Quote of the Day – May 21 2015
“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
Annie Leibovitz
The ‘selfie’ craze: who are more vain, men or women?
More than a billion selfies were posted to social networks by young people in the UK last year – but which is the more vain sex?
Young British men share twice as many selfies as women the same age, it can be revealed, with over a third of males vainly posting five or more self portraits […]
Quote of the Day – May 20 1015
‘If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.’
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Impressed by the poetry in Jim Morrison’s lyrics, Rick Manzarek suggested to Jim Morrison they form a band.
Morrison already had chosen the name.
The Doors.
Signs the selfie craze has gone too far #1
The Selfie Toaster.
This is the appliance that indelibly brands its owner’s image onto a slice of bread.
Only available from Hammacher Schlemmer, the toaster uses custom heating inserts crafted from a submitted headshot photograph. A subject‘s full facial details are converted into twin removable stainless steel inserts, allowing its heating elements to brown light or dark […]
Quote of the Day – May 19 2015
“I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.”
Mary Ellen Mark
Oculus rift…. The Future of Porn: a Disturbing Possibility
From article:
Everybody with an Internet connection knows porn has become ubiquitous: in fact, 12% of all websites are pornographic. Recent statistics show that 20% of males view porn at work. So porn seems to be here to stay. However, I believe the whole concept of porn will change so much within the next 5 years […]
Quote of the Day – May 18 2015
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and […]
What I’m reading… ‘The Consuming Instinct’
For anyone interested in the biological basis of human behavior ;-)
Quote of the Day – May 17 2015
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov
It isn’t just the […]
David Letterman was right…
From article:
When you invite people on the internet to say what they think, don’t expect anyone to hold back.
Such is the case with the first flood of reader reviews of Kim Kardashian’s ‘book’ of selfies, released last week.
While many fans describe it as a “literary masterpiece” and “a great coffee table book”, […]