What I’m watching… ‘On Sven Nykvist: With One Eye He Cries’
Part two is here
Facebook In Legal Trouble After Censoring That 19th Century Painting (NSFW)
From the article :
“Social media giant Facebook has been taken to court by a French user whose account was closed down after he posted an image of Courbet’s racy painting L’Origine du Monde (1866). According to Le Figaro, the world-famous oil-on-canvas was part of a promo for an art history video about the artwork, broadcasted […]
Quote of the Day – January 30 2015
“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”
Neal Stephenson
What I’m reading… ‘The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History’
From review:
“The moment when a man comes to paint himself – he may do it only two or three times in a lifetime, perhaps never – has in the nature of things a special significance.” So Lawrence Gowing wrote, in an introduction to a 1962 exhibition of British self-portraits. And he is right: self-portraits, whether […]
Quote of the day – January 29 2015
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Inside a Silicon Valley swinger sex swap party
FORGET keys in a salad bowl, Silicon Valley swingers are using hi-tech apps and websites to swap sex partners.
Entrepreneur Ben Fuller has created modern technology to lure wealthy San Francisco professionals to “lifestyle parties” where couples mingle, dance and even have sex.
Mr Fuller started throwing the Bronze Party in 2011, in which […]
Quote of the Day – January 28 2015
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”
Klute (1971) Cinematography by Gordon Willis
Gordon Willis, ASC.
Never forget…
Elderly Holocaust survivors have this week returned to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, 70 years after it was liberated, to bear witness to one of history’s worst atrocities.
A memorial at the camp, shows one of the three photos taken clandestinely by prisoners, of the bodies of […]
Quote of the day – January 27 2015
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Long-lost WWII photographs are found
It’s ironic that I stumbled upon this article after yesterday’s post. I found myself watching the video on the homepage of www.rescuedfilm.com, intrigued to see what images of such historical significance may have been found.
It serves to remind us what we are doing when we take any photographs, recording moments of our existence in the […]