Naked Boss at "American Apparel" -- Nothing on but the radio....
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Posted:Jun 20, 2014 12:39 pm
Last Updated:Jun 28, 2014 7:14 am
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Following the unexpected firing of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney, video of the executive dancing naked in front of what could be two employees has gone viral on the internet.
Charney’s termination came amid turbulent times for the company’s bottom line as well as numerous allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct on the part of the CEO. Although the video was originally posted on a site called Viddme around two months ago, that falls into the roughly the same time period that American Apparel’s board began thinking about pushing the controversial executive out. According to the New York Times, the board started “seriously considering” the idea of firing Charney six weeks ago. In a statement, the company’s board said only that it chose to “terminate his employment as president and CEO for cause.”
As reported by Gawker, which brought the nude video to light on Thursday, a former American Apparel model confirmed it was Charney dancing around, saying, “That is 100% him.” An ex-employee, meanwhile, stated the two women in the video either used to work for the company or are still employed there. “I worked for AA years ago,” the unnamed employee said. “That girl in the video used to be my boss. And the girl he's referring to, Daisy, also used to work with me. I think she still works for the co.”
Charney’s exit may have come as a shock to some, but Ken Nisch of the retail branding firm JGA told USA Today that since American Apparel has been struggling to keep its line of basic clothing in demand, it’s not surprising that the board would become less tolerant of allegations of misconduct. Not only has the company’s stock price plummeted from its peak back in 2007, but last year saw it suffer from $106.3 million in operating losses.
"What they have is a tired concept," Nisch said. "I imagine (the board comes) to the conclusion, saying, 'He's not delivering a plan to move us forward, and we've got all these liabilities around us .. .so why are we putting up with all these liabilities when we're not seeing a clear path to the next chapter?' "
While company performance is one issue, others include the controversy Charney has attracted for using extremely sexual advertisements featuring young women – sometimes employees or even porn stars – with barely any clothing on. In some cases, the ads portrayed women in their underwear with men and posing very suggestively.
The most damaging black marks on his record, though, involve the numerous sexual harassment charges he’s been involved in since the company went public in 2007. As noted by USA Today, a former employee accused him of sexually assaulting her during what was billed as a job interview in 2010. Charney allegedly “violently kissed her” and "forced her to perform various sexual acts." If she resisted, the lawsuit stated he became "more aggressive and violent."
Three other employees were a part of the lawsuit, claiming separately that the CEO forced them to sign documents intended to "keep employees from disclosing unlawful conduct" by the company and to push the women "into an unfair forum."
Allegations of sexual harassment dated back to even before American Apparel went public. According to the New York Times, three ex-workers filed a lawsuit against Charney in 2005, claiming the workplace under him was unsafe and that women were forced to endure sexual misconduct and innuendo. In 2010, after a complaint was filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles four years earlier, the organization found American Apparel discriminated against “women, as a class, on the basis of their female gender, by subjecting them to sexual harassment.”
In nearly all cases, the lawsuits were settled outside of court. The company said one case resulted in a plaintiff winning an "inconsequential amount."
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Porn Problem – Erotic “Trans” Videos – My Observations and Critique
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Posted:Jun 19, 2014 11:57 am
Last Updated:Jun 21, 2014 6:59 pm
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I should have no complaints about the instant availability of 'shemale x videos.' With modest internet access a person can find a number of sex video sites that have x-rated 'trannie' and CD/TV clips. Back in the old days I had a few VHS videos that were more expensive than 'regular' videos. My copy of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” began to get blurry because my partner watched it so much. ( I hated the music.)
So, now I could spend every free hour watching transgender and friends videos if I wanted. ( I get emails from men who say they just about do.) I might see and copy more still pictures of tgirls in one day than all the magazines I had in the past. A visual cornucopia. But I still have complaints.
So many of the movies have intrusive camera work. The whole idea of a trans is a visual illusion – the apperance of a woman were there is no woman. Like magic. But, the camera must step back. The whole 'woman' must be shown. Like a gaggle of strange obsessives the camera operator in video after video after video rush in close to the tgirl with the man and zoom in on genitals. As if to plant a flag, or win a race. These videographers miss the point. When people see Piccasso's painting of a town in Spain being bombed by the fascists they don't look at the teeth of the featured in the work to check it's mouth. What's the visual point of the scene? A person who looks like a chick has a dick. Show the whole chick, not just the prick.
