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Perhaps this sexual shamelessness upsets the old. But there’s something else to it too: boasting is boasting, whether it’s about sex or expensive restaurants or new Allen Edmonds shoes. People get similarly annoyed at friends who have too many holidays in Capri, and remind us of that photographically too many times. We get annoyed […]
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Every individual out there seeks new perspectives, new ways of understanding things and new inspiration – some do it more consciously than others, but we all fall under the category of enjoying to ask and answer questions. Sometimes, the questions which we find interesting have multiple answers, incomplete ones or none at all – […]
“Live as if you were living already for the second time,” Viktor Frankl wrote in his 1946 masterwork on the human search for meaning, “and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
And yet we only live once, with no rehearsal or reprise — a fact […]
“…so much of creating a beautiful image involves numerical principles. Many classic films have made use of the number known as the “Golden Ratio” (1.618), as well as the visual device known as One-Point Perspective (a way to make a two-dimensional plane look three-dimensional), and now Vimeo user Ali Shirazi has put together a visual […]
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The genesis of selfies can be traced back to 2007 when the first iPhone was released (complete with its two-whole-megapixels camera). Coupled with the invention of social-media platforms such as Instagram (2010) and Snapchat (2011), it created a seismic shift that’s seen teenagers transform from wallflowers to Kylie Jenner-esque extroverts in only a matter […]
Given the popularity of the idea of “right brained” and “left brained” thinkers, it might surprise you learn that this idea is just one of many myths about the brain.
While the idea of right brain / left brain thinkers has been debunked, its popularity persists.
So what exactly did this theory suggest?
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Beginning photographers are often tempted to reduce photography to rigid rules.
The rule of thirds — thinking of the picture plane in terms of a grid made of three equal vertical and three equal horizontal divisions, with the points of interest placed at the intersections of these lines — is a common starting point. More sophisticated […]
Photographer Christian Richter fell in love with uninhibited buildings when he was just a child and since then has spent his career traveling Europe to capture the beauty within no longer used buildings.
His work ranges from desolate churches to deserted hospitals and can all be seen on his Instagram page, which has an army of […]
Not to be confused with Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, this a light but amusing read on a sunny day
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“Haskell Smith devotes several chapters in his book to trying to answer why many European cultures are so relaxed with nudity compared to other Western countries.
“The US is much more uptight than Australia, but […]
“Ideas are less interesting than the human beings who have them.”
Francois Truffaut (February 6, 1932-October 21, 1984)
Intelligent discussion about film is rare these days. This is something I am very much looking forward to….
In 1962 Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène […]
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