Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

Plato: For the greater good.
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Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
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Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.
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Hippocrates: Because of an excess of light pink gooey stuff in its pancreas.
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Jacques Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial intent can never be discerned, because structuralism is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
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Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
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Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
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Douglas Adams: Forty-two.
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Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
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Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
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B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
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Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.
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Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
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Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
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Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
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Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken- nature.
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Howard Cosell: It may very well have been one of the most astonishing events to grace the annals of history. An historic, unprecedented avian biped with the temerity to attempt such an herculean achievement formerly relegated to homo sapien pedestrians is truly a remarkable occurence.
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Salvador Dali: The Fish.
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Darwin: It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
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Emily Dickinson: Because it could not stop for death.
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Epicurus: For fun.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
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Johann von Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
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Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
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Werner Heisenberg: We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.
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David Hume: Out of custom and habit.
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Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
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Pyrrho the Skeptic: What road?
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Ronald Reagan: I forget.
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John Sununu: The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation, so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the opportunity.
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Bill Clinton: I did not have sex with that chicken.
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The Sphinx: You tell me.
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Mr. T: If you saw me coming you'd cross the road too!
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Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
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Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
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Molly Yard: It was a hen!
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Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
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Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir corages.
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Wordsworth: To wander lonely as a cloud.
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The Godfather: I didn't want its mother to see it like that.
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Keats: Philosophy will clip a chicken's wings.
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Blake: To see heaven in a wild fowl.
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Othello: Jealousy.
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Dr Johnson: Sir, had you known the Chicken for as long as I have, you would not so readily enquire, but feel rather the Need to resist such a public Display of your own lamentable and incorrigible Ignorance.
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Mrs Thatcher: This chicken's not for turning.
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Supreme Soviet: There has never been a chicken in this photograph.
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Oscar Wilde: Why, indeed? One's social engagements whilst in town ought never expose one to such barbarous inconvenience - although, perhaps, if one must cross a road, one may do far worse than to cross it as the chicken in question.
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Kafka: Hardly the most urgent enquiry to make of a low-grade insurance clerk who woke up that morning as a hen.
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Swift: It is, of course, inevitable that such a loathsome, filth-ridden and degraded creature as Man should assume to question the actions of one in all respects his superior.
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Macbeth: To have turned back were as tedious as to go o'er.
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Whitehead: Clearly, having fallen victim to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
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Freud: An die andere Seite zu kommen.
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Hamlet: That is not the question.
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Donne: It crosseth for thee.
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Pope: It was mimicking my Lord Hervey.
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Constable: To get a better view.
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James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
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Marty McFly: Nobody calls me chicken!
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The Terminator: It'll be back.
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Gandhi: It's the way of passive resistance.
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

I realize that those who don't eat, who don't laugh, who don't sing, who don't love, who live oppressed, crushed and despised, who are less each day, are suffering all this because of some reality that is causing it... I join in the action historically by genuinely loving, by having the courage to commit myself (which is no easy thing!) or I end up not doing what I know I should.

Paulo Freire

(1921-1997)

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Goodbye to Romance

Yesterday

has been and gone

Tomorrow

will I find the sun

or will it rain

Everybody's having fun

except me

I'm the lonely one

I live in shame

I said goodbye to romance

Goodbye to friends...

I tell you

Goodbye to all the past

I guess that we'll meet, we'll meet in the end

I've been the king,

I've been the clown

No broken wings

can't hold me down

I'm free again

The jester with a broken crown

It won't be me this time around to love in vain

I said goodbye to romance

Goodbye to friends... I tell you

Goodbye to all the past

I guess that we'll meet, we'll meet in the end

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Ozzy Osbourne

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The Good and The Great

The difference

between

a fair musician

and

a good musician

is that a good musician

can play

anything

he thinks.

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The difference

between

a good musician

and

a great musician

is

what he thinks.

