| this tiger photo i took was used yesterday in a presentation! cool. |
[Jun. 1st, 2012|09:40 am] |
was surprised to see this photo of a tiger i took yesterday during a senior symposium at my college! a fellow student used it! i was to shy to say "i took that photo!" not even sure she knows i took it! i guess i would have liked credit given...but was happy my photo was useful to her! i offer my photos as CREATIVE COMMONS ya know? wondering how she decided to use it? happy she did. |
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| ritual and ceremony retreat |
[May. 31st, 2012|11:36 pm] |
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planning my ritual for my class. 15 of us each get to design our own ceremony and we support each other. we are camping out in tents and will sing by the fire and drum and dance and eat together. i might have my class sing "refugee" with me if they are willing! going to invite my LOYAL SOLDIER home to work with me in a more helpful way! taking my armor off and replacing it with a Goddess KRING shield instead. |
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| on Taoist wisdom mirroring Creative Photography! |
[May. 29th, 2012|02:29 pm] |
Shannon Kringen
Transpersonal Psychology
May 29th 2012
One Page Summary:
The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. Volume 28 Number 2, 1996
Characteristics of the Taoist Sage in the Chuang-tzu and the creative photographer
by Philippe L Gross & S.I. Shapiro page 175
I chose this article because I am a photographer and I see it as a spiritual practice that keeps my mind fresh, alive and in the present moment. (if I applied this to my whole life I would be much more fully alive and free to learn,grow,heal, self actualize)
The article talks about using photography in the classroom as facilitating transpersonal vision. The characteristics of the Sage are sometimes echoed by statements in the photography literature of creative photography. Some of the sage characteristics shared with photography are: freedom from the sense of self, receptivity, spontaneity, acceptance, non-attachment, resourcefulness, free and easy wandering and “wu-wei” (an important concept in Taoism that literally means non-action or non-doing) for example: “As trees grow, they simply grow without trying to grow “
In creative photography (which I would call “improvisationally wandering with your camera and shooting in the present moment and responding spontaneously to what you see, shape,color,light,texture) can be seen as an communion between the self and the environment with no sense of separation.
Photographer Cartier-Bresson said “I am not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentation but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, then sniff, sniff, sniff—being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it or you won't get it. First, you must lose yourself, then it happens.”
A Taoist photographer responds in the present moment and lets things happen. The photograph almost takes itself. I fully agree with this most of my best photographs have been done this way. Spontaneously free and open to what is around me. Having never seen that kind of light or shape before. My heart and mind are in love with what I see and I shoot when it feels right. This cannot be planned.
I have had people tell me after seeing my photographs of shapes in water and mud puddles and chrome they now notice things out walking they never saw before. Art can be transformational for people. Flowing with life and not rebelling against it. Accepting what is “pretty and ugly both equally” being “equanimous”. All these spiritual principles are used in creative photography. I will add that this Taoist principles can also be seen in improvisational theatre and drawing and painting, singing, dancing. Especially jazz!
In summary the article states that creative photographers are sometimes conscious of these Taoist principles while they shoot photos and sometimes not. Either way it seems that a natural flow of life directs the action in this kind of photography that mirrors very closely that of Taoist wisdom.
Shannon Kringen Taoist Creative Photographer! http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/ |
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| Characteristics of the Taoist Sage in the Chuang-tzu and the creative photographer |
[May. 29th, 2012|01:33 pm] |
for my class 2night i am doing a summary from an article in: "The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology" called: "Characteristics of the Taoist Sage in the Chuang-tzu and the creative photographer"
I chose this article because I am a photographer and I see it as a spiritual practice that keeps my mind fresh, alive and in the present moment! i KNOW aRt making is tied in with psychology and spirituality! |
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| SIFF screening of our film TYPECAST DRAGON went well! thank you everyone! |
[May. 29th, 2012|10:24 am] |
yesterdays screening of TYPECAST DRAGON as part of SIFF's seatown shorts was a great experience. i liked doing the Q & A with a microphone standing in front of the audience with all the film crew and cast members. passing the mic down the line. felt good to be "part of a group" i admire. creative film makers! 10 short films showed including ours. thank you to everyone who was there! i said hi to a few people, met a couple new people, one guy wanted his photo taken with me! that is fun. felt good to have my dad there with me. our film was the only one with nudity in it so they had to warn people with children about "brief nudity" in one film. we all laughed. grateful for the experience. hope our film gets shown in other locations!
you can watch TYPECAST DRAGON here if you missed it: http://www.docchallenge.org/2012-Finalists/typecast-dragon.html |
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