From the article in The Guardian
Is working as a stripper honestly empowering? It’s a question I’ve been asking myself since I quit stripping 18 months ago, after spending two decades naked.
It’s also a question I had a vested interest in not asking while I was still gainfully employed. I hated the popular belief […]
“Whether a mouse moving across a screen or the progress of a Facebook post through a thousand different servers, the way we value time seems to have altered, as if the earth tilted on its axis, as if the seasons are different and new.”
Paul Ford, 10 Timeframes
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
And a warm welcome to all my new followers. It’s been a big week for my blog and my tumblrs!
Amanda xx
From an article by Kyle Smith
Smartphones today are zapping dates, dinners, conversations and spontaneous meetings so everyone can disappear into his own independent iFog.
Another filmmaker, Wim Wenders, foresaw this as far back as 1991, in his unappreciated but brilliant film Until the End of the World. In a post-apocalyptic climax, a […]
“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”
Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
Image from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut
“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. ”
Audre Lorde
A new post by Joy St James…
From Romping Through the Apocalypse, the latest post from Joy St James:
Some people get drunk. Others take drugs. Still others channel their worldly despair into workalcoholic obsessions or lose themselves in helping others…. What usually works for me, however, is […]
“Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn’t believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I was getting to do…it has all these different levels, from lust and fearful, violent sex to the real spiritual thing at the other end. It´s the key to some fantastic mystery of life.”
David […]
With an oeuvre that’s both innovative and enduring, the US photographer Ansel Adams is almost universally regarded as a master of his craft and a pioneer in photographic art. Because his black-and-white landscapes have become so ubiquitous – commonly found on postcards, computer backgrounds and doctor’s office walls – it’s easy to take the […]
“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”
Katherine Mansfield
