#teenscreen

[kimmybojangles]

Teen Screen - NOAH

[originally posted September 16th]

Rainy sundays lead to a lack of interest in being in anything other than pyjamas, a dubious attitude to healthy eating and many trivial and unproductive tabs open on the laptop.

Amidst this menagerie of the mundane I happened upon a video which, ironically, reflects the nature of the (teenage) mind’s flitting attention span extorted by the Internet.

This short, by Joe Berkowitz, debuted at Toronto’s International Film Festival, and is filmed almost entirely on one computer screen.

It’s surprisingly engrossing despite its professedly pedestrian ‘plot’… and I think you should watch it: NOAH

[cchrvictoria]

...With 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at educational facilities about to be screened for mental illnesses under the New Freedom Initiative (funded by the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004), using the psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as a guide, most media services have dropped the ball.

The Low-Down on Depression and Mental Illness