Don't Hug me I'm Scared

[The Introvert]

How many of you have seen this video?

I saw it a few years ago, and have for some reason or another rekindled an interest in it, and the meaning (if any) behind it.

Anyone have an explanation, or just thoughts about this video?

NOTE: This video may or may not be... disturbing to people. If you're easily freaked out, you may want to reconsider watching this:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

Here's an idea that I though was quite interesting:

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120128215322AAQpA9r

 

[Cognisant]

I think it was about the fact that creativity is self controlled insanity, y'know if you see something that isn't there you're creative, but if you insist that it's there you've gone mad, and these kids shows with their talking nonhumans and animated inanimate objects are dangerously close to that line.

Why do we expose the youngest and least able of our society to tell apart reality from fantasy to media that seems almost designed to blur the two?

 

[Da Blob]

I think it was just sadistic sarcasm, with perhaps a hidden moral that one can imagine horror as well as beauty.

As mentioned on previous threads, the number of contributions to society by those suffering from a mental disorder, could possibly out number the contributions of the mentally healthy. Van Gogh, for example, is believed to have suffered from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, his entire life...

As far as children, the child that each of us 'were', still exists, and provides the foundation for our adult experiences. We imagine much of what we think we experience, which is one of the reasons that attitudes are of such great importance. Many are shocked when they realize how often they assess changes as adults, using childish attitudes.

 

[The Introvert]

I think it was about the fact that creativity is self controlled insanity, y'know if you see something that isn't there you're creative, but if you insist that it's there you've gone mad, and these kids shows with their talking nonhumans and animated inanimate objects are dangerously close to that line.

Why do we expose the youngest and least able of our society to tell apart reality from fantasy to media that seems almost designed to blur the two?

Oooh that's a neat observation!

Kind of gives insight as to how violence on television may impact the minds of children. Luckily for me I was never much of a T.V. watcher when I was too little, and by the time I started watching T.V I was able to distinguish the difference between silliness and reality.

Really interesting point about the creativity/insanity border though Cog.

*Gives cookie*

 

[The Introvert]

I think it was just sadistic sarcasm, with perhaps a hidden moral that one can imagine horror as well as beauty.

I just find it hard to believe that such a strange video would have no meaning behind it.

As mentioned on previous threads, the number of contributions to society by those suffering from a mental disorder, could possibly out number the contributions of the mentally healthy. Van Gogh, for example, is believed to have suffered from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, his entire life...

Does that speak for the increase in creativity of people with disorders, or the relatively higher incidents of mental disorders in the population than society wants us to think?

 

[Matt3737]

I'm not entirely sure about the intentions of the creators, but I think there is an expressed ambiguity about what 'creativity' means. In that it tends to be one of those buzzwords thrown around without much meaning.

Did you know that Ed Gein used to exhume corpses to make all sorts of macabre artifacts out of human remains?

Searching the house, authorities found:

• Four noses
• Whole human bones and fragments
• Nine masks of human skin
• Bowls made from human skulls
• Ten female heads with the tops sawn off
• Human skin covering several chair seats
• Mary Hogan's head in a paper bag
• Bernice Worden's head in a burlap sack
• Nine vulvae in a shoe box
• A belt made from female human nipples
• Skulls on his bedposts
• A pair of lips on a draw string for a window-shade
• A lampshade made from the skin from a human face

These artifacts were photographed at the crime lab and then were destroyed.

 

[The Introvert]

I'm not entirely sure about the intentions of the creators, but I think there is an expressed ambiguity about what 'creativity' means. In that it tends to be one of those buzzwords thrown around without much meaning.

Did you know that Ed Gein used to exhume corpses to make all sorts of macabre artifacts out of human remains?

Wow. I don't even know what to say to that.

The ambiguity of 'creativeness' IMO exemplifies more of the properties of the word, rather than it having no meaning. You can be creative and terribly sadistic (as in the case of Ed Gein) or creative and... not sadistic (plethora of others).

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I'm not entirely sure about the intentions of the creators, but I think there is an expressed ambiguity about what 'creativity' means. In that it tends to be one of those buzzwords thrown around without much meaning.

Did you know that Ed Gein used to exhume corpses to make all sorts of macabre artifacts out of human remains?

I wonder if Ed was going to do something with all those parts. Maybe something Picasso-esque only as sculpture. I guess we'll never know.

As for the video, it seems the guy in the second link had a pretty good interpretation. In today's world, sometimes a child's creativity gets him in trouble. Draw something that seems violent or whatever else a teacher/school finds disturbing and he ends up kicked out or getting a psych eval.

 

[The Introvert]

As for the video, it seems the guy in the second link had a pretty good interpretation. In today's world, sometimes a child's creativity gets him in trouble. Draw something that seems violent or whatever else a teacher/school finds disturbing and he ends up kicked out or getting a psych eval.

And forcing the kids to see 'creatively'.

Kind of defeats the purpose.

 

[Duxwing]

I wonder if Ed was going to do something with all those parts. Maybe something Picasso-esque only as sculpture. I guess we'll never know.

As for the video, it seems the guy in the second link had a pretty good interpretation. In today's world, sometimes a child's creativity gets him in trouble. Draw something that seems violent or whatever else a teacher/school finds disturbing and he ends up kicked out or getting a psych eval.

After knowing me for three years, my math teacher believed that I wanted to kill her after I re-invented the mil-dot and designed my own scope reticle. In second grade, when our class was in D.E.A.R. (drop everything and read) I chose to write my own science fiction story instead; my teacher told me to stop. To this day, I resent her doing that. And when I drew lots of soldier pictures, they thought that I had a screw loose. Freaking idiots! Instead of taking the time to understand me, they judged me based on superficial appearances: they never even asked me what my art was about. They just assumed that I had morbid fantasies about killing people (which I did) and had them because of a mental disease (which I hadn't). Why can't a kid draw a (literally) bloody picture from time to time?

-Duxwing

 

[Publius]

I saw this on TV one Christmas in between programs. I was wrapping presents. This came on, with its jaunty tune, and my sister, mother and I watched it out of the corner of our eyes. Then it started...breaking down. I felt really alarmed. It was incredible. Like the TV had been hijacked. It felt like society was breaking in front of my eyes and something magnificent and powerful was telling the whole world that everyone was going to die and there was no God.

It...was magnificent.

 

[The Introvert]

I saw this on TV one Christmas in between programs. I was wrapping presents. This came on, with its jaunty tune, and my sister, mother and I watched it out of the corner of our eyes. Then it started...breaking down. I felt really alarmed. It was incredible. Like the TV had been hijacked. It felt like society was breaking in front of my eyes and something magnificent and powerful was telling the whole world that everyone was going to die and there was no God.

It...was magnificent.

It truly is captivating to watch for the first time.

The abrupt switch from childish play to frenzied horror is incredible.

 

[jachian]

Green is not a creative colour?!.......... Shucks !...............

 

[The Introvert]

Green is not a creative colour?!.......... Shucks !...............

By far my favorite part of the clip!