When I look for videos to copy on Youporn in the Shemale category I have to go through ten videos of a Tgirl fucking a man in the behind before I find one of a Tgirl acting like a woman and getting fucked by a man. Why would someone go through all kinds of sugery and treatment and medication to become more 'fem' – to act like a Gay man and fuck a man in the ass? But that seems to be the dominate motiff in trans porm. I guess there is an audience for that. I think it says more about those men's way of dealing with certain sexual acts than it says about any tgirl or transgender flavored person.
There are also lots of videos of trannies fucking women. A pretty blonde pre-op transexual with a pretty blonde woman who looks like her Barbie twin and that they go to the same hair salon. The videos seem like a circus act to amuse a jaded audience that wants an arcane visual thrill. “Now there's something you don't see everyday.”
People can make whatever style movie they want, and I hope they enjoy watching whatever they care to. But...I can't put comments at the bottom of most X-rated videos, and no one would read them anyway. That's not what erotic images are about. A stiff prick is not an Art Critic.
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Posted:Jun 15, 2014 6:49 am
Last Updated:Jun 15, 2014 7:19 am
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Pink hair,
Flying high,
Free at last.....
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Canada grants asylum to US woman sentenced to 30 years for having sex with
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Posted:Jun 13, 2014 2:13 pm
Last Updated:Jun 17, 2014 4:15 am
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A mortgage broker who fled Florida with her family after being criminally convicted in 2008 for having sex with a 16-year-old boy on her 's baseball team has been granted asylum in Canada.
Denise Harvey, 47, won the rare permission to apply for permanent residency because her 30-year sentence was deemed cruel and unusual punishment in violation of international standards, the National Post reports.
It is illegal in Florida for a person older than 24 to have sex with an individual who is 16 or younger, the article says. However, in Canada the age of consent is 16 unless the other person is an adult in a position of authority. Harvey's lawyer declined to comment
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Denmark allows gender change without forced sterilization
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Posted:Jun 13, 2014 1:38 pm
Last Updated:Jun 13, 2014 4:52 pm
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The Danish parliament voted to scrap a law forcing transgender people to undergo sterilization before they are legally allowed to change their gender, making Denmark the first country in Europe to legalize sex reassignments without a clinical diagnosis.
The new law will take effect from September 1 this year and will allow any citizen over the age of 18 to change their gender after six months of ‘reflection’ and without the need for a surgical procedure.
“[The new law] will make life easier and more dignified for the individual, for example, when you are asked for ID in shops,” Interior Minister Margrethe Vestager said on Wednesday.
The Danish law comes after the World Health Organization (WH , along with several of its UN subsidiaries, issued a report last week calling for the elimination of “forced, coercive and other involuntary sterilization,” because “These sterilization requirements run counter to respect for bodily integrity, self-determination and human dignity, and can cause and perpetuate discrimination against transgender and intersex persons.”
Although this is the strongest statement yet from the WHO in support of transgender people, they still classify them as suffering from Gender Dysphoria, or Gender Identity Disorders, which campaigners argue perpetuates discrimination by suggesting that transgender people are suffering from mental illness, which is still a stigma.
The Netherlands also banned forced sterilization for gender reassignment in December 2013, as well as Sweden earlier this year.
Europan LGBTI rights groups have applauded the change.
“Just like in 1989, when Denmark became the first country in the world to introduce a legal concept of same-sex partnership, today Denmark pioneered another significant change in Europe. Instead of keeping the state in charge of a person’s body and life, the parliament recognized that these are rights pertaining to the individual,” Gabi Calleja, co-chair of ILGA-Europe’s Executive Board, told Gay Star News.
In 1992, the European Court of Human Rights recognized that a state’s refusal to allow someone to write their changed gender on their official documents was a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights.
But more than 20 years later many transgender people across the continent are still struggling to get their gender recognized legally, including in countries which champion human rights like France and Belgium.
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Bring your prick to me.....
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Posted:Jun 12, 2014 8:23 pm
Last Updated:Aug 6, 2014 8:03 pm
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Bring your prick to me,
just your prick,
your hard prick,
throbbing,
just come.
Never mind presents,
bottles with bubbles,
never mind.
Reach down, and take it out and come.
Just come.
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I like the thrill of under me -- you. Quite so new.
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Posted:Jun 12, 2014 7:50 pm
Last Updated:Jun 27, 2014 5:56 pm
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I like my body when it is with your body.
It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
I like your body, I like what it does,
I like it’s hows.
