The name is Mecca! Final semester college student, 21, this is my personal blog and I post things related to anthropology, film, philosophy, peace studies, culture, music, nature,space, science and all things humans do that I think are awesome on this here planet earth! Some wise words:
"Peace on Earth, or whatever planet you happen to land on!"
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Stefon’s Wedding |x| SNL 18/5/2013
German Smurfs, Gizblow the coked up Gremlin, Human Fire Extinguishers, Ben Affleck and is that Ryan Seacrest? No it’s a drowned albino who looks like Axl Rose.
I’m going to miss Bill Hader.
Get with the times Flanders!
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Fantastical
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The Way You Do Anything... Is The Way You Do Everything
With a little practice, eventually itâs like using a telescope to reveal a distant galaxy. It’s the same trick novelists employ. And way back in the day, Aristotle famously said, “action reveals ch…
Golly do I love the stars
The only thing I know is that I know nothing at all, and that comforts me not scares me.
Van Gogh
27 Things You Had To Deal With As The Only Black Kid In Your Class
“You know, I don’t even see you as black.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/27-things-you-had-to-deal-with-as-the-only-black-kid-in-your
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An infographic on consent from http://vitaminw.co/society/what-consent-looks #SAAM
We cover some pretty interesting ideas in my Anthropology of the Body Love and Emotion class. This last week we covered the issue of the body online and technologically mediated sex. We looked at the LovePalz teledildonics which allow a couple to maintain an intimate relationship whilst apart. The LovePalz uses bluetooth technology for you to connect rhythms with partners.
The general consensus was that this was pretty radical, but at the same time it takes cybersex into an ambiguous realm of, actual intimacy, but remote. I somehow couldn’t help thinking of Woody Allen’s “Sleeper”.
But just a day after our lecture Durex launched Fundawear. It has since been covered extensively in the media. With its astute focus on foreplay rather then penetrative sex, and its launch from the ubiquitous Durex, it looks to be more popularly embraced than the LovePalz device.
In terms of the issue of everyday hybridity it resonates with the ever closer ties we have with technology. Such interactions, this type of online intimacy is becoming somewhat prosaic. It has become an almost banal question to ask in any situation, “is there an app for that?” People already have intimate and emotional connections with their electronic devices (iPhone, laptop, television…kettle?). What one must consider is how the future of human interaction, culture and emotions will develop in an era where our relationships are normalised by disembodied intimacy?
Boys of the Shan undergo the ritual “Poi Sang Long”, aiming to mimic the young Prince Siddhartha before he became Lord Buddha.
