An Examined Digital Life

Where I post things that I find interesting
feminishblog: str8nochaser: My thighs do more than touch. They share mystical secrets and whisper spells as I walk. Reblogging for commentary and thigh love! xx

feminishblog:

str8nochaser:

My thighs do more than touch. They share mystical secrets and whisper spells as I walk.

Reblogging for commentary and thigh love! xx

Clever!!! burbanked: tymn: “I still believe in heroes.” S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers (2012) I JUST SAW THE BIG MARVEL “M” IN THE AVENGERS LOGO YOU CHEEKY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS YOU.

Clever!!!

burbanked:

tymn:

“I still believe in heroes.”

S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers (2012)

I JUST SAW THE BIG MARVEL “M” IN THE AVENGERS LOGO YOU CHEEKY GRAPHIC DESIGNERS YOU.

Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it? But no one questions the fact that everyone’s white. That’s what we have to change.

—Idris Elba. (via jerrymuffinbutt)

(via feminishblog)

Photography porn.

photojojo:

Leica is on a roll. A beautiful, beautiful, leather and anodized silver camera-making roll.

Meet Leica’s new Hermès Leica M9-P digital Rangefinder. It was co-designed by the Parisian fashion house for an edition of 300. 200 will go for $25,000, while an extra special 100 will go for $50,000.

Check out the Making Of & Unboxing videos showing off the craftsmanship that went into these cameras. 

Hermès Leica M9-P Digital Rangefinder Will Sell for $50,000

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

—Maurice Sendak  (via philphys)

(Source: pseud0nymph, via philphys)

newyorker: “Mad Men” Returns So you can imagine my relief when I began watching tonight’s première and slid straight into the narcotic rush that made me love the show in the first place. This has always been “Mad Men”’s trademark: the languid groove, the dream-like opacity, the tease of a show bold enough to go slow. The first shot that grabbed me was a long close-up of a baby’s bottom, plush as a white pillow. Joan (the wonderful Christina Hendricks) was soothing her infant with diaper cream, caught up in the opiate intensity of new motherhood. But while Joan was tender with her baby, she was also dying to get back to work, bickering with her mother, with her whole history (affair with Roger, sparring with Peggy, the horrifying and never-acknowledged rape, her not-bad marriage to the rapist, those intra-office struggles, her Queen Bee power dissolving) feeling somehow entirely intact, as if she’d never gone away. - Emily Nussbaum reviews last night’s episode: http://nyr.kr/H7Milh

newyorker:

“Mad Men” Returns

So you can imagine my relief when I began watching tonight’s première and slid straight into the narcotic rush that made me love the show in the first place. This has always been “Mad Men”’s trademark: the languid groove, the dream-like opacity, the tease of a show bold enough to go slow. The first shot that grabbed me was a long close-up of a baby’s bottom, plush as a white pillow. Joan (the wonderful Christina Hendricks) was soothing her infant with diaper cream, caught up in the opiate intensity of new motherhood. But while Joan was tender with her baby, she was also dying to get back to work, bickering with her mother, with her whole history (affair with Roger, sparring with Peggy, the horrifying and never-acknowledged rape, her not-bad marriage to the rapist, those intra-office struggles, her Queen Bee power dissolving) feeling somehow entirely intact, as if she’d never gone away.

- Emily Nussbaum reviews last night’s episode: http://nyr.kr/H7Milh

visualturn: I watched today’s introduction of Apple’s new iPad, and I couldn’t help wondering: Apple, where are the women? Out of more than a dozen presenters from Apple and its developers, none were women.  Oh, there were many women represented in the photos and videos used to demonstrate Apple’s nifty new technology, but they were all silent actors, there to pretty up the demos just like the exotic flowers and lush landscapes. Women were portrayed as mothers or students, and only occasionally were they even shown using the device. Even the voice-overs on the iPad video and the TV ad were male voices. I would expect women are a large segment of Apple’s customer base for the iPad and most of its other products. You wouldn’t know that from today’s parade of Apple’s senior executives and product managers, and its geekiest app developers. Maybe this has more to do with the fact that this was a product introduction. I certainly can’t remember off the top of my head any significant differences in any previous Apple events. It is pretty certain that most other technology companies are no better than Apple in this respect. Apple may even have a good record for diversity in its employment practices. I don’t know. Then again, take a look at Apple’s top executives: people named Tim, Eddy, Scott, Jonathan, Bob, Peter, Phil, Bruce, Jeff. Or look at their board of directors: Arthur, William, Tim, Millard, Albert, Robert, Ronald … and, oh yes … Andrea. Shouldn’t one of the largest companies in the world — a company worth more than Microsoft and Google combined — shouldn’t it be held to a higher standard? Yesterday, March 7, was Apple’s iPad introduction. Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. This might be a good day to tell Apple what you think of its new iPad.

visualturn:

I watched today’s introduction of Apple’s new iPad, and I couldn’t help wondering:

Apple, where are the women?

Out of more than a dozen presenters from Apple and its developers, none were women. 

Oh, there were many women represented in the photos and videos used to demonstrate Apple’s nifty new technology, but they were all silent actors, there to pretty up the demos just like the exotic flowers and lush landscapes. Women were portrayed as mothers or students, and only occasionally were they even shown using the device. Even the voice-overs on the iPad video and the TV ad were male voices.

I would expect women are a large segment of Apple’s customer base for the iPad and most of its other products. You wouldn’t know that from today’s parade of Apple’s senior executives and product managers, and its geekiest app developers. Maybe this has more to do with the fact that this was a product introduction. I certainly can’t remember off the top of my head any significant differences in any previous Apple events. It is pretty certain that most other technology companies are no better than Apple in this respect. Apple may even have a good record for diversity in its employment practices. I don’t know.

Then again, take a look at Apple’s top executives: people named Tim, Eddy, Scott, Jonathan, Bob, Peter, Phil, Bruce, Jeff. Or look at their board of directors: Arthur, William, Tim, Millard, Albert, Robert, Ronald … and, oh yes … Andrea.

Shouldn’t one of the largest companies in the world — a company worth more than Microsoft and Google combined — shouldn’t it be held to a higher standard?

Yesterday, March 7, was Apple’s iPad introduction.

Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day.

This might be a good day to tell Apple what you think of its new iPad.