#rip my kitty Keesoon

 Keesoon was so wonderful to be with. i can feel his soul is resting in peace and free of a failing body. i just cleared the cat stuff out of my apartment to help me adjust to the new reality. thankful i have many projects to work on while i grieve...blessings to anyone going through grief and loss right now.

Soul set free- Wow more magical synchronicity... I was just watching a video and there was a triple conjunction astrologically speaking on August 8th and they're calling it The lions gate... is some kind of pattern and the eight means Infinity and my cat keesoon that we helped transition looks like a lion and he had kind of a lion energy about him in a beautiful way and the astrology lady was talking about the lions gate being a tarot card of a woman interacting with a lion and something about Infinity... it's just kind of fascinating to me and then august 8th was also national cat Day or something!! it just seems like a very cosmic day to say goodbye to my cat even though I'm really sad about it he was needing to transition because of his health not being there anymore and it's a long story but it feels like it was totally meant to be the way it happened... and the people that helped me... it's too hard to explain but it's just this really powerful feeling that everything was meant to be the way it happened even though I'm really really in deep grief right now and feeling disoriented and strange about it... adjusting I so deeply connect with animals that when they're no longer with me it just feels so disorienting but the whole concept of Lionsgate and number eight and infinity and national cat Day or whatever they called it pretty fascinating stuff

Thinking of my cats Keesoon, Stella and Tux all now passed away. Such treasured unique souls. I love them all so much always...will do video monologue and podcast on this grief process and deep connection I feel to animals

Wow it's a magical day it does seem like synchronicity that it's national cat Day and today was the day that I honored my cat by helping him transition at the end of his life wow and I ran into a lady who I used to model for while I was walking a dog in the forest and she might want to hire me to take care of her cats when she goes on a trip and I think that's amazing as well wow well I grieve my cat and feel really really sad about the loss of my cat I'm really happy that I can help take care of other people's pets

#rip Keesoon Kringen. The amazing powerful cat that I had for 7 years in my life as my companion.... I had three very loving humans surrounding me and Keesoon today. Grieving time I labored over the choices to make the pros and cons of every little thing and really for the last 7 years because he had complicated health issues and yet I kept him happy and alive for a long time despite those issues through a special Raw meat diet made for cats and lots of exercise and outdoor time and tons and tons and tons of attention and affection.... I've been through this process with many other cats and each cat is totally unique and different and this one was really, really, really challenging and yet it was the most loving end of life I've ever experienced with a cat and with nice humans who cared and had compassion for my point of view.and great empathy for what the cat was going through- He seemed to want to keep doing all the normal things but his body just couldn't do it anymore. Eating-drinking water and sleeping and digesting food just wasn't happening anymore and he kept trying so hard to keep doing those normal things and he was so strong and so brave and I don't know if noble is the right word but he was just an amazing cat.... And I'm a very spiritual person so I'm going to be talking to his soul...

i adopted Keesoon in 2015 when he was 9 years old and his cat mom gave me these two kitten pictures of him. so precious. he was such a cool personality of a cat. very smart. #rip Keesoon

life is beautiful and tragic at the same time

 

life is beautiful and tragic at the same time

Had fun being in the parade and waving at lots of people it seems like little kids had the most enthusiastic response to my rhinestone art car and there were a few people that recognized me from my TV show and the MC or whatever you call the guy on the loud speaker interviewed me about my car and asked me what the name of my car was that was really fun so opal moonstone is the name of my art car I should have videotaped the whole thing but I didn't but there's something sad in my personal life so that distracted me the whole time my stomach and my heart hurts because I'm grieving about something that I don't want to share until later I'll share it if I feel like it later but not now but it was fun to be in the parade and now I have some things to take care of so have a good night everyone life is beautiful and tragic at the same time

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focus on building up what you love to counteract all the toxic junk happening in the world

focus on building up what you love to counteract all the toxic junk happening in the world

