domain, and complained that CG lacks a feeling for 'mortality'. This compilation only confirms it.

 A great site by Shirley Ann-Dick, with some of the best lines

A friend of SoReal Fairey made this film with nothing.  It's not perfect - she was on a clock to make it - but it's pretty cool - visual, discomforting in places, imaginative and fun.  You probably wouldn't come across it if you didn't know it was there.  That is part of it's Sorealism - it's one representative from the battalions of talent that are out there, in all the most unlikely places. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbARRw3SrMQ&feature=channel

I know it's MySpace.  I know we are well aware that there is music on MySpace.  Lily Allen did her thing, it's over right? Yeah.  Here's one I found - same girl, two different stories.  It's the serious and the silly.  Music is all-purpose.  Music is not for snobbery or exclusive to deep sensitive misunderstood souls.  Read what's under 'youp!youp!'s influences and I'm sure you'll understand.  Open the door of possibility to everything out there - one for sorrow, one for joy. 

http://www.myspace.com/hootingsailor

http://www.myspace.com/theodorasutton

www.iloveboxie.com