Wednesday, November 02, 2005

So I feel like this blog needs more pictures than it's been getting lately and these pictures will come at the expense of...Chinese homework for a little while. So I will feature a picture of the boy that I'm sure he doesn't want posted. Hahahaha.

1: Slutty underwear and fancy jeans:



There's a great story behind this pair of underwear. Let's just say he was massively pressured into buying it by me because I thought they looked really hot. They're black with a red band. And kinda tight. hehehehehe.

And maybe on that same theme of red things, a picture of ABE, the Automatic Benthic Explorer developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This was about 300miles off the coast of Fiji in the Eastern Lau Spreading Basin (unLEASH the inner dork!) I also have datasets for all these dives if anyone's interested!



And this dude is Gordon Perry, father of pro surfer Tamayo Perry. And one cool bastard on that boat, the Kilo Moana:



I'm also going to add this excerpt from one of my readings about Goya's Caprichos etchings. I lie not, this is EXACTLY what it says:

"The aim of the simultaneous presence of the instrument of optical magnification (which points as much to the register as it does to the double sex displayed in the foreground) and the laughing, jeering faces placed around this focus would appear to highlight the scandalous detail. The stomach-face is an ancient figure in orgiastic rights, which, in the form of Baubo the vulva-goddess, provoked veneficial and regenerative laughter, and which survived in the carnivalesque processions until the end of the eighteen century...Not so common, but there all the same, was the double presentation of Baubo (the mythical vulva) and Baubon (the symbolic phallus). Goya includes this motif in his drawings, combining both sexes in one and the same person."

The picture is people staring at a pregnant lady, smiling. I love art criticism.

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