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Day 3 of Indian exploration. School children hurry through the stunning Red Fort behind delicately carved white marble lattice-work lit by a fiery-red sun
After being closed since 2001, and many fires and poor behaviour taking place in here (theft, smashing things up etc) the Ritz is in a very sorry state. Third time lucky here, after several failed previous attempts we were in luck and took some snaps.
It appeared someone else was in the building - 3 torches were still on in the upper circle, and a screwdriver was next to one of them. We had seen the stalls and the foyer and the circle, but decided not to see the projector room on this visit as that is the only location the other person in the abandoned cinema was. It was considerably darker than there pictures show.
Bad Behavior from Preston describe themselves as a six piece “balls to the wall” glam rock extravaganza and that pretty much sums this band up in a nutshell. The last competitive band of the competition and good lord, what a way to finish! Looking every part the Glam Rockers resplendent in their colourful outfits and make up, but it was really the front man, Phil Bailey, who not only took centre stage but looked the most avant garde a he did his level best to be the consummate front man. With three guitars on stage, the vocals were sometimes overwhelmed especially during 'Born To Party' but it was still a good performance overall. The bands cover was Alice Coopers' 'Man Behind the Mask', and although not one of the famous Cooper songs, it was nevertheless a good cover by the band. Bailey is predictably theatrical here which ties in very well with the bands image and although this is a proper band with serious musicians, there's nothing in the book saying that you can’t do it without planting your tongue firmly in your cheek! Their final number 'Apocalypse Now' was the best of the set with its great guitar riff that has the place jumping on and off stage. As the song reached its climax Bailey announced "This is the end!" and as the curtain falls on their performance, the band are greeted with generous applause as they take their final bows. What a great way to end the competition!
*Provocation Through Shock*
Las Hurdes bluntly presents the inhabitants of poor villages in Spain as primitives, using shots that remind us of brutal colonial behaviour. For instance, the camera makes a close-up of the teeth and throat of a sick girl. The camera is examining her from a superior position, suggesting we the viewers are more civilised than she is. We also see the image of a mosquito in a medical book followed by a man shivering of fever, suggesting that we have the knowledge to prevent his malaria, but he doesn’t. These images are shocking from the perspective of ethnographic cinema which, now and in the 1930s, aims for a humanistic, emphatic perspective. But to shock was of course at the core of the methods used by the Surrealists to provoke change in society.
Buñuel insisted on showing things rather than just telling them. He went as far as to shoot a climbing goat to show those goats sometimes fall from the cliffs. He could not wait for such an occasion to happen so he took out his revolver and shot a goat. This was clearly not consistent with the observational method used in the film, but this did not bother Buñuel. He left the shot in the film, even though the smoke of his gun was visible in the frame.
Shocking Music
The shock of the images is exacerbated by the music and voice-over that Buñuel uses. He puts the Fourth Symphony of Brahms under the images, creating again an enormous contrast. The sophisticated musical style combined with the dire circumstances of the Las Hurdes people force the viewer to see ‘them’ as very different from ‘us’, as primitives who do not take part in our civilisation.
Shocking Commentary
The voice-over makes this even worse. It is condescending and sarcastic, and shows indifference that could easily be mistaken for objectivity. To the contemporary viewer this suggests an ironic reading. For instance, when we see a few unidentified objects tacked to the wall, the voice-over says: “Note the flair for interior decorating.” And when we see a picture of an infanta on the wall of a school: “What is this fair lady doing here?” These comments highlight the idiosyncrasy of the voice-over, but most of the time it has a straightforward bluntness. Just after the camera has examined the mouth of the sick girl, it says coolly: “we were told that the girl died two days later.”
A Shocked Audience
The audience of the film in the 1930s was “extremely displeased” (ibid., p. 29), which is exactly what Buñuel had hoped for of course. He wanted to shock people out of their comfortable notions of the world around them, and provoke them into thinking for themselves.
Moving Beyond Stereotypes Through Shock
Bunuel's tactic might still work today in design research, because we often find that it is perhaps even more difficult to unlearn or forget the stereotypes we have of groups of people than learning new things about them. If one exagerates the stereotype, like Bunuel does by presenting poor village people as primitives, it becomes harder to take the stereotype seriously and forces you to look beyond your own certainties and knowledge.
