From the moment the studio logo goes up, people cheer, applaud, laugh, moan, scream, explode into "That was awesome!" Movie titles, character entrances, one-liners, epic action sequences, unexpected deaths, violent creative deaths, bad-guy comeuppances, twists — they all elicit vocal and passionate responses.
In Melbourne's graffiti scene, the legacy of street artists are tied to violent reputations alongside creative merit.
And it's because the franchise allows for such insane, creative, violent destruction to be played out on its video game streets, every time the series appears on a new, more advanced hardware platform, it's cause for mass excitement.
This creates content that is increasingly creative and violent," writes lead researcher Christoph Bartneck.
1) Humans are by far the kindest, most compassionate, most creative, most violent, most destructive and most misery-inducing animal in the history of the world.
They all call for grassroots, creative, non-violent, direct action to bring needed changes that politicians have failed to lead on.
They challenged gender norms, racial stereotypes and class distinctions, they also channeled a lot of their rage into creative non-violent ways of dismantling the hegemonic forces that were working their mainstream asses off to oppress us.
In a land all too prone to pointless violence, I am hopeful that in the future you will work to create non-violent communities that promote creative experimentation, and that you will reject cultural tendencies that subordinate patient inquiry to macho projections of force.
Studies by Dutch researcher T.H. van der Voort suggest that watching TV might reduce kids' creative imagination, and violent TV shows are associated with a decrease in kids' fantasy play and an increase in aggressiveness.
The history of Mesopotamia was then both uniquely creative and uniquely violent and destructive; marked by invasions and devastating wars in which the great achievements of its civilisation were smashed many times, from the ruin of the Ur III dynasty through Mongols, Tartars and Seljuks, to the savagery of recent wars.
Besides bringing together many rare and extraordinary objects and art, the exhibit gives us the opportunity to remember, in these violent times, an avant-garde, creative thinker who used art to protest war.
