When did the phrase ‘Netflix and chill’ become an acceptable descriptor of a relationship?

Apparently there was a time before Google, Facebook, blogs, and even before the internet. I hear that back then things were a lot different. No one knew who Ashley Madison was, and Mark Zuckerberg was just a twinkle in his loving parent’s eyes.

People weren’t obsessed with checking their email, updating their Facebook statuses, or keeping abreast […]

Is Texting or Sexting Cheating?

Does it matter WHAT someone is looking at or does it just matter that someone is looking at something?

Some people have no issues with what they consider “normal” photos such as a tasteful nude photo. but draw the line at fetish or degrading photos. Others look the other way so long as their partner isn’t asking […]

Photographers I Admire – David Hume Kennerly

One of the youngest winners of the Pulitzer Prize, David Hume Kennerly has been shooting on the front lines of history for fifty years.

The Roseburg, Oregon native won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for Feature Photography.

Kennerly has photographed more than 50 major magazine covers and has covered stories in dozens of countries.

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Playboy’s ‘No Nudes’ Is What Happens When Platforms Rule

Playboy, once the premier adult magazine, plans to cover up its models and go PG13. As first reported by The New York Times, the magazine will move away from full nudity under a redesign planned for its March issue.

This is a seismic shift. Hefner founded the magazine specifically to feature, even […]

What I’m watching… ‘Helmut Newton – Frames from the Edge’

What I’m reading… ‘The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images’

“When the soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.”

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3836514486?

What I’m reading… ‘Man and His Symbols’ by Carl Jung

Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Symbols-Carl-Gustav-Jung/dp/0440351839

I wonder why I am revisiting this work after watching Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht ?

;-)

Maybe I should turn down the music in my studio…

Easily Distracted By Noise? You Might Just Be A Creative Genius.

What did Charles Darwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Marcel Proust all have in common? Besides being creative geniuses, they shared an odd quirk: The luminaries were abnormally sensitive to noise, and often required solitude to work.

Proust, for instance, rarely left his one-bedroom apartment in […]

Don’t believe your eyes… new study says we all hallucinate

Researchers in the UK have been investigating how hallucinations affect our minds, and what they’ve found will make for interesting reading if you’re wondering if you can always trust your eyes and ears (in short: probably not).

Perhaps the most significant conclusion from the report relates to how prior knowledge can influence our thoughts more than […]

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