Quote of the Day – March 4 2016
“There is no perfection only life.”
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
Quote of the Day – March 3 2016
“Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.”
Edward de Bono
How Can Anyone Resist Writing About Sex?
From the article by Julie Greicius:
Gina Frangello’s views on writing sex and the importance of female friendship are hard to argue with. Her latest novel is A Life in Men.
“I think sex is one of the great universal truths of life. It is something almost all adult human beings […]
Quote of the Day – March 2 2016
“Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too.”
Andy Warhol
Forget the Tinder dating app – go and meet real people
From the article by Susie O’Brien:
Dating has certainly changed in recent years, and not necessarily for the better. Singles are more likely to head to services such as Tinder, RSVP.com.au or Plenty of Fish, rather than perch on a bar stool.
And of them, the site that everyone’s talking about is Tinder, mainly because it links […]
Quote of the Day – March 1 2016
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful […]
Emma Watson calls for feminist alternatives to pornography
Emma Watson has called for the creation of “awesome alternatives” to pornography that empower instead of objectifying women.
Watson spoke as she interviewed the iconic feminist campaigner Gloria Steinem to coincide with the release of Steinem’s new book, My Life on the Road, which was the first to be featured in Watson’s new feminist book club Our […]
Old selfies dating back to the 1800s
In the 1880s companies like Kodak invented mass-produced affordable cameras that allowed for multiple copies to be made of images on 35mm film.
“A hundred years before, you had to pay to have someone to paint your portrait, so you had to be someone of means,” Ms Gilmour said.
For women in Western societies where voting rights […]
Photographers I admire: Donald “Don” McCullin
Donald “Don” McCullin, CBE Hon FRPS (9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife.
His career, which began in 1959, has specialized in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.
“I have been manipulated, and I have in […]
