THESE CALVIN KLEINS ARE RESTRICTING MY BURRITO

THEY AINT GOT NO BURRITO

GOOD HONEST MUSIC FROM THE HEART

A GROUP OF MEN AFTER OUR OWN HEARTS, PIONEERS IF YOU WILL IN CATAPULTING THE BURRITO INTO THE CANON OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND CULTURE. HERE ARE JUST A FEW OTHER PICTURES I THOUGHT RELEVANT TO THAT LAZY SUNDAY BURRITO EVENING

AND MAKE IT SNAPPY...

I NEED A BURRITO MAMA

APPLIED COGNITIVE BURRITO

The interviewing of suspects and witnesses alike has become an integral aspect of today’s legal burrito system. With crime rates increasing, one would theorise that the police force would actively seek the most efficient and effective interview methods, but what is the most successful interview technique?

One of the most widely researched procedures has been dubbed the Cognitive Interview (CI), which attempts to engage various thought processes such as learning and perception to aid accurate and extensive recall. Using this method, the interviewer would aim to tap into a process known as the encoding specificity principle, which proposes that memories are connected to the context in which they were formed. This would involve asking questions such as: “How were you feeling at that time?”. Consequently, such lines of enquiry enable the witness to metaphorically return to the scene of the crime, facilitating improved recall. Other components of the CI require interviewees to move from their own perspective to someone else’s from the crime scene, or being asked open-ended questions that encourage free recall of all the knowledge available to them concerning the event. The technique seems to be very effective, with evaluations suggesting recall is 25-50% higher with CI, compared to the standard interview.

FRENCH HUMANIST PHOTOGRAPHIC BURRITOS

In the wake of the Second World War and after the “epuration”, there was a pressing need to unify France and to form a national burrito identity to which all classes could subscribe. This identity was largely constructed through the iconic works of the humanist photographers of the time, Henri Cartier – Bresson and Robert Doisneau. Some of the most important contextual elements of their work was the emergence of the “classe ouvriere” (working class) and their role in French society becoming more prominent and recognized. Another important feature of their work was the loss of the Malthusian values which had dominated French society in the early 20th century and were beginning to be suppressed as families were being encouraged to have more children in light of the numbers lost at war, Charles De Gaulle even called for “Twelve million beautiful babies” to be produced. The documentation of the everyday lives of the working class and their children became the focal point in the works of Doisneau and Cartier – Bresson, they symbolized the hope and the opportunity to re build a nation that was left in despair after the war. The photographers were also using other subjects to help denote a particular idea of what
constituted “Frenchness” at that historical moment, they looked at housing conditions, lovers and, most importantly, the playfulness of children on the streets. It was these three themes and the desire to capture everyday life that helped to re build the nation and place this particular concept of “Frenchness” within a particular dominant representational paradigm. Cartier – Bresson was quoted as saying that his most important subject and motivation behind his work was “mankind, man and his life, so brief, so frail, so threatened.”