Headland by Dexter Dymoke: “It is interesting to think of the manipulation of materials as mischievous. Play is outside authority – it is anarchic and I use it in this spirit. The child, who is almost in all respects helpless, is completely autonomous in the arena of play. He or she cannot explain how it happens – in this sense the activity is free and oblivious. Play, and perhaps art making, is where you innocently do what you want”.
With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing — solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos’ key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works for our close cousins, why not for us?
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ShareSomeCandy: Gocco (officially: Print Gocco) is a Japanese color screenprinting system developed in 1977 by Noboru Hayama and produced by Riso . Resembling a toy, the compact and completely self-contained printer is clean, quick and easy to use. Gocco became immensely popular in Japan and it was estimated that at one point a third of all Japanese households owned a Print Gocco system.