Art and the act of censorship

i just got a note saying my picture iLust needs a mature content warning and too right its a naked woman with an iPod for a vagina they (deviantART) changed it for me and they have every right too
but when i was changing iLust nano another piece of art which is an actual closer up of the vagina/iPod i noticed that one of the maturity warnings is nudity .... i can under stand the other warnings sexual themes violence strong language but nudity? really? this is an art web site life modelling and modelling nude have gone hand in hand with art since cave men drew on walls
i just wondered why that’s so why nudity in art is censurable ?
i don't seem to be able to understand why the naked body is so offensive I can see how bad language violence and some and I repeat some acts of sex (rape child molestation etc ) can be offensive on the most part the human body is a beautiful machine
If I felt more beautiful about myself I would wear less clothes and share my beauty as much as I could with out being vein and by that I mean I would donate my time to a art class or something I wouldn’t just walk around top less striking a pose
Arts censorship is something that really gets me hot under the collar I can’t stand to see art censored because art is a pure form expression and how can expression be bad?

the link to my deviantART page is on the side bar

facts fit for a king

this is a little somthing i found really interesting

the top 50 ... in line to the throne of England Scotland Wales northern Ireland Australia Canada new Zealand etc etc etc

1 HRH The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles
2 HRH Prince William of Wales
3 HRH Prince Henry of Wales (prince harry)
4 HRH The Duke of York The Prince Andrew
5 HRH Princess Beatrice of York
6 HRH Princess Eugenie of York
7 HRH The Earl of Wessex The Prince Edward
8 James, Viscount Severn
9 Lady Louise Windsor
10 HRH The Princess Royal The Princess AnneElizabeth II
11 Peter Phillips
12 Zara Phillips
13 David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley
14 The Hon. Charles Armstrong-Jones
15 The Hon. Margarita Armstrong-Jones
16 Lady Sarah Chatto
17 Samuel Chatto
18 Arthur Chatto
19 HRH The Duke of Gloucester Prince Richard
20 Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster Alexander Windsor,
21 Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden
22 Lady Davina Lewis
23 Lady Rose Gilman
24 HRH The Duke of Kent Prince Edward
25 Lady Amelia Windsor
26 Lady Helen Taylor
27 Columbus Taylor
28 Cassius Taylor
29 Eloise Taylor
30 Estella Taylor
31 Lord Frederick Windsor
32 Lady Gabriella Windsor
33 HRH Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
34 James Ogilvy
35 Alexander Ogilvy
36 Flora Ogilvy
37 Marina Ogilvy
38 Christian Mowatt
39 Zenouska Mowatt
40 The Earl of Harewood George Lascelles
41 David Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles
42 The Hon. Alexander Lascelles
43 The Hon. Edward Lascelles
44 The Hon. James Lascelles
45 Rowan Lascelles
46 Tewa Lascelles
47 Sophie Lascelles
48 The Hon. Jeremy Lascelles
49 Thomas Lascelles
50 Ellen Lascelles


there are currently 52 monarchies well 53 if you count the pope
only the ruler of Busoga the Kayabazinga is yet to be announced and Andorra has two prince ruling it

the Queen of England has more "power" than any other ruling monarch and when i say power i mean she's on the money of more places that is to say her empire is the biggest her empire is Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and last but not least United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and northern Ireland)



my favourite king or queen (from England) is HRH Queen Victoria

my favourite living royal (from England) is HRH Prince Henry of Wales

one last thing prince harry's real name is Henry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry_of_Wales

The problems with superman

Is it just me or did any one else ever want superman to just die?
I don’t want to sound super villain-ish but the amount of times he was exposed to deadly doses of kryptonite he should be dead
Another thing that always up set me about superman is the massive inconsistence with his powers one time he’s barely able to lift a school bus then another time he has no problems lifting several nuclear missiles and throwing them in to space
Lets do some math
One school bus + a load of eleven year olds = 11 to 14 tons
The average weight of a nuclear missile = 500 lbs X lets say five missiles from each of the first world countries so that’s 5 X 23 + lets say 20 from those countries able to produce nuclear weapons (5X23+20) X 500 = 67 500 lbs
So that’s 67.5 tons verses 14 tons
Dose any one see a hole in superman’s abilities ?? I know I do you don’t even want to get me started on his other abilities
He has too many powers to be taken seriously and what seems to be endless amounts of power vast vats of strength and stamina and were to believe that he gets it all from the sun ? the only good thing I can say about him is that he has a clear quantifiable weakness kryptonite … lets examine that for a second he susceptible to the radiation from eradiated chunks of his home planet that doesn’t quite seem fair dose it ? The flash can be shot in the head batman strangled to death you can club hawk girl in the head stab wonder woman burn the Martian man hunter but what can you do to the man in blue? You can search the earth finding chunks of eradiated krypton and give him a full course of radiation therapy you kill superman by destroying his T cells that’s awesome if superman was real (Yes I know he‘s not real) I would not support him I’d support the other members of the justice league the ones that can be easily killed but not him he could (if superheros were real) take over the planet
No good can come of a super hero with that much power
I am anti superman there you have it readers down in black and white over the inter internet to read I am anti superman
Am I saying he is a bad creation … yes I am a hero who is faultless and pure is not good again I know that sounds villain-ish but superhe