Whether you're into the mainstream or the alternative way of seeing things I think it's important right now to focus on what you want to create instead of dwelling on all of the problems and the corruption and the whatever you think is terrible happening in the world and people arguing about what is true and what is false about every little thing happening in the world and all the big things happening in the world all the more reason to empower yourself and create what you love in the world and do what you love and spread that around to help counteract all of the horrible things that are being done and created etc

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this Saturday August 6th my art car in a parade near seattle

 

Seattle Friends: Lake City Summer Festival & Parade. Saturday August 6th 7pm. the parade my art car will be in Parade starts on Lake City Way at 135th, heads south, then west on 125th. Grandstand is on 125th at 28th Ave NE. https://lakecitysummerfest.com/

lake clips 2 goddess kring

another goddess kring lake clip waterproof cam joy!

Goddess KRING aRt car jazzed!

 Goddess KRING aRt car jazzed!
Name of car:. Opal Moonstone
artist: Shannon Kringen
Driver: Shannon Kringen
location: Seattle
Description: mosaic art/Gaudi/Hundertwasser inspired car filled with rhinestones... making it up as I go in an improvisational Style... Spiral patterns and various designs that I invent as I go... With some glittery nail polish painted on top of some of the rhinestones as needed for embellishment!  
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sample my voice keyboard play Goddess KRING https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4rI79vpisWQ

 

sample my voice keyboard play Goddess KRING https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4rI79vpisWQ

beautiful tiny beach Goddess KRING

hot seattle day at the lake 062722 Goddess KRING

waterproof camera experimental- uploading video now. more of my photo art here https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/albums

 

waterproof camera experimental- uploading video now. more of my photo art here https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/albums

Opal Moonstone aRt car by Kring

Added even more rhinestones! Seattle Friends come see my aRt car "Opal Moonstone" with all the other magical cars during the Fremont Fair 2022 June 17,18,19th. 2022 Seattle Art Car Blowout! We are back with an amazing array of Art Cars from all over the US and Canada will be on center display as the beating heart of the Fremont Fair. https://seattleartcars.org https://fremontfair com www.shannonkringen.com

Goddess KRING thoughts on democracy and free speech and ethics

Seattle Friends come see my aRt car "Opal Moonstone"

 

Seattle Friends come see my aRt car "Opal Moonstone" with all the other magical cars during the Fremont Fair 2022 June 17,18,19th.  
2022 Seattle Art Car Blowout!
We are back with an amazing array of Art Cars from all over the US and Canada will be on center display as the beating heart of the Fremont Fair.  
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Mike Campbell and Tori Amos

 Just recorded my take on the contrast between the intimate Mike Campbell concert at the Crocodile in Seattle with the Tori Amos concert at the larger venue of the Paramount in Seattle and how I'm inspired by musicians to keep on doing my own art and my own creative spark of creative expression, etc. Find your own personal power through creating an expressing yourself. As opposed to giving your personal power away and worshiping rock stars, that's not how I see it. I see these people as inspirational. 

 

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for tori amos from goddess kring

My message for Tori Amos today when I'm going to see her live in Seattle tonight at the Paramount theater. I hand-painted shoes for her in 1996, 2005 and 2014. I've seen her live many times. her music inspires me so much and helps me heal from trauma. her and Tom Pettys music literally has helped me many many times in 1979 when I first heard refugee and in 1992 when I first heard silent all these years and tori amos newer music also inspires me very very very much her last five albums especially.

Tom Petty's guitarist at the Crocodile in Seattle 05-31-22 GREAT SHOW. Selfie with Mike Campbell!

 Tom Petty's guitarist at the Crocodile in Seattle 05-31-22 GREAT SHOW. Selfie with Mike Campbell! Absolutely buzzing from the live music the Mike Campbell dirty knobs concert was so so so well done one of the best live concerts I've ever seen and to stand 5 ft away from Mike Campbell was a real treat he's such a handsome beautiful guitar player and I absolutely loved his outfit he had on these shiny shoes and he had sparkles he had rhinestones on his guitar strap and he had sparkles hanging down from his waist like this metal sparkly thing like charm bracelet kind of thing hanging down it was so cool what a cool outfit magical mystical outfit. Gorgeous guitar playing Mike Campbell with the dirty knobs brilliant even if the vocals lack the powerful guitar strength what heart and soul. Great band. They know how to connect with the audience so well. So many textures so many layers to this music. I cried they did some Tom Petty songs and mostly their own songs. Beautiful show

