Director was known for experimental movies like “Celine and Julie Go Boating” and “L’amour fou”
Jacques Rivette, a leading figure in the French New Wave movement best known for experimental and challenging works, died Friday in Paris. He was 87.
The director, who had reportedly suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, was praised as “one of the greatest […]
Movies and romantic novels which are targeted towards female audience often have an interesting plot twist, centering on a triangle where two men are in love with the same woman. This plot is incredibly common, and one can see it in the film Casablanca, where Humphrey Bogart and Paul Henreid both love Ingrid Bergman. Bergman […]
Visually I’m influenced and nudged by the work of others, sometimes in non-visual arts even. The debt Lost In Translation owes to La Dolce Vita (Fellini 1960) is pretty clear, of course. In one scene the main characters are watching it in a hotel room on television.
The very first shot of the film (see […]
The Catholic Church is obsessed with sex: who does it, when, how, with whom, and for what purpose. In fact, I might argue that one of the most fundamental ways the Church hooks people is by creating deep psychological hang-ups about sex, for which it then claims to offer a solution.
Sexual intimacy and sexual pleasure […]
Fusion goes inside the world of South Florida’s booming adult entertainment industry, where a quarter of the porn in the U.S. is produced. We follow five independent producers, ranging from a couple making homemade porn to a young female porn star navigating the treacherous waters of launching her own paid site in the age of […]
“GIFs take these moments of ephemeral pleasure, a passing facial expression, a particular movement or jiggle and de-contextualize the moment. And then repeat itself,” said Helen Hester, a senior lecturer in media and communication at the University of West London and coauthor of the article Giffing a fuck: Non-narrative pleasures in participatory porn cultures and […]
Every day sees a new mind puzzle trending on social media; sending many of us cross-eyed and even a little crazy if the illusion can’t be seen or solved.
The trick of these visual illusions is the relationship between our eyes and brain.
According to Inside Science, the way some people notice an image in an […]
Blake Little is an entertainment, advertising, and fine art photographer based in Los Angeles since 1982. He has had assignments in advertising, film, television, book and magazine publishing. He has worked with personalities in entertainment, sports and politics. His work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Japan.
Little has photographed people […]
Let me state that while I love sex, I dislike pornography. That said, I do appreciate certain aspects of pornography.
There is an immediate, primal charge in the explicit penetration. It’s the knowledge that the people on-screen are actually fucking and not simulating.
However, this usually evolves into twenty minutes of repetitive close-ups of genital corkscrewing and […]
Low key lighting is a style of cinematography and photography where you create images featuring mainly dark tones to create a dramatic, contrasty looking image.
Personally I find myself working a lot in this style.
High key lighting – the reverse – means to over (or more flatly) light […]
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