in the end, all that matters is that it was.

So, for a film which has a primary message of the loss of all new ideas, it’s funny, almost, that I’ve learned something new because of it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_zcqvDPpzQA

I found this while putting around across the Internet. I saw first the baby and thought it was a fake. In the thumbnail of the video, I was reminded of the baby from “Eraser head.”

The child in the video suffers from a skin disease called harlequin ichthyosis. It was called that because most sufferers of the disease end up with a scaly diamond shaped pattern of abrasion and sores across their body. The resulting impressions are nostalgic of the harlequin-esq carnival costumes.

Now-a-days, it is possible for persons with harlequin to live fuller lives; this, of course if thanks to new technologies. New information that is shared through learned texts of growth and study. In a way, it’s like my experience with the film [Eraserhead]. Even if those ideas that sparked it had already been thought, and expressed before, through objective chance, and a level of Internet-surfing boredom, they still taught me something new; that in itself is worth their continuous expression.