ROB

Rob Goldman is a noted photographer who's been published internationally. He is also the author of the book
Shooting From the Heart: Creating Passion and Purpose in Your Life and Work. Many big magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Time have contained his work. Rob has organized personal development programs with a focus on the artist and the person as a whole. His workshops are typically conducted for the education, business, art, and yoga communities. In these programs, he explores the integration of the energies of the body, mind, and spirit. Rob also serves on the board of Photographic Imaging Program at Suffolk