Seeing Sex: Becoming Orgasmic “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius Becoming Orgasmic is the video accompanying the book of the same name. It is essentially – or masquerades as – a ‘how to’ book for non-orgasmic women. It satisfies many of the criteria for […]
Month: April 2011
Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film ~ from stag film to hard core …
From Stag Film to Hard Core. Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film … Probably the most significant developments in the evolution from stag to hard-core film relate to the move to full-length, feature complete with colour, sound and cohesive narrative along with the shift to an ending […]
Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film ~ Characteristics of the Stag Film
Characteristics of the Stag Film Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film … My research established the following as generic characteristics of the Stag Film: Social bonding of exclusively male audience; Heterosexual expression of the male group desire for the female body; Designed to arouse; Absence of sound, […]
Seeing Sex: Occasional observations regarding the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film ~ Voyeurism
Voyeurism Occasional observations about the representation of sex, sexuality and gender in film. Gertrud Koch on voyeurism A standard view of voyeurism assumes it is a component of genital pleasure satisfying the role of ‘foreplay’, on an understanding that consumers of pornography will feel cheated when they don’t get what they expect. Gertrud Koch considers that […]
On what basis should public funding to the arts be provided?
On what basis should public funding to the arts be provided? The governing principle that declares that arts funding should be provided from the public purse can be traced to the rule in Roman law that stated: Quod omnes tangit, ab omnes approbari debet or ‘what concerns all, should be approved by all’. This can […]
Perseverance
Perseverance A collection of observations on the virtue of Perseverance My personal favourite is … Fall seven times. Stand up eight. Japanese proverb Water, continually dripping, will wear a hard rock hollow. Plutarch It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein I think and think for months […]
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory (draft only) It’s Sunday and mid December, a time when things happen. Today is a rather special day in that our seven year old son is playing the Virgin Mary in his school nativity play to be staged during the chapel service. This will happen between […]
Sphoṭa ~ Random Theatre
Sphota I really love this concept and made a theatre work around this idea. Seemingly naturally, I called it Sphota despite the fact that, giving it a name at all, mitigated against the desire to celebrate randomness ~ but, conversely, this decisive act debilitated the idea that anything in the universe is random anyway and, […]
Space Wizard
Space Wizard This is one of those poems written written 38 years ago and rediscovered on Thursday, 13 January 2011. More to come … maybe … I should dedicate them all to then Constable Ian Snell who saved my life. Long gone Into the darkness of night You left us And the perils, the forest, […]
Brokeback Mountain (for girls) ~ Calgary Nights
For Chloe & Cushla & Shay (always Shay …) Coyote? Is that you out there? (your ghostly keen?) Or are you Wolf? Wolf? What is it that we fear in the night, children That might lurk here To revive those primal infant fears? Here (of all places, all people) Here In the Rockies Or at […]
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