I was asked recently by a friend why I no longer use Facebook. Many thousands of so-called ‘friends’ who ever engaged on any worthwhile level, people who never had anything to say worth reading and, quite frankly, I never fell under Zuckerberg’s spell. My private information is mine, not his.
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“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
Diane Arbus. Veteran with a flag, N.Y.C. 1971
In the words of Audre Lorde: “The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire.”
Erotic […]
Pic taken by me. An exercise in exposure. No pun intended!
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
Gordon Willis
Pornography is often portrayed as one of the ills of today’s society, evidence of modern moral decay brought to you by video cameras and broadband access.
As it turns out, modern times have got nothing on the past. Pornography existed long before video or even photography, and many researchers think […]
“When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”
Matsuo Bashō
Pic source: Joy Saint James. Writer. Adventuress.
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
Joss Whedon
Why do I find this guy’s project so interesting?
Transience? Versus…the permanence of an image? The bridge between cinema and everyday accessible life? More, I think…
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Jane Fonda in Klute 1971
Amanda
“People like Truffaut, Lelouch and Godard are like little kids playing at being revolutionaries. I’ve passed through this stage. I lived in a country where these things happened seriously.’
Roman Polanski on François Truffaut, Claude Lelouch, and Jean-Luc Godard
In a study titled “Reversed Facial Images and the Mere-Exposure Hypothesis,” psychologists Theodore H. Mita, Marshall Dermer and Jeffrey Knight demonstrate that “individuals will prefer a facial photograph that corresponds to their mirror image rather than to their true image.” But what’s really interesting about the study is its exploration of why we […]
