TODD HIDO: "Fragmented Narratives" (2011) By Ian Epstein I once heard someone remark that the desire to have a perfect lawn was not unlike the desire to have a piece of perfect sculpture for a body – the lengths to which a person goes to achieve such perfection reveal a great deal. And so the coiffed and manicured American lawn that is a hallmark of the suburbs with perfect green grass came to resemble America’s plastic bodies, transformed by technology and money from flesh and blood into repositories of silicon in the hopes that perhaps, since timelessness is as impossible as death is unavoidable, perhaps instead we can achieve the perfection of Michelangelo or Venus temporarily, helped along by a little silicone. LEIGH LEDARE: "Double Bind" (2010) By Simon Baker, Brought to ASX by 1000 Words Magazine, 2010 There is a partially obscured photograph of the French writer Georges Bataille in Leigh Ledare’s Double Bind: just one of a number of ripped-out book and magazine pages that make up collage elements in a diverse installation of different kinds of photographic image; made, found and arranged, by the artist. Bataille, the anti-surrealist so-called ‘shit-philosopher’, was described by his friends as ‘impossible’: the impossible Bataille balanced a day-job in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with night-time brothel culture; wrote scholarly essays on coins, and some of the most subversive and explicit novels ever published: the manuscript for his infamous Story of the Eye, having in fact been scribbled directly on the backs of library record cards, as though he’d written it at work. Simon Baker is Curator of Photography and International Art at Tate. ASX CHANNEL: Leigh Ledare
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The Stats on Internet Pornography Embed this image on your site [Source: OnlineMBA.com The Stats on Internet Porn Even when the numbers shock you, there is no denying the facts – Internet pornography is a lucrative business. And while no MBA program is going to pressure any student into getting involved with this subject matter, it is important to understand the business model that is in place. In almost every other industry, it would be impossible to imagine such a large number of similar websites in an already flooded market. Looking at how separate companies are able to distinguish themselves and continue to grow is important.
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Wildlife photographer goes swimming with elephants to capture incredible images By Oliver Pickup Updated: 06:50 GMT, 6 September 2011 This daring British wildlife photographer is shown taking a dip with a herd of wild elephants, who are crossing a river delta in Zimbabwe. Using a floatation device hidden under his clothes, Chris Weston followed the herd into the tributary of the Zambezi River, capturing images that most wildlife photographers can only dream of.