They say the camera never lies, so to whom do we attribute this sleight of hand?
Photographer or subject?
Showing posts with label spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirit. Show all posts
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Semiotics Of Photography: L
L is for (The Camera Never) Lies
They say the camera never lies, so to whom do we attribute this sleight of hand?
Photographer or subject?
They say the camera never lies, so to whom do we attribute this sleight of hand?
Photographer or subject?
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Some Jobs About Which The School Careers Officer Failed To Inform Me (2)
Para-psychology
The Edinburgh College of Para-Psychology is a 'non-denominational charity organisation' which aims - among other things - to 'provide a better understanding of life after death'.
In addition, it offers a 'Paranormal Investigations' service. Led by trained mediums, this service discreetly explores the possible cause behind 'strange events and unexplained noises' - from lights flickering to inanimate items moving independently of any identifiable form of intervention. (http://www.parapsychology.org.uk)
The most alarming thing about this website is that, when cutting and pasting quotations from it, the words remain invisible on the page until you 'preview' the blog; though the spirit of the words is there, the body of the text is not. Even more unsettling: any subsequent text remains unseen too, until published.
This means that I am currently writing this post 'blind'; relying on my touch-typing skills; an option I took at school because I was too poor at Physics to be entered for the 'O' Level examination in 1985.
Now, I was going to say that I wish someone had told me I could have been a Para-psychologist. I am genuinely interested to know if there is life after death, though I really don't know what scares me most: the inevitability of mortality or the promise of eternity. But according to the Society for Psychical Research website, careers in Para-psychology are few and far between. For most, including those with a doctorate qualification in the discipline, research remains but a leisure-time pursuit.
Unless, perhaps, you belong to the Paranormal Investigations Squad. I, for one, am about to contact them . . .
The Edinburgh College of Para-Psychology is a 'non-denominational charity organisation' which aims - among other things - to 'provide a better understanding of life after death'.
In addition, it offers a 'Paranormal Investigations' service. Led by trained mediums, this service discreetly explores the possible cause behind 'strange events and unexplained noises' - from lights flickering to inanimate items moving independently of any identifiable form of intervention. (http://www.parapsychology.org.uk)
The most alarming thing about this website is that, when cutting and pasting quotations from it, the words remain invisible on the page until you 'preview' the blog; though the spirit of the words is there, the body of the text is not. Even more unsettling: any subsequent text remains unseen too, until published.
This means that I am currently writing this post 'blind'; relying on my touch-typing skills; an option I took at school because I was too poor at Physics to be entered for the 'O' Level examination in 1985.
Now, I was going to say that I wish someone had told me I could have been a Para-psychologist. I am genuinely interested to know if there is life after death, though I really don't know what scares me most: the inevitability of mortality or the promise of eternity. But according to the Society for Psychical Research website, careers in Para-psychology are few and far between. For most, including those with a doctorate qualification in the discipline, research remains but a leisure-time pursuit.
Unless, perhaps, you belong to the Paranormal Investigations Squad. I, for one, am about to contact them . . .
Monday, 28 November 2011
Taxonomy of Spirit Manifestations: The Shadow
The Shadow. Dracula didn't have one. Neither, according to Sam Taylor-Wood, did Bram Stoker's chair. Fred Flintstone had a six o'clock one, and then there's all that stuff about Plato's cave.
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Taxonomy of Spirit Manifestations: Spirit Photography
The only given in life is that we die.
But, three cheers to photography for providing indisputable proof that the spirit lives on.
Friday, 25 November 2011
Taxonomy of Spirit Manifestations: Channelling an Artist
A parallel universe: word has it there are artists who have passed (died, deceased, call it what you will) who still feel compelled to practise, channelling their painterly prowess through the pencils and palettes of artistically-uninitiated mediums. For some reason, Toulouse-Lautrec, always already slightly off-the-wall chose a plasterer in Brighton and a living-room wall to show-case his latest creation.
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