The Eclectic Musings of Artist Tyler Stone

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Concerning Intellectual Property, Licensing and Copyright Infringement:

All artwork, photography, poetry or writings of any kind viewed herein or on any of my Studio pages or Portfolio pages, CBC, Online/Print/Publications or otherwise, are subject to Copyright. If you don't know anything about Licensing or Acquisition Agreements for example, then I suggest you not remove any of my work, or the work of others from any of the sites hyper-linked to within this Journal, as you first require consent, and second if you do not receive consent from the Copyright holder - this person being me, Tyler Stone.

*Including printing it off and hanging it on your wall!

Is considered Copyright Infringement and Intellectual Property Theft, and is a SERIOUS crime.

Art theft.

Learn to respect this, or you will be sued.

Just a heads up.

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* Credited Assistant Editor on "Memory Making: Selected Essays" by notable Canadian poet & essayist Rosemary Sullivan (Black Moss Press, 2002). Available at Chapters stores across Canada or online at Chapters.ca

Film Festival Premiers/Awards:

Nocturne (2005)

-'Shadows of the Mind' International Film Festival 2006. (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada).
-Screened: 'Galaxy Cinemas' (February 25, 2006).
*Awarded: *Honorable Mention (4th Place) AIFA/Open Category.

Lost (2003)

-Official Selection of the Opening Program of The University of Windsor's International Film Festival, 'Antistatic' (2003). (Windsor, Ontario, Canada).
*Featured CBC/Zed Site Content (Film & Video Category - Dec. 2004).

Photography Sold/Featured/Published/Televised/Awarded:

No More Fuel to Burn (2005)
*'The Harpweaver', Volume 12, (2005). *Cover Photograph
*The 'Brinkman Award for Photography' on behalf
of Brock University & Harpweaver Magazine (2005).
- Awarded on behalf of Brock University & Harpweaver Magazine (2005).
- Presented at Brock University's Arts Awards Gala, 2005.
*Featured CBC/Zed Site Content (Visual Art Category - July, 2005).
*Featured Site Content: Terminus1525.ca (January, 2006).
Mourning Rain (2004)
*'The Harpweaver' - Volume 14, 2006.
*'PRECIPICe' - Volume 14, 2006.
*'The Harpweaver' - Volume 13, 2005.
*'PRECIPICe' - Volume 13, 2005.
*'Poetry Canada' - Winter, 2005.
Crystalline (2004)
**Televised nationally across Canada on CBC's (The Canadian Broadcast Corporation)
'ZeD: Real' on April 4, 2006.
Ontario Gothic (2006)
**Televised nationally across Canada on CBC's (The Canadian Broadcast Corporation)
'ZeD: Real' on April 4, 2006.
Leaning Into the Sun (2004)
*Awarded 'The Best of Flickr' Distinction
*Awarded 'Best of the Best' - Professional Members
*Excellence in Sepia and Toned Photography Award
The Burden of Rain (2004)
*Awarded 'Best of the Best' - Professional Members
*Awarded 'Top-V Administrative Admiration'
-'FlickrSoup for the Soul' Feature: May, 2006 - See 'Burden Bearing'
Current Reflections (2004)
Flight of Words (2004)
As the Sky Slowly Darkened (2005)
*Awarded 'Best of the Best' - Professional Members
*Honorable Mention - Top 20 Cloud Photographs
Dark Cloud (Over Me) (2006)
Take a Bow (2007)
*Awarded 'Top-V Administrative Admiration'
Forbes Fading (2007)
*Awarded 'The Best of Flickr' Distinction
*Awarded 'Superb Masterpiece' Distinction
“Awarded the 'Beyond Excellence Special Seal Award'
for 'Most Nominated Photograph' of 'Beyond Excellence'
*Appointed to the 'Gallery of Fame' of 'Beyond Excellence'
*Granted Honorable Mention - 'Top 20 Landscape Photographs'
Autumn Iridescence (2007)
*Awarded the 'Outstanding Nature Watcher Award' on behalf of Flickr.com

Poetry Published:

Found - Poetry Canada, Winter, 2005.
Song of Self - Writers Undercover X, 2004.
Sitting at Home - Generations, 2001.
The Sea Outlines - Revised (2005), "Propaganda" (Vol. 6).
Some Final Words - *Featured CBC/Zed Site Content
- Word Category (July, 2005)
- Performance Category (December, 2005).

Publications next year, as I am seriously ill. Perhaps I'll take up painting again, that is, when the writer is at bay - which is not often, and even often is never enough.

