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Work and Play: Caves and Monkeys
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Friday, February 5, 2010. By the profound and sublime experience of sitting on a rock bed in a cell carved by monks three thousand years ago. I lay down on the cools rock in the dark recess and thought, “Somebody slept here two thousand years ago”. What a gift it would be to bring him here and share this. Lining the courtyard, past a couple of worshipers decorating a shrine at the entrance with marigold petals and a coconut the man cracked open with a vigorous slam on the edge of a step. This comment has...
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Work and Play: January 2010
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Sunday, January 31, 2010. I was talking with a friend about jetlag. It reminds me of how extreme this world is and how quickly we can shift our own states of being. I don't mind it. I mind shoes, and stories of travelers returning ill and the desire to return home safely to my family. Jetlag is far from on my mind. Re-mind. Minding. A very busy mind right now. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). VCU Honors Documentary Class. Http:/ www.mediathatmattersfest.org. View my complete profile.
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Work and Play: February 2009
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Saturday, February 28, 2009. Reflections from the Gondola. Thought and the disequilibrium brought on by new ideas and familiar ideas made unfamiliar. Are given time and importance. In the presence of these values deeper understandings develop. The first image is of the gondolier taping a video of Barbara and me, Barbara photographing the gondolier, me documenting the both of them. I learned about reflection today. This is just the beginning. Tomorrow the project continues. Links to this post. Http:/ desi...
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Work and Play: August 2008
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008. On or About Photography. I'm assembling readings for a Sophomore class titled IMAGING. I'm treating it like a Photography class. I am drawn back to, and repelled by, the discredited eponymous discourse on photography by Susan Sontag. One critic suggests it might be better titled “Against Photography” ( Sorensen, Sue, “Against Photography”, in Afterimage , Vol. 31, Issue 6. Can that be allowed? To what are we responding? Is there a dialogue? Can this be a dialogue? The Conciliati...
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Work and Play: preparing for travel
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Sunday, January 31, 2010. I was talking with a friend about jetlag. It reminds me of how extreme this world is and how quickly we can shift our own states of being. I don't mind it. I mind shoes, and stories of travelers returning ill and the desire to return home safely to my family. Jetlag is far from on my mind. Re-mind. Minding. A very busy mind right now. Jetlag) lavender, lavender, lavender (and balancing). Happy (shoeless)travelling (and breathing). February 1, 2010 at 5:12 PM.
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Work and Play: July 2013
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Thursday, July 25, 2013. How many projects can I take on at one time? If you've found your way to this, welcome. One more project to visit is the work-in-progress documentary on older women marathoners. Maybe older than you? Or maybe younger. The point is, women in middle age who run marathons and are redefining what aging means or, more specifically, how women in developed countries given a baseline of health and well-being are aging. http:/ vimeo.com/67559777. Links to this post.
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Work and Play: September 2009
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Friday, September 11, 2009. Sharks and sea birds. As I write, I can clearly hear the roar of the NASCAR trials for the Richmond Raceway, at least five miles away as the crow flies: across the river, over the highway, through many neighborhoods. We're heading out of town to the Rockbridge Appalachian old time music festival. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). VCU Honors Documentary Class. Http:/ www.mediathatmattersfest.org. Http:/ www.alaindebotton.com/travel.asp. Sharks and sea birds.
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Work and Play: April 2010
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Friday, April 9, 2010. Oh you haven't seen it? Was the train heated? Was I beginning to come unglued? A dozen years ago? Nobody knew where I was. Nobody knew where I belonged. What if something were to suddenly happen? It does to me. It's a werid case of jet lag. I'll go back to Alain Botton's Art of Travel. What a comfort to me today. Links to this post. Can we make that happen? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). VCU Honors Documentary Class. Http:/ www.mediathatmattersfest.org.
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Work and Play: Out of Mumbai Part 1
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Friday, February 19, 2010. Out of Mumbai Part 1. I begin by collecting the images with my camera, then later I write - - trying to from a narrative of the images. They’re up on my flickr site (http:/ www.flickr.com/photos/laurachessin/sets/72157623389649004/). The following is part one of a post about one day’s adventure. Even this has been heavily edited. Now that we’d covered some distance on our bikes, I was more eager to stop and explore. “What’s that? I’m not sure I read it correctly: was that...