“The practice of self-portraiture has never been cheaper or wider. The #selfie hashtag on Instagram summons a torrent of self-portraits, ranging in style from glamour shot to mugshot. Now, we are a mob of self-portraitists. The total democratisation of an art form either destroys it or ennobles it, and the selfie is either a pure […]
“Voyeurs have an open window on the world.”
Ljupka Cvetanova
“The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.”
Sir Kenneth Clark
Filmmakers intentionally use penis shaped objects for dramatic effect more often that you’d expect. In this video, let’s look at how phallic symbols contribute to the visual storytelling of a film.
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“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
— Orson Welles
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
Henry D. Thoreau
Always liked this quote, yet it’s actually a misquotation!
The first half of this quotation is a misquotation from Thoreau’s Walden:
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From […]
“Technology isn’t gonna bite you, respect one another and don’t blame technology for your own shortfalls.”
Dr. Aleks Krotoski
From an article by Toby Manhire In The Internaut:
An imagining of the future by JG Ballard, the British essayist and sci-fi author, in a 1977 essay gives a pretty impressive account of the pervasiveness of social media – and reality television – 36 years later.
It’s from Vogue, and titled “The future of […]
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
Alan Moore, 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
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