Quote of the Day – August 4 2015
“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.”
Vanessa Marcil
Cannes 2015: Women Warriors & Sexual Emancipators
From the article:
“Some of the other strong women characters in this year’s Cannes films have to fight their traditional cultures to affirm their sexuality. These women are warriors fighting for the right to be sexual, underscoring the variations in sexual mores in different cultures. This was highlighted for me by three tales of sexual emancipation […]
Quote of the Day – August 3 2015
“Sex: a sweet poison only to the withered, but to the lion-willed the great cordial and the reverently reserved wine of wines.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
On Liars, Narcissists & Other Dysfunctional Social Media Archetypes
From article: The problem of truth in social media (rather the lack of) was revealed in the findings from the Datafication project shared at last week’s Over Anxious, Over Shared; Over Social, Under the Microscope – How Aussies Really Use Social Media event.
I was amused to find out that out of both genders, women […]
Quote of the Day – August 2 2015
“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.”
Herman Hesse
Quote of the Day – August 1 2015
“Everyone is on the internet but they’re not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don’t talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.”
David Lynch
Robert Redford – ‘Speaking Freely’
Robert Redford interviewed about acting, activism and the First Amendment.
These are issues relevant to any creator today. Censorship and how it hurts us and the need to be really aware of where information dissemination is going.
Aren’t YOU concerned that we read about Kim Kardashian on the front page next to real news? What changed?
Amanda
Quote of the Day – July 31 2015
“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
Glamour magazine retracts embarrassing listicle: 13 Little Things That Can Make Men Fall Hard for you
From the article:
“You sometimes have to wonder whether relationship/sex advice from magazines is designed to help or humiliate.
Or, in the case of Glamour magazine’s latest efforts, hinder.
“The 1950s called; they want their advice back,” wrote one Twitter user, echoing the sentiment of hundreds of social media users, shocked at the suggestions to make him “a […]
Quote of the Day – July 30 2015
“I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.”
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)