Eye Ball David Bowie once admitted that playing a character allowed him to overcome shyness and force him out of himself. The use of masks and costume in music highlights the performance aspects, and draws attention to identity construction, but can seem fake to those who prefer to 'keep it real'. In this film, 'Watch Mojo' present a top ten of costumed / masked musicians who each have different reasons for playing with appearance.  How to go Back Are the doors to the past closed? Physicist Brian Cox takes to the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution to take a look behind the science of Doctor Who. The professor meets up with the Doctor, then travels back to the exact spot in 1860 to the lecture given by Michael Faraday, the scientific celebrity of his time. Along the way, Cox experiments with time and longitude, electricity and magneticism, and wave equations and relativity.  Kaufman: Writing from Nothing One of cinema’s most celebrated writers, Charlie Kaufman's apologetic and self-aware lecture on screen-writing is a valuable lesson in embracing the risk of failure and recognising our common human vulnerability. 'I don't know anything,' he says. 'And if there's one thing that characterises my writing, it's that I always start from that realisation'. Writing should be an honest account of identity if it is to help alleviate the loneliness of others.  Embrace that Shake
Once Phil Hansen developed the tremors, he felt he'd been robbed of his ambitions to be an artist. At first he fought the disability but soon realised he could no longer pursue a career in pointillist drawing. There seemed no way to get his ambitions back on track. And then he met a neurologist who told him that creativity was about seizing his limitations. Sometimes, it's about thinking inside the box!
Yo! Walking your Passion
Finding your passion in life is a bit like playing your yo-yo, you get ups and you get downs and you get to walk the dog if you're lucky. Then you have to deal with the harsh realities of life, like working in a boring job. So what becomes of your passion? Here, Japanese yo-yo master Black couples an inspirational performance with a talk about how he found his passion, lost it and then sought it back.
Burning Books: A Crime against Culture?
Philiosopher Julian Baggini's film Bibliocide shows him burning his old set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica. The act reminds us of our rights to read, and those who would set fire to freedoms. But the film is also about the materiality of books, and therefore the e-book revolution: 'Nostalgia for obsolete publications serves us only if we use it to remind us of the things we really value' says Baggini MORE
 Dream Consciousness
We dream on average between three and seven times a night, but few of us remember much come morning. Dreams can be strange, amusing, profound and scary. They can even help us reflect on our problems. Imagine if you could control your dreams. It's called lucid dreaming — a state where you manipulate the dream narrative and AsapSCIENCE say they can train you to do just that.
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