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
Fear is a dark room where negatives get developed.
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.
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.
For creative and curious people (hackers) interested in technology.
Artificial intelligence self-improves at an accelerating pace, surpassing human intelligence, leading to rapid, uncontrollable, exponential growth, and transforming human society in ways we can’t predict.
Utopia – OR – Dystopia?
The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
Do a search for grapes & pear and see if you can find any other image that even comes close to the artistic composition of this one picture.
BTW, this isn’t my work. Wish it was. Hope to eventually find the name of the artist who did this.
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, or modestly.
Mao Tse-tung