Play on emotion

A skill mastered by few, the art of play on human emotion can be tremendously useful..

Though a devious and unethical means of achieving something, it is beyond doubt the most effective, given artful implementation.

Unfortunately, this insight is a product of my similarly artful manipulation.

Though there's no particular requirement for it, I have a greater succeptibility to it because of being emotionally weak.

The strange thing about this equation of emotional play is that it is the weak who is strong in the field... the weaker you are the stronger you can be at emotional play.

It is also amazing how common this phenomenon is.. In public transport, for the use of common resources/goods.

Please share your experience- victim or victor.....

A Tribute to ESCHER

Hi All,

Today i want to talk about one of the most brilliant artists to work with multiple dimension sketches, lithographs and wood cuttings-Maurits Cornelis Escher(1898-1972).

Above, we can see one of his sketches. What intrigues me here is the life he brings to the sketch. Using the third dimension and making the hands protrude from the sketch, coupled with the fact that the hands are in fact drawing each other is what makes this special.


The above sketch called relativity is a lesson on perspective.When you first see it, it looks very confusing and muddled. However the longer the time you spend on it,the more of a masterpiece it becomes.Let me give you an example- Look at the staircase at the top of the sketch.
We will look at it from the perspective of the man holding the railing and climbing this flight of stairs. Now look at it from the perspective of the man climbing down the staircase.
You have just seen two different perspectives of looking at the staircase.
Similarly explore the sketch from the perspective of all the characters in the sketch and you`ll realise its genius.


Escher was left handed and is most well known for his impossible structures. On our right are two of his impossible scenarios.



The one above is called waterfall.
Notice that in 'Waterfall', it seems that water is in continuous flow. However laws of physics tell us that water does not go up a slope without any pumping. However we see that there is a waterfall which falls into a pool which flows on and on to reach the very source of the waterfall.


This one is called 'Up and Down'
In 'Up and Down' we see two lines of soldiers on the top of the castle.
One set is climbing down while the other is going up.
The trick is that if you follow any line you see that the soldiers either keep climbing down/up the flight of stairs and it leads ultimately to the soldier you started with.


Finally, Having given you a taste of what the impossible scenarios are like, I'm going to leave you with one of Escher`s impossible structures.
Try to figure it out for yourself.