Quote of the Day – February 21 2016
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016)
Article: Instagram Sensation Nude Yoga Girl Explains Her Practice
From The Cut/NY Mag:
Nude Yoga Girl first appeared on Instagram less than a month ago. To a certain extent, her account is precisely as advertised: a girl, nude, doing yoga. But it looks like nothing else on yoga Instagram — or nudity Instagram, for that matter.
The account consists solely of dramatic black-and-white photos […]
Quote of the Day – February 20 2016
“Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.”
Robert Anton Wilson
Quote of the Day – February 19 2016
“Light. Light I think is knowledge. Knowledge is love. Love is freedom. Freedom is energy. Energy is all. Without light, we can’t have images.”
Article: What a girl wants: The rise of porn for women
From the article:
One of the world’s most popular pornographic websites recently revealed that women make up a quarter of its global audience. Surprised? You shouldn’t be.
Men are more visually stimulated than women. Everybody knows that, right? That’s why they’ve enjoyed pornography, in its various guises, for centuries while women have not.
Sure, women like fashion and […]
Sex for teenagers: the (explicit) manual
From article:
“…Sex & Lovers: A Practical Guide, has just come out in the UK and there is quite a buzz about it – it is The Joy of Sex for the young generation. Only it is much more explicit – which, for some, is a problem. In these porn-obsessed times, is it really the moment […]
Quote of the Day – February 18 2016
“The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.”
David Bailey […]
Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a […]
Quote of the Day – February 17 2016
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Article: Storytelling and Science: The Unifying Theory of 2 + 2
From Berkeley Science Review:
Humans are great consumers of stories. We are fascinated with them and storytelling is a dominating force in many forms of media, engaging people from all demographics. Stories resonate with us and have the power to profoundly change our perceptions of the inner machinations of the world around us.
“Storytelling…[is] knowing your punchline, […]