Pao's recorder

2011-11-08T14:06:00.000-04:00

I stopped trying to be anything. I accepted myself in all my human disorder. You might wanna do the same.---Thumbsucker

2011-11-07T17:03:00.001-04:00

2011-11-04T16:21:00.002-04:00

haha

2011-10-24T17:26:00.002-04:00

uff this is just too much...

2011-10-21T15:08:00.000-04:00

2011-10-19T16:17:00.001-04:00

2011-10-12T12:44:00.000-04:00

feeling new!!

pocologico

2011-08-27T09:26:00.000-04:00

Te apoyo

2011-08-27T04:08:00.002-04:00

zoo

2011-06-21T12:59:00.000-04:00

our new Matica family member! -Buho

2011-05-31T18:00:00.002-04:00

2011-05-21T16:23:00.002-04:00

No tengo plan para mañana, pues hoy supuestamente es el fin de mundo...

Pao's Matica!

2011-05-20T18:02:00.002-04:00

2011-05-11T23:59:00.000-04:00

2011-03-19T21:19:00.000-04:00

wallflower vertical garden

2011-03-19T16:22:00.000-04:00

Wallflower Urban Garden designed by Haldane Martin from Haldane Martin on Vimeo.

THE GEOMETRY OF PASTA

2011-03-18T13:03:00.002-04:00

by Here Design

Typogami

2011-02-21T09:05:00.000-04:00

F*** U

2011-02-21T08:37:00.000-04:00

Doritos

2011-02-09T13:36:00.001-04:00

my new portfolio site!

2011-02-05T16:30:00.001-04:00

www.paoish.com

2010-12-26T14:55:00.001-04:00

Los recuerdos pesan.

an eccentric video

2010-12-15T16:56:00.001-04:00

Tomi Um

2010-12-06T13:59:00.005-04:00

Last weekend I was at the Brooklyn comics and graphics festival, which was awesome BTW... I got very inspired by all those graphic artists, in particular I found this illustrator Tomi Um spectacular. I love the way she incorporates a lot of asian influences into her illustration, and also how she turns the religious language into her graphic style that is just amazing.
her wabsite:
Tomi Um

Japan- the strange country

2010-12-02T22:38:00.000-04:00

Japan - The Strange Country
Uploaded by ChillClub. - Explore more science and tech videos.

Funny

2010-11-30T15:34:00.001-04:00

"Teat Beat of Sex" from Signe Baumane on Vimeo.

Oliver Jeffers

2010-11-29T20:22:00.002-04:00

Pao version Mad Men

2010-11-28T20:37:00.000-04:00

Play

2010-11-28T13:21:00.001-04:00

PLAY - Cassette Schwarzenegger from studio shelter on Vimeo.

Buy Nothing Day

2010-11-26T23:45:00.000-04:00

“Consumerism is based on the idea in society that we never have enough and that getting more things will make us happier. It is preying on people’s basic feelings of contentment in order to make a profit for the few,” says Cindy Rosin, a spokesperson for the New York City-based Freegans and a supporter of Buy Nothing Day.

who says print is dead?

2010-11-26T12:13:00.001-04:00

the night of living dead pixels / prototype 2 from éditions volumiques on Vimeo.

haha

2010-11-26T11:40:00.003-04:00

It's quite fun to dress up somebody terribly. Hahahaha, but who knows maybe this is gonna be next fashion trend. lol

Pablo Bernasconi

2010-11-24T13:02:00.001-04:00

Open publication - Free publishing - More bifocal

Shi-Yang

2010-11-22T16:26:00.003-04:00

In the past few months I had been looking at everywhere to get inspirations for my own Coffee-shop,. This tea house is one of my favorites, wish someday if I get a chance to visit it.

Library on a Donkey

2010-11-19T16:38:00.002-04:00

waoo, this guy Luis Soriano makes me realized that we are spending too much time on complaining about how bad is our society affecting our life, instead of start to do something to change it.

