“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful […]
Emma Watson has called for the creation of “awesome alternatives” to pornography that empower instead of objectifying women.
Watson spoke as she interviewed the iconic feminist campaigner Gloria Steinem to coincide with the release of Steinem’s new book, My Life on the Road, which was the first to be featured in Watson’s new feminist book club Our […]
In the 1880s companies like Kodak invented mass-produced affordable cameras that allowed for multiple copies to be made of images on 35mm film.
“A hundred years before, you had to pay to have someone to paint your portrait, so you had to be someone of means,” Ms Gilmour said.
For women in Western societies where voting rights […]
Donald “Don” McCullin, CBE Hon FRPS (9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife.
His career, which began in 1959, has specialized in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.
“I have been manipulated, and I have in […]
“The more often a stupidity is repeated,
the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.”
François-Marie Arouet
(1694-1778, better known by his nom de plume Voltaire –
French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher)
From Lightstalking, an excellent source of daily photography posts:
You’ve seen them appear in some of our earlier posts on freebies. But today we decided to put all the eBooks together (and many more!) in a single, mega post for you.
These will keep you busy for a really long time.
Go ahead, download them! Print them […]
“Demand for raunchy photos and videos between couples is so high that app developer Antony Burrows created Disckreet, an app that allows couples to safely record their intimate files. It requires both partners to be together and enter their passcodes in order to access a file.
“Nothing goes on the cloud and the files are heavily […]
From the article by Natasha Noman on mic.com:
If you’re familiar with the Broadway musical Avenue Q, you already know that “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.” And so, it would seem, British Airways is not exempt.
In a recent […]
“How people treat you is their karma, how you react is yours.”
Unknown, possibly Wayne Dyer
Pic credit: Flower Power, 1967, photographed by Bernie Boston on October 21, 1967. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize.
From the article:
Japan’s adult movie industry is among the biggest in the world, and its range of pornographic manga is eclectic and ubiquitous. But it has taken centuries-old works of art for the country to challenge official reticence towards graphic depictions of sex.
In recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have flocked to a tiny […]
