What I’m listening to – ‘It Must Be Obvious’ by Spacemarch

This album is just great! I’ve been listening to it while working in my studio. Sydney-based artist Craig Simmons is very talented, take a listen.

Some reviews:

Brilliant early 80s-style dance-pop gems… So poppy, so catchy, and so pitch perfect… Space March could be huge and single handedly bring back the ’80s. – Read Junk […]

2018-01-12T14:36:11+11:00December 30th, 2015|Recent posts, What I'm listening to|0 Comments

Quote of the Day – December 28 2015

“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

A mature person does […]

2018-01-12T14:36:11+11:00December 28th, 2015|My Quote of the Day, Recent posts|0 Comments

What I’m reading – ‘Alone Together’ by Sherry Turkle

Alone Together – Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

From the interview (below): Her feelings about technology were once evangelical, but have been transformed by her own research.

Her book The Second Self (published in 1984) was a hopeful look at personal computers; the next, Life on the Screen, put her on […]

Men in porn… a revisit

I was speaking to a prospective male model recently. He has a look most females would find sexually arousing, yet he surprised me when he said he accepted that in porn the guy doesn’t matter anyway.

Traditionally, in mainstream porn, yes, that has certainly been the case. Yet it would seem even that assumption is being […]

Famous photographers photographing themselves…

Autorretratos de Fotógrafos Famosos

The term ” selfie ” has become part of our lexicon and self-portraits have never been so popular as of late. But teachers photographers did it first and did it better.

I show you a selection of self-portraits by famous photographers like Richard Avedon , Diane Arbus, Stanley Kubrick , Robert Mapplethorpe , […]

MIT deep-learning algorithm predicts your most memorable photos

From the article:

“A predictive algorithm developed by scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) can predict which one of your selfies, Instagrams or Tinder profile pictures will be most memorable, or conversely, more forgettable.
By identifying what parts of a photo leave the greatest impression, the MemNet brain-like computer system can predict how […]

Why Pictures Speak Louder than Words

From a writer…

There’s something about a photograph, one that makes a statement or just takes your breath away with its sheer beauty, something that makes me wish I was the artist who was responsible for this masterpiece. I’m a writer; I write for a living; I write because I’m passionate about weaving stories with words. […]

Photographers I admire: Helmut Newton

Helmut by June (1995). A rare documentary on Helmut Newton made by his wife June.

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 1920 – 23 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. He was a “prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos […]

2018-01-12T14:36:12+11:00December 21st, 2015|Photographers I Admire, Recent posts|0 Comments
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