New balance sneaker Projection mapping

2010-11-19T15:29:00.002-04:00

This is such a unique usage of the projector!

New balance sneaker Projection mapping_01 from Hayoung Jung on Vimeo.

Alex Dukal

2010-11-19T11:28:00.002-04:00

Last night as my daily routine on my way of finding inspiration for my upcoming project, accidentally found this amazing Argentinean illustrator, Alex Dukal, I love his sophisticate pastel color usage, character design, and all those brush details. Definitely a good example to look at as a digital illustrator!

George Psalmanazar

2010-11-18T13:23:00.004-04:00

I found this guy pretty funny, what would happen if Taiwan were just like what he described? I almost wish our culture were that mystic as in his narrative. Well, expect the carnivalism part...

"Building upon this growing interest in his life, in 1704 Psalmanazar published a book entitled An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan which purported to be a detailed description of Formosan customs, geography and political economy, but which was in fact a complete invention on Psalmanazar's part. The "facts" contained in the book were in fact an amalgam of other travel reports, and were especially influenced by accounts of the Aztec and Inca civilization in the New World and by embellished descriptions of Japan. Thomas More's Utopia may also have served as an inspiration. According to Psalmanazar, Formosa was a prosperous country with a capital city called Xternetsa. Men walked naked except for a gold or silver plate to cover their genitals. Their main food was a serpent that they hunted with branches. Formosans were polygamous and husbands had a right to eat their wives for infidelity. They executed murderers by hanging them upside down and shooting them full of arrows. Annually they sacrificed the hearts of 18,000 young boys to gods and priests ate the bodies. They used horses and camels for mass transportation and dwelled underground in circular houses."

source from Wikipedia.

Esperar.

2010-10-18T10:06:00.004-04:00

2 horas de espera en aeropuerto, 10 minutos de semanforo, 5 minuto de check-in, y todavia me falta esperar que me responda cuantos emails, termino mi 2010 esperarando, desesperadamente.

seriously not to be serious.

2010-10-17T08:08:00.000-04:00

light

2010-09-14T14:58:00.004-04:00

Pao's nonsenses

2010-08-22T14:14:00.002-04:00

The Pantry Party

2010-08-20T19:11:00.002-04:00

my upcoming show - Nonsenses.

To my Neighbor

2010-07-19T21:01:00.003-04:00

2010-07-10T13:30:00.000-04:00

interesting point.

2010-06-28T07:35:00.001-04:00

das fun!!!

2010-06-25T07:51:00.001-04:00

The Music Scene

2010-06-23T18:52:00.002-04:00

This video is just awesome.., it makes me want to create some Flash animations, such an inspiring piece!

Official music video for Blockhead's 'The Music Scene'.

An animated mind melt into a post human New York where TV and animals rule. All cast to the sincerely melodic soul of Blockhead's 'The Music Scene.'

Directimated by A.F.Schepperd
Commissioned by Ninjatune Records
Music by Blockhead

ethnic / opt art

2010-06-20T14:54:00.003-04:00

This week I officially started a new narrative project, but for some reason, I just couldn't finish the storyline, since I kept adding new ideas( typical Pao's way of working )...So at some point, I got bored and decided to do something else. Then here you go, a draft for the background. Kinda like the idea to incorporate some ethnic elements with Optical art, quite an interesting mixture.

Pao with long hair

2010-06-17T21:18:00.004-04:00

space saving furniture design

2010-06-06T20:00:00.001-04:00

incredible space saving furniture design! I guess this is what new yorkers need.

I love Brooklyn

2010-06-05T09:39:00.006-04:00

This is just too sweet... this kinda details make me in love with my neighborhood!

by Maria Yasko
link:her portfolio

2009-11-19T15:02:00.003-04:00

After 26 years of cliché life, I just realized I'm a hippie wannabe, and it's still another form of cliché...

