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...phallic images could be carved into the sandstone floors along a shady brook area. These lingams?which actually look no more raunchy than rounded bumps?are surrounded by square outlines that represent the vulva, as per Hindu tradition. Tourists can slosh right into the shallow river to touch or photograph the sculptures through the flowing water...
Unfortunately, the new ruling will raise evidentiary problems, as child pornographers may be able to claim that the children they photograph are merely computerized fictions. Today, it is usually easy to tell what is digitally created and what is real, but as technology progresses it will be more and more difficult to tell the two apart. Criminals’ use of technology to evade the law is an ongoing problem, and the government will have to continue to address it. We can only hope that the government stays one technological step ahead of not only child pornographers, but all other...
...emerging out of a pearly gray cloud: a city skyline with lightning, a blurry dove, a rose growing out of a dirty crack in a sidewalk. Her painting is extraordinarily evocative and sophisticated—especially the portrait of her family in the corner which almost looks like a photograph. “They don’t know that I’m painting them,” she smiled quietly. “It’s going to be a surprise for them on opening night...
...walls are lined with panoramic prints of Kahn and Selesnick’s reveries, most measuring 8 inches by 30 inches. A large-camera photograph takes the original images, which are digitally manipulated and combined for ink-jet printing on archival paper, and then presented in new frames that have the aura of an earlier time, as we might expect from an ethnographic museum. Each photograph is accompanied by narrative wall text, tales which seem vaguely reminiscent of Arabian Nights and overflow with symbolism and detailed imagery...
...photographic fictions themselves focus on human stunts. In the photograph which accompanies the story “The Lake of Dreams,” a suspended head peers out of a small pond blowing on a long pipe which gently curves upward; it is suspended without the use of his hands, instead propped up at its wider end by a pole that extends from the water. Around the faded, sepia-like tones of the photograph rise okra-colored stalks of grass from the marsh; the glow of the sun can be faintly seen from the horizon in the distance...