via The Monochrome Experience: Swing & Blood Opinion: No matter how frustrated or discouraged I may become in life, I always say to God, “You really got it right when you designed women.” I may be biased, of course. I’m sure many women would say the same about men. And in the LGBTQ community, well,… Read More The Monochrome Experience: Swing & Blood | + Opinion
I have this kind of love affair with the 70s. To me, it’s an ‘authentic’ period when life was fun and not too complicated. Phones that rang, answering machines with tape, TVs that… Source: Dolemite – Not Eddie Murphy but The Real Thing
via The Monochrome Experience: Delicious Another winning photograph (top) from the Catalan artist, Lluís Bussé, although the bottom photo is close runner-up, I’d say. I had to Google the biological properties of oysters to make sure the author wasn’t alluding to something else. How often do we see a similar composition in ads? And what… Read More The Monochrome Experience: Delicious
via The Monochrome Experience: Just Married Opinion: Check out these great pics by my fav monochrome photographer, the self-professed “Time Traveler and Catalan Artist,” LLUÍS BUSSÉ. In the top photo, I love the different lines of action: The groom looks at us. The bride leans back, looking to keep her balance! The man in the… Read More The Monochrome Experience: Just Married | + Opinion
It took me a while to get back into it. But over the last few nights, I watched several episodes of Vikings and was drawn back into this mythic-historical treat. I had read that Lagertha… Source: Vikings is back and better than ever – Alert! Contains serious spoiler! – Just My Stuff
In Hinduism a linga or lingam is a stone pillar or a carving which most observers say has a phallic shape. Some parochial scholars and Freudians associate this essentially Shaivite image with mere sexuality. The British missionary William Ward criticized the linga as a sign of a supposedly debauched Hindu religion.¹ For many Hindus, this… Read More The Hindu Linga – Sacred image of creativity
A German musicologist complained in 1954 that they reminded him of “barking hell-hounds.” Source: The Fear That Synthesizers Would Ruin Music | JSTOR Daily Opinion: The above-linked article talks about early fears surrounding the advent of electronic music, but it points to a larger truth: Technology is not the enemy. How we potentially misuse it… Read More The Fear That Synthesizers Would Ruin Music | JSTOR Daily | + Opinion