2009-11-14T12:29:00.002-04:00

"Once I was taken to a party. There was this old man, and he was celebrating his hundredth birthday. I wanted to know how he was feeling. The poor man gave me an astonished smile, and said, I don't really know, it all happened so quickly... He talked about his hundred years as though they were some disaster that had befallen him in the last few minutes. Sometime I feel the same way. My soul hurts with too much past in it, and so much emptiness. I feel like that old man"

from The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa.

projects

2009-11-09T00:35:00.002-04:00

I have been lazy for a long time... finally decided to do something, just telling myself, next week I will start working on some projects that I already had visualized in my mind but need to put on paper... let's see what's gonna comes out.

2009-10-23T12:35:00.003-04:00

akademie-solitude
someday I gonna apply this place... it seems a really cool institute!

old apt door

2009-10-21T13:48:00.001-04:00

I'm thinking to paint my apt door again...

experiment with flowers.

2009-10-20T11:05:00.012-04:00

an experiment of floral arrangement, it was quite fun to design floral arrangement. I think I really enjoyed doing it!

2009-10-11T00:34:00.004-04:00

Suddenly forgot why I wanted to be a designer...

2009-10-07T17:11:00.003-04:00

50% of my life is about waiting, and other 50% is thinking if it's worthy to be waiting...

2009-10-05T13:10:00.000-04:00

Life is about domesticating.

wonder what would be the next?

2009-10-04T01:16:00.005-04:00

Oaxaca baseball postcard

2009-09-18T14:22:00.002-04:00

2009-08-15T10:47:00.004-04:00

2en day

2009-08-06T22:56:00.004-04:00

despues de segundo dia de mi viaje, estoy dando cuenta que estoy escuchando muchas historias de gente desconocidas, ya entiendo por que gente decia que uno aprende mucho a traves de viaje. Creo que este viaje me va a servir mucho.

Pao, en Playa del Carmen.

Mexican trip

2009-07-26T15:26:00.003-04:00

still planning my trip to Mexico, August 4th - 27th
NY- Cancun- Mexico city- Cancun- NY,
between Cancun and Mexico city I haven't decided where to go yet,
maybe Cancun- Chichen Itza- Merida- Palenque- Sancristobal- Monte Alban- Oaxaca- Puebla- Teotihuacan Ruins- Mexico city, then fly back to Cancun- NY.

sky gets drunk ...

2009-07-18T15:34:00.003-04:00

from my new apt rooftop

procrastination _2

2009-06-30T23:31:00.000-04:00

procrastination

2009-06-30T22:56:00.000-04:00

un dia productivo

2009-06-24T11:25:00.006-04:00

dibujito

2009-05-30T19:37:00.000-04:00

2009-05-27T09:59:00.002-04:00

brainstorming my next exhibition, since there is not many job demands...

haha..this is awesome..

2009-05-22T11:07:00.000-04:00

Michel Gondry

2009-05-17T17:33:00.004-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f34oYgz6bGs
http://www.muzu.tv/bjork/bjork-video-army-of-me-music-video/85773

2009-05-11T23:31:00.002-04:00

is it kinda fated ... ? why people always ask me to help with graduation stuffs? and as always in the last minutes....uuf now just got a call from Dep to do the exhibition video loop... it reminds me the experience of making Chavon's graduation catalog - the last minute amarre...

thinking

2009-05-09T15:12:00.002-04:00

In a week, I will be out of Parsons..., still thinking what'm I gonna do...

2009-05-06T13:59:00.002-04:00

I'm realizing that most stuffs that I like, don't quite make sense... but anyway,still awesome ...

2009-05-05T23:07:00.001-04:00

chiling

2009-05-05T17:56:00.003-04:00

uff, ya casi termino mi thesis, por fin estoy chilin... it's time to take a rest, now I just need to fix some tiny details, transitions, music...ect. and of course I need to work on my website, maybe some promotional elements like postcards.

the Oath

2009-05-03T13:06:00.001-04:00

the Oath from superpao on Vimeo.