*Last updated March 15, 2008.*

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This entry is more for me to log and update my work as addressed above. Feel free to browse, as all my work I've decided, will be linked below to their independant nodes on 'Flickr' and poetry and other writings linked to 'ZeD'. Really a record for portfolio purposes, just in case one of the 'programs' was to change or was eventually abandoned (ie: the eventual demise of ZeD perhaps).

I've decided to showcase/publish my 10 most highly-rated pieces on CBC's 'ZeD' out of 27 that you will find on my Portfolio page on 'ZeD'.

Feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me about any of the work seen herein, as well as if you are interested in any purchasing inquires, acquisitions, publication etc. (As a reminder, all of the photography, writing, artwork, multimedia, and/or video content, any other material created and/or published in print or on the web, are all held under strict copyright © Tyler Stone unless permissions granted from the copyright holder).

CBC Broadcasting (CBC Television, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Program: ZeD
Site: http://zed.cbc.ca/go?c=splash

ZeD Gallery
URL to Profile: http://zed.cbc.ca/go?user_id=45272&c=contentPage

Mourning Rain (2004).
Ranked: #8 out of 16,638 in the 'Visual Arts' Category.
Ranked: #6 out of 7,207 other pieces in 'Photography' Category.
Views: 1946

little bird (2004).
Ranked: #34 out of 16,638 in the 'Visual Arts' Category.
Ranked: #12 out of 7,207 other pieces in 'Photography' Category.
Views: 640

No More Fuel to Burn (2005).
Ranked: #39 out of 16,638 in the 'Visual Arts' Category.
Ranked: #13 out of 7,207 other pieces in the 'Photography' Category.
Featured Site Content: Photography- CBC 'Zed' Homepage (July, 2005).
Views: 634

Adolescent Gothic
Ranked: #28 out of 5,063 other pieces of writing in the 'Word' Category.
Ranked: #14 out of 2,968 other pieces of poetry in the 'Poetry' Category.
Views: 598

Please Mother
Ranked: #54 out of 5,063 other pieces of writing in the 'Word' Category.
Ranked: #33 out of 2,968 other pieces of poetry in the 'Poetry' Category.
Views: 391

An Invitation (2004).
Ranked: #75 out of 16,638 in the 'Visual Arts' Category.
Ranked: #26 out of 7,207 other pieces in the 'Photography' Category.
Views: 467

Crystalline (2004).
** Televised nationally across Canada on CBC's 'ZeD: Real' on April 4, 2006.
Ranked: #134 out of 16,638 in the 'Visual Arts' Category.
Ranked: #49 out of 7,207 other pieces in the 'Photography' Category.
Views: 535

Flight of Words (2004).
Ranked: #282 out of 16,638 in the 'Visual Arts' Category.
Ranked: #108 out of 7,207 other pieces in the 'Photography' Category.
Views: 335

In Transit
Ranked: # 137 out of 5,063 other pieces of writing in the 'Word' Category.
Ranked: #86 out of 2,968 other pieces of poetry in the 'Poetry' Category.
Views: 328

Copper Sky, Silver Wind (2005).
Ranked: #115 out of 7,207 other pieces in the 'Photography' Catagory.
Views: 190

*This page will be update periodically for portfolio purposes as mentioned.

May the Muses be with You All.

*Last updated: October 25, 2007.

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Member since: Jan 3, 2006.

This entry is more for me to log and update my work as addressed above. Really a record for portfolio purposes, just in case one of the 'programs' was to change or was eventually abandoned (ie: a sudden demise of Terminus1525 - It happened once before).

I've decided to showcase/publish ONLY 10 of my most highly-rated pieces according to Terminus1525.ca out of 49 pieces on my corresponding Gallery.

Feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me about any of the work seen herein, as well as if you are interested in any purchasing inquires, acquisitions, publication etc. (As a reminder, all of the photography, writing, artwork, multimedia, and/or video content, any other material created and/or published in print or on the web, are all held under strict copyright © Tyler Stone unless permissions granted from the copyright holder).

Terminus1525.ca
*(In association with the Department of Canadian Heritage in partnership with the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Arts Centre)

Homepage: http://www.terminus1525.ca
URL: http://www.terminus1525.ca/studio/view/2677

No More Fuel to Burn (2005)

Publications:
Cover Photo - 'The Harpweaver' - Volume 12, 2005.
Featured Site Content: Photography- CBC 'Zed' Homepage (July, 2005).
Featured Site Content: 'Terminus1525.ca' Homepage (January/February, 2006).