How about paint your shoes? http://www.shannonkringen.com/kringwear.htm

 

How about paint your shoes? http://www.shannonkringen.com/kringwear.htm

hand painted shoes by shannon kringen

 i have just been commissioned to paint onto shoes for a new person who likes my aRt. KringWEAR http://www.shannonkringen.com/kringwear.htm

new recording

 Just recorded a little monologue about boundaries and self-esteem and loving music and feeling almost ashamed. If I really love music that other people say they can't stand, I don't know why I feel insecure in that way. Like I'm supposed to apologize for liking certain music that other people don't like. That's just really weird because it's not like I want everyone to like the same music as me. That's fine with me if they disagree, but for some reason I feel like they're telling me that I am not okay in liking the music that I like so I know that's some kind of weird wound from childhood or other kids bullying me or some kind of ridiculous thing that I need to heal from 

 

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interviews with Shannon Kringen

 

Interviews with Shannon Kringen

if you have a blog/website/publication and you'd like to interview me & publish it let me know.

I am always open to communication in this way! I love sharing about my art projects traveling,

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animal photos by shannon kringen artist. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/72157600274038677/

 animal photos by shannon kringen artist. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/sets/72157600274038677/

"C'mon c'mon" is it really beautifully done black and white movie

 "C'mon c'mon" is it really beautifully done black and white movie with Joaquin Phoenix that I just watched.... Certain aspects reminded me of both the pros and the cons of my own childhood.... The creativity and the authenticity of it is a great beautiful story and I love the music and the editing and the cinematography and the black and white is so beautifully done. It's a movie I'd like to watch a few times... all my favorite movies I'm happy to watch multiple times.

my subtle art car

 on my art car: You know going for that subtle look....Here's something amusing:. I sometimes forget that I have an art car and I notice people staring at my car and having either a smile or a weird look on their face and then I remember oh yeah they're looking at the rhinestones on my car and wondering.... either they are entertained by it or they think that it's ridiculous! either way is fine with me!

tapir!

 

Tapir photos from yesterday! i love these creatures. https://www.spirit-animals.com/tapir-symbolism/ A tapir is a large, herbivorous mammal, similar in shape to a pig, with a short, prehensile nose trunk. Tapirs inhabit jungle and forest regions of South and Central America, with one species inhabiting Southeast Asia


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cloud lover

 a great sky i photographed a few years back. i just refound this image. more of my photo art here

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human defense mechanisms at play

 I'm witnessing the mental blocks people have when something sinister is happening... sometimes people just don't want to acknowledge it and they want to pretend like everything is okay... I can think of times previously in history when certain horrible things were happening and people just sort of pretended like it was okay.... I guess that's a defense mechanism that people have just so they can get through the day. Human Nature... I'm seeing all kinds of patterns that I'm not going to describe here and I'll keep that to myself.... Sending good wishes to all....



Keeping a sense of meaning and purpose in life is very important and different people have different ways of doing that.

I love the wisdom and the philosophy in all of the great religions of the world. I'm not a religious person at all, but I believe in wisdom and I believe in the philosophy that helps us live our best life and connects us through love with others. So in regards to people who are judgmental against religion or obsessed with religion, I would say don't confuse the baby with the bath water. I'm interested in the actual wisdom and the philosophy that's helpful and all of the dogma and fear and shame and guilt in superstitious shallow blah, blah, blah and excuses to go to war and blah blah blah blah blah. That's just all a bunch of gunk that needs to be flushed down the toilet, but the actual wisdom of loving others as we love ourselves and forgiving and unconditional love and actual like wisdom. I'm interested in all of that and you can also be an atheist and be full of wisdom. So I guess what I'm interested in is wisdom, love and compassion. Whether somebody is religious or an atheist or whatever doesn't matter to me.  Joseph Campbell talked about this and he actually was thought of his controversial for having that idea. He saw all the similarities in the different philosophies all around the world and even if you're an atheist, there's wisdom in some of those views as well and they can be connected to spiritual ways of seeing. So I intuitively connect the dots in a similar way from what Joseph Campbell talks about blah blah blah I need to go to bed. I'm tired but I guess I do think about philosophy quite a bit in my own intuitive abstract way and how it lines up with human behavior, etc. I'm just too tired to say anymore. Good night