2009-04-24T16:08:00.000-04:00

a fish

2009-04-21T22:24:00.003-04:00

I just found an amazing animation about fish, while looking for some fish movement references...

test

2009-04-15T00:30:00.000-04:00

test from superpao on Vimeo.

thesis render codec

2009-04-12T18:36:00.002-04:00

it took me a whole day to figure out the best render setting for my thesis..., even a lot of people saying that "animation" is the best lossless codec...but I think it's not quite working with pixel video footage, I have been trying couple of times,I feel there is no much notable difference between H.264 and animation, in fact, animation always results a gigantic file. so I think I will use H264 rather than animation for my final rendering.

production issues

2009-04-11T12:38:00.006-04:00

This week I had been working on my film production, and after I done with shooting I was so scared that when I saw the result in finalcut, all edges look pixaleted... I thought it was problem of my video cassette, but actually it wasn't true... it was just a manner of export... here is a helpful link that explain how to export a high quality film. thanks God that I don't have to broadcast again...

homemade green screen

2009-04-09T20:19:00.000-04:00

yo ?

2009-04-03T12:08:00.001-04:00

2009-04-02T15:13:00.000-04:00

http://a.parsons.edu/~byfieldt/S09-thesis/

demotivation

2009-03-26T01:42:00.002-04:00

maybe I need some demotivation for doing my thesis...
check this out...
http://despair.com/viewall.html

George Orwell 1984

2009-03-24T10:25:00.004-04:00

"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

British scientists uncover oldest words in English

2009-03-22T10:23:00.001-04:00

LONDON (AFP) - The oldest words in the English language include "I" and "who", while words like "dirty" could die out relatively quickly, British researchers said Thursday.
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Scientists at Reading University in southern England have used a supercomputer called ThamesBlue to model the evolution of words in English and the wider family of Indo-European languages over the last 30,000 years.

They say that the most commonly-used words -- which also include the numbers two, three and five -- tend to be the oldest and change most slowly over time.

Meanwhile, adjectives like "dirty" and verbs like "squeeze" could disappear over the next eight centuries or so, the scientists say.

"What we've discovered is the frequency with which the words are used in our common everyday speech is a strong predictor of whether or not they will be retained and words we use a lot tend to be highly conserved," Professor Mark Pagel told BBC radio.

Because there are many different ways of saying "dirty" in Indo-European languages -- currently 46 -- it is more likely to die out, the team said, along with, for example, "push", "turn", "wipe" and "stab".

The oldest words in circulation today have been in use for at least 10,000 years, researchers added.

As well as English, other languages in the Indo-European family include Hindi, Gujarati and Bengali.

2009-03-21T21:48:00.000-04:00

I have to say ...I'm lost, really ...

Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore

2009-03-21T15:24:00.003-04:00

By NATALIE ANGIER
Published: September 20, 2005/ The New York Times
Incensed by what it sees as a virtual pandemic of verbal vulgarity issuing from the diverse likes of Howard Stern, Bono of U2 and Robert Novak, the United States Senate is poised to consider a bill that would sharply increase the penalty for obscenity on the air.

By raising the fines that would be levied against offending broadcasters some fifteenfold, to a fee of about $500,000 per crudity broadcast, and by threatening to revoke the licenses of repeat polluters, the Senate seeks to return to the public square the gentler tenor of yesteryear, when seldom were heard any scurrilous words, and famous guys were not foul mouthed all day.

Yet researchers who study the evolution of language and the psychology of swearing say that they have no idea what mystic model of linguistic gentility the critics might have in mind. Cursing, they say, is a human universal. Every language, dialect or patois ever studied, living or dead, spoken by millions or by a small tribe, turns out to have its share of forbidden speech, some variant on comedian George Carlin's famous list of the seven dirty words that are not supposed to be uttered on radio or television.

Young children will memorize the illicit inventory long before they can grasp its sense, said John McWhorter, a scholar of linguistics at the Manhattan Institute and the author of "The Power of Babel," and literary giants have always constructed their art on its spine.