About the film
Luis Buñuel, surrealist and eager to critique the status quo in society as well as in filmmaking, took a far from neutral stance with his film Las Hurdes (Land without bread) (1933). Not unimportantly, he did not have his hands tied by financers as he financed his films through a friend who had won the lottery and did not make any demands. Before Buñuel made his documentary Las Hurdes, he had already made his two short Surrealist films Un chien Andalou (1929) and (with Salvador Dali) L’age d’or (1930). To him, Las Hurdes is similar to his two earlier films and equally much Surrealist:
Of course the difference was that this film was based on a concrete reality. But it was an exceptional reality, one that stimulated the imagination. Furthermore the film coincided with the social concerns of the Surrealist movement which were very intense at the time.
Buñuel did not use a script for the film. He had read a book about the region that meticulously documented many aspects of everyday life in the arid mountains. Ten days before the shooting he visited the region and wrote down words like: ‘goats’, ‘a child sick with malaria’, ‘anopheles mosquitoes’, ‘there are no songs, there is no bread’, and he shot the film pretty much in agreement with those notes.
Quotations from an interview with Buñuel in: MacDonald and Cousins (1996) Imagining Reality, Faber and Faber, London.
I found a french spoken (no subtitles) copy of the film as an extra on Buñuel's Los Olvidados DVD at the DVD Bargains shop on Ebay.
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Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
One sunday as we were driving across town we came upon a car in the middle of the intersection., motor running, driver slumped over. I went over to see if the driver was hurt or unconscious. I thought maybe he had a heart attack. As I looked in the window I could see he was alive but passed out and next to him was an empty bottle of schnaps. Called 911. please pick up idiot.
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
On the latrine improvement campaign in Tachkoraro woreda Birhane Gano traditional dance and theatre club presents traditional music and dance which talks about sanitation. © UNICEF Ethiopia /2017/Martha Tadesse
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
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Katherine Kinzler, Associate Professor, Cornell University, USA captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
By no means a technically perfect image but it does show nicely the behaviour of Spotted Flycatchers. I think the bird being fed is actually the female and not a juv.
I wonder what moron decided that nicking this from Sainsbury's and dumping this in the River Lark was a good idea?
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Bad Behavior from Preston describe themselves as a six piece “balls to the wall” glam rock extravaganza and that pretty much sums this band up in a nutshell. The last competitive band of the competition and good lord, what a way to finish! Looking every part the Glam Rockers resplendent in their colourful outfits and make up, but it was really the front man, Phil Bailey, who not only took centre stage but looked the most avant garde a he did his level best to be the consummate front man. With three guitars on stage, the vocals were sometimes overwhelmed especially during 'Born To Party' but it was still a good performance overall. The bands cover was Alice Coopers' 'Man Behind the Mask', and although not one of the famous Cooper songs, it was nevertheless a good cover by the band. Bailey is predictably theatrical here which ties in very well with the bands image and although this is a proper band with serious musicians, there's nothing in the book saying that you can’t do it without planting your tongue firmly in your cheek! Their final number 'Apocalypse Now' was the best of the set with its great guitar riff that has the place jumping on and off stage. As the song reached its climax Bailey announced "This is the end!" and as the curtain falls on their performance, the band are greeted with generous applause as they take their final bows. What a great way to end the competition!
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Participants captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Participants captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Participants during the session Ask About: Cell Behaviour, at the Annual Meeting of New Champions of the World Economic Forum, 2017, Dalian, China, 27th June 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
As I was watering the garden the other day I noticed this little fellow nearby, and when I looked closer, I saw he was holding a drop of water. I didn't know spiders did that. Not the sharpest shot; hard to shoot macro when the wind is blowing the web, but I couldn't resist the shot of him holding that drop of water.
As spotted in one of our local Morrisons. Little Thomas was desparate for a wiz, we opened the door with some trepidation, an had to fumble our way with a feckless dark blue strip light being less than useless.
I suppose, yes, one way of stopping 'unsociable behaviour' (take your pick) would be to turn all the chuffing lights out.
I like this girl sporting this hairstyle. I had her hair original, loose, tied up in a ponytail and I think this one suits her best. I liked the original idea, but for me the hair was a little too thin or too long for such a hairstyle.
#Great_tit approaching nest_hole ...
#Bird-in-Flight .. !! ..
#nesting_behaviour .. feeding .. flying ..
branches screen sky dark silhouette background pale focus movement bird-behaviour.. ! . . !! . .. . .
black twigs shimmering reflection sunlit (wings.!.) . . .. . . .
spring?? bud_ding.. b_udds . . . .. .
I was watching this young Eastern Kingbird out hunting his dinner. What he did next was something I have never seen a flycatcher do - he picked a choke cherry!