I’ve been studying and writing about the human subjective experience of consciousness for more than twenty years and have accumulated a fair amount of thoughts and ideas about it. My blog on WordPress.com is called, “John’s Consciousness,” but it is more clearly about the universal subjective experience of human consciousness, and addresses how I have […]
“Sometimes people have trouble with the context of why a picture is taken. Whether you take it for Vogue or for the GAP or for yourself matters little to me.”
Herb Ritts, 1999
You’re trying to get to one moment with one frame that eventually may speak for your generation.
Herb Ritts, 1999
Herbert “Herb” Ritts Jr. (August 13, 1952 – December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture.
Born in Los Angeles, […]
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He helped develop street photography, and approvingly cited a notion of the inevitability of a decisive moment, a term adopted as the title for his first major book. His work […]
Bowie, George Martin and now Prince.
The music remains.
Amanda
“Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.”
“Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.”
Jim Butcher, Hex Appeal
From the article on huffingtonpost:
Even a cursory search turns up a whole host of sexy Tumblr blogs that are explicitly geared toward women, primarily straight women. They have names like “Yummy Porn for Girls,” “Porn Gifs for Women” and “Girls Love Sex Too.” They contain […]
“No sane person resists the smell of the soil when sprinkled with water,
Especially the smell of the intercourse between earth and rain.”
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
People have sex.
Even if they are not supposed to. Especially if they are not supposed to.
The only people not having sex are married people, who are supposed to have sex.
Mortgages, career. Buy buy buy. Hang out with boring friends who are just as trapped as you.
Perhaps life is just what happens between fucks.
Amanda x
Quote of […]
Soon, virtual reality is going to crash into our lives in a way we never even imagined. Though dating and masturbating have long been commandeered by the web, it’s only been as a kind of middleman. Now we’re nearing the possibility of falling in love with your computer, as meeting your dream partner could […]
