STEPAN KVARDAKOV 2018

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GENEVIEVE MORTON AND CHOVA

South African-American model Genevieve Morton posing alongside Chova, a massive male elephant known for his impressive size, intelligence, and gentle personality, at the Adventures with Elephants sanctuary near Bela-Bela, in the Limpopo region of South Africa.



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AMATEUR MEAT: SOMEDRUNKBISH

Our next featured guest is really into drinking beer, smoking weed, playing video games, and showing off her boobs. Although, to be fair, there’s no rule saying those activities need to happen in any specific order. I’d even say some of them pair surprisingly well together.

This is SomeDrunkBish. And these are her photos.



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THE EROTICISM OF SEBASTIEN BARRIOL

A self-taught photographer based in the Saint-Étienne region, he discovered photography later in life.
In his early years, he focused mainly on landscape photography and, from time to time, concert photography, drawing much of his inspiration from the work and vision of other artists.

More recently, his work has shifted toward portrait and nude photography, searching for a more human approach and perhaps a more creative form of expression.
Rather than locking himself into a specific photographic style, his approach is simply centered around creating images.



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LEARN HOW TO COOK VOL11

To learn how to cook, just like learning anything else, the first thing you need isn't talent, tools, or experience. The first thing is showing interest.

Because nobody is born knowing how to make an omelet, drive, play guitar, or fix a plug. A lot of times we see someone doing something well and think they have a special gift or some natural ability, but most of the time there's something much simpler behind it: at some point, that person got curious and decided to pay attention.
And cooking has a lot in common with many other things in life. At first, everything feels like chaos. Words you don't understand, timings you don't control, ingredients you don't know, and that constant feeling that you're improvising while praying you don't screw it up.

But interest does something funny: it turns obligation into curiosity. You stop cooking just because you have to. You start wondering why meat comes out more tender, why something changes flavor, why some people do things one way and others do the opposite.
And that's where real learning begins. Because learning usually isn't about memorizing steps. It's about starting to ask questions.

In the end, cooking is basically a string of small tests and small mistakes. A recipe that goes wrong. Something that burns. A badly measured amount. And again. And again. But almost everyone who cooks well today went through a stage where they did absolute crimes in the kitchen.
The difference is that some people stopped trying... and others kept being interested. Because in the end, to learn how to cook —or pretty much anything else— the first thing isn't knowing. The first thing is wanting to know, and maybe these videos will help spark that curiosity.

Nothing would make me happier than one of you discovering that cooking is your great passion thanks to landing on ALRNCN.



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WHAT A FUCKING NIGHT I HAD

There’s something fascinating about dreams: while they’re happening, everything feels completely normal. You can be running away from someone inside a shopping mall that suddenly turns into your old school playground, open a door and end up inside your grandma’s house, talk to someone whose face you can’t even properly see, or try to run while your legs feel like they’re made out of wet clay… and yet your brain never stops to think: “hold on, something here feels off.”
Then you wake up. Open your eyes. Ten seconds pass. And you think: “what the fuck did I just dream?”.

Because dreams are weird as hell. Surreal. Incoherent. Sometimes they feel like they were edited by a drunk guy randomly stitching scenes together with absolutely no narrative logic whatsoever. And yet, there’s actually a pretty interesting explanation behind all of it.





When we fall asleep and enter the REM phase —the stage where dreams become most intense— the brain completely changes the way it works. Some areas related to emotions, images and memories become highly active, while the part responsible for logic and rational thinking slows way down. In other words: your emotional brain goes full power mode while the guy in charge of saying “this makes no sense” is basically on vacation.

That’s why dreams allow you to accept completely absurd situations as if they were perfectly normal. You can be having a serious conversation with your dentist inside a submarine piloted by your old math teacher and never question it for a second.

The brain doesn’t build dreams like a coherent movie. It builds them more like an emotional collage. It links ideas, memories, sensations and people through fast and chaotic associations. Just like a song can instantly take you back to a specific moment in your life, emotions inside dreams can completely transform everything within seconds.
That’s where those sudden scene changes with zero transition come from. You’re in a street. Then on a mountain. Then inside an office. Then underwater. Everything connected more through feelings than actual logic.

Then there’s the whole blurry faces thing. A lot of people dream about someone they “know” without actually seeing their facial features clearly. That happens because the brain often doesn’t bother creating a full hyper-realistic image. It only needs to generate the sensation of recognition. Kind of like when you try remembering someone’s face from memory and know exactly who they are even if you can’t reconstruct every detail.

But probably one of the most universal dream experiences is trying to run and not being able to. Or punching in slow motion. Or moving like your whole body is trapped inside jelly.
And here comes one of the craziest parts of all this: while you’re dreaming, your body is actually almost completely paralyzed. Literally.

During REM sleep, the brain activates a mechanism called muscle atonia, a temporary shutdown that prevents you from physically acting out your dreams. Basically, your body disconnects your muscles so you don’t end up doing parkour across your hallway while dreaming about escaping from a dinosaur.
The problem is that your brain mixes that real physical immobility with the story it’s creating. That’s why when you try escaping inside a dream, it feels like you’re running through concrete or like someone’s holding you from behind.
And the wildest part is that, while you’re inside the dream, you’re rarely aware of how absurd everything actually is. Your mind accepts the chaos as if it were perfectly reasonable. Until you wake up.
And then yeah. That’s when your brain comes back online, looks at the absolute nonsense it created during the night and probably thinks the exact same thing you do: “okay… what kind of insane drug trip was that?”.



But let’s be honest: no matter how weird, chaotic or surreal dreams are, we all know which ones are the best.
Yep. Wet dreams.

Because that’s when the brain completely removes every possible limit and decides to produce something that feels like Hollywood on an unlimited drug budget. And the craziest part is how ridiculously real everything can feel.

The touch. The excitement. The tension. That physical sensation so intense that, while dreaming, your brain convinces you that you’re actually there, inside a nightclub, surrounded by naked bodies, fucking like tomorrow and basic human dignity no longer exist.

And then suddenly it happens. You cum. Literally.

Because the body can physically react to dreams strongly enough to trigger a real orgasm while you’re still asleep. The brain gets so deep inside the fantasy, so disconnected from logic and so wired into arousal, that it turns a completely absurd mental movie into a very real physical response.

And honestly, there may not be a more surreal feeling than waking up in the middle of the night thinking: “holy shit… did I just cum while dreaming about fucking three waitresses on top of the DJ booth?”.
As unbelievable as it sounds… yeah, sometimes the answer is absolutely yes.



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THE EROTICISM OF SERGIO DEL AMO

Sergio del Amo is a Spanish photographer currently based in Bangkok. His life has been connected to the fashion world since he was a kid, considering his father, Luis del Amo, is a well-known photographer, while his mother, Carina Otero, was a highly sought-after model who traveled and worked all around the world throughout the 80s and early 90s.

Sergio spent his childhood between Madrid and London before eventually deciding to move to Asia.



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- George, son, stand over there for a photo. More to the left. Left, left, left. Perfect.

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