roes like real people need weaknesses
Any kryptonians superman super girl super man krypto the super dog there all the same they all have the same loop holes in there powers there all badly written and there all bad role models

I say that because no role model should be able to do everything no role model should be able to run faster than a speeding bullet leap tall buildings in a single bound or be more powerful than a locomotive
All that says to me is you can’t be this good so don’t even try
You want a role model superhero? You look at bat man you look at the flash you look at the green lantern
Don’t be victim to the cult of superman

my teeth

I was brushing my teeth and was thinking back to all the times I’ve been to the dentist and I thought about what they had said to me about my unusual teeth . . . 　

Notice anything?
I was born with out permanent lateral incisors It’s just another one of those things that are amazing and special about me
It doesn’t effect me negatively in any way in fact most people don’t even notice I’m missing teeth but then there are those observant people who notice and comment and parallel my teeth to that of vampires
But I don’t mind I smile any way

when is racism funny?

I don’t think it ever is…

I was sitting having lunch with an acquaintance today this person had already been quite rude to me I wasn’t sure weather it was because I insisted on having MacDonald’s for lunch because it’s cheap instead of what they wanted me to eat or because I got them up too early either way this person was being a bit of a … well not nice is the most diplomatic way I can put it
Any way this person who granted I don’t know very well and is some one I wouldn’t normal associate with was racist not even covertly but out and out racist
Firstly we were in the line at subway and the oriental young woman who served us had a thick Chinese accent she was speaking slowly and I was able to understand her quite clearly if it had been me I would have smiled and enunciated every word but this person I was with fist mumbled there order then when the young woman asked him to repeat it he turned to me rolled his eyes and spoke to er as if she was dirt then as he was at the drink machine getting his drink (diet coke with cherry fanta in it I almost threw up on his shoes) the girl asked him if he wanted salt and pepper while he was still looking at the drink machine he nodded and said ah-hum the girl then asked him again and he shouted YES SALT AND PEPPER thank g-d I had my aviators on so I could look horrified at him as we left the subway he said that was the painful ordering and paying for subway I’ve ever experienced
I said she was a trainee
He said one who doesn’t speak English which makes the process a lot harder
I remained silent till we went to MacDonald’s and I ordered and got my meal and we sat down in the food court and ate
There was an elderly oriental woman in the food court she was walking and stumbled over a badly laid tile and it was funny it’s always funny to see some one trip and recover and pretend they didn’t trip and to this woman’s credit she not only tripped one but then a second time and recovered I was going to chuckle when this person I was with said
Did you see that that F##king G##k almost fell over
And he laughed quite loudly
Being a Jew I find racism to be unacceptable so at hearing this second bout of racism I did what my sisters and I are most known for I pursed my lips slightly raised my eye brows gave a sarcastic smiled and drank some of my drink
I won’t be speaking to this person again let me assure you

A new bible

let me start this most auspicious of blog entries by saying i can smell almost everything

I have had many bibles in my time on this earth and by bible I don’t mean the religious text of first the jews (of whom I am one) and latter the religious text of the Christians I mean the definition of bible numbers 3 and 5

Bible
Bible [bb'l]
(plural Bibles)
n
1. Christian holy book: the sacred book of the Christian religion
2. Jewish holy book: the Hebrew scriptures, the sacred book of the Jewish religion
3. bibleholy book: the holy book of any religion
4. bible (plural bibles) copy of Bible: a copy or edition of the Bible
5. bible (plural bibles) essential book: a book that is considered an authority on a particular subject

Now my bibles in the past have been not the norm most books read by my peers were … well lets just say they weren’t literary master works