"The Jacobean dramatist Ben Jonson peppered his plays with fackings and "peremptorie Asses," and Shakespeare could hardly quill a stanza without inserting profanities of the day like "zounds" or "sblood" - offensive contractions of "God's wounds" and "God's blood" - or some wondrous sexual pun.

The title "Much Ado About Nothing," Dr. McWhorter said, is a word play on "Much Ado About an O Thing," the O thing being a reference to female genitalia.

Even the quintessential Good Book abounds in naughty passages like the men in II Kings 18:27 who, as the comparatively tame King James translation puts it, "eat their own dung, and drink their own piss."

In fact, said Guy Deutscher, a linguist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and the author of "The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention," the earliest writings, which date from 5,000 years ago, include their share of off-color descriptions of the human form and its ever-colorful functions. And the written record is merely a reflection of an oral tradition that Dr. Deutscher and many other psychologists and evolutionary linguists suspect dates from the rise of the human larynx, if not before.

Some researchers are so impressed by the depth and power of strong language that they are using it as a peephole into the architecture of the brain, as a means of probing the tangled, cryptic bonds between the newer, "higher" regions of the brain in charge of intellect, reason and planning, and the older, more "bestial" neural neighborhoods that give birth to our emotions.

Researchers point out that cursing is often an amalgam of raw, spontaneous feeling and targeted, gimlet-eyed cunning. When one person curses at another, they say, the curser rarely spews obscenities and insults at random, but rather will assess the object of his wrath, and adjust the content of the "uncontrollable" outburst accordingly.

Because cursing calls on the thinking and feeling pathways of the brain in roughly equal measure and with handily assessable fervor, scientists say that by studying the neural circuitry behind it they are gaining new insights into how the different domains of the brain communicate - and all for the sake of a well-venomed retort.

Other investigators have examined the physiology of cursing, how our senses and reflexes react to the sound or sight of an obscene word. They have determined that hearing a curse elicits a literal rise out of people. When electrodermal wires are placed on people's arms and fingertips to study their skin conductance patterns and the subjects then hear a few obscenities spoken clearly and firmly, participants show signs of instant arousal.

Their skin conductance patterns spike, the hairs on their arms rise, their pulse quickens, and their breathing becomes shallow.

Interestingly, said Kate Burridge, a professor of linguistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, a similar reaction occurs among university students and others who pride themselves on being educated when they listen to bad grammar or slang expressions that they regard as irritating, illiterate or déclassé.

"People can feel very passionate about language," she said, "as though it were a cherished artifact that must be protected at all cost against the depravities of barbarians and lexical aliens."

Dr. Burridge and a colleague at Monash, Keith Allan, are the authors of "Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language," which will be published early next year by the Cambridge University Press.

Researchers have also found that obscenities can get under one's goosebumped skin and then refuse to budge. In one study, scientists started with the familiar Stroop test, in which subjects are flashed a series of words written in different colors and are asked to react by calling out the colors of the words rather than the words themselves.

If the subjects see the word "chair" written in yellow letters, they are supposed to say "yellow."

The researchers then inserted a number of obscenities and vulgarities in the standard lineup. Charting participants' immediate and delayed responses, the researchers found that, first of all, people needed significantly more time to trill out the colors of the curse words than they did for neutral terms like chair.

The experience of seeing titillating text obviously distracted the participants from the color-coding task at hand. Yet those risqué interpolations left their mark. In subsequent memory quizzes, not only were participants much better at recalling the naughty words than they were the neutrals, but that superior recall also applied to the tints of the tainted words, as well as to their sense.

Yes, it is tough to toil in the shadow of trash. When researchers in another study asked participants to quickly scan lists of words that included obscenities and then to recall as many of the words as possible, the subjects were, once again, best at rehashing the curses - and worst at summoning up whatever unobjectionable entries happened to precede or follow the bad bits.

Yet as much as bad language can deliver a jolt, it can help wash away stress and anger. In some settings, the free flow of foul language may signal not hostility or social pathology, but harmony and tranquillity.