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Miles Davis

That's Write

A winning writer's winning attitude is Write on!
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He should... do essentially three things: write, write, and write.
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He should be grateful for the privilege of being mistreated in this business. Far worse than mistreatment is no treatment at all -- that is to say, the gnawing, hollow horror of being left quite completely undisturbed.
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Frankly, writers should be grateful for the opportunity to suffer, because suffering is at the heart of creative expression's nature on every level and in every medium and format. Writers should be grateful that they have found the courage to reach and stretch and attempt something different, something new. They should be pleased that they're actually doing what so many others merely talk about: writing.
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Another thing to keep in mind is that writers should never seek sweet, serene satisfaction...
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Sreenwriters, painters, and all purveyors of creative expression are well advised to quit seeking satisfaction. If they hope to maintain even a semblance of sanity, they need to learn how to live with dissonance, discord and a generally unsettled opinion of themselves and their work...
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All who struggle to be creative, in the most important sense, cannot fail, because it is creativity above all other traits that renders us human.
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Fall on your face if you must, but rejoice that it is your own face and nobody else's upon which you fall. And be grateful that you have the energy and spirit to soar high enough to crash once again most gloriously.
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The Whole Picture: Strategies For Screenwriting Success in the New Hollywood (1997)
by
Richard Walter
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Viva Comandante

“Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me.”

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Fidel Castro

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Pacman Woes

And then disaster struck. Men with suits came along and told everyone to grow up. And just like that, the dream was over. Our industry has switched leaders, from a man with a cape and crown to men with shiny shoes who "do lunch".
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From: Five That Fell
By: Eric Jon Rossel Waugh
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Article on the rise and fall of five of the most influential videogame developer studios.
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Through Deichmann's Eyes

I often get asked

how I have adopted to the digital age...

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My answer is quite simple;

I shoot the same way I always have...

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It is not the equipment, but your eyes, feelings, and mind

that creates the ultimate image.

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Gunther Deichmann

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Picasso's War

It is
extraordinary,

this

sterile sadness

which

weighs down

the entire

work

of

this

man.

He seems

a

god

trying

to remake

the

world.

But

a

dark god.

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Charles Morice

on

Pablo Picasso

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Life Thru Lomography

The Ten Golden Rules of Lomography

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1. Take your camera everywhere you go

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In bed, in Gorki park, in a propeller driven airplane or in the launderette: You grab your camera and everything around you starts to vibrate with life, be prepared, keep your camera close at hand and ready for action everywhere and all the time.

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2. Use it anytime: Day or Night

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Every single second has its own unique, light, grey, colourful, woolly, profound, or flat mood. Your life is not going to wait for your camera, its rules and the floating around involved in it. Either – click – and you have captured the situation as it is, or you haven’t.

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3. Lomography is not interference in your life but part of it

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Lomography doesn’t interrupt the direction in which your life is going; rather it’s a significant and integral part of it. Just like talking, walking, sleeping, eating, thinking, drinking, laughing and loving, Lomography is a colourful sign that you are alive.

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4. Shoot from the hip

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It is as simple as it is unusual: You don’t have to look through the viewfinder to take a good picture, no, on the contrary! Give yourself more freedom in your choice of perspectives. Hang it up in the air, out in front or behind your back. No limits – just your experience mixed with some luck.

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5. Approach the object of your Lomographic desire as close as possible

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Get close – click – from the wrist looking deep into the eyes, full frontal, close up and precisely what ever it is that interests you. Laughing as you go, feeling good so that everyone can see that Lomography is the most obvious and natural thing in the world.

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6. Don’t Think

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Put your head in the ice cold bathtub, hold your breath, count to 100 and let your troubles dissolve. Then jerk your head out again and with it firmly on your shoulders, grab your camera and hit the streets. Start snapping away, live it and have fun.

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7. Be Fast
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A mere tenth of a second makes the difference between Lomography and not Lomography. Don’t waste time with (Just don’t wait any time) settings or adjustments, thinking about it, faffing around and procrastinating. First impressions have a quality of their own, trust yourself.

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8. You don’t have to know beforehand what is captured on the film

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Give the randomness of Lomography a chance. Enjoy your new way of living with random occurrence. You’re not here for Lomography! Lomography is here for you! Lomography only works if the only thing you concentrate on is celebrating your life.

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9. Afterwards neither

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Wow, that looks great, what is that, where was I there? Your brain is running at top speed, your memory is spinning, your history is tumbling. No, you don’t even have to know afterwards exactly what’s on the film. Just read between the Lomographs.

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10. Don’t worry about the rules

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