“You cannot selectively numb emotion. You can’t say, here’s the bad stuff. Here’s vulnerability, here’s grief, here’s shame, here’s fear, here’s disappointment. I don’t want to feel these. You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those… we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle.
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I have been spending the week between Xmas and New Year yet again building a new portfolio website, thanks to the death of Apple's iWeb. As a result, I have spent a considerable amount of time going through my show archival photos. It's been a while since I've done a lighting design. In fact, looking at my calendar, my last serious lighting design was in September. Which is somewhat disconcerting, but also partially my own fault, as I am quite precious with the gigs that I take.
Anyhow, I digress. I was looking through my archives, and was creating the portfolio page for my first ever...
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I’ve known about Guneriussen’s work for a long time, but Daphne did such a great job at posting all of my favourite images of his, that I had to do a reblog.
On that note, I know Tumblr is kind of designed for reblogging, but for some reason I have a real aversion to it. Maybe it’s because I feel the need to blog something sort of new/original, even though most of the stuff I blog is from another source anyway. I don’t know. Weird.
daphnemir:
Rune Guneriussen’s light installations are simple, but beyond beautiful.
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Refractive Monolith by Lee Baker
This is so many kinds of rainbow prettiness. Thanks My Modern Metropolis.
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Pretty Christmas Bokeh Photography.
Apart from my love of tinsel and fairy lights, this post is about as festive as I’m going to get.
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