I like to feel the spine of your body
and it’s bones,
and the trembling, firm-smoothness
of which I will
again and again and again
kiss.
I like kissing this and that of you.
I like, slowly stroking the,
shocking fuzz of your electric fur,
and what-is-it comes over parting flesh…
And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly
I like
the thrill of under me,
you so quite new.
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Some men are attracted to crossdressers.....
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Posted:Jun 12, 2014 6:26 pm
Last Updated:Jun 27, 2014 5:33 pm
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Many men want to meet crossdressers but lack a basic understanding of the different types of transgender folks. You’ve probably met crossdressers and didn’t even know it. Crossdressers (sometimes written as cross dressers or abbreviated as CD’s) are a largely misunderstood group, yet they make up the largest single sub-group within the larger transgender community.
Many outsiders believe the popular misconception that cross dressing is the pastime of gay men and that the act of cross dressing is perverse. This is absolutely untrue. A Crossdresser usually self identifies as a male and they may or may not be heterosexual. Many crossdressers are married and cross dress to relieve their stress and slip the bonds imposed by the strict definitions of male and female in our society.
Crossdressers usually maintain a separate male life, apart from their crossdressing persona which they allow out to play at times. Crossdressers are usually intelligent, successful and more sensitive than average. Crossdressing is an expression of their feminine side. It is known to greatly relieve stress and tension and may be therapeutic in that regard. Cross dressing is not a mental illness. There may be, however, certain cases where the cross dressing creates difficulties in marriage, employment or other responsibilities.
Unfortunately, many crossdressers do not know how to meet other CD’s or accepting friends. This can lead to a sense of isolation and sometimes self-destructive behaviors such as alcohol or drug abuse. On the positive side, there are many more resources available for crossdressers now.
Many seek to meet other CD’s or admirers online at social sites, message forums, chat rooms and crossdresser dating sites. Some crossdressers date each other and may take turns in the male and female roles. This provides a sense of comfort and safety as they experience life as a female out on a date, or simply out socializing with a gentleman. Others have learned that there are many very nice TV & TS admirers who are more than willing to accompany them on a date. Some of these dates will progress no further but some crossdressers are bisexual or homosexual and find it quite natural to become romantically involved with their date.
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Doms and Subs - "The Ultimate Guide to Kink" definition
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Posted:Jun 12, 2014 5:37 pm
Last Updated:Jun 16, 2014 3:38 pm
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I was curious, so I looked up something from one of the books mentioned - Book Excerpt: "The Ultimate Guide to Kink" by Tristan Taormino -
A Dominant runs the show, exerts control over a submissive, and may direct him or her to complete tasks, behave a certain way, follow rules, or submit to various kinds of SM. A submissive gives up control and surrenders to the Dominant, complies with a Dominant’s wishes, follows orders, and has an investment in pleasing his or her Dominant.
A power exchange of some kind is nearly always present in human relationships. There are people all around us in power exchange relationships who don’t acknowledge the dynamic or call it anything: A husband who gives his wife an allowance but no credit card in her own name. A woman who controls her coworkers, making them eager to please her even though she’s not their boss. That’s right: there are plenty of people wearing collars and others tugging at their leashes, but the gear is invisible and the dynamic unexamined. Kinky people do the opposite: they consciously create and name a power dynamic in order to eroticize it. By making the power exchange explicit, they get to act on it, play with it, and let it drive the erotic interaction. That exchange is what fuels their desire and pleasure. Think about the mistress who forces her slave to be sexually available to her at all times. Or the submissive who strives to please her Dominant, putting his needs above her own.
Service is one kind of D/s dynamic or relationship where the submissive serves the Dominant; the Dominant may direct the submissive to do household chores, provide sexual stimulation, or complete projects. In fact, ordinary activities that most people take for granted—making coffee, drawing a bath, folding laundry—can be imbued with a different meaning and become symbols of submission and service. Service is most often equated with submissives (slaves, boys, girls, etc.), but there are also self-identified service tops, who enjoy doing things to bottoms at the bottom’s request.
D/s roles and relationships are explored throughout the book, most extensively by Laura Antoniou (Chapter 3), Midori (Chapter 13), and Madison Young (Chapter 14).
Some people take on the role of Dominant or submissive expressly for a scene, like top or bottom, and shed that role when the scene ends. For others, being dominant or submissive is not about role playing, but is a much bigger part of their identity and relationships. For example, some Dominants can’t turn their desire to dominate on and off at will, and they describe dominance as very similar to how people define sexual orientation: they are attracted to and interested in submissives, they see the world through their dominant lens, their dominance is a constant in their sexual and BDSM interactions.
