Category Creativity

Jan 12 2012

The Joker’s Inspiration


Ever wondered where Batman’s creators got the idea for The Joker from? Look no further than the creepy 1928 flick The Man Who Laughs, about a guy who gets sliced with a knife and goes insane.

VIA: –THE AWESOMER–

Jan 6 2012

10 of the Greatest Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns of All-Time

Each year, America spends about $250 billion on marketing and advertising — more than the entire GDP of Thailand. Too bad most of that money is a complete waste. For an increasingly savvy, TiVo-equipped public, our brains seem to shut down whenever something registers as “advertising.” Which means all those marketing creatives at the big ad firms have had no choice but to, well, get more creative.

Jan 4 2012

‘Discovery of a lifetime’: Stone Age temple found in Orkney is 800 years older than Stonehenge – and may be more important

  • The site contains 100 buildings, forming a ‘temple precinct’
  • Stonehenge may not have been the centre of Neolithic culture after all
  • It could take decades to fully explore and examine
Jan 4 2012

Mathematics And The Great Pyramid

Terrance Nevin says the Great Pyramid is a rational structure (in the mathematical sense), designed and built by normal people.

This is a radical statement about the Pyramid, especially on the internet because all web pages that I have been able to find that deal with the Pyramid, maintain that it was built and/or inspired by either God or space aliens. Most don’t even consider that it could be a rational structure designed and built by normal people.

 

VIA: –PRESURFER–