Results tagged “PTAS” from The Bilerico Project
History's Journey [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | May 02, 2015 | 4:00 PM |I am sometimes astonished and upset at just how little about LGBTQ history younger people and folk outside of our community know, or care to know. Read More
Depression: January in Spring [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | April 25, 2015 | 4:00 PM |Spring is a hard time to be depressed. In the heart of winter, being miserable makes sense. Now though, Spring has brought back sun and warmth to the world; except inside my heart and head, it still feels like January. Read More
The Privilege of Our Faces [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | April 18, 2015 | 4:00 PM |The faces we show the world look depend a great deal on the people we are interacting with and where we are. The "right" perception can help land a choice job, smooth over a routine transaction, or even keep us safe.Read More
Passions & Burdens [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | April 11, 2015 | 2:00 PM |It is easy to get drawn deeply into the pursuit of what excites our passions, but less talked about is how those passions can also be our burdens.Read More
Candle On The Water [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | April 04, 2015 | 10:00 AM |Even the most homely light possesses an elegant and noble purpose: to warn and protect. They are humanity's answer to the Sirens of mythologyRead More
Body Betrayal: When You Aren't You [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | March 28, 2015 | 1:00 PM |Our bodies are the medium through which we experience life, even as they sometimes make our lives more challenging. Read More
Marking Time [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | March 21, 2015 | 4:00 PM |Yesterday was the Vernal Equinox, a pointed reminder that fixating on the march of time is hardly a modern invention.Read More
Love Among The Stars [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | March 14, 2015 | 10:30 AM |We have been fixtures in each other's lives for nearly as long as we've been adults, and precisely because of that fact, it can be challenging to remember that our relationship needs nurturing tooRead More
Strange World [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | March 07, 2015 | 4:00 PM |It is easy to forget that however much we may wish otherwise, the rest of the world doesn't play by the rules we've created for ourselves in the places we call our own.Read More
Relentless [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | February 21, 2015 | 4:00 PM |For those of us in New England in particular, the last month or so has frankly been unprecedentedly brutal.Read More
Personal Time [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | February 14, 2015 | 4:00 PM |While there is undoubtedly strength in numbers, we cannot afford to lose sight of the fact that everyone has their own personal narrative.Read More
Trip To The Toy Store [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | February 07, 2015 | 4:00 PM |With Valentines Day around the corner, "pleasure objects" for individuals and couples (or thruples if you prefer) are on a lot of people's minds.Read More
More Than Bondage [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 31, 2015 | 4:00 PM |In that moment as the lights were hot and my ropes wrapped around him, he authentically leaned back with a smile as both he and I became fully present with one another.Read More
Fear & Collaboration [Picture Tells a Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 24, 2015 | 4:00 PM |The pressure of having to make people's time and work add up to something is why I spent the last year mostly taking pictures of seascapes. It is hard to disappoint a sunset. Read More
Body Integrity vs. Bad Science [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 17, 2015 | 4:00 PM |Circumcision has an extensive history as a cure desperately in search of a disease, and has throughout the last 150 years been promoted as the "cure" or solution to everything from epilepsy to cancer, UTIs to clubfoot.Read More
Beyond a Black & White World [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 10, 2015 | 4:00 PM |A black and white view of the world is tempting because it helps us build internally consistent narratives, which are deeply appealing to the part of ourselves that find logic and rationality comforting.Read More
Who Will We Be Tomorrow? [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | January 03, 2015 | 3:30 PM |We should be proud of what we've achieved, but the flip side of "pride" is that we don't really have any ideas for what our community looks like without an oppressor to define ourselves against.Read More
We Are Here [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | December 27, 2014 | 4:00 PM |Our differences are important and deserving of recognition, but it is worth remembering that we are all clinging to the skin of a small rock hurtling through space at sixty-six thousand miles an hourRead More
Change of Perspective [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | December 13, 2014 | 4:00 PM |When facing a deficit of inspiration many experienced artists would tell you to get the hell out of Dodge. Read More
Gated Community [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | December 06, 2014 | 4:00 PM |I am not going to argue in favor of tearing down our online echo chambers for all the reasons already discussed. But I also recognize that to dismiss developments such as Solivita would be hypocritical on my part.Read More
What's Left Behind When We Move On [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | November 29, 2014 | 4:00 PM |Construction on the fort was halted in its tracks, leaving these massive blocks strewn somewhat haphazardly. That background is why shooting Bambi at the fort is so appropriate for where I'm personally at these days. Read More