Wow what a challenge it is to feel empathy and compassion for people who I think are completely wrong about certain things and also wanting to receive empathy and compassion from them who think I'm wrong about certain things that's a big challenge these days I would say from my perspective

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i just added 70 powerful self portraits you can draw and paint from artists! Art Model Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING https://www.patreon.com/posts/65253747

 i just added 70 powerful self portraits you can draw and paint from artists! Art Model Shannon Kringen Goddess KRING https://www.patreon.com/posts/65253747

recent life

 

random life: Had a good time working with artists today. Commuted with my bicycle which is all decorated up for the parades and I just keep it like that all year round....and my bicycle helmet too....and everyone asked me why my bicycle helmet is like that so I like to spread the joy and spread the color when I drive in my rhinestone art car and wear my bike helmet and my hand painted shoes etc they told me today the world needs more of that the world needs more color and fun and playfulness and creativity and people experimenting and trying new things for fun... And my heart goes out to anyone who is being told that they can't do certain things that are just normal and I'm really grateful that I have the freedom to do the things that I did today and that I am doing right now

Follow your heart and soul if you want....that's what I love doing

i am listening to 8 hours of testimony that is BANNED on most media outlets. won't be sharing here just stating my ANGER about the DENIAL on certain things happening in the world. gaslighting and scapegoating is NASTY.

Elephantes in the room elefantes in the room elefantes in the room!!!! Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!!!! Run Toto Run!!!

obsessed with this song. Beach House - Somewhere Tonight

thank you beach house and cut worms. two new to me bands i love the music of.

I'm learning a lot about the human psychology of certain situations some people just act as if everything is normal -even if it actually makes no sense but when anyone who disagrees is shame for an ostracized for it a majority of people seem to just then go along and think well it must be normal to go along with thisand everything makes sense and just go along with certain things other people sneak around and learn how to be fake other people fight out in the open and I guess other people just leave the whole situation and go somewhere else completely off grid there's at least four different choices

Enjoy life while you can your freedoms could be taken away very quickly if certain people decide so

what i think about "beach house: thank your lucky stars" album: this record is a masterpiece. i found this randomly at the public library and fell in love with it. every song hypnotizes me into a trance of inspiration. i love this album so much. every song is a gem. i am very picky about music and this one hooked me from the first listen. i play this over and over and over in my car. the melodies are so well crafted.

So grateful that we have so many nature trails in Seattle and that I can walk to a few of them.

Trust your instincts as a phrase that comes to mind right now for me

My favorite thing about my self-portraits when people appreciate them is that I know that I don't have to get permission from the photographer cuz I'm the model and the photographer so I give myself permission to share and publish etc I don't have to worry about somebody not wanting me to publish something because I give myself permission to publish me it's nice and simple that way!

So much life material to write poetry... secret code about ...accumulating big time

forgot how much i love these 2 songs: Butthole Surfers - Pepper, Beastie Boys - So What'Cha Want!

took 3200 photos recently and now backing up on my computer just in case!

I remember in an interview Tom Petty saying that when he would do a show sometimes he would end up when he went back to his hotel room just pacing around the room till 5:00 a.m. because he was so charged up on adrenaline from performing in front of the audience that's pretty intense

I get it now some people don't understand vibes... they don't understand intuitive feeling and vibes especially in music.... It's not about how complicated or simple a song is it's about the feeling and the vibe and sometimes you can just play three notes and it could be more powerful than the most complicated symphony you've ever heard.... Some good music is complicated some good music is simple and everything in between and vice versa.... which explains why some people don't like this sound and yet people like me love this dreamy sound... very inspired by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.... very inspired by Neil Young and crazy horse very inspired by beach house the band inspired by Mazzy Star, cowboy junkies and Jesse Sykes and Rafe Pearlman in so many other musicians and Tori Amos etc and Beck and so many other people....