Awards:
Winner of the 2004/2005 "Brinkman Award for Photography"
- Awarded on behalf of Brock University & Harpweaver Magazine, 2005.
- Presented at Brock University's Arts Awards Gala, 2005.
(Awarded to the Artist whose photograph submitted
to Harpweaver magazine is considered to be the most
exceptional of all chosen for publication)
Views: 1489

Mourning Rain (2004)

Publications:

"The Harpweaver" - Volume 13, 2006.
"Poetry Canada" - Winter, 2005,
Views: 838

The Burden of Rain (2005)
Views: 643

The Scarecrow Iniquitous (2006)
Views: 546

Leaning into the Sun (2004)
Views: 490

Barbed Wire Winter (2005)
Views: 483

Crystalline (2004)

Publications:

*Televised nationally across Canada on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Program: 'Zed:Real'
Date of Airing: April 4, 2006
Views: 477

Sunset on Lake Stewart (2005)
Views: 467

Out of Service (2006)

Flight of Words (2004)
Views: 433



* This page will be update periodically for portfolio purposes as mentioned.

Thank-you again to my beautiful and talented Model 'Amber' for another successive Studio shoot; adding today to the ever-growing number of photographs of her while she posed, and danced gracefully to the snap of my shutter.

That's quite a few sold prints now.

Susan, I hope you enjoy them as much I loved working on them! From the 35mm Darkroom to the final print. Let me know if there are any remaining negatives you would have me photo finish and develop for you.

Take a Bow
© Tyler Stone (2007)

Printed on Lumijet Studio Fibre Matte and Satin.

May the Muses be With You All.

Tyler Stone

Since enrolling in 35mm 'Black and White' Photography as part of the practical part of my Degree, I've learned an incredible amount of knowledge, now taking me to the next level.

Next step: Building a 'Dark Room' and buying a light-safe 'Film-loading Bag' to eliminate the need for a film loading room for unexposed, and undeveloped negatives. Enlarger's don't seem to be too expensive either, as well as the photo chemistry. All of this has been keeping me very busy, and I couldn't be happier in my creative element.

The only venue I haven't broken into yet is a gallery show. I see the possibility of attaining that dream as more of a reality now, as most people are not even aware Galleries will not except anything less then 'fibre-based' prints.

Below is an excerpted scan from the original print based in a series I photographed not a month ago.


© Tyler Stone (2006)


Film: Silver Tone 400
Exposure Time: 1 min. 11 sec.
Aperture of Enlarging Lens: ƒ22
Contrast Filter: #3

*Photograph taken with full, written permissions.

Thank-you again A. - My extraordinary ballerina for the series.

More to come.

Again, an honour to be printed in The University of Brock's Scholarly Literary Magazine "The Harpweaver" for a reprint of 'Mourning Rain'. That brings up the tally to publication in Volume 12, 13, and 14 beginning in Autumn 2005.

It brings a smile to my face knowing that I'm slowly accomplishing my dreams, and that it was always really in me to do so.

For anyone who has not seen 'Mourning Rain' via CBC/ZeD or Flickr, I present:


© Tyler Stone (2005)

Thank-you again to Caroline Whitfield, the Chief Editor of 'The Harpweaver' for the encourgement, and the future interest in publishing any work which I may submit to the magazine.

Unfortunatly, ZeD has come to an end. Cancelled, even as the 'Web Gallery' will remain at least. I'm both relieved and happy that I was able to be a part of the best artistic community ever formed through the main-stream media in Canada; having 2 of my photographs televised nationally this past April.

Tis a sad, sad day.



Below is the press release dated May 5, 2006 from the 'Toronto Star' newspaper: thestar.blogs.com/azerb/2006/05/end_of_the_line.html

End of the Line

CBC-TV has killed Zed, the revolutionary, late-night award-winning show out of Vancouver. No replacement show has been announced but I am betting we'll see something recycled into the slot, something like CBC Newsworld's The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. Cool but ...

Six jobs have been lost. Sad. But not the real tragedy. That's because Zed represented things public broadcasting should be about: non-commercial innovation and experimentation, interaction with the audience and contributions from young filmmakers. (''Home to over 50,000 creative uploads from viewers!'')

No commercial network would -- or need -- to take the risks that CBC is subsidized to take.

