The social media site’s ludicrous attempt to ban Gustave Courbet’s masterpiece reveals its ignorance about life itself.
Facebook, it seems, gets nauseous when it looks at The Origin of the World. It has banned Courbet’s 19th-century painting and closed down the Facebook page of French art lover Frédéric Durand-Baïssas […]
“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
The Cannes Film Festival got its first taste of full-blown controversy after a late-night session with director Gaspar Noe’s hyper-sexual 3D tale Love.
The explicit movie tells the story of a young couple’s tempestuous love affair, featuring over a dozen extremely graphic sex scenes, including close-up ejaculations, orgies, a threesome and a transvestite prostitute.
The posters had […]
“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
Annie Leibovitz
More than a billion selfies were posted to social networks by young people in the UK last year – but which is the more vain sex?
Young British men share twice as many selfies as women the same age, it can be revealed, with over a third of males vainly posting five or more self portraits […]
‘If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.’
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Impressed by the poetry in Jim Morrison’s lyrics, Rick Manzarek suggested to Jim Morrison they form a band.
Morrison already had chosen the name.
The Doors.
The Selfie Toaster.
This is the appliance that indelibly brands its owner’s image onto a slice of bread.
Only available from Hammacher Schlemmer, the toaster uses custom heating inserts crafted from a submitted headshot photograph. A subject‘s full facial details are converted into twin removable stainless steel inserts, allowing its heating elements to brown light or dark […]
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Everybody with an Internet connection knows porn has become ubiquitous: in fact, 12% of all websites are pornographic. Recent statistics show that 20% of males view porn at work. So porn seems to be here to stay. However, I believe the whole concept of porn will change so much within the next 5 years […]
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and […]
