From the article:
One of the world’s most popular pornographic websites recently revealed that women make up a quarter of its global audience. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
Men are more visually stimulated than women. Everybody knows that, right? That’s why they’ve enjoyed pornography, in its various guises, for centuries while women have not.
Sure, women like fashion and […]
From article:
“…Sex & Lovers: A Practical Guide, has just come out in the UK and there is quite a buzz about it – it is The Joy of Sex for the young generation. Only it is much more explicit – which, for some, is a problem. In these porn-obsessed times, is it really the moment […]
“The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.”
David Bailey […]
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a […]
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From Berkeley Science Review:
Humans are great consumers of stories. We are fascinated with them and storytelling is a dominating force in many forms of media, engaging people from all demographics. Stories resonate with us and have the power to profoundly change our perceptions of the inner machinations of the world around us.
“Storytelling…[is] knowing your punchline, […]
“… the Instagram/Hipstamatic/Snapseed etc filters are the antithesis of creativity. They make all pictures look the same. They require no thought or creative input: one click and you’re done. ”
Makes me wonder if all literacy, not just visual, will go down this lazy one-click path.
Can you apply an app to unimaginative and poorly-constructed sentences?
This article […]
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace”
Roberto Bolaño
“The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things you get lifetime achievements for when you’re old.”
Francis Ford Coppola
“It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”
L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill
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