My intentions for photos

My intentions for the photos were to bring the viewer along with me on my journey to Roanoke. I hoped to communicate both the charm and the mystery that surrounds homes built in the 19^th century. The Victorian Homes seem to have a personality and sometimes there was a feeling like each home had its own guardian angel that might have been a past resident. The old Victorian Homes seem to have a supernatural element as a part of their characteristics.  A variety of films and TV shows have featured the lovely homes.

Alfred Hitchcock’s films often centered on a Victorian Home like the one in Shadow of a Doubt. Somehow, the old homes with their tall ceilings, beveled windows, and wrap around porches seemed to embellish the meaning of the word home.  The art director for Hitchcock’s house was Robert Boyle and he said; “The house was literally designed around the shots, Hitchcock wanted to get inside it, the walls, windows, porch and roof swinging silently away in front of the moving camera. As a result, we get as clear a sense of the floor plan of the Newton home as any in American cinema.”  The house was as much a star in Hitchcock’s movies as the actors. I love Uncle Charlie’s brilliant lines of; "what you'd find if you ripped the fronts off the houses". And who can forget the Bate’s House in his movie Psycho? http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus/shadow.htm

The images did capture the mood I was trying to convey to a degree. I placed the frames to help the viewer feel as if they were walking around the grounds and getting a feel for the mysteries of the house. I felt a presence when I took the photos and thought about the possible levels of existence. The Others staring Nicole Kidman is a great representation of a ghost living in the same house with another family on another level of life. If I had placed the frames differently it would have told a different story. They are arranged in a way to have the viewer approaching the house and in the end watching it from afar.

Holographic Universe

I found a web site that is dealing with subatomic particles and an experiment devised by Albert Einstein. I think it has a lot to do with our metaphysical media studies. Some of it is too 'heady' for me but the gest is that the whole universe is energetically connected. Rather than try to interpet, I will post a bit from the site:

" Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side.
As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them.
When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment.
According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.
Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.
In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.
The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web." http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html

My First Post

I have always believed that the media is like our "parent" in that it tells us who we are, what to wear, what to drive, and what to believe. The gate keepers of the media have the creation of society in their hands, so to speak.

For instance, I was truly taken by the theme of everything being connected in the movie Avatar. I think it put a new light on some Buddhist beliefs and the fact that if we nurture all things in life, we essentially nurture ourselves.  I also think that movie relates to the Magic Media class by giving us a chance to have an out of body experience as we live vicariously through the characters in the movie. I think that is why the movie was so popular- it gave us a thrilling ' out of body' ride! I think the media has the great responsibility of being more thoughtful about putting more morally driven information out there and less violence. I would much rather have a positive emotional ride through a movie.

I believe if everybody has the basics of food, shelter, clothing and acceptance...our world will become a friendlier place. I also believe there are many levels to life and that our bodies are casings for the soul and as we evolve so do our casings.

On a personal note; I moved back to live in the country after having worked in major markets like Roanoke, Va. and Baltimore, Maryland. It has been a culture shock to say the least. I have three brilliant cats and a blind beagle I adopted after my Aunt and Uncle died. I believe animals teach us how to be better humans. I have had to develop a new understanding of what it must be like to navigate in the world blind. Lady runs into walls and; unfortunately, the occasional cat that stumbles in her path. It took a while but they all became "family". I would like for the world to be like the Coke commercial in the 70's where everybody held hands and sang about living in perfect harmony.

On a final note; I think the possibilities of the media are magical and endless. We live in an amazing reality and I have discovered during my moves in radio that we can stop our act at anytime if we don't like where things are going and rewrite the script. Sometimes that requires a geographical change or going back to school. I'm rewriting now.