I will always believe in the magic of synchronicity and Serendipity and spiritual awareness and psychic intuition etc. And the creative imagination and the power of thought and the power of how we're all connected and we all affect each other in positive and negative ways depending on how we use our energy I believe in energy and manifesting and all kinds of stuff and I feel like there's people out there promoting this view that dismisses all of what I just said and I am not going to let anyone dampen my spirit and take away my inspiration that comes from within and it comes from nature and what I would call a spiritual awareness. All the great songwriters that I love seem to channel their music from something beyond themselves and I would consider that kind of a spiritual thing that they're doing combining their own mind and imagination and body heart and soul with something beyond themselves invisible energy that's what I would call it and some of my best poems that I've ever written in my improvisational art is all kind of channeled from some kind of spiritual energy that's kind of how I feel about it and I'm going to learn how to get better at just ignoring anybody who laughs at that kind of statement because it's an inspired statement and I'm sticking with it it's from my heart and soul and I resonate with people who resonate with this

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hand painted shoes by shannon kringen

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freely sharing painted shells for joy

 they gave me a shell on the whidbey island ferry when they saw my art car i decorated with rhinestones they said they thought i needed a shell! i agree. this was november 10, 2021. i love the shell. here is the painted shell group! they paint shells and give them away for fun to spread joy! "Sanibel Shells" has 22 thousand members! pretty cool! all for fun no money/buying or selling involved! https://lnkd.in/gBEmk57V

homeostasis

 sending good wishes to all for health and well being. so much polarity and conflict in the world now. very challenging time. and yet harmony still exists and nature still tries for (hō′mē-ō-stā′sĭs) " The tendency of an organism or cell to regulate the chemical processes that take place internally so as to maintain health and functioning, regardless of outside conditions. The ability to maintain a steady body temperature is an example of homeostasis."

friends with a spider

 I think I made friends with the spider that lives in my bathroom and I trained it!  There's two daddy long legs that live in my bathroom right now and I don't mind if they stay out of my way. I stay out of their way and they're usually up on the ceiling and the last few days one of them has been low down in the shower and I don't want it to accidentally drown so I've been taking a cup and sort of gently pushing it up the wall so that it stays near the ceiling. And today I was going to take a shower and it was down in the shower area again and I set out loud okay Spidey you need to move up to the ceiling and I swear to God it started moving up to the ceiling so I think it. I think it just knew that I was in there and it remembered that twice I moved it back up to the ceiling. So this time that spider knows... the spider is smart enough to know it needs to crawl up to the ceiling!

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Spreading Inspiration! Kring-spiration! by Shannon Nicole Kringen

My favorite response is when people tell me they're inspired by my multimedia artwork cuz some people think of me in a critical way and they accuse me of being a narcissist cuz I'm so into My self-portraits and my eccentric way of making my art which is a bummer but people are entitled to their opinion but my favorite is when people say they're inspired by my art to paint their face paint their shoes decorate their car do something fun and playful whatever it is singing dancing acting painting I love to inspire people that is my favorite thing because I love playing around with multimedia and I like mostly working by myself my best art seems to be made when I'm by myself because I'm just more comfortable when I'm by myself although I have enjoyed working with other people over the years! But my favorite way of inspiring people is to work solo and share my work and then people enjoy what I do and then they do their own creative thing which I think is really cool and we can empower each other doing that instead of just being spectators in life we can participate and do creative fun things express ourselves that is part of my mission on this planet since I never got married or had kids I feel like my mission is to do creative things that I love and share it with others and hope to inspire other people to do whatever it is they love. And I love nature plants and animals..

paint your face! paint onto your shoes or hats or put rhinestones on your car fun fun fun

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dogs cats and fences and recharged in the sunshine!

refreshed by what jewel said that is beyond the duality and polarity and...

