“I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.”
Helmut Newton (1920 – 2004)
How does the human memory work? Twenty years ago you might have found your answer in a book, or by asking a friend. But today, you’ll Google it. There were 3.5 million searches in 1998, now, there are 4.7 trillion search queries everyday.
When something changes our lifestyle so monumentally, you can bet it’s changing us […]
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”
Emile Zola
Type “What is a normal vagina?” in Google and unlike the never-ending search for the clitoris, you’ll quickly find commentary on the root of the problem: women are comparing their tunnels of love to pornography.
And there is something fishy about where this insecurity is coming from.
Women don’t need to be watching adult films or flicking […]
“One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
Harold Pinter
“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
From the article :
“Goedele Liekens, a Belgian UN goodwill ambassador for sexual health, has waded into the UK’s debate about whether sex education should be compulsory with a new TV programme campaigning for a mandatory GCSE in sexual health. She believes teenagers should be taught about pornography, sexual pleasure and sexual agency, issues that she […]
“Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.”
John Donne
I revisit this book often.
Vittorio Storaro, one of the greatest cinematographers in the world, has worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on films from The Spider’s Stratagem to The Sheltering Sky and, in what is perhaps the high point of his career, was responsible for the extraordinary appearance of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The restoration of […]
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