Quote of the Day – March 15 2016
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”
Charles Mingus
Quote of the Day – March 14 2016
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge”
Albert Einstein
The Uterus is Connected to the Universe, and other insights – from an article by Kara Maria Ananda
From an article by Kara Maria Ananda:
Women’s bodies hold within them an incredible organ filled with sexual and creative power…
A women’s menstrual cycles and stages of life are intrinsically linked to the cycles of the Earth, Moon and Sun. The moon cycle is 29.5 days, and the average woman’s menstrual cycle is 29.5 […]
Porn Chic: Exploring the Contours of Raunch Eroticism
This engaging book draws from a diverse range of examples including film, popular tabloids, campus culture, mass media marketing campaigns, facebook profiles, and art exhibits to explore expressions and meanings of porn chic.
The book also contains thought-provoking artwork by Nicola Bockelmann which focuses on the permeable border between pornography and mainstream culture and urges viewers […]
“Being popular on Instagram is like being rich in Monopoly, isn’t it?” says Stéphanie Delpon
From the article: French Girls Do Everything Better, Even Instagram (And It’s Because They Don’t Care)
“I would say that the contemporary obsession with social networks is a fairly universal phenomenon, not necessarily linked to a country. We are all on them. Not being on one of them would almost be like living in […]
Recommended reading: Phallic Worship a History of Sex and Sexual Rites
From a review:
With so much history and religious -cultural reasoning underlying phallic symbolism and worship, I’m personally amazed, as the author appears to be, that Western civilization, for the most part, considers this such a forbidden subject. In the introduction, the Author extends the amazement with the following caveat:
“Contempt for this sacred emblem, as well […]
How far have we come? A quaint video from 1984 about connecting to the ‘internet’
Off topic? Hardly, when you consider how you are reading this post or watching the video.
Who would have believed all this back in 1984?
1984? Why do I keep thinking of something from another work by George Orwell?
“All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.”
Amanda
This had been a sad year for music…
George Martin, producer for The Beatles, dies aged 90,
Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, audio engineer, and musician. He is sometimes referred to as “the Fifth Beatle” in reference to his extensive involvement on each of the Beatles’ original albums. He is […]
Lacking inspiration?
Visit my primary tumblr. Five years and over 40,000 images.
Really amazes me that people want to improve their photography,
yet think that solely taking their own pics is enough to stay on top of their game.
I invest time every day to study the work of others and use my tumblrs to share those pics that I […]