Wow!! Cool photo blog!

This is just going to be a short post.
I've been kinda busy this weekend so now i'm tired and kinda happy.

I just want to show you theese amazing pics from Rikki Kasso's blog Tokyo Undressed
http://tokyoundressed.blogspot.com/

He has a feel that sometimes reminds me of Terry Richardson, but there is also something very different about Rikki's work. Anyway i got to say i love his work.
Check it out...

Why i'm not a Christian?

Religion is important in our world. But we are not good enough at understanding religion. I try to understand religion sometimes and i admit it is hard. Lately i think i have understood something about christianity, or at least most protestant versions of christianity, that makes me unconfortable with it.

It is about what christians often call the "personal relationship" with God. A christians view of God is very intimate. Children praying to God, alone in the dark before going to bed. Many christians claim that they are "friends" with Jesus and that God answers their personal prayers. Salvation, personal salvation is the goal of protestant christianity.

But i don't want to have a personal relationship with God. I want to be intimate with my friends and my lovers, not with the creator of the universe. I want to have personal relationships within a social network of humans. I don't want salvation either if it ties me to a kind of morality i can't defend. I want God to guarantee that we live in a moral universe, nothing more, nothing less.

This raises an ethical question of what a moral universe should be like? What rules should we live by? Those are the really meaningful questions... if you ask me.

P.S The title of post is taken from a lecture held by the philosopher Bertrand Russel on March 6, 1927.

A short short essay on Erotic photography and sexuality.

I’ve just started reading the doctoral thesis by a Norwegian philosopher named Knut Kolnar. (It’s written in 2003 at the university where I am currently studying) He writes about gender, masculinity, sexuality and violence. I want to mention him because he makes a link between masculinity, what I would call a constituded male identity, and sexuality.

Personally I have been frustrated over what I see as a feminist influence on so many concepts of sexuality, gender, emotions and, even, love. “Women are expets on emotions” is a common-sense perception. That may be true, but does it imply that “men are idiots on emotions”?

Since the sexual revolution male identity has come under pressure because women (or maybe feminism, I’m not sure) have usurped a power of definition over concepts like eroticism, sexuality and (again) love in our everyday social relations. One kind male eroticism has been severly commercialised and tagged pornography, making itself a target for feminist critics.
This pressure on masculinity, which is even more intense in Islamic cultures, is a cause for frustration to many men. Frustration is often relived through acts of violence which again causes critisism of male behaviour. In Norway about 90% of violent crimes are commited by men ( I would expect similar numbers in other western countries) which feeds into the perception that “macho-culture” is bad.

I want to contrast this to the fantastic radical photography of Michael Rosen. His erotic images move away from "macho-culture" pornography to a more honest and, in my opinion, warmer place. His images, one of which adorne this post, simply give a meaningful erotic experience.




Check out Michael Rosen's homepage: http://www.shaynew.com/

Belarus Elections

The Belarus elections are occuring today. The voting is undeway is i write accoring to the BBC. It seems like the government in Belarus has already decided on the outcome of the election. They also don't mind arresting people that are organizing themselves to monitor the elections. According to Amnesty International:

"The last vestiges of freedom of expression and assembly are being swept away as Belarus prepares for the presidential elections on 19 March. In January this year, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka announced on national television that there would be no repeat of the Ukrainian and Georgian scenario, referring to the "coloured revolutions", which brought about changes of government in both those countries"

Read more about it: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/blr-140306-action-eng

Four independent observers have also been arrested by the KGB. I hope the people of Belarus are able to protest peacefully and that their "denim revolution" (gotta love that) is succsessful.

Boys don't cry

I would say I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time I've said too much
Been too unkind

I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try and
Laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It's too late
And now there's nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry

I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
That you've already
Gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just
Keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
- The Cure

I just had to post this lyric. It means something to me.
And that's why i started this blog.

welcome by the way...