nudes
Casually
Monday, 12Aug2019 Filed in: Gallery⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
Yes, I know this one is staged. But it is the casual acceptance of nudity that I'd like to see more often. We're born in our skin, we shouldn't be ashamed in it.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Rocky river
Monday, 24Jun2019 Filed in: Gallery
“In which John Green teaches you the history of the Indian Ocean Trade. John weaves a tale of swashbuckling adventure, replete with trade in books, ivory, and timber. Along the way, John manages to cover advances in seafaring technology, just how the monsoons work, and there's even a disembowelment for you Fangoria fans.”
Read More...Part of nature
Thursday, 23May2019 Filed in: Gallery⭐︎ quotes & thinkums
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Power trio
Monday, 20May2019 Filed in: Gallery
An unusual picture that is just about friendship, not fashion or titillation. Going by the amount of pubic hair, the jewelry, and the feathered hair, I'd say late 1970s to early 1980s.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
In the sea
Monday, 26Nov2018 Filed in: Gallery
Group skinny dipping. Just some folks having fun.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
❝Dianna and Actaeon❞
Monday, 19Nov2018 Filed in: Gallery
This is one of Titan's more famous works.
We've definitely moved into the Rubenesque Renaissance. No near waifs here.
What's most interesting about this piece is how it lowers Diana to not only mortal, but to the sensibilities of the time. There is no way that a Lady God would be embarrassed if caught nude. Gods make other humans embarrassed, not the other way around. Nude women bathers were a common motif. I suspect it had something to do with the real ladies being covered up most of the time. Note also that the one servant on the right isn't treated as a "real" woman, she isn't sexualized. That was also fairly common.
We've definitely moved into the Rubenesque Renaissance. No near waifs here.
What's most interesting about this piece is how it lowers Diana to not only mortal, but to the sensibilities of the time. There is no way that a Lady God would be embarrassed if caught nude. Gods make other humans embarrassed, not the other way around. Nude women bathers were a common motif. I suspect it had something to do with the real ladies being covered up most of the time. Note also that the one servant on the right isn't treated as a "real" woman, she isn't sexualized. That was also fairly common.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
Skinny dipping
Monday, 12Nov2018 Filed in: Gallery
“The simple fact is that genitals are no more sexual than any other part of the body--until we use them for sex.”— Is Nudity Inherently Immoral? from Family Skinnydippers
NeoNote — Nudes on Technopagan Yearnings
“I love being naked. I do everything in the nude, even the gardening! We're Cuban, and it's a hot island. Why not go nude?”
Facing the fire
Monday, 05Nov2018 Filed in: Gallery⭐︎ rite & ritual
❝Words matter. Actions matter more. Intentions don’t.❞— NeoWayland, Rules of Three, see also Would you know?
Ocean swimming
Monday, 24Sep2018 Filed in: Gallery
“This week, Mike Rugnetta is teaching you about mythical gardens and caves, which appear in cultures all over the world. Caves and gardens can stand for different things, but in the two stories we're talking about today, they tie into the creation of the world in general, and the origins of humans in particular.”
Read More...Broom Ritual
Monday, 17Sep2018 Filed in: Gallery
That smile
Monday, 16Jul2018 Filed in: Gallery
I do not usually do carnal pictures. TPY is not a porn site.
But lovers are certainly everyday nudity. The smile does more to sell this.
And yes, I know it's posed. It still delivers.
But lovers are certainly everyday nudity. The smile does more to sell this.
And yes, I know it's posed. It still delivers.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
The secret albums
“This week, we're talking about theories of Myth. We'll look at the different ways mythology has been studied in the last couple of millenia, and talk about the diffeent ways people have interpreted myth, academically.” Read More...
Another swimming hole
Monday, 28May2018 Filed in: Gallery
“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
“Zeus and Antiope”
❝I think it's vital to have friends outside your faith and outside your work. It helps you to balance. We need people we don't agree with but still trust to keep us out of the ego traps. We need other outlets for our passion just to keep ourselves fresh.❞
Sleeping
Monday, 19Mar2018 Filed in: Gallery
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
"The Woman, the Man and the Serpent"
Monday, 12Mar2018 Filed in: Gallery
John Byam Liston Shaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and worked in a wide variety of mediums. Today he's best known as a teacher and not an artist in his own right.
Obviously this is a depiction of the Garden of Eden. Pay special attention to how the man is so passive, even to the point of being hidden behind the woman. He's still tense and resisting, but he obviously doesn't want to be there. This is emphasized by him being in the shadows.
The woman is embracing life and blossoming right before our eyes.
Obviously this is a depiction of the Garden of Eden. Pay special attention to how the man is so passive, even to the point of being hidden behind the woman. He's still tense and resisting, but he obviously doesn't want to be there. This is emphasized by him being in the shadows.
The woman is embracing life and blossoming right before our eyes.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch
❝We were born dreamers.
We can learn to be makers.
Technology lets us bridge our thoughts and our milieu.❞— NeoWayland, Why a Technopagan?
At the lake
Monday, 31Jul2017 Filed in: Gallery
Karel Tondl was a Czech artist and art professor whose later work was influenced by expressionism. Perhaps he's best known for his depictions of female bathers.
Notice how the emphasis on bulk lines hints strongly at both motion and emotion.
Notice how the emphasis on bulk lines hints strongly at both motion and emotion.
I’m a naturist in both senses of the word. Life doesn’t always need clothes. I admire the human body. I hope you can too.
❝Bathers on the Beach❞ by Marie Auguste Emile Rene Menard
Monday, 17Jul2017 Filed in: Gallery
There's something very renewing about greeting the sun at dawn dressed in nothing but a pendant.
Read More...With friends
Monday, 26Jun2017 Filed in: Gallery
Just pooling around
Monday, 26Jun2017 Filed in: Gallery
“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