According to a news release from the Canadian Media Guild, which represents most CBC workers

"This is another blow to the concept of public television," says Lise Lareau, national president of the CMG. "In its quest for high ratings and commercial success, CBC management is abandoning the things that make public television special, like its ability to take risks, chart new courses for TV and other media, and reach audiences who are not well served on the rest of the 500-channel dial."

CBC management is diverting as much money as it can from its inside operations to buy more "high-impact" programming from private producers. The cancellation of ZeD TV follows the announcement that CBC's television design department would be closed this summer after 53 years of quality service to the industry. It also comes a year after CBC outsourced the English-language communications function to a private company based in Toronto on the pretext of using any savings to buy more outside programming.

Two questions.

(1) If Zed will not be replaced by a show from the so-called regions, will it put CBC in violation of its licence which requires the broadcaster to source a certain percentage of its programs from outside Toronto and Montreal?

And, more important ...

(2) If CBC is being slowly privatized, why are we paying a billion a year for it?

Again, from the CMG:

CBC TV vice president Richard Stursberg described his network strategy in the recent issue of Playback: "While CBC is a Crown corporation and therefore not operating for profit, our programming still must reach Canadians in large numbers to be viable creatively and financially. It makes no sense for us to commit hundreds of thousands of dollars in licence fees and promotional expenditures on programs that are not appealing to significant numbers of Canadians."

The Canadian Media Guild is deeply concerned about the commercial direction that the English TV network is taking. "If CBC TV looks ever more like the privates, how can it be defended as something of public value that is worthy of government support? This is a dangerous strategy that doesn't serve the long-term interests of public broadcasting or the Canadian people," Lareau says.

Other things Stursberg said in Playback:

CBC is committed to boosting primetime drama and entertainment programming by 100 hours a year by the 2008/09 broadcast season. This means more Canadian drama series, more Canadian comedy, more Canadian movies and miniseries - and a greater sharing of Canadian stories and experiences - than what Canadian private broadcasters could possibly offer. It's an enormous challenge, but it's one that CBC was made for.

Great. But where will the money come from? Not government. So ... ?

More commercials?

Some public broadcaster.

Posted on May 05, 2006

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Now that the ideal weather for outdoor photography is now here, I'll be spending much more time outdoors and in other appointments. Plain busy.

Not much to talk about that hasn't flooded all forms of mainstream and/or underground Media.

Except for BabyFirstTV, who should be ashamed of themselves for finding another 'marketing niche' in enfants under the age of 2. What is going on people!?

Furthermore, A 2003 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation revealed that 68 per cent of children under two watch TV or videos daily and 26 per cent have a TV in their bedroom!?

Does anyone else see a problem with this picture?! If your a parent, snap out of it.

Consult the FULL CBC Report for the complete transcript.

May the Muses be with you All.

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Another photograph, The Burden of Rain was recognised today as being one of the very best on Flickr, for the week of 05-07-06 to 05-14-06 given the 'Administrative Admiration' tag and was further blogged on various other internet blogging sites. You can access these directly from the link to the photograph, or below.

Showcased on 'FlickrSoup for the Soul: A Big Bowl of Important Things in Life - Love, Connection and Gratitude.' for the date of Saturday, May 20, 2006 by L8O on Blogger.com

*Note: Only 1 piece is selected a day.

As of today, I share this distinction with 455 other photos on Flickr.com

Following the outlined week mentioned above, you may find the piece blogged in the Top-V Archives on Blogger.com.

My deepest gratitude and love goes out to all those who support me. Thank you most sincerely.

May the Muses be With You All.

Tyler Stone

Sisyphus and Sunflowers

A friend long ago, would always say that she “felt like a flower in a snowstorm”. On occasion I would ask her what type of flower she would like to be, if she had the choice, and she would always interject by stating that: “it didn’t matter what flower she was because it would wilt and eventually die anyways”.

I’m always reminded of Sisyphus, but first, I tell my friend that if I had the choice, I’d without a doubt be a Sunflower. “Why a Sunflower? If anything?” while looking speculatively, doubtfully at me. I tell her that in bloom, the magnificent yellow petals would draw away attention from the dense flakes of snow; it’s thick, robust stalk making it snug in the earth with a good foundation. Sisyphus is trying of pills, but is also about the journey and how it makes you strong, your not weak, you’re alive. You’ve fought and you’re winning.

© Tyler Stone

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"You can't fight City Hall.
Death and taxes, don't talk about politics or religion!
This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda rolling across the picket line-
Lay-down G.I.!
Lay-down G.I.!
We saw it all through the 20th century and now in the 21st century-
It's time to STAND UP and realize
That we should not allow ourselves to be CRAMMED into this 'Rat Maze'!
We SHOULD NOT SUBMIT to DEHUMANIZATION!

