Quote of the Day – April 15 2015
“All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.”
Richard Avedon
Drones as the New Peeping Toms?
Can other people use drones to spy on us, potentially for nefarious reasons?
Drones and what role they should play in society (if any) have been a hot topic…
Some legal scholars note that while physically walking onto someone’s land is trespassing, observing private property via air is not. So, if you fly over and around someone’s […]
Peeping Toms go high tech but not undetected
A string of high-profile voyeurism cases have been in the news in British Columbia. In addition to ones we just heard reported, three other convicted men are set to appear in court this month.
The cases are drawing attention to the way technology is helping modern-day peeping Toms.
The easy availability of relatively cheap, very tiny, hidden […]
Quote of the Day – April 13 2015
“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.”
Diane Arbus
Why does prestige TV refuse to cater erotically to women?
From article:
The thrill of being invited by the camera to regard a naked man in an explicitly erotic context as a woman drove home how rarely I’ve felt that when watching mainstream TV, let alone “prestige” TV. Only male arousal wins awards.
…conversations about sexism on TV have a tendency devolve into the negatives of objectification: […]
Quote of the day – April 12 2015
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it… look before they cross the road.”
Stephen Hawking
The Gift?
What does it take to make sex more than merely functional or even satisfying but truly memorable and extraordinary? That’s the question Canadian psychology professor Peggy Kleinplatz has spent the past decade trying to answer.
Together with students from the University of Ottawa, she’s conducted a series of studies featuring long interviews with volunteers who referred […]
Quote of the Day – April 11 2015
“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”
Ralph Hattersley
Your online porn habits may not be as secret as you think
IF YOU thought last year’s hacked celebrity nude photo scandal was bad, imagine what it would be like if the whole world knew your online porn viewing habits.
That’s the scary prospect raised by software engineer Brett Thomas, who outlined just how easy it would be for a hacker to reveal your online porn preferences in […]