Not only are the states puritanical, but it's gotten even worse since I was a kid. And that wasn't that long ago.
I remember watching National Geographic documentaries on PBS, the kind where they go off and film some African tribe where it never even occurrs to the women to cover their breasts. And thanks to National Geographic, kids could see big Black titties on the same channel broadcasting Sesame Street.
A few days ago I was watching the Discovery Channel, a cable channel. They had essentially the same documentary: Deepest Africa, topless natives.
And they blurred the tits.
I still say the uproar over Janet Jackson bearing a breast at the Superbowl wouldn't have been so big if she was white. Titties on wholesome family entertainment where huge men charge each other full on and there's an extremely good chance that someone will need to be carried off the field.
I'm probably one of the worst
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I probably excel more than others with the whole digital packrat thing.
First, as a librarian, information truely turns me on. I love info and everything about it. There's no such thing as useless information. Sooner or later, everything becomes pertinent. That doesn't mean I save everything, but if I find it useful, it's likely to find its way to my hard drive or flash drive.
Second, as a digital artist, I'm an image junkie of the first order. If I think an image will make a useful model, backdrop, Photoshop experiment, plaything, whatever, off it goes to my hard drive.
Then there's the web designing that I do. So if I see a nifty layout, a CSS style sheet I want to utilize or learn from, a Javascript trick, creative coding, or even a website so bad it makes children cry, I'll save it. Images and all.
However, going back to the first "problem." I am a librarian. So the nifty thing about all the shit I save is that I do have it fairly well organized and, in many cases, indexed. I'm looking at building a few MySQL databases to track and access all of it, and since I'm kinda new to the whole MySQL/PHP thing, this would make a good project. But there's a downside. Since I'm new to MySQL and PHP, I've been looking at online tutorials, ideas, and the like. And yes, I've been saving those too.
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Not only are the states puritanical, but it's gotten even worse since I was a kid. And that wasn't that long ago.
I remember watching National Geographic documentaries on PBS, the kind where they go off and film some African tribe where it never even occurrs to the women to cover their breasts. And thanks to National Geographic, kids could see big Black titties on the same channel broadcasting Sesame Street.
A few days ago I was watching the Discovery Channel, a cable channel. They had essentially the same documentary: Deepest Africa, topless natives.
And they blurred the tits.
I still say the uproar over Janet Jackson bearing a breast at the Superbowl wouldn't have been so big if she was white. Titties on wholesome family entertainment where huge men charge each other full on and there's an extremely good chance that someone will need to be carried off the field.
I probably excel more than others with the whole digital packrat thing.
First, as a librarian, information truely turns me on. I love info and everything about it. There's no such thing as useless information. Sooner or later, everything becomes pertinent. That doesn't mean I save everything, but if I find it useful, it's likely to find its way to my hard drive or flash drive.
Second, as a digital artist, I'm an image junkie of the first order. If I think an image will make a useful model, backdrop, Photoshop experiment, plaything, whatever, off it goes to my hard drive.
Then there's the web designing that I do. So if I see a nifty layout, a CSS style sheet I want to utilize or learn from, a Javascript trick, creative coding, or even a website so bad it makes children cry, I'll save it. Images and all.
However, going back to the first "problem." I am a librarian. So the nifty thing about all the shit I save is that I do have it fairly well organized and, in many cases, indexed. I'm looking at building a few MySQL databases to track and access all of it, and since I'm kinda new to the whole MySQL/PHP thing, this would make a good project. But there's a downside. Since I'm new to MySQL and PHP, I've been looking at online tutorials, ideas, and the like. And yes, I've been saving those too.