Mar. 22, 2011 at 5:22am with 2 notes
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My final days in Spain, ticking, ticking.  I meditatively observe and absorb, all the mess and pause and pull, the beat of the sun and rising tides, a time like all else, lost, found, released.

Mar. 11, 2011 at 3:25am
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The new iPad just went on sale minutes ago, and I am having a really difficult time controlling myself from clicking the “buy now” button. So, I’m making a list of other things I could buy or pay for rather than getting an iPad. But things that are realistic and equally satisfying (burning money would not be an option)  This list will continue to grow.  Any additions are welcome! What can I do with $800?- Pay for printing photos for my upcoming exhibit.- Save for my Yoga Teacher Training Course this summer- Spending money in Central America- That’s like, a whole month of dining out every night.- Or, I don’t know, 6 months of groceries?- Half of my rent.- Donate to a charity.- Give a dollar each to 800 homeless people.- Buy a new underwater camera.- Throw myself a badass farewell party.- Vacation in April.- Donate to Tsunami victims- Buy an iPad.

The new iPad just went on sale minutes ago, and I am having a really difficult time controlling myself from clicking the “buy now” button.

So, I’m making a list of other things I could buy or pay for rather than getting an iPad. But things that are realistic and equally satisfying (burning money would not be an option)  This list will continue to grow.  Any additions are welcome!

What can I do with $800?
- Pay for printing photos for my upcoming exhibit.
- Save for my Yoga Teacher Training Course this summer
- Spending money in Central America
- That’s like, a whole month of dining out every night.
- Or, I don’t know, 6 months of groceries?
- Half of my rent.
- Donate to a charity.
- Give a dollar each to 800 homeless people.
- Buy a new underwater camera.
- Throw myself a badass farewell party.
- Vacation in April.
- Donate to Tsunami victims


- Buy an iPad.

Feb. 18, 2011 at 2:18am with 110 notes
Reblogged from istillshootfilm
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Fantastic work!

istillshootfilm:

This is a series of photo-collages called “Consumption and Consumerism” that I did for Clam Magazine (the current issue “Experience,” which you can buy at Barnes & Noble if you’re interested). It was part mine and part commission; I had done the first one on my own a few years ago. It uses a black and white film base with a digital collage on top. The collage uses a juxtaposition of contradicting magazine cover headlines to make a statement about body image. The editor of Clam asked me to do several more. The resulting images are about plastic surgery and sex. I also did a fourth about self-tanner, but it didn’t quite go with the rest and therefore didn’t make the cut. These collages are 14 by 22 inches, so you can see all of the detail when enlarged. Thank goodness for the high resolution of film ;)

Jan. 31, 2011 at 1:16am with 2 notes
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If you want to be able to call yourself a progressive and mean it you have to accept it’s hard. You are setting yourself up against the society you belong to. To an extent you’re biting the hand that feeds you. But it is still feeding you.
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The following is a post by Gawker user Marzelline, in response to The Advocate’s recent editorial, “In Defense of the Gay White Male” (via Jezebel)

Full text:

I think the moral is; if you want to be able to call yourself a progressive and mean it you have to accept it’s hard. You are setting yourself up against the society you belong to. To an extent you’re biting the hand that feeds you. But it is still feeding you.

When people call you for the privilleged position which members of your class/race/gender/gender idendity inhabit in a given, they’re not talking about you personally; they’re talking about society generally.

For example, to have white privillege in a racist society does not make you a ‘bad person’; it makes it a bad a system.

You benifit from this system- directly and indirectly in that certain things are less likely to happen to you.
You can (you should! perhaps you do!) make a concious effort to offset some of this or reject the bits it’s in your personal power to reject.
But you can’t opt out of it, any more than a black person could just opt out of racism.

It’s not about a personal good behaviour. We see it in such a weird Calvenist way. It’s not about your personal conversion; your own good deeds. We don’t change the the world simply by changing our hearts. It’s not about our good intentions. It’s about lasting, far-reaching, deep societal change.

And sometimes it’s feels like people are being spiteful when they reject your good intentions.
But consider how little good intentions have done them so far.

I white and from a middle-class background. And panicking about my future I’m going to cling like a liferaft to the advantages I have a result of my background. Yes, I’m a woman and I’m gender non-comforming I guess (I mean, I’m kind of bookish and intense with my short hair and glasses and my dad’s old clothes- but that’s hardly renegade). I’m gay.

But it’s like the curdling I get in my stomach when people tell me they’re tolerant of me (people like me)(what the fuck does that mean?).

I tolerate the mice that appear periodically in my flat- it helps that they don’t give me a choice; but it doesn’t make it their flat.

But if I said this, people would feel upset- because they meant to do right by me.

It’s just they think I tacitly accept that they rightfully have the power over me to be able to make that decision to tolerate me or not.

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Jan. 13, 2011 at 9:07am
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The trailer for every Oscar-bait movie ever.