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Long Legs Reclining

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Posted on January 28, 2012 by A.H. Scott

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She had long legs
He was built like a tree
She wrapped those long legs around his back
Relishing this aspect of human nature, she waited to extract his sap
Against the window sill, they rocked back and forth
Strands of raindrops outside fell
Furling white curtain slightly blown by a breeze through the window
Her ass so tan and beautiful
Long black hair down her back was brushed aside by his roving hands
Down and up against the black metal sill they exhaled and inhaled each other
His crew-cut gave him a bit of fuzz on top
Her wine colored fingernails were like a roll on the top of his head
Pumping and humping on a rainy night
Intermingling on a window sill with no care or fright
A couple walking on the street below saw a curtain of white wave in the night air
Flag of fantasy’s surrender was what they saw
As the couple grinding gave into completion’s courtyard
Couple on the street tittered and stood watching
Lady with long legs and her man kept on bopping
Realizing that the curtain was no longer their mask of privacy
She laughed and he asked with a shrug, “Stop?”
Whisper came from the lips of wine, “Never”
Rain kept rolling
Body flow of desire kept growing
Couple on the street heard that moment, gazed at one another
A simple howl from the parted window sill occurred
Couple below didn’t need to say a word, as they kissed in the rain
Long legged lovely and crew-cut lumberjack of love held onto one another tightly
Couple above and couple below both found the rain to be quite magical on that breezy night

About The Author: Draped in freedom’s spirit, A.H. Scott is a sizzling scribe of unveiling sensuality. Residing in New York City, this writer is armed with pouting pen of passion and pulsating digits pounding against keyboard. Between this lady’s manicured fingers, a snaggy stylus lacerates parchment and masticates digits against a misting keyboard towards a just climax literary longing. She’s a new voice and vision of fiction. who has been writing short stories and poetry ever since childhood.
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Model: Elizabeth Southward

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Posted on January 23, 2012 – Copyright 2012

Live Targets

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Ted Adams

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ARTIST STATEMENT

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I’m generally interested in what things look like (as opposed to any sort of inherent meaning), although sometimes events converge to create irony, humor or interesting juxtapositions. These usually happen by accident – I think that when you’re actually taking the pictures, you have to react to things in an immediate, visceral way – then something akin to “meaning” creates itself later when you’re looking at the negatives and deciding what to print.

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Cig Lady

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Barrier

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Picture-taking also has a psychological aspect which reminds me of going fishing or sifting through junk at a flea market: It involves an obsessive-compulsive drive to put your line in the water to see what you reel in – a subtle mood, an ambiance, a visual structure that tickles your brain.

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Double Hugs

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I’m also interested in photography as a way of cropping the world into rectangles, as a way of selectively taking things out of context – which often results in stripping the original meaning out of the subject matter, or at least in making the image open to interpretation. Kind of the opposite of photojournalism, whose intention is to create “narrative” and “context” rather than to discard them.

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The Saint

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Jesus Number

Photography is, in its very essence, the art of cropping – whether in the camera or in the darkroom.

About The Author: Ted Adams was born in Louisville, Kentucky USA. The artist resides and works in Philadelphia as an Art, Street and Documentary photographer. He is also Owner/Director of the Southwark Gallery, Philadelphia. To learn more about Ted Adams’s work log on: www.TedAdams.net.
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Posted on January 20, 2012 – Copyright 2012

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Elizabeth Southward

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Elizabeth Southward

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……….Gender discrimination is revealed through the transformation of a male to a female. Orlando is brought up in an aristocratic society and is exposed to famous philosophers and poets like Nicholas Greene. Orlando has the capability to choose a woman and ability to be an ambassador to Constantinople as well. Orlando has the capability to compose poems and express himself through writing. Orlando has the upper hand in society as a male in society, but even if he were of the middle class he would still be in the same position. Orlando’s transformation shocks, yet excites the town, especially with the trumpets blaring. In effect Woolf hypothesizes what would happen in society if she were to come out as well as demonstrates her own hesitations with her true nature. A critic named Toni A. H. McNaron focuses on Woolf’s homosexuality within her article A Lesbian Reading when she claims, “The whole question of identification became central to my evolving connection with Virginia about seventeen years ago” (McNaron 15). McNaron characterizes Woolf’s sexuality as a way of characterization. Woolf demonstrates the transformation of Orlando as her own attempt to express empowerment with women.

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Elizabeth Southward

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Orlando realizes once he is a woman that she does not have the advantages she once did. Orlando attempts to reconcile her writing ability and does so successively. She travels with a tribe of gypsies and Orlando recognizes the separation between the socio-economic classes. Men from the tribe observe her intellect and as a reaction plot her murder. In Woolf’s excerpt, she illustrated men’s disapproval of women’s discernment, when she clarifies, “…There was an enormous body of masculine opinion to the effect that nothing could be expected of women intellectually. Even if her father did not read out loud these opinions, any girl could read them for herself; and the reading, even in the nineteenth century, must have lowered her vitality, and told profoundly upon her work” (Woolf 54). Men’s opinion of women’s discernment was extreme disgust and denied women’s capability of intellectual expression. Woolf stresses the major disadvantage of women and subservience in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Orlando is a prime example of Woolf’s contempt with societal standards in the eighteenth century and difficulty with her own sexual desires.

