Quote of the Day – July 9 2015
“We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
T. S. Eliot
Anxieties about Fifty Shades of Grey began in the 17th century
From the article :
“One day in 1668, the English diarist Samuel Pepys went shopping for a book to give his young French-speaking wife. He saw a book he thought she might enjoy, L’École des femmes (The School of Women). But when he opened it, he discovered it to be “the most bawdy, lewd book that […]
Quote of the Day – July 8 2015
“What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? … Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.”
Esther Perel
Perth photographer Bohdan Warchomij angry over censorship of MH17 images
On a more serious note… a Perth photographer who was in the Ukraine when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down says the censorship of his work has deprived the victims of having their story told.
Veteran press photographer Bohdan Warchomij, who is of Ukrainian descent, had one of his most graphic photos pixilated without prior […]
Quote of the Day – July 7 2013
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein
Quote of the Day – July 6 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
Quote of the Day – July 5 2015
“I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.”
Claude Chabrol
Stare into the Blackest Material in the World
Artists and scientists alike have been fascinated by the interplay of light and the human brain since the time of the ancient Greeks.
This area of inquiry occasionally leads to a search for light’s absence, methods and materials that confuse the eye by giving it, well, nothing.
Ad Reinhardt attempted it with Abstract Painting, a 1963 […]
Quote of the Day – July 4 2015
“The female nude – magical, erotic, aesthetic – has been modeled and painted since prehistory. Appearing rarely and awkwardly in the earliest art, she attained fulfillment and glory in ancient Greece. In their idealized treatment of the nude, The Greeks established a standard that only the asceticism of the Middle Ages ignored. The artists of […]
Smartphone porn use set to rise dramatically by 2020
From the article:
“New research estimates that 136 billion porn videos will be watched on smartphones this year, with the number rising by 55 per cent over the next five years.
The public’s appetite for online porn is set to continue to grow at a dramatic rate, according to research published this week, with phones becoming porn […]