I don't know about you
but I'm concerned
with what's happening in this world.

I'm concerned with the STRUCTURE!
I'm concerned with the SYSTEMS OF CONTROL!
Those that control MY LIFE and THOSE WHO SEEK TO CONTROL IT EVEN MORE!

I WANT FREEDOM!
THAT'S WHAT I WANT!
AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SHOULD WANT!

It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose
just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy...
and yes the insecurities, because that is the simple 'mode' of control
that makes us feel pathetic... small...
So we'll willingly give up
Our Sovereignty, Our Liberty, Our Destiny.

We've got to realize that WE are being CONDITIONED ON A MASS-SCALE!
Start CHALLENGING THIS CORPORATE SLAVE-STATE!

The 21st Century is gonna be a new Century!
NOT the CENTURY OF SLAVERY
NOT THE CENTURY OF LIES
NOT THE CENTURY OF ISSUES WITH NO SIGNIFICANCE
OF CLASSISM AND STATEISM AND ALL THE REST
OF THE MODES OF CONTROL!

It's going to be the AGE OF HUMANKIND STANDING UP
FOR SOMETHING PURE AND SOMETHING RIGHT!

WHAT A BUNCH OF GARBAGE: LIBERAL, DEMOCRAT, CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN...

It's ALL THERE to CONTROL YOU
2 SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
2 MANAGEMENT TEAMS
BIDDING FOR CONTROL
FOR THE C.E.O. JOB OF 'SLAVERY INCORPORATED'!

The TRUTH is THERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!
BUT THEY LAY OUT THIS 'BUFFET OF LIES'
I'M SICK OF IT! AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT!

DO YOU GOT ME!?

RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE
WE'RE GONNA WIN THIS THING
HUMANKIND IS TOO GOOD
WERE NOT A BUNCH OF UNDER-ACHIEVERS
WERE GONNA STAND UP AND WERE GONNA BE HUMAN BEINGS!
WERE GONNA GET FIRED UP ABOUT THE REAL THINGS-
THE THINGS THAT MATTER
CREATIVITY AND THE DYNAMIC HUMAN SPIRIT
that REFUSES to SUBMIT.

WELL THAT'S IT!
THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT TO SAY.

IT'S IN YOUR COURT."

- Excerpted from the film 'Waking Life' (2001)
[Direct link to the I.M.D.B.]

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As of April 6, I am now a 'Pro' user on 'Flickr'. What does this mean?

More 'Sets', Qoop Photobooks for my 'hard copy' Portfolio and more. However, I am primarily adding this information as a reminder to myself, as well as to provide an easy to remember link to my Photographs, aside from the CBC or Terminus1525.ca Domains.

Please feel free to browse, comment or e-mail me if you so desire. Here is the new domain address:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tylerstone/

*Any previous links are still active.

Bookmark it, check back often as I'll be doing MUCH photographic work in the next 4 months.

May the Muses be with You All.

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I was overjoyed (being the second-last show of the season) to have CBC choose both Crystalline and Ontario Gothic to appear on the highly-competitive April 4, 2006 national telecast of 'Zed: Real' last night via a segment entitled FlickrMoments 12.2!

You may also view the segment that includes both photographs via the 'Zed: Real' Homepage. In addition, here's a capture of the credit list following the segment:



I'm very, very pleased! Please feel free to comment, or visit the now online version of the episode.

May the Muses be with you All.

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'The Harpweaver' literary magazine was kind enough to place 'No More Fuel to Burn' on 'The Harpweaver' Homepage for Volume 12, 2004 (which was actually very behind, and was only published and distributed after approximately January 15, 2006).

As it was awarded the 'Brinkman Prize in Photography' and was considered to be the most exceptional photograph chosen for publication between 2004 and 2005, I think it's only fitting. I'm very flattered by this, as well as it being chosen for 'Cover Photograph' for Volume 12.

'The Harpweaver' Volume 13, 2006 is set for launch. In an uncanny stroke of good fortune, Mourning Rain was chosen for publication as well in Volume 13, 2006!

May the Muses be with You All.

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.
We ask oursleves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?'
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us.
And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

-Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Speech.

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I've extended my work even farther across the Web and the World by joining the well-known Flickr Photography Community!