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The Fun and Romance of Being A Broad
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Posted:Jun 12, 2014 6:46 am
Last Updated:Jun 12, 2014 6:47 am
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I think that I shall never see - a penis lovely as a tree
They flee from me who did once seek me out
With naked foot upon my bedchamber floor
It was no dream - I lay broad waking.
I have thee not, but I see thee still.
Come, let me clutch thee.
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What’s It Like Being Trans? The Good, the Bad, & the New Way of Thinking
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Posted:Jun 11, 2014 6:43 pm
Last Updated:Jun 11, 2014 7:17 pm
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I saw this and wanted to repost to gain wider readership.
By: Deja Nicole Greenlaw*/
Being trans involves living your life, but with more questions, unusual situations and new thoughts than the average person.
One question people frequently ask is: Why are we trans? Many transwomen will tell you the theory of the trickling hormone wash. You see, female is the default gender for the fetus. We all begin as female fetuses. To make a male fetus, there must be a heavy testosterone wash to masculinize the fetus. However, if there is just a trickle, the theory says that the fetus remains mostly female and the result is a transgender female. This may be an acceptable theory for people who are born female in male bodies, but how does it work for people who are born male in female bodies? I’ve never heard of any medical theory explaining how they came to be. It’s my opinion that we are just simply male spirits born in female bodies or female spirits born in male bodies. I realize that it’s a non-medical reason, but to me it makes the most sense and it covers both genders.
When telling our life stories at an outreach program, many transpeople will tell you how they lost friends, family members and even their jobs when they transitioned to their true gender. The inquisitive person might ask: If everything has gone wrong in our lives, did we ever think of transitioning back to our birth gender? I believe most would say we would not. Why not? The reason I give is because of the wonderful peace that I now feel. I’ve never felt this peace before, and now I do. You might ask me if it is worth it to lose friends, family and a job and I will agree that the cost is very high, but it is worth it to find peace in your being. What is really troubling is the fact that some of your friends, family members and employers cannot or will not share the joy of your peace. You may become excluded from their lives. Yes, even family members may shun you. Some folks might reason that we are selfish for becoming someone who they don’t approve of and as a result of our transition, relationships with family and friends are broken. I question who the selfish one might really be. Is it us for being who we truly are, or them for wanting us to return to being who we were? It’s a stalemate situation and the only thing you as a transperson can really do is wait and hope that someday they’ll change their minds.
We get questions about our genitals. Some transpeople may be happy to tell you all about theirs, but I feel that this is a private matter that is really not up for discussion. When someone does ask me about my genitals, I ask them nicely if they would like to talk about their genitals. That’s usually the end of that conversation.
Another question we get is about whether we like men or women. I will answer that I like men, and folks are fine with that response. However, many transwomen will answer that they like women, leaving the person asking the question puzzled and with more questions. They might ask: “If you like women, then why did you change into a woman? Why didn’t you stay a man?” These folks are obviously trying to relate to the heteronormative model of one man and one woman, and when they hear that transwomen like women they have a hard time understanding that concept. The transwomen then might state that they are lesbians, and the resulting looks are first of puzzlement but then of understanding. It’s a quick learning curve. It may set them back a bit when I say that since I like men, I am straight. At first they may want to call me gay, but then the wheels turn and the reasoning sinks in.
These are just a few examples of how different the life of a transperson may be. The questions and the situations are thought provoking. I’ve often said that transgender thought is a new type of thought. Things that you may have always taken for granted are suddenly in question. It’s a whole new way of looking at things.
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A Defense of Crossdressers
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Posted:Jun 11, 2014 4:27 pm
Last Updated:May 30, 2024 3:52 am
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Lorelei Erisis --- Accepting the Gray Areas Under the Trans Umbrella
Merely hours ago, I returned home from spending the past two days at the True Colors Conference in Connecticut. I was there to represent one of the several organizations with which I work: in this case, the Transcending Boundaries Conference, which will be happening in just a few weeks.
Given the wide variety of attendees at True Colors and the overall focus on youth, I had rather expected to write about some new, particularly cutting edge gender thing, or a fresh take on sexuality and identity. Instead, I find myself, quite unexpectedly inspired to write a few positive words about an oft-maligned and controversial segment of the transgender umbrella: crossdressers. I’m not really sure it’s going to win me a lot of friends, but I honestly believe that a little defense of crossdressers is in order.