"Studies show that if you're with a group of close friends, the more relaxed you are, the more you swear," Dr. Burridge said. "It's a way of saying: 'I'm so comfortable here I can let off steam. I can say whatever I like.' "

Evidence also suggests that cursing can be an effective means of venting aggression and thereby forestalling physical violence.

With the help of a small army of students and volunteers, Timothy B. Jay, a professor of psychology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams and the author of "Cursing in America" and "Why We Curse," has explored the dynamics of cursing in great detail.

The investigators have found, among other things, that men generally curse more than women, unless said women are in a sorority, and that university provosts swear more than librarians or the staff members of the university day care center.

Regardless of who is cursing or what the provocation may be, Dr. Jay said, the rationale for the eruption is often the same.

"Time and again, people have told me that cursing is a coping mechanism for them, a way of reducing stress," he said in a telephone interview. "It's a form of anger management that is often underappreciated."

Indeed, chimpanzees engage in what appears to be a kind of cursing match as a means of venting aggression and avoiding a potentially dangerous physical clash.

Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, said that when chimpanzees were angry "they will grunt or spit or make an abrupt, upsweeping gesture that, if a human were to do it, you'd recognize it as aggressive."

Such behaviors are threat gestures, Professor de Waal said, and they are all a good sign.

"A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures, but just goes ahead and attacks," he added.

By the same token, he said, nothing is more deadly than a person who is too enraged for expletives - who cleanly and quietly picks up a gun and starts shooting.

Researchers have also examined how words attain the status of forbidden speech and how the evolution of coarse language affects the smoother sheets of civil discourse stacked above it. They have found that what counts as taboo language in a given culture is often a mirror into that culture's fears and fixations.

"In some cultures, swear words are drawn mainly from sex and bodily functions, whereas in others, they're drawn mainly from the domain of religion," Dr. Deutscher said.

In societies where the purity and honor of women is of paramount importance, he said, "it's not surprising that many swear words are variations on the 'son of a whore' theme or refer graphically to the genitalia of the person's mother or sisters."

The very concept of a swear word or an oath originates from the profound importance that ancient cultures placed on swearing by the name of a god or gods. In ancient Babylon, swearing by the name of a god was meant to give absolute certainty against lying, Dr. Deutscher said, "and people believed that swearing falsely by a god would bring the terrible wrath of that god upon them." A warning against any abuse of the sacred oath is reflected in the biblical commandment that one must not "take the Lord's name in vain," and even today courtroom witnesses swear on the Bible that they are telling the whole truth and nothing but.

Among Christians, the stricture against taking the Lord's name in vain extended to casual allusions to God's son or the son's corporeal sufferings - no mention of the blood or the wounds or the body, and that goes for clever contractions, too. Nowadays, the phrase, "Oh, golly!" may be considered almost comically wholesome, but it was not always so. "Golly" is a compaction of "God's body" and, thus, was once a profanity.

Yet neither biblical commandment nor the most zealous Victorian censor can elide from the human mind its hand-wringing over the unruly human body, its chronic, embarrassing demands and its sad decay. Discomfort over body functions never sleeps, Dr. Burridge said, and the need for an ever-fresh selection of euphemisms about dirty subjects has long served as an impressive engine of linguistic invention.

Once a word becomes too closely associated with a specific body function, she said, once it becomes too evocative of what should not be evoked, it starts to enter the realm of the taboo and must be replaced by a new, gauzier euphemism.

For example, the word "toilet" stems from the French word for "little towel" and was originally a pleasantly indirect way of referring to the place where the chamber pot or its equivalent resides. But toilet has since come to mean the porcelain fixture itself, and so sounds too blunt to use in polite company. Instead, you ask your tuxedoed waiter for directions to the ladies' room or the restroom or, if you must, the bathroom.

