09-Dent

Questioning

Students doing research on RIGHTS

Civil and Political Rights:

  • Freedom of speech, assembly, and religion
  • Right to a fair trial and political participation
  • Protection from arbitrary detention or torture

Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights:

  • Right to education, healthcare, and adequate standard of living
  • Right to work and fair wages
  • Cultural participation and intellectual property

Collective Rights:

  • Rights to self-determination and environmental protection

14-JUN

Significant

What a Day!

This was a three hour dirt-ride into the Inyo National Forest off of Death Valley Road east of Big Pine.

Looking West, across Owens Valley, toward the Mountains of the High Sierra.

There was a moment when I felt there was no return.

13-JUN

Specialized

He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios, and a fair bit about berries.

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

11-JUN

Mechanization

Baked • Slaked • Shaken

Feeling tired? Run down? Worn out by a facial and shampoo? Consider yourself better off than the model at center (above), who seems to have dreamed she was an astronaut in a vibro-massage bra. She will presumably arise like some assembly-line Aphrodite, renewed in spirit if mildly mortified in the flesh.

This menacing array of instruments for self-enhancement was put together to show the variety of space-age beauty equipment now available, but it almost seems better calculated to prove the French maxim: il faut souffrir pour etre belle.

  • Vapor & Heating Machine
  • Ozone Vapor Spray
  • Hood & Comb Dryer
  • Belt Stimulator
  • Spot Reducer
  • 2 Hand Rollers
  • 3 Kinds Of Sun Lamp
  • 6 Massage Machines
  • Massage Couch
  • High-Frequency Massage Comb

Sending satellites to Venus, or aspiring to Venus-like charm, one is getting to be as complicated as the other. Over this photograph the London magazine Queen put the simple heading “All Systems Go!”

As they say, you must suffer to be beautiful.