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beyond duality

 We can have strong opinions about something and still have empathy and compassion for the two main sides something being argued about in the media. Beyond duality or non-duality that's partly what this is... the concept of that. Musician jewel just did a video about this and I agree with most of what she said it's a 45 minute video and I didn't listen to all of it but I like people who are brave enough to speak out about empathy and compassion and mental health and how important debate and free speech is and we can have empathy and compassion and not take sides we can appreciate different facets although you have to be careful what you say these days-. What you don't say is just as important as what you do say just like in music the notes that they play are important but also the silence between the notes is important... I have some critical and concerned and angry thoughts and feelings that I'm not going to share here.... and I listened to a 5-hour video that is published on a platform that allows full free speech of medical professionals speaking for 5 hours and I listened to the entire 5 hours... although I broke it up into three chunks because that's a long video but all these medical professionals sat in a room together with microphones and stated their credentials and talked with a senator open to hearing their experiences and they videotaped the whole thing and recorded everything. But it's disturbing to think that I'm not allowed to share that here because this footage is not allowed everywhere and people gossip about things without really checking it out for sure to know what's correct and what's incorrect and it seems to be that's the war going on right now it's like psychological warfare of people arguing about what's correct and what's incorrect and it's like we're not allowed to debate it... we're supposed to just conform to one certain way of looking at everything and I believe in staying open and flexible and questioning things and quite honestly I have to keep a lot of secrets just to navigate everything in the world right now but privacy is a good thing so I guess I'm learning to have stronger boundaries with the world around me.

group think? nope

 A perpetual state of emergency? no. And the next phase has to do with the Earth and being told a more specific script of what we should and should not do or what we can and cannot do blah blah blah you do the math most people though won't do the math they'll just go along with being trained like a parrot and a monkey in a circus show I'll probably delete this post cuz it's a little too angry and not going to help me or anyone but how could somebody not be angry when you see the abuse of power and the scapegoating in the gaslighting!? But maybe that's the carrot in the stick in the trap maybe to transcend and not be angry and still focus on love and life and real valuable life is a radical Act. Individuality and personal responsibility etc. Instead of groupthink conformity and shaming blah blah blah

Shannon Kringen Creative Taoist Photographer

 here is an essay i wrote a few years back while finishing my BA degree in seattle:
Shannon Kringen
Creative Taoist Photographer . The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. Volume 28 Number 2, 1996 Characteristics of the Taoist Sage in the Chuang-tzu and the creative photographerby Philippe L Gross & S.I. Shapiro page 175
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. http://shannonkringen.com/taoist_photographer.htm

wild feral human, play in mud puddles

 

random sloppy ideas- wild feral human

play in the mud puddles

Edit- here's my imperfect post with flaws in it and typos in it that I'm not going to fix cuz I don't want to be perfect and I don't want to correct myself I want to be sloppy and messy and imperfect and make mistakes and not always be correct!!!! Makes me want to listen to Bukowski I think I'm on a similar wavelength or Tom Waits etc- or Leonard Cohen who said that the cracks are how the light gets through or whatever that quote is from one of his songs that I love! Rebel rebel!!! Just watched a video on how trends and artificial intelligence and algorithms have a artificially kind of addicted to patterns and trends and disconnected from our real selves and from real human connection and from real things of actual value despite all the fake silliness and trends online that I'm not interested in there are still creative authentic humans that are expressing themselves making art and music and sharing real things that have value also just judging things as having value and not having value and people are keeping score blah blah blah people are addicted to blah blah blah I think I'm going to stop clicking like and stop clicking in general and just try to share in a more handmade way if possible and not get sucked into arguing or debating or doing anything that seems just like BS and just like a waste of time I might even delete this post I think that the best way for me to use these social media websites is just to share artwork and creative ideas. I don't want to waste time debating or arguing with anybody and I want to completely ignore people who want to score me and judge me I also don't want to score and judge other people cuz that's a waste for me to do that as well and again I might just delete this post I think it's good to be awake and conscious of how you're using technology and how much is technology using you just to collect data and market and sell ideas to you and try to get you to March around and conform and behave like a robot doing as you're told thinking you have free will but really just conforming to what their programming you to want to think and do and feel with computer ideas and popular trends and this idea of conform conform conform obey obey obey basically March to the meat grinder like in that movie pink Floyd The Wall which is very relevant these days

Avoid trends and be unpopular intentionally!