Similarly, the word "coffin" originally meant an ordinary box, but once it became associated with death, that was it for a "shoe coffin" or "thinking outside the coffin." The taboo sense of a word, Dr. Burridge said, "always drives out any other senses it might have had."

Scientists have lately sought to map the neural topography of forbidden speech by studying Tourette's patients who suffer from coprolalia, the pathological and uncontrollable urge to curse. Tourette's syndrome is a neurological disorder of unknown origin characterized predominantly by chronic motor and vocal tics, a constant grimacing or pushing of one's glasses up the bridge of one's nose or emitting a stream of small yips or grunts.

Just a small percentage of Tourette's patients have coprolalia - estimates range from 8 to 30 percent - and patient advocates are dismayed by popular portrayals of Tourette's as a humorous and invariably scatological condition. But for those who do have coprolalia, said Dr. Carlos Singer, director of the division of movement disorders at the University of Miami School of Medicine, the symptom is often the most devastating and humiliating aspect of their condition.

Not only can it be shocking to people to hear a loud volley of expletives erupt for no apparent reason, sometimes from the mouth of a child or young teenager, but the curses can also be provocative and personal, florid slurs against the race, sexual identity or body size of a passer-by, for example, or deliberate and repeated lewd references to an old lover's name while in the arms of a current partner or spouse.

Reporting in The Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. David A. Silbersweig, a director of neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and his colleagues described their use of PET scans to measure cerebral blood flow and identify which regions of the brain are galvanized in Tourette's patients during episodes of tics and coprolalia.

They found strong activation of the basal ganglia, a quartet of neuron clusters deep in the forebrain at roughly the level of the mid-forehead, that are known to help coordinate body movement along with activation of crucial regions of the left rear forebrain that participate in comprehending and generating speech, most notably Broca's area.

The researchers also saw arousal of neural circuits that interact with the limbic system, the wishbone-shape throne of human emotions, and, significantly, of the "executive" realms of the brain, where decisions to act or desist from acting may be carried out: the neural source, scientists said, of whatever conscience, civility or free will humans can claim.

That the brain's executive overseer is ablaze in an outburst of coprolalia, Dr. Silbersweig said, demonstrates how complex an act the urge to speak the unspeakable may be, and not only in the case of Tourette's. The person is gripped by a desire to curse, to voice something wildly inappropriate. Higher-order linguistic circuits are tapped, to contrive the content of the curse. The brain's impulse control center struggles to short-circuit the collusion between limbic system urge and neocortical craft, and it may succeed for a time.

Yet the urge mounts, until at last the speech pathways fire, the verboten is spoken, and archaic and refined brains alike must shoulder the blame.

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music- classical Opera integrating with swear words, a fusion of past and present...

Pao's recorder

haha

uff this is just too much...

pocologico

Te apoyo

zoo

our new Matica family member! -Buho

Pao's Matica!

wallflower vertical garden

THE GEOMETRY OF PASTA

Typogami

F*** U

Doritos

my new portfolio site!

an eccentric video

Tomi Um

Japan- the strange country

Funny

Oliver Jeffers

Pao version Mad Men

Play

Buy Nothing Day

who says print is dead?

haha

Pablo Bernasconi

Shi-Yang

Library on a Donkey

New balance sneaker Projection mapping

Alex Dukal

George Psalmanazar

Esperar.

seriously not to be serious.

light

Pao's nonsenses

The Pantry Party

To my Neighbor

interesting point.

das fun!!!

The Music Scene

ethnic / opt art

Pao with long hair

space saving furniture design

I love Brooklyn

you don't always get what you want...

some inspirations for show room design

projects

old apt door

experiment with flowers.

wonder what would be the next?

Oaxaca baseball postcard

2en day

Mexican trip

sky gets drunk ...

procrastination _2

procrastination

un dia productivo

dibujito

haha..this is awesome..

Michel Gondry

thinking

chiling

the Oath

a fish

test

thesis render codec

production issues

homemade green screen

yo ?

demotivation

George Orwell 1984

British scientists uncover oldest words in English

Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore