Quote of the Day – July 17 2016
“The knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of pen and camera alike”
Maholy-Nagy (Bauhaus master, 1935)
Photographers I Admire – Lutz Dille
From The Compassionate Eye of Lutz Dille by Vincenzo Pietropaolo:
The street is like a stage of everyday life, the public sphere of much of our existence, especially in larger cities where the critical mass of the urban environment easily provides artists with an array of rich visual materials […]
Quote of the Day – July 16 2016
“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
André Bazin
Quote of the Day – July 15 2016
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down….”
Kate Morton, from […]
Quote of the Day – July 14 2016
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
Diane Arbus
Penis size interacts with body shape and height to influence male attractiveness
Before clothing, the nonretractable human penis would have been conspicuous to potential mates.
This observation has generated suggestions that human penis size partly evolved because of female choice.
Australian researchers have found that penis size is just as important as height when it comes to female assessment of male attractiveness, and that bigger is indeed better – […]
Quote of the Day – July 13 2016
“ Art is what we call…the thing an artist does. It’s not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something […]
Quote of the Day – July 12 2016
“I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic […]
What I’m Watching… ’Masters of Sex – Season 3′
According to Robert Lloyd, the Los Angeles Times television critic, the show is a “handsome thing, another well-dressed romp through the American mid-century, when things (we imagine) were simpler and (so we like to think) less sophisticated, but also more exciting. And it’s true that sexual naiveté of that age can seem incredible in […]
Quote of the Day – July 11 2016
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”
Neal Stephenson