If you are a regular reader of this column, you will know that I tend to see the world as a complicated place. I firmly believe we live in a world less as black and white, but rather filled out by gradations of gray. In the world of gender identity and gender presentation crossdressers definitely represent a big old gray area, a wild and wooly frontier of gender.
An admission: crossdressers make me wildly uncomfortable, a feeling I know I share with a good number of other folks. Speaking as a politician and activist, the inclusion of crossdressers under a trans umbrella can be politically inconvenient. They are the fly in the ointment when it comes to arguments for public accommodations.
More than that though, crossdressers often remind transsexuals and other transitioning folks of awkward, confused and painful times in our own transitions. Many of us, particularly those who have transitioned later in life, will have gone through a stage where we did not pass as well as we would have liked to, when perhaps we were not yet comfortable in our own skins, trying to figure out how to dress, move, talk, and be accepted as a woman, playing catch-up on years of missed female socializations. When our opponents talk about men in the women’s room, it is often a picture of a badly dressed crossdresser, or at least the idea of one, that they will put forth, and it definitely is a thorny question. What is the priority when it comes to public accommodations: gender identity or gender presentation? Both?
Frankly, I’m speaking pretty specifically here of male-bodied, male-identified people who choose to present for varying and most often temporary periods of time as female. People who, while their gender presentation might be female, their gender identity remains, at least to some large degree, as male. The reasons they may do this are a great deal more varied than the general public tends to realize. While it is absolutely true that some wear women’s clothing for erotic stimulation or sexual satisfaction, there are a great many more, in my own experience, who present as female in order to express some part of themselves that they may not have the outlet for in other parts of their lives. It can be a way to connect with a softer or more feminine side that is often inaccessible to those who dwell within a still very often hyper-masculinized world. They may live in a world where men are supposed to be tough, strong, dirty, sports-loving and beer-guzzling, a world where they must never, never cry or show tender emotions and which quite frowns upon frilly, pretty things. Cross-dressing for these folks is a way to play with these forbidden expressions of femininity, to explore their own gender and self-identities.
That is the central thesis of this roundabout argument—that exploration of self—because these lines are very rarely as clear as we’d like. This is the gray.
Many of us share these narratives where we tell the world how we’ve always known our gender, how we knew when we were that we were women. Yet, though in many senses that is often true, for many of us it takes a long time and a lot of work to realize the truth of this. It may then take a good deal longer to accept ourselves for who we are. We may flirt with our identity for years, convince ourselves we simply like to play dress up occasionally. While that may remain true for some percentage of folks who identify as crossdressers—which is a perfectly fine and healthy thing—for many of us, it is a stage we go through on our way to acceptance. It is often a very necessary launching point for our journeys of transition.
So, what I ask is this: the next time you find yourself speaking out against our crossdressed cousins, take a moment to consider what it is that truly bothers you, why you feel the need to separate your particular segment of the umbrella away. Try looking inward. There are few things that are capable of making us more uncomfortable than our own reflections, but any one of those folks who identify as a crossdresser today might come out as one of our trans sisters tomorrow.
Slainte!
( from a post on Boston Indymedia - http://FriendFinder-x.com )
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Visual Hierarchy and the Illusion of Being Female
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Posted:Jun 11, 2014 1:41 pm
Last Updated:Jun 21, 2014 5:41 pm
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Visual hierarchy is the order in which the human eye perceives what it sees. This order is created by the visual contrast between forms in a field of perception. Objects with highest contrast to their surroundings are recognized first by the human mind. The term visual hierarchy is used most frequently in the discourse of the visual arts fields, notably so within the field of graphic design
The brain disassociates objects from one another based upon the differences between their physical characteristics. These characteristics fall into four categories: color, size, alignment, and character. The category of color encompasses the hue, saturation, value, and perceived texture of forms. Size describes the surface area of a form. Alignment is the arrangement of forms with respect to their direction, orientation, or pattern. Character is the rectilinearity and curvilinearity of forms. Forms that have differences in these characteristics contrast each other.
Application Visual hierarchy is an important concept in the field of graphic design, a field that specializes in visual organization. Designers attempt to control visual hierarchy to guide the eye to information in a specific order for a specific purpose. One could compare visual hierarchy in graphic design to grammatical structure in writing in terms of the importance of each principle to these fields.
See Also: Perceptual Tendencies - ( music by Shauna Dorothy ) https://vimeo.com/92000555
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