Internet porn is especially enticing to the reward circuitry because novelty is always just a click away. It could be a novel “mate,” unusual scene, strange sexual act, or — you fill in the blank. With multiple tabs open and clicking for hours, you can experience more novel sex partners every ten minutes than our hunter-gatherer ancestors experienced in a lifetime.
— Gary Wilson, yourbrainonporn.com
(Bettie Page photographs by Weegee)
The Man Born to Farming
The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming,
whose hands reach into the ground and sprout,
to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death
yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down
in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.
His thought passes along the row ends like a mole.
What miraculous seed has he swallowed
that the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth
like a vine clinging in the sunlight, and like water
descending in the dark?
— Wendell Berry
(drawings: Lisa Hanawalt, Eleanor Davis)
Chester Brown: Oh, yeah, no — the book is pretty cold. In large part that’s because of my approach to art these days. One of my favorite filmmakers is Robert Bresson, who instructed his actors to show no emotion. I realized, drawing certain scenes, “Okay, you’ve gotta draw someone smiling here,” but I was resisting even that.
…
Sean Rogers: Is that something that you see in Harold Gray as well?
Chester Brown: Yes. I mean, some people might disagree because there’s so much melodrama in Gray, but certainly in the way he uses his visuals, as opposed to the superhero comics that I would have grown up on, where there are all these close-ups and where characters have eyes that show emotion. In Gray, the camera is distant from the action, and everyone has these blank eyes, and faces don’t show a lot of emotion. Yes, the stories themselves involve emotion, but the style seems, at least from a modern point of view, very restrained.
— excerpt from The Comics Journal, interview w/ Chester Brown, 9 May 2011
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dreamgirl #3982, Julie Newmar
(via craigalicious)
she damaged me, too. Her face looks a lot more girl-next-door in this picture, though — are you sure it’s her
on the note of werner herzog, i present to you: klaus kinski’s son.
lordy Lord
K.K. must have mated w/ an ainjil
