Can a simple selfie really tell you when you’re going to die?
Not quite, but the emerging field of facial analytics can give you and your insurance company an educated guess.
According to a recent study, facial features are the best indicator of this ‘true’ age. The Face Aging Group at the University of North […]
“I’m under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.”
Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades…
“Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc…) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”
Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer 
From article:
Which is more damaging to the women’s cause, the highly conceptualised and meticulously edited Playboy, or the atrociously lively and totally amoral internet? True, Playboy venerated a simplistic and limiting idea of womanhood, but it was never unkind. Pornography involves violence and coercion: there was none of that here. Internet porn is a poor […]
I haven’t updated my blog for the last few days (Quotes of the Day, other posts etc) while I completely rethink/revamp this blog.
I am moving from mainly curating – which has been fine, you got to know more about me and what goes on in my head (!) and what I do in my work […]
“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”
André Bazin
Truffaut’s ‘Baisers volés’ (1968)
With the help of tech giants like Facebook, California Attorney General Kamala Harris has launched an online resource to help victims of revenge porn get their naked photos taken down.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday unveiled the site in an effort to connect victims with resources, educate law enforcement and provide technology companies with […]
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, […]
“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.”
Peter De Vries
Sixty years ago, the BBC filmed a train journey from London to Brighton, squeezed into just four minutes.
Thirty years ago, they did it again.
Now they brought it up to date, to see how much has […]
