Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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It Could Be Worse
Q: What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? A: – Finding half a worm – Finding two worms – Finding a wormhole – World Hunger – A human trying to eat your apple – An early bird waiting outside your apple – Finding out that you were adopted – Finding a rattlesnake in…
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Why I Gave Up Photography to Be an Artist
Early into my photographic education I was confronted by two main ideas: 1. That photography is a language capable of expressing complex ideas through images alone, and 2. That photography could be used for good, by exposing more people to more “truth”. Being a practising rationalist (or at least an aspiring one) I was always…
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Self Employment
To employ = to use. To be employed = to be used, by someone else, for someone else’s benefit. To be self-employed = to be self-sufficient, to use one’s own capabilities for self benefit, including altruism, to maximise one’s innate capabilities and to cash in on Darwinian happiness, to use knowledge of one’s own psychology…
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Letting Go
06.09.17 Some time ago I realised that there was one important factor that my favourite dancers had that I lacked: a sense of effortless control or natural relaxedness to all their movements. Over the years I became experienced in creating high tension through heavy squats, deadlifts and gymnastics strength training among other things, but what…
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Image Commentary
This photograph was taken as a commentary on the ageing process and is intended to show man-made structures and objects in general, as metaphors for man himself. Our eye is immediately drawn to the bright red bricks in the centre of the photo which have been uncovered by the decaying and falling away of the…
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Cartography
A movement exists, known as urban exploration, that seeks to recapture a sense of freedom by exploring abandoned buildings, and out of use parts of the city that are closed to the public. I see this as a very specific subset of a larger idea, which is the notion of exploration itself. The four corners…
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Why I Gave Up Art To Be A Photographer
From a young age I dedicated a significant amount of my time to drawing. I couldn’t tell you how I started, or why I enjoyed it so much, but I guess it just felt natural. My art education consists of being told to copy an object that lay on the table, and at a later…
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A Without B
If you believe that the purpose of a record is simply to induce an emotional response in a subject, then you remove a large portion of elements from the equation. In this way, either you see purpose as the means to and end, or, purpose includes and is intertwined with a mass of other parts…
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Experiential Art
“ A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience. ” –Mark Rothko My initial ideas about experiential art arose out of one of the problems that is particularly troubling for the conscientious photographer, which is the fact that the photograph more often than not, hides the process and effort that went into…
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ISWYL
R.I.P is an acronym for: “I recognise that when we die, there is no heavenly afterlife that awaits us with a pre-specified number of highly experienced virgins, nor any hellish impossible-to-adapt-to inferno to contend with for all eternity, and neither is there the opportunity to be reincarnated, perhaps in a better looking body in more…
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