Also, due in part to CBC Zed's decision to finally now choose photography for national television exposure during 'Zed: Real' on tuesday nights (11:35 p.m. - 12:35 p.m.) as an inclusion in a segment entitled 'Flickr Moments' - a slideshow format of photography 'They' feel meet their standards. Don't get me wrong, I'm jubilant to know we as photographers now, not only matter, but are finally getting the exposure we have been craving.

Oddly however, I don't understand why they don't take more of the photography from the 'ZeD Gallery' where my photographic work has been HIGHLY rated and viewed since 2004. It would seem easier, but since they have locked out any users from uploading new work to their site, 'Flickr' seems an alternative in order to have a 'fresh, and filling pool' they can rummage through apart from the site; most people visiting the ZeD Main page will not be able to access 'Flickr' without an alternate road map or knowledge of 'Flickr' previous to CBC's decision to do jury by these means.

Considering my artistic merit and record, It's been there right in front of their eyes for what feels like too long.

If I'm chosen on one or more occassion, I'll be sure to post when it will be televised.

Until then, you can visit my Flickr Photographic Studio which will build quickly over time.

Always Busy...

May the Muses be with You All.

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"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

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The following piece was excerpted from 'Echo Magazine' (Vol. 9, No. 21), by Don Morgenson.

Musing on Madness and Creativity:
Restating the Case for Mental Instability as a Form of Inspiration

"Perhaps Poet John Dryden put it best when he said: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied/And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Surely in various ways - some direct, some more complex - there must be some link between madness and creative impulsion. Byron, speaking of his colleagues, remarked:

"We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all more or less touched." Michelangelo often spoke of the "pazzis", or madness, "Which they say is in my nature".

Such an idea is is truly a classical one, with Plato's belief that Poets are inspired by "Divine Fury" and Aristotle's observation that Philosophers, Poets, and those outstanding in the arts tend to be "Melancholic".

French novelist Marcel Proust declared that "Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded religions and composed masterpieces." And as early as 1891, Englishman J.F. Nisbet ('The Insanity of Genius') accumulated a lengthy list of men of letters with greater or lesser psychological difficulties. Nisbet's list included: Byron, Shelley, Lamb, Poe, Rousseau and Chatterton. (*Arn't we forgetting Plath!?)

To make a creative masterpiece requires intense thought and determination as well as originality, and an admirale balance of all the faculties. Arthur Koestler ('The Act of Creation') proposed that all true creativity - not just artistic - resulted from a connection between two utterly disparate "frames of reference." Such is likely to take place not as a result of conscious, rational thought, but to pop ready-made from the unconscious.

And of course, such creative impulses can result from what we might call madness. There is a good reason to believe that mental disorders that cause misery, suffering, and even death, can also prove strangely helpful to individuals who write, paint, sculpt and compose music. There is now compelling anecdotal evidence to suggest that many creative people, past and present, suffer(ed) from a variety of psychological disorders including depression and bi-polar mood disorders.

And while such a disturbance of the normal range of moods can cause deeper depression, a non-afflicted individual would experience the greater the highs of energy, wildly racing thoughts and euphoria.

Professor Kay Jameson ('An Unquiet Mind') of John Hopkins University - herself a bi-polar sufferer has said: "I have been aware of finding new corners in my mind and heart. Some of those corners were incredible and beautiful and took my breath away and made me feel as though I could die right then and the images would sustain me."

If Arthur Koestler were right in suggesting that creativity comes from bringing together two apparently utterly dissimilar facets - thoughts, images, objects - then it is possible to see how these states may help. In other words, intense emotional power accompanied by rational detachment.

But it is the neessary result - the ability to combine such experiences and create a new order - that which distinguishes creative genius from everyday madness."

- I couldn't have explained it better myself, if only people could understand - but since we can't trade bodies, and are not any closer in all becoming telepaths, only those like myself share in the experiences formentioned.

Celebrate Yourself.

May the Muses be with You All.

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Here are a couple of photo's - one of me in the Audience, care of lil_tree_frog, while I was at/in the 'Shadows of the Mind' International Film Festival.

1) Here I am in Theatre #1 where my short 'Nocturne' was screened:



2) Here's the Lobby Poster as it appeared in 'Galaxy Cinemas' (Soon to be plaqued on my wall along with my other Festival's I've been in):



Now back to the 'Drawing Board' (I've taken some new photo's that should spark some debate) and further entry of 'Nocturne' into Film Festivals this year, as it's coming up to the second year following it's final post-production.

May the Muses be with You All.