Children, Parenthood, & Possibilities [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | November 22, 2014 | 4:00 PM |Kids are a complicated topic for my family and I, and that having children is even something that people in our situation can even seriously consider represents the sort of cultural shift that delights progressives and terrifies conservatives.Read More
Time to Grow & Suck [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | November 15, 2014 | 4:00 PM |It feels nice to be good at something, but I know that my work is starting to get stale. The problem is that scenery shots have become addictive to me as a photographer. Read More
Oasis of Optimism [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | November 08, 2014 | 4:00 PM |The political power balance in the United States has shifted again, and there are good reasons to be less than hopeful, but if anything, the LGBTQ equality movement may be a bright progressive oasis against the conservative agenda.Read More
The Autumn of Humanity? [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | October 25, 2014 | 5:00 PM |No one wants to imagine their lives as analogous the fall leaves, which though beautiful, are here and gone in a moment. Yet, the question we should ask is if we could be entering into the autumn of our species.Read More
Ravages & Progression of Time [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | October 18, 2014 | 4:00 PM |While America is rushing forward towards LGBTQ acceptance at a pace inconceivable a few years ago, we need to remain conscious of the fact that what is only obvious and fair to us, is scary and new to many people. Read More
War Without End? [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | October 11, 2014 | 4:00 PM |Is who we are as a people? Fort Knox is an uncommonly beautiful place, but its purpose is to kill some people while preventing others from being killed. Its usefulness exists solely in the context of war. Read More
Lessons From 'Light Dispelling Darkness' [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | October 04, 2014 | 4:00 PM |The 76 years since its creation have not been kind to this sculpture but then, they haven't been so kind to its central concept either. Read More
Lightship [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | September 27, 2014 | 4:00 PM |While nautical history and engineering happen to be a hobby of mine, what entrances me about lightships is the way that they seem such an apt metaphor for how we can interact with each other. Read More
Balance [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | September 06, 2014 | 4:00 PM |That careful and constant dance is one that we all have to figure out the steps for in our own lives. And if you'll permit a submarine pun, it's something I often blow at in my own life.Read More
Tobin [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | August 30, 2014 | 4:00 PM |I know that I'm the one who bought the bug and fixed him up/kept him running over the years, yet in my mind it's Tobin who got me here, rather than the other way around. Read More
The Breaking Wave [PTAS]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | August 16, 2014 | 4:00 PM |As my barking goes from very occasional to quite common, things start to go off the rails. Witness the gentleman who just called me "Rover." Read More
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Persistence's Reward [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | August 09, 2014 | 4:00 PM |Like the boy from last week, I was doing some shots that I both love and am trying to get better at. I decided to stay until sundown and make the best of whatever the muses had to offer.Read More
Youthful Focus [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | August 02, 2014 | 4:00 PM |For many adults, moments of single minded immersion in play are hard to come by and, at worst, distant memories. Read More
Legacies & Ruins [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | July 26, 2014 | 4:00 PM |When we are gone, and this time and this movement are empty shells of memory, will we leave behind a beautiful ruin that people revisit for inspiration or hope, or will our legacy be an eyesore on the banks of history?Read More
Revelation at the Gay Club [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | July 19, 2014 | 4:00 PM |It wasn't until I was in the midst of working that evening that I realized how much a lack of social contact with gay men in particular, was something that I need in my life, and don't tend to get.Read More
A Reason To Celebrate [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | July 12, 2014 | 4:00 PM |I've been a bit snarky about the fireworks. After all, I found myself thinking, it's just Thursday, and that happens every week - not exactly something to be all celebratory over. Read More
The Open Road [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | July 05, 2014 | 4:00 PM |I'm in my mid-thirties, and that puts me at the tail end of the last generation to have had an unbridled love affair with driving and the American highway system.Read More
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Saying Goodbye & Hello [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | June 28, 2014 | 4:00 PM |When I find myself saying goodby to an object that has played an important role in my life, my heart breaks just a little bit.Read More
Checking in With My History [Picture Tells A Story]
Filed by E. Winter Tashlin | June 14, 2014 | 4:00 PM |There are times when charting one's own course where it may become necessary to check one's bearings.Read More
