Self-Awareness – The ‘Why’ Behind Myself

Jack Prot

Can you look at yourself in the mirror and honestly know who it is you see? Do you look hard enough to see the success with the flaws and the beauty in being unique? Would you be afraid to write down your weakness and vulnerabilities to build your strengths? When […]

Third Eye Meditations

Jack Prot

I am teaching you how to see as opposed to merely looking, and stopping the world is the first step to seeing. -Don Juan Matus (as quoted by Carlos Castaneda) In the Carlos Castaneda books, the term “Seeing” is used for the deeper insight that Mystics have as opposed to […]

Identity Crisis: Protecting Yourself From Image Theft

Jack Prot

For a photographer who makes his or her living from licensing copies of our work, it’s frustrating to see just how easily images can be downloaded from websites, shared on social media, or otherwise used without consent or compensation. Even worse, to have one’s personal likeness and photos fraudulently used […]

The Hybrid Subject in J.M. Coetzee’s “Boyhood”

Jack Prot

Throughout the 20th century, notions such as identity, self and the other have been consequently constructed and deconstructed and have received new areas of interest. The notion of hybrid identity, for example, has been transformed from a technique of distinguishing pure from infected blood (from a racial point of view, […]

Audience’s Perception Of Songs

Jack Prot

Any songwriter knows that a song will not make it without having well-written music and perfectly crafted lyrics. But the interaction between music and lyrics in a song poses two questions. The first is which is more important and the second is which should be written first. Nevertheless, the second […]

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