Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like Without Selachophobia and Fear of Sharks

December 29, 2005 | Filed Under fantastic weekend, friends, funny haha | 2 Comments

1: selachophobia: a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of sharks , despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger. 2: selachophobia: a strong fear of, dislike of, or aversion to sharks.

But so long as the negative association is powerful enough, the unconscious mind thinks: “Ahh, this whole thing is very dangerous. How do I keep myself from getting in this kind of situation again? I know, I’ll attach terrible feelings to sharks, that way I’ll steer clear in future and so be safe.” Just like that selachophobia is born. Attaching emotions to situations is one of the primary ways that humans learn. Sometimes we just get the wiring wrong.The actual phobia manifests itself in different ways. Some sufferers experience it almost all the time, others just in response to direct stimuli. Everyone has their own unique formula for when and how to feel bad.

Apparently, Selachophobia can be financially draining, as well:

For anyone earning a living, the financial toll of this phobia is incalculable. Living with fear means you can never concentrate fully and give your best. Lost opportunities. Poor performance or grades. Promotions that pass you by. selachophobia will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.

Luckily, help has arrived.

Every Po Ever Laroided (Thusfar)

December 12, 2005 | Filed Under friends, photo, projects | 2 Comments

well y’all, I’ve finally finished the daunting and slightly illogical task of scanning my entire polaroid collection (to date - the hotel party is at the end of the set) and it’s online for your viewing pleasure. I’ve been a polaroid fanatic for a while now, and my photos go back to about 1999 when I got my camera. of course, since the film is expensive, the subject matter/times depicted tends to progress in leaps. whenever I could afford to buy a pack of film, it would usually be shot up all at once, and then I wouldn’t shoot anything else for a while. so I guess these 374 snapshots probably represent somewhere around 40 or 50 specific days or nights sliced out of the past 6 years. interesting. (to me, at least.) (and probably to some of you, too.) I’m gonna go ahead and say that I’m planning to keep the flickr photoset updated as I shoot more pictures. we’ll see if that really happens. but I did score a bunch of free film from the Toby Keith movie, and my dad says he has some packs of film for me from the FBI storage closet. so i’ve got no excuse to not keep it up. if you see me taking pictures, remind me to keep the ball rollin with the scannin. then everyone can have ‘em, and the world will rejoice and be as one.

Halloween Times

November 2, 2005 | Filed Under fantastic weekend, friends, funny haha, photo | 1 Comment

When I told my dad I was Jesus for Halloween, he said, “Good thing it wasn’t rainin’… what with lightning, and all.” Here are some photos from two Halloween parties: Ria’s from from a few weeks ago, and the one at my place last weekend. If any other photographers (Petter?) have pictures from these or other recent costume extravaganzas (Lollie’s?) get ‘em to me and I’ll add to the set. shazam.Updated: Just added a bunch more photos to the set, thanks to Ben.

So Doggone Electric

October 26, 2005 | Filed Under friends, funny haha, god bless the internet, music, projects, video / film | Leave a Comment

A while back, Holden shot a bunch of short video clips of his old roommate’s dogs in their backyard with his digital camera. I edited them to the song So Electric, from Boulevard’s recent e.p. Vice & Daring. It’s kind of funny, so I put it online here for y’all to check it.