The Art Of G. Edwin Taylor

What Are You Waiting For?

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Waiting for the special Kung Fu movie double feature (on 35mm film) at the historic Portage Theater here in Chicago (Taken with instagram)

Boobs Don't Work That Way: This was in my drafts. I’m not sure why I hadn’t published it yet. I...

boobsdontworkthatway:

This was in my drafts. I’m not sure why I hadn’t published it yet.

I often get asked just what I think is unrealistic when it comes to boobage and it just so happens that Leah H from Hourglassy wrote a fantastic post that pretty soundly sums up all of my pet peeves.

1. Boobs are not…

Ready for the coming heat. #summer #swimming (Taken with instagram)

You can feel the intensity can’t you? “In The Devil’s Forest”, acrylic on linen board, 12x16”.

skeptv:

James Randi and a Psychic Artist

A medium contacts the spirits (apparently), while a ‘psychic artist’ draws the face of the spirit being contacted.

This is a good example of bad cold-reading. Cold-reading is the main technique used by self-proclaimed psychics such as Sylvia Browne and John Edward. It consists of throwing out random snippets of vague, highly generalised information (often names, numbers or initial letters) until one connects, then attempting to fit further information to it using logical guesswork and probability.

To the recipient of the psychic reading, this gives a strong illusion of specific information coming from some outside source. The recipient usually leaves convinced that the psychic was highly accurate, that they knew things they could never possibly have known, etc.

It is sometimes combined with ‘hot reading’, whereby the perfomer already has information about the person being given the reading, found out beforehand through a number of methods. The big-name TV psychics and faith healers use this technique heavily.

The effect is even more impressive if the psychic is performing on TV and has editorial control over the proceedings. Then, almost anything can be made to seem true.

From episode 1 of ‘James Randi - Psychic Investigator’ (1991)

* This video is fully annotated, and explains the techniques used by the psychic *

Church of Satan: The God Behind The Curtain by Magus Peter H. Gilmore

churchofsatannews:

It should be obvious that the “gay marriage issue” exemplified in the recent vote in North Carolina rejecting such marriages is one of civil rights being abrogated by religion-fostered intolerance of American pluralism. When residents of that state are interviewed, supporters of the movement to…

My little nephew told me his dog can’t ridethe bike because he has no hands. #KidFact (Taken with instagram)

Taken with instagram

hockey-teeth:

“a woman got out of the car next to me and I watched as her skirt fell back and showed me flashes of white leg above the stockings. one of the world’s greatest works of Art: a woman with fine legs climbing out of her car” 

Charles Bukowski- Tales Of Ordinary Madness