The Los Angeles Times has sounded the death knell on publishing, reporting that Ikea was making its popular Billy bookcase deeper to accommodate ornaments since “nobody has books anymore”.
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, […]
“For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon
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Are CCTV cameras actually secret sex cams?
This latest photographic series sees Willesee and his girlfriend Jasmine Dinjar recreating sexual acts in various public places while photographer Charlotte McCallum shoots from above using a ladder. The work is supposed to comment on the amount of CCTV cameras functioning in our streets…
Every weekend, Willesee says, […]
“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
Robert Bresson
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What’s the point of pumping school curricula choc-full of lessons about positive body image and the importance of diversity, if it’s undermined by the informal curriculum that comes with school life?
The messy business of actual childhood has been erased, and replaced by an idealised childhood — and an idealised child. The lesson here is that children […]
3, 500 plus ‘friends’ later…
It’s created many great networking opps and, more importantly, the business opportunities offered to me reward my investment in time and effort there…
It’s been worthwhile.
Yet, I had to post this to stem the flood of ‘friend’ requests:
‘To the many people who send a friend request who have no mutual friends of […]
“I’ve never read anything so badly written that got published. It made Twilight look like War and Peace.”
Salman Rushdie on ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Had to add this after my previous post. And, yes I did read (or scan, more accurately) Fifty Shades. It took 20 mins on a train… was all it deserved.
;-)
With works such as Fight Club, Damned and Choke, Palahniuk is infamous for taking a sharp scalpel to whatever he’s thinking about at the moment. In this case, sex is on the docket…
Will be interesting to explore this one.
Amanda
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
