From ‘Seeking a connection to the earth… A look at modern paganism‘:
Paganism is a broad umbrella term for earth-based polytheistic religions — anything from Greek traditions to Nordic, Celtic and beyond. Unlike Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), pagans are devoted to many gods and goddesses and select their own paths of worship […]
The spectacular display is filmed by actually flying the drone through the middle of the display – the results are staggering.
Mind you… were they just lucky?
Flying A Drone Through Fireworks May Land You In Prison
There’s no doubt that the HD video is beautifully done.
It’s also dangerous and likely unlawful (at […]
The book covers art from the so-called “prehistoric Venuses,” cave paintings and carvings and takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the whole of western art (with a few diversions to eastern art such as the Japanese Shunga woodblock painting “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”) and arrives safely in the present time.
Edward Lucie-Smith’s […]
To hear most actors tell it, filming sex scenes is no turn-on. There are big cameras, of course, and big crew members that come with them. It’s a performance with a stranger-turned-scene-partner, for a director who’s judging every caress and whimper. It’s the antithesis of hot, stars assure us on […]
From HOP:
Talking to teenagers about sex is difficult – no one wants to do it but everyone agrees it is necessary. But for millions of teens, both in the US and elsewhere, sex education is taught in a wholly counterproductive way.
The problem is abstinence-only sex ed. There are still many public schools that […]
From the blog post by Pamela Madsen
What we are is fragmented and that is what we are conditioned to be. We are conditioned from the earliest of ages to successfully sever the core of our sexuality, that most basic of human behaviors, from the rest of our lives. As a result, many of […]
Well, actually I’m not watching this excellent series of videos at lynda.com. I watched them all years ago…
It”s just a heads-up to the many people who ask me where they can learn about photography.
Classes aside, the courses at lynda.com – especially those by Ben Long – are an excellent place to start.
Highly recommended!
Amanda […]
Oxford Dictionaries announced their word of the year for 2013 to be “selfie”, which they define as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.” Although the rampant proliferation of the technique is quite recent, the “selfie” itself is far […]
The word ‘selfie’ was coined in Australia.
The first use of the word selfie in any paper or electronic medium appeared in an Australian internet forum on 13 September 2002 in Karl Kruszelnicki’s ‘Dr Karl Self-Serve Science Forum’.
By 2013, the word “selfie” had become commonplace enough to be monitored for inclusion in the online version of […]
Enough said!
And here is another. This time the advancement in only 9 years.
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