In theatre ‘The Fourth Wall’ is an imaginary wall separating the audience from the action on the stage.
Lovers looking at the camera as they fuck, even playing to the camera – acknowledging that they have an audience – has the effect of “breaking the fourth wall”. To involve your viewers more deeply in the intensity […]
Cindy Gallop took a risk when she entered advertising, and hasn’t stopped taking them since. She began her early career in the UK as a theater publicist, until an audience member declared that she could “sell ice to an Eskimo,” and advised her to make the jump to advertising. Four years later, she joined one […]
In all professional film-making, even traditional commercial porn, some effort is made with set design for where the action takes place.
If lovers are just filming themselves, what we see is not coming through that kind of filter.
Whilst we can now create our own aesthetic, in our own environments, it’s […]
Whether a mouse moving across a screen or the progress of a Facebook post through a thousand different servers, the way we value time seems to have altered, as if the earth tilted on its axis, as if the seasons are different and new.
Paul Ford, 10 Timeframes
I’ve never been a fan, cheapens language I feel among other things.
Personally, I love people who write to me in complete sentences. Even using sms or skype chat… but that’s just me.
Still, it’s an interesting read… and, like acronyms, the article wont ask you to think too much.
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“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”
Katherine Mansfield
I was in the sun this afternoon reading (or re-reading to be accurate) Rudolf Arnheim’s Visual Thinking.
In it he mentions one of the obstacles to creating great imagery is we tend to focus on the “creatures of the light” ie the subject – and not acknowledge the debt we owe to light itself.
The quality of […]
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
Dorothea Lange
From an old article I was rereading as research:
“Is pornography misogynistic? In my mind there is only one response. How could it not be? Pornography comes from a culture that breeds misogyny. At least it seems to have done so in me.”
From the age of VHS videos and then DVDs, now we have the web. […]
