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I'm passionate about

Art , Biology , philosophy and Art as a visual hypotheses.

An idea worth spreading

Ideas about the Ethology of artistic behavior.
We are not the only artistic animals. And we can learn allot about our selfs from looking at other artistic animals.

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Art

People don't know that I'm good at

metaphysics

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• A reply on Talk: Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy

  Feb 28 2011: There is a rumour that it got cancelled and Lionhead is going to put the options they explored here in a new Fable game.

• A comment on Conversation: Are Educational Institutions responding to the challenges of teaching and learning in the 21st Century?

  Feb 28 2011: I am one of too many people who feel that the educational system has failed them.
  I'm not looking for any sympathy but here is why:
  
  Decease , Dyslexia and a hyper imagination set me back a couple of grades very early on. So by the time I was 13 I was extremely bored with what my education was providing me. I stopped studying the material I was given since when ever I got tested I could figure out my own way of solving the problems. Eventually the tests started to test not just the outcome or conclusion of any given problem but the method used to do so. My grades dropped down insanely. I had this odd artistic way of remembering and contemplating that did not fit the methods provided. So I got into a situation that even though I got all the answers right on my math test I still failed the test. And yes my way of doing math looked more like a Kandinsky painting but failing me even though I got everything right really pissed me of. So I eventually got kicked out of one school and started not going to an other.
  
  Eventually I cheated the system and got into the most adaptive form of education I could find. I figured since the arts are by nature innovative that an artschool would have to be adaptive enough to be able to function . Even though they really want and try to be as adaptive as possible every one feels that the arts in an educational system is a struggle. For the purpose of administration even Art students get some form of grading . It a moment where you display your passion , heart and soul and within 15 minutes 6 people give you a grade. No matter what grade you get it's depressing.
  Even at it's most adaptive the rules of the educational systems do nothing to help the creativity and innovative qualities of students.
  
  The Internet increases the possibility and fun of educating your self. But I have only rarely experienced my tendency to self educate as something that was encouraged by any school.