Quote of the day – April 12 2015
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it… look before they cross the road.”
Stephen Hawking
The Gift?
What does it take to make sex more than merely functional or even satisfying but truly memorable and extraordinary? That’s the question Canadian psychology professor Peggy Kleinplatz has spent the past decade trying to answer.
Together with students from the University of Ottawa, she’s conducted a series of studies featuring long interviews with volunteers who referred […]
Quote of the Day – April 11 2015
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
Ralph Hattersley
Your online porn habits may not be as secret as you think
IF YOU thought last year’s hacked celebrity nude photo scandal was bad, imagine what it would be like if the whole world knew your online porn viewing habits.
That’s the scary prospect raised by software engineer Brett Thomas, who outlined just how easy it would be for a hacker to reveal your online porn preferences in […]
Quote of the Day – April 10 2015
“There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.”
Robert Frank
What I’m watching… ‘Three Colors Blue’ Again!
Again? I could say it’s just so beautiful to watch on blu ray but it isn’t that.
The more recent films I watch the more I hanker for films from the past. Even the recent past.
Cinema may not be dead – yet – but it has become dull and soulless. To me, anyway.
Yes, it is a […]
Quote of the Day – April 9 2015
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
Why are there so few images of naked men worth seeing?
I run a tumblr with well over 40,000 images and a city of followers.
Over 98% of the images you will find there are of women. Usually naked women.
Updating my tumblr daily as I do requires work. The sheer volume of available images of naked females makes my job relatively easy.
Why is […]
Quote of the Day – April 8 2015
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
Alfred Stieglitz
Could anyone paint a Vermeer?
Inventor Tim Jenison is the focus of the new documentary Tim’s Vermeer. His mission: to prove that a Vermeer masterpiece could be created by an amateur like himself.
In the film Tim Jenison uses technology to recreate the master’s painting The Music Lesson − it’s an experiment that could show that Vermeer relied on fancy tools […]