Quote of the Day – May 9 2016
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
And a warm welcome to all my new followers. It’s been a big week for my blog and my tumblrs!
Amanda xx
Oculus Rift is going to destroy families and relationships
From an article by Kyle Smith
Smartphones today are zapping dates, dinners, conversations and spontaneous meetings so everyone can disappear into his own independent iFog.
Another filmmaker, Wim Wenders, foresaw this as far back as 1991, in his unappreciated but brilliant film Until the End of the World. In a post-apocalyptic climax, a […]
Quote of the Day – May 8 2016
“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Image from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut
Quote of the Day – May 7 2016
“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. ”
Audre Lorde
What I’m reading – Romping Through the Apocalypse by Joy St James
A new post by Joy St James…
From Romping Through the Apocalypse, the latest post from Joy St James:
Some people get drunk. Others take drugs. Still others channel their worldly despair into workalcoholic obsessions or lose themselves in helping others…. What usually works for me, however, is […]
Quote of the Day – May 6 2016
“Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn’t believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I was getting to do…it has all these different levels, from lust and fearful, violent sex to the real spiritual thing at the other end. It´s the key to some fantastic mystery of life.”
David […]
Ansel Adams: Photography With Intention
With an oeuvre that’s both innovative and enduring, the US photographer Ansel Adams is almost universally regarded as a master of his craft and a pioneer in photographic art. Because his black-and-white landscapes have become so ubiquitous – commonly found on postcards, computer backgrounds and doctor’s office walls – it’s easy to take the […]
Quote of the Day – May 5 2016
“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”
Katherine Mansfield
What I’m reading… ‘David Bailey’s Democracy’
From An Introduction by Desmond Morris…
When viewing these portraits it is important to make a distinction between nudity and nakedness. To me, these are naked bodies but they are not nudes. Traditionally the nude has one of two agendas – the […]
Why Females are Selective… In the Vagina
We seldom think of ourselves as “purely biological” organisms, but it’s a good exercise sometimes.
If we take our conceptions of love, sexuality, and self-actualization out of the picture, we occasionally stumble upon some really interesting questions about our basic biology.
There really are two kinds of people in the world. Those that give in to the […]
