Quote of the Day – August 19 2015
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
Randy Pausch The Last Lecture
Quote of the Day – August 18 2015
“Curiosity doesn’t matter any more. These days people don’t want to be transported to emotional territories where they don’t know how to react.”
Hector Babenco
Sad, but true.
Being present and having fun and liking yourself…
Sharon Stone
From the article :
“This fall, Stone will star in and executive-produce a new series on TNT, Agent X, in which she plays the vice president of the United States. As she sits in a makeup chair, wearing a terry-cloth robe while being prepped for her […]
Quote of the Day – August 17 2015
“There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.”
Jerzy Kosinski
Internet boy….
A repost but even more relevant these days…
He doesn’t have actual relationships.
Oh, he has 300 followers on Instagram, 500 on Twitter, twice that on Tumblr, 750 on Linked-In and triple that on Facebook (but seriously, when was the last time Facebook was relevant?).
Because he doesn’t have actual conversations.
He tweets and posts and uploads all day […]
Quote of the Day – August 16 2015
“The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.”
Helmut Newton
Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
As romance gets swiped from the screen, some twentysomethings aren’t liking what they see.
From the article :
“As the polar ice caps melt and the earth churns through the Sixth Extinction, another unprecedented phenomenon is taking place, in the realm of sex. Hookup culture, which has been percolating for about a hundred years, has collided with […]
Quote of the Day – August 15 2015
“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.”
H.L. Mencken
The erotic allure of India’s Khajuraho temples
Scandalous sleaze or erotic art? The carvings of India’s Khajuraho Temples are nothing if not controversial, writes Alison Stewart.
Puritans viewing the erotic carvings on the Khajuraho Temples in central India’s Madhya Pradesh have been quick to pronounce them “offensive pornographic scenes to excite savage passions”.
Even Mahatma Gandhi found the temples deeply distressing, and encouraged his […]
