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11:55

Art and Photojournalism: Discerning Differences

Le Lapin ·

2022/05/01

Photojournalism and art have historically remained separate entities. Photography gained acceptance as an art form during the 1940’s (Corydon Ireland). Meanwhile, the art world has pictured itself as a separate entity from photographic art, and unto Arthur Danto’s views, a realm made into its own ends. On the other axis, photographic art can seek distinction from the rest of the art world as well. Art posturing aside, the differences defined within fields of observation: on the one end, a visual

26:19

Finding the way

Le Lapin ·

2022/04/21

Navigating life today was supposed to become easier with technology. Yet finding the way really isn’t always easy. Generalised life advice without a clear context and knowledge of situations might suggest something like: simply go from point A to point B, or just shift your internal energy then everything around you will just change, or if any challenges are arising, everything in your life is up to you to do something about. The use of everything in those notions is one of the more extreme forms of

5:55

Density zones

Le Lapin ·

2022/02/26

Sitting with it. Standing with it. Such phrases refer to a thingliness of being. Then there’s the figuring it out. So if a figure must be sorted out, then did it come from within? “Hey girlie, you think too much,” is a phrase I’ve heard more times than …would you expect to read or hear hands or toes to count on? or having more bills or dimes for each time someone said? Even the process of writing itself has become unwittingly predictable, even tragic news has a stale stench of half-molded bread. A

10:32

Trust and the internet

Le Lapin ·

2022/02/16

Time and date stamping has been a useful tool in detailing records for archives. The publishing process used to be arduous with duration and length, edited by a notion of a singular origin. Authors, artists, musicians are always working on constellations amongst groups-and this complex networking simplistically ascribed as a cooperation amongst psyches. Are the narratives measurable through the results of motives? How much can dates matter when the calendars of the Gregorian cycle are so different

7:18

The sun is a painter

Le Lapin ·

2022/02/07

Testing…testing…hello? nervous system? wowza! There are some things in life that last a long time and don’t stay a long time, and then there are some things that don’t last very long, yet remain with you a very long time. The burning pain of swollen red nuggets at the end of scorched, fire-building palms paled in comparison to the first time the word awesome really met its sensory match. Sure, I was just out to get some extra toilet paper, an everyday errand, and this turned into a quick tur (short

6:33

The splendor of walking

Le Lapin ·

2022/02/01

Being, the act of doing nothing, is horrifying. Thankfully there is walking. Walking is a splendid act of faith. The bare practice of walking illuminates the visceral tones of action and movement-the basis of the unknowable, which is experienced through being in a body. Placing a foot on a surface presumably stable enough to launch forward from, to transfer the privilege of the support of the body from one side to the other, in a continual back and forth act, walking becomes a simultaneous

10:35

A sense of control

Le Lapin ·

2022/01/17

Another cookie with a disclaimer: this is not intended nor should be used as medical advice. This essay was originally drafted in 2015. How many years does it take to work up the nerve to openly share a curiosity? Turns out quite a many. Disclaimery done, onward, or as one of my favourite friends says “anygo”: Birth control pills were supposed to equate to female empowerment and better life outcomes. The little dab of supposedly inconsequential hormone protected women from some consequences of

2:43

Twilight sheets

Le Lapin ·

2021/12/21

Keeping the flowers alive a little longer, my mom always used worn bed sheets to protect the plants around the house from frost. I sometimes felt the weight of the cotton would break the stems, but instead they knew how to bow to accommodate the weight of protection. Dappled in twilight dew, the sheets I had seen for decades gave me pause. Because I've had this impulse to hug what I see, and like the urge to cut a rose brings about the plants imminent death, I refrain. In pause, hanging in limbo,

3:00

Who are you

Le Lapin ·

2021/12/15

If I was glitter, I’d be made of matte paperIf I was the her, you thought you dreamed, beforeWhat I can’t, and I won’tCause I ain’t - All you seeI never know which way to answerWhen they ask of meWho are you? Where you going? I wonder who are thee? For thirty years or soI’ve walked aroundPretending to knowBut everythings’ been kinda strangeOr at least we’re all Now on the same pageOne things’ for sureI used to that cut paper, Sing, dance, and hear what those trees whisper’dWhile wondering, what’s

6:55

Omniscient

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2021/12/08

Making Sense, is something humans are kinaesthetically made to do. So when it comes to the ways those senses work, how much trial and error is required to establish relationships between subjectivity and objectivity? As a thought experiment, how to establish intelligence? How does rationality and irrationality draw lines of tolerance and intolerance? These are the kind of questions I dove into during the independent studies Annetta Kapon mentored me through while completing a master in art. What