Light up that gas!

freedom and embracing grace, moonshone face

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Retreat go within. A treat

 Retreat go within. A treat

ideas of now

 i resonate with this video BIG TIME. "The Priceless Benefits of Not Belonging"  https://youtu.be/mDGOZWp5iGk

Totally love that video "the priceless benefits of not belonging".  and I resonate with every point that  guy is making.   I totally identify with enjoying the freedom of being an individual and questioning everything.  I also tend to see every single person I meet as an individual instead of lumping them into some category and stereotype of who they are or who they are not... I've always been this way since I was like a little tiny kid and even more so now with things happening in the world the way they are in this like pressure to conform to things that I just don't believe I want to conform to.  People think and tribal ways and want to copy and conform to each other and yeah I follow certain rules but mostly I like to express my individuality as much as I can and when I noticed other people I tend to notice what makes them unique and different that's what I'm attracted to is what is unique and different... I guess people just want to feel safe and put things into categories but I think it's really artificial the way we categorize things and separate things everything is unique and individual and we're all creating this together I've always been somebody who wanted to question everything and not just go along with things...



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This is a bit of a soap box but I'm really sad to see that there are many dogs and cats that are completely addicted to pet food that has wheat gluten in it  and all kinds of other fillers and synthetic things and carbohydrates that are not good for dogs and cats health and it lacks the actual protein and nutrients that they actually synthetic things in a can etc....which is the worst thing that a dog or cat could eat for their health and then people take their pets to the vet who prescribe medication for them instead of improving the pet's diet the medications may or may not actually help the pet it's really sad to see dogs and cats suffer because they're not getting the proper nutrition that they need that's the most important thing for both humans and dogs and cats is really really good nutrition and fresh air exercise enough sleep enough hydration good clean water etc health is something that I'm very interested in and our healthcare system is not really about health it's mostly about chemicals and avoiding talking about proper nutrition or even giving people the wrong information about nutrition but I'm not going to say what I believe is healthy here because I don't want to argue with anybody but let's just say that me and my cat I think are on very healthy nutritious diets. And I choose what I eat and I don't listen to someone else boss me around about it.  My cat is on a mostly raw meat nutritionally balanced diet for all cats life stages that I get at the health food pet store so I feed my cat very carefully but he's not on any medications and he's 15 years old and he's doing well he's an older cat but he's doing well he gets fresh air everyday and exercise and really healthy food and I never feed him any junk food.  A lot of the mainstream pet food that people feed their dogs and cats is kind of like the equivalent of humans eating fast food and Twinkies etc... I'm lucky that my cat switch to a raw meat diet with an easy transition most dogs and cats are very picky and it's hard to switch their food but my cat went right along with the raw meat diet.  Basically I keep his food in the freezer and I just thaw it out as needed to keep it fresh... it's kind of high maintenance but I love making sure my cat is healthy and his digestion is really good his pee and his poop is really healthy.... What I when I had him on a not as good of a diet he had like loose stool and kind of gross things happening in his Kitty box I never since I switched him to a raw meat diet his poops have been a really nice medium brown to dark brown color and they're just the right texture sorry if this gross is anybody out but his texture his I mean sorry his digestion is very very good and it's been that way ever since I switched him to a raw meat diet for cats.  I also have really good digestion but I won't go into detail on that.  And I'll say that I don't need to take my cat to the vet hardly ever and I haven't for the last two or three years because he hasn't needed anything he's just been eating properly and I just give him lots and lots of love and affection and attention and he doesn't seem to need any veterinary care so far.

aRt car in the snow rhinestone OPAL MOONSTONE

rhinestone snow aRt car time

mud walk with Goddess KRING

 

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mud walk with Goddess KRING

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