My new bible is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind Before I start telling you why you should go out right now right this second and buy it and read it (and the movie too) I’ll tell you about my other bibles

There is a list catcher in the rye starts the list I read this book and was captivated by it this kid Holden who’s been expelled from school spend a weekend in New York I thought it was going to suck but I read it and I was like wow I was enthralled by his small adventure and his heart

The next two bible’s that hit me were a plays cat on a hot tin roof I had seen the Liz Taylor and Paul Newman film version and thought I’d give the actual play a go I read it in one sitting as you do with plays and loved it I could almost feel the summer heat coming out of it the other play was angels in America I was captivated again by how moving it was and at the same time how funny Harper and Ethel Rosenberg were my fave characters
(after reading AinA I went to an art show it was of Andy Warhol’s work the picture of the electric chair moved me to actual tears (the picture is taken from a newspaper and the image is of the electric chair used to ‘execute’ Ethel and Julius Rosenberg) which is why I was so moved I came to see her as a friend)

The next bible was an odd one it’s called Schott’s original miscellany it’s a book of lists and unusual facts I love it and reference it all the time

The next bible which I read is apart of a ritual I have is dickens a Christmas carol every year I read it then I watch the Muppets Christmas carol then scrooged and any other version I can find I’m sure it’s the most Christian thing I do all year

I’ve read dozens of books many of which have the potential to be bible like : of human bondage, death in Venice, metro, atonement, Mrs Dalloway, Faust and the list gose on but those books are not as interesting to me they don’t hold me the way the ones above hold me (the books above are just a small sample of the bibles I love)

Now on too perfume: a story of a murderer
Concurrently Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is showing me paris on his nose he was born with an amazing olfactory ability I haven’t finished it but I have seen and own the movie and I’m looking forward too it
I’ll probably write an updadte to this post when I’m done

thinking inward

I was thinking trying to put pen to paper or finger to key and my mind wandered to well I guess a medical waste facility in Melbourne sounds weird? I was thinking about adenoids or to be more specific my adenoids

When I was little I was deaf well I was unable to hear there’s a slight difference in my case my ears worked fine that is to say the unit the ear drum and stuff worked fine it was the other stuff around it that was broken I had to have an adenoidectomy which is basically where they scrape away a piece of flesh from the very top of your throat or technically the very bottom of your sinus where the two meet the adenoid is there to stop bacteria being ingested but some times (in my case) the adenoid works too well and it creates a back log of bacteria that travels up to the middle ear and causes infections


That was me chronic ear infections “glue ear” the internet tells me any way they put grommets in my ears which after looking it up on line is both cool and creepy grommets go in the ear drum to drain fluid puss and blood and to let air into the middle ear



I wasn’t actually sure what a grommet was but I now know it’s a little plastic tube thing I now know what my mum means when she said “Roberts grommets fell out” I used to think grommets were something like ear wax I don’t know why I just did


Any way all those thoughts got me thinking about my medical history I’ve been under the knife only a few times I had my adenoids out and grommets put in I was circumcised I had a wedge resection and a full nail bed removal on my right big toe and that’s really it as far a surgery goes other wise physically I’m healthy as a horse

why windmills?

Why did I choose to name my blog the windmill factory?

Well it all started with the Thomas Crown affair and it theme song windmills of the mind I love that song and from that song I sort of used windmills as a logo for the imagination they became a beacon for new ideas and thought

A windmill is a symbol and symbols are very important to me the windmill is a symbol I will eventually get tattooed on it’s that important to me

I think that it’s important for people to have a symbol like my windmill a symbol that represents there spirit in a away

The windmill isn’t the only symbol I hold too there are others and all of them mean something too me
There’s the star of David because I’m Jewish
There’s the alchemic symbol of phosphorous to give me faith for something brighter
There’s the symbol of Aquarius because I am one
There’s the moon which is a symbol not only of when I’m most active but when I’m most creative

the first crank of the windmill

Hello my names Robert,

And you are reading my blog congrats this is my first post so bear with me

I set up the windmill factory because I have lots of ideas and notions and thoughts bubbling away in my brain and I thought this would be a great way to get rid of a few

I’m in my early 20’s and I find this world to be both terrifying and interesting and in this blog I’m going to share with you my thoughts on ethics, random rants, pomes, pics when I can manage it and anything else I can manage to bring up

I’m going to be talking about my friends and my family but to protect them I’m going to give them super cool nicknames

I’m also going to talk about my personal history and just my general view point

So I really hope you like it

Enjoy