12:12

Structural tension

Le Lapin ·

2021/12/01

But I didn’t go blind; so why write about it? For one, to squelch the rhetorical rubbish of having to tell this story over and over. Next time it happens to pop up, I can get over the hiccup in conversation and send a link to right here. Further, the experience blew apart and confirmed the cliché about appreciating something before its’ gone. While I seriously doubt publishing the experience will do wonders for me, my hope is it may help someone else in ways I could never know. Quite frequently, I

5:30

Pain and paying attention

Le Lapin ·

2021/11/23

Pain. Probably not the most favoured of topics. A sensation often sought to be avoided. Yet at some time, pain invades or strikes your body. The key I’d like to convey today is in developing a relationship with pain. Not as a way to attach and identify with the pain, but to process the signal as an invitation to come to know something about your body or yourself, that you hadn’t before.As new life emerges into existence, pain sensations are often part of that process. The realities pain has revealed

3:01

Itchy celery

Le Lapin ·

2021/11/18

Celery makes my mouth itch. Particularly after I have eaten something sweet. Could there be some kind of science to justify my experience?Everyday I find someone has published some kind of study, that conflicts with the knowledge we thought we owned yesterday. This discovery seems to be infused of an energy akin to that of rushing metal filaments squealing toward magnets. Perhaps the lines between the metallisation, the word, and physicality of celery are in play here. Just as my friend John said

3:31

Strength and courage

Le Lapin ·

2021/11/10

If you do not feel strong and courageous on your path, look within and around. Are you treating yourself and those around you with care and compassion? Are you being treated by those around you with care and compassion? Are people shouting? Are you succumbing to fears and doubts? Love has been marketed and mythologized as an elusive ghost that has to grace one’s life. Yet other cultural perspectives would see any aspect of reality within the realm of choice. The choice to love may not appear or seem

9:47

Jungle vision

Le Lapin ·

2021/11/02

Senses rely on developing, maintaining, and adapting levels of receptivity and perceptibility. The senses and our reliance on trusting them have long been under a subtle subversion module of trusting external agents. These agents could be clergy, gurus, institutions, laws, or Apple watches. These modules of social policy are not inherently corruption making methods, but continually lead attention toward specific modes of accepted intellectual and sensory development. There is a belief certain

1:22

A Tower Without Lights

Le Lapin ·

2021/10/29

social media makes personal universeswith walls permitting those who agreeto graffiti, erasing those who differan echo chamber of personal sovereigntyprivilege became an assault wordjoy became something to hidesomeone so over communingserving a discourse in fiery mindsa way of saying this way not thatno because I know betterwondering how communion breaks downthe gaze, the look, assumed empty embracesdiscourse tracks adjacent opposed to communicationa train wreck destined to happenthe path clear from

2:18

Relating through looking

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2021/10/13

Training bras are a soft way to introduce women to the world of having their bodies examined in public. The funny part about that any man walking around without a cup on will also have his parts examined in public. The less funny parts about these actual parts of being human grew to an offensible posture. Susan Sontag made evil out of the male gaze. It is not that her work was without merit; for many bodies benefited from being able to speak up for how they feel objectified but body language and

1:47

Kitty kat blues

Le Lapin ·

2021/10/06

Mirror neurons, empathy, simpatico, compassion. All of these phenomena and perceptions of being human has suddenly been recognized by The Science as real. Somehow we have arrived at the moment in time where our experience of life must be reconfirmed and validated through an expert panel. This is not to demean the objective the Nobel Prize for Physiology offered this week to two scientists, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, but rather the headlines and articles themselves. The objective is made to

0:44

A bad truth

Le Lapin ·

2021/09/29

First-off, one of my Italian friends told me that title: a bad truth is better than a good lie. Secondly, always site your sources is a guide, or code-of-conduct that scares some folks. The question I often wonder is: why? So let’s hang out with a foray into language for a few minutes today. Letting go of the emotional trigger valve the words “truth” and “lie” have in service of looking at a balloon expelling air while puttering around the room to land in a heap. A balloon absent of hot air looks

35:00

The past is present

Le Lapin ·

2021/09/21

Some cookies ago (if you’re new here, cookie is the lingo for newsletter), there was mention of The Cookie Jar’s roots. Not to get all anthropogenically obsessed, but instead to tie (or untie) a knot and cast off. Since this cookie is geared to think about the ways the past remains in the present, the audio includes a pretty concise taste of the sort of observations you’ll find here. There are a few social behaviours I’ve noticed lately; an aversion to vocabulary, a contortion of vocabulary usage,

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