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what'd the lemon do to you?
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good one. :) love it drjoanne
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@brilliant: ...it exists in a perpetual state
of sourness... perhaps I discriminate against
it - knowing that it is in it's nature to be
sour.
...thanks, trigger.
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That's the way I'm feeling about now...
Posted 16 months ago.
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... and it's a fucked up feeling, no doubt.
...to attempt to relate to a lemon.... or
to insult it, at least.
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oh! your russian period!
Posted 16 months ago.
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Rolf: are you referring to the fatalism and
the alienation? ;)
Posted 16 months ago.
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Don Ladron Harris [deleted] says:
:)
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just letting you know i saw this one :) you
are loved in all your flickr identity
obscurity.
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just letting you know i saw this one :) you
are loved in all your flickr identity
obscurity, by hundreds i'm sure... it's good
to see you are constantly living up to your
admiration!
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Sam: It's 2:06 AM here... took this photo
earlier, when I felt crazed... 'identity
obscurity' - I like that. You know, I was
just talking with someone about
depersonalization (loosely defined as a
feeling of unreality and of estrangement from
the self, body or surroundings) and how the
psychiatric community is researching this
'phenomenon' to see if there are enough
symptoms in the constellation to create the
criteria for an actual disorder. I read an
article speculating about some of the
possible reasons why more and more of this
dissociative state of being, if you will, is
being reported in general physician's
offices, for example... per this article,
" some speculate that one's endless
choices of entertainment outlets eat away at
our grounded self..." "...people
are walking around with MP3 players or cell
phones, being absorbed in the vivid fantasy
world of television and video games in a way
that causes someone's immediate surroundings
to drop away, and disappear..."
"also, modern society exposes us to so
many situations that demand different ways of
presenting ourselves - we act one way with
family, another with friends, another at work
- that it makes it hard to figure out who we
really are."
So, sometimes I do feel that my grounded
sense of self, my ego, my essence, perhaps...
is a bit blurred... hence all the different
explorations of the self and the self in
context... and hence 'the obscurity' (to get
back to your original and astute
observation)....
...and, just as an aside... this photo is
supposed to represent such an utterly absurd
alienation (maybe even a depersonalization)
that the subject in the photo is having a
relationship with a lemon. A sad state of
affairs, I agree.
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so tv and p3 players are responsible for
todays problems. very funny.
it is typical russian expressionism. or
something like that.
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Sour, yes, but I love lemonade. Perhaps
psychiatry itself could be described as a
disorder.
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"...we act one way with family, another
with friends, another at work - that it makes
it hard to figure out who we really
are."
It seems be most drastic when there is a
significant schism between the selfs
presented in these different situations,
especially when the selfs are contradictory.
I have sometimes wondered if the act of
retreating into splendid isolationism of
being catered to by video on demand, our mp3
players, and even social networking sites is
an attempt to find a comfortable zone where
we can begin to establish the self without
having to run the gauntlet of these
conflicting personalities. Must hunt down
that article...
(afterthought) oh...and the photo is great.
too...nice lighting. :)
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Your face'll freeze like that.
Posted 16 months ago.
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DrJ - I can definitely relate to the concept
of depersonalisation at times... Strangely
enough, I'm currently researching my novel
(based on the parallel lives of hitler and
charlie chaplin, and both their attitudes to
artistry) and within looking at hitler, it's
strange to see how sometimes even he wasn't
himself. For example his claims of
anti-semitism from a young age have been
challenged by those who knew him in those
years, also his distinct lack of 'arian
qualities' (there's an entire novel in that
alone, hitler as the wretched, irredeemable
so therefore free of judgement of moral
persecution, trying to save the arians (of
which he wasn't one))
Another thing worth looking at if you
haven't thought of it already, is the society
of the spectacle as theorised by debord (and
many others), but rather than looking at the
idea of reacting to a spectacle, perhaps more
the situationist idea of creating a spectacle
from what already exists. Maybe the idea of
mp3 players is not so far off from there, we
create our own soundtrack, atmosphere, mood
and isolation from the mundane and in doing
so, re-imagine the landscape in which we
indulge daily?
just something to think of.
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right back at ya.....
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re: media, though -- in some way, don't all
of these choices help us to be MORE
ourselves? I feel it's been like that for me.
We don't have to listen to narrow-band pop
radio, or watch the same TV proram as
everyone else. When I was a kid it was either
that, or nothing. Now, we can choose what we
live with.
I love the photo series, anyway, Joanne! ad
I realize you weren't just talking about
media, but about the way in which we
fashshion different identities for ourselves
and lose our core. i do agree with that.
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I ♥ the expression taken. Shit happens.
GRTZ,BEN
Posted 16 months ago.
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Fantastic self portrait. I have found myself
instantly enamored of your stream. Wonderful,
thought provoking comments here too. Thank
you.
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Joan, ...haven't visited for some time and am
so pleased to be back to see what you have
been up to. most creative work. Truly a
pleasure to see and visit and revisit.
M
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i love this SOOOOOOOOOOOO much. how
expressive! although i like lemons (quite a
lot too), so i don't agree with that, but
this is hilarious! you remind me of a little
kid.
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made me laugh like a drain. thanks jo.
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You look like a six-year-old who doesn't want
to eat her bussels sprouts, but can't leave
the table until she does.
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Doc, you've been blogged. I really enjoy your work, and hope more
folks continue to enjoy it too.
Posted 15 months ago.
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Indeed. I have been blogged - and what kind
words to go along. Thanks, Toj, thanks :D
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Portrait★Faces: (the cream of...), and we'd love to have this added to the
group!
♥Thank you too for your post in
Portrait★Faces
Continue !
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