Quote of the Day – November 19 2015
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus. Veteran with a flag, N.Y.C. 1971
A Brief And Gloriously Naughty History Of Early Erotica In Art
In the words of Audre Lorde: “The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire.”
Erotic […]
Quote of the Day – November 18 2015
Pic taken by me. An exercise in exposure. No pun intended!
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
Gordon Willis
The History of Pornography No More Prudish Than the Present
Pornography is often portrayed as one of the ills of today’s society, evidence of modern moral decay brought to you by video cameras and broadband access.
As it turns out, modern times have got nothing on the past. Pornography existed long before video or even photography, and many researchers think […]
Quote of the Day – November 17 2015
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
Matsuo Bashō
Pic source: Joy Saint James. Writer. Adventuress.
Quote of the Day – November 16 2015
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
Joss Whedon
FILMography
Why do I find this guy’s project so interesting?
Transience? Versus…the permanence of an image? The bridge between cinema and everyday accessible life? More, I think…
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Jane Fonda in Klute 1971
Amanda
Quote of the Day – November 15 2015
“People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I’ve passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously.’
Roman Polanski on François Truffaut, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Godard
Mirrors…
In a study titled “Reversed Facial Images and the Mere-Exposure Hypothesis,” psychologists Theodore H. Mita, Marshall Dermer and Jeffrey Knight demonstrate that “individuals will prefer a facial photograph that corresponds to their mirror image rather than to their true image.” But what’s really interesting about the study is its exploration of why we […]
Quote of the Day – November 14 2015
“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
Salman Rushdie, Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Pic source: Alias Studio Sydney tumblr