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About The Author: Elizabeth Southward currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.
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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

Elizabeth Southward

Posted on January 15th, 2012 by Elizabeth Southward

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Virginia Woolf is ambiguous with her definition of the genders. In the beginning of the novel, Orlando’s gender is skewed and she sets readers up for confusion. Woolf portrays Orlando to be partially feminine when she states, “But, alas, that these catalogues of youthful beauty cannot end without mentioning forehead and eyes” (Woolf 12). Rarely is a male described as being beautiful – a male is praised for her masculinity or for his chiseled jaw. Woolf though adds a sentiment of feminity to Orlando’s character. He is known for his shapely legs, another feminine attribute. Through Woolf’s female touch she better explains her sexuality and underlying hardships. She uses Orlando as a way of expressing her own difficulty with coming out. Woolf is affected by her own hidden sexuality, but she opts to set the novel in the Elizabethan time period, a time of limited expression for women.

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Elizabeth Southward

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……….During the Elizabethan time period women were unable to express themselves through writing or to hold their own opinions without criticism. Women had to depend on men, whether they had a choice or not. In the excerpt of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, she exemplifies women’s lack of independence, “She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers” (Woolf 47). Women were at a major disadvantage in comparison to men. Men were able to receive education and women were domesticated to house chores. Parents reinforced the inferiority of women by forcing them into the kitchen. In relation to Orlando, Woolf works backwards to demonstrate gender discrimination

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About The Author: Elizabeth Southward currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.
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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

Yang Hu

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Yang Hu

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……….If I could have the power of changing the proportion of day and night in one day, I would make every single minute of a 24-hour period – full of sunshine. Growing up in a tropical city, that has only one season a year, which is summer: I’m used to being spoiled with unlimited sun light. I didn’t realize how I took wearing sundresses all year long for granted until I came to Philadelphia. I always like to work and hang out in places with big windows that let in a lot of light.

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Yang Hu

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For this series, I chose windows/glass and architecture as my theme. The Comcast Center, La Colombe Coffee Shop, McDonald’s, Pottruck Gym; seemingly unrelated subjects magically came together because of their common possession of glass windows – which embrace a generous amount of sun light.

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Yang Hu

. Sunshine is a theme that can be traced back to my childhood. Thanks to photography, I understand who I am and where I came from better than any other moments in my life.

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Yang Hu

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About The Author: Yang Hu is a senior enrolled in the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2012

Elizabeth Southward

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Elizabeth Southward

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How can women gain an upper hand with the eighteenth century limitations and man’s superiority in society? In the two texts, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe and Fantomina by Eliza Haywood, one protagonist connives their way to fulfill empty vanity whereas the other manipulates for financial satisfaction. Moll, the protagonist from Moll Flanders discovers her independence from the exchange of sexual favors for monetary value and eventually begins a career in thieving when she reaches middle age. Moll is on the low end of the totem pole. Fantomina who is considered aristocratic is intrigued by the idea of prostitution in order to win over an unreliable suitor. Each protagonist views the manipulation of man as the starting point of feminism. Although both women seize control by the means if manipulation only Moll attains true satisfaction, whereas Fantomina does not.

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Elizabeth Southward

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Throughout the course of each novella and novel the usage of disguise is crucial to each character’s means of control. Fantomina is first intrigued by a prostitute, which spurs her many disguises. Fantomina can envision herself consuming attention that this particular prostitute receives. Ultimately she decides to dress down for acknowledgement.

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About The Author: Elizabeth Southward currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.

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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

Clare Din

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Clare Din

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Can someone
Truly be in love
With more than one person
At the same time?

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Do I have so much love
In my heart
That there’s room
For two people…
Or am I being selfish?

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Whatever it is,
I am torn between two,
A man with whom I built a life
And a woman who adores me.

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Clare Din

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The wisdom and success
That come with experience.
The imagination and energy
That is marked by youth.

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When I am with one,
I feel a warm feeling in my belly
That he or she is the center of my universe
And nothing else really matters,
But the good feeling subsides eventually
And turns into cravings for the other
And I feel my heart being pulled apart.

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Clare Din

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Do I really know what love is
Or do I use the word too lightly,
Not really knowing its true meaning?
Not really caring?

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Is it fair to each of them?
Would they understand?
Would they both hate me?
Would they both leave me?

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What would I do if they did?

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What I do makes sense to me
And keeps me happy
And yet sad
At the same time.

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So I think about what it would be like
To be with just one person.
And I think about how the world sees me.
And I wish things were just a little different
And yet the same.
And I know that the world
Just isn’t that way, never was, never will be.
Because the world doesn’t yet understand me
And probably never will.

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Clare Din

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About The Author: Clare Din is enrolled in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also an alumni of Penn Engineering, Class of 1991.