Dennis Nelson (NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil)
Tue, 25 May 1999 07:55:32 -0400
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 07:55:32 -0400 From: Dennis Nelson <NELSOND@ny-smtp.army.mil> Subject: Asking for Advice - Violence Prevention -Reply
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>>> Currently we are working on a construction of a web site which
will include educational materials regarding the above mentioned topic, as
well as trying to enhance Quality of Life at school and the community as
a whole.
Hani Eldor<<<
What we consistently and constantly see becomes the norm for most of
us. Those with whom we associate eventually we mostly become one
with them in the sense of their not being our enemy (even friends hurt
each other sometimes). Words tend to get in the way of most
relationships until enough common experiences are shared so the words
take on common foundations.
Suggest your website contain minimum or no words and very tightly
cropped pictures of the students and others among and between whom
you hope to reduce violence.
The pictures should very, very clearly represent the individuals sharing
very happy, joyous, consoling, comforting, thoughtful, innovative,
healthy, contemplative times. The times and emotions you want them to
continue to share, none of the emotions or times you want them to avoid.
The picture cropping needs to be as tight as possible, focusing mostily
on the individuals faces and emotions, and open just enough to let
viewers imagine what is happening (I need to see little of legs to know
people arre standing).
Historical pictures of similar sharings of experiences and emotions which
are known to inflame only the radical or deranged also should be shown,
particularly of historically famous people who few in the world would
ever have accused of a bias towards one culture over another.
All of the pictures need to be growing from what's already on the
screen, constant transitioning and motion to catch the flavor of life, that
all is connected and does grows from what has happened. The pictures
should be changed gradually for the same reason, sometimes inserting
some that have already been shown, to show how the past still exists
and affects the future, but new events are always impacting as well.
Also, ensure that everyone you hope to influence has at least one or
two pictures on your site each year. Ensure that young children and
great grandparents interacting with your audience are in the scenes.
Accompany your living site with appropriate music to soothe, inspire and
move without exciting. Where possible, include aromatics and proper
room coloring around your monitors. Ensure the monitors are large
enough that the impact of the pictures are improved rather than
diminished. To the degree possible, ensure the coloring in the shots and
the surrounding environ also soothe, inspire and move without enraging.
Ensure the chairs and monitors support comforable and relaxed viewing.
And realize if you haven't already, to get these shots, you and your
audience (students, role models, community) will have to focus on these
wonderful aspects of life, be looking for them to capture them, and will
live a better life, as well as seeing it retold whenever they desire.
Dennis R. Nelson
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