Being a young adult in this complicated world means we have to face difficulties and stressful situations with every step we take. People tend to be sucked into what they are doing and barely notice the mundane but beautiful things. My age group has always been seen as the 'most stressed-out and anxious' group of people because of what we needed to go through in order to make a stable living in this society; the unease of an unknown future; being lost; loneliness and helplessness in the industry. Having been in this state once in a while myself, I decided to do something about it, something small. So I set myself a personal task, and that is to try to notice things I normally would have neglected.
I took my analogue camera out for a stroll down the streets that I would go on a daily basis, and it is when I started to tilt my viewfinder upwards that I saw a completely different view, surprisingly enough, I never saw those shapes/colours/scenery before (even though I pass the area many times, I have always kept my view at eye level). By doing this project, I found that this process took over the feelings of self-doubt+stress+anxiety+over-thinking. The time I would have spent bathing in those negative thoughts was replaced with something more positive. It's a journey of an organic self medication process. These photographs informs the idea of 'if you look at things with a positive angle, you will discover new things'. Those negative feelings will do nothing other than pull you down and put out bad energy into the world, so why shouldn't one alter their perspective to give oneself a chance to see something new (if not positive) for a change?
He stares down the barrel of a camera like a judge, implacable, hair and eyebrows wisped like a store wig. The left brow is higher, saying, Do you believe it? All of the crummy crap in the world, they decide to do this with your dollars? He has thinned. Toughened. There are fewer signs of White House meat, and the mouth that has puckered and parted with disdain at so many podiums is now long ...
Tonight, like many other nights, you are confronted with a life-altering decision. As the question begins to form in your mind, you feel your consciousness begin to splinter, your universe begin to shatter, and in each fragment, a different answer. "What should I watch?" In one universe, you're front and center in a movie theater, surrounded by a captivated audience, watching 250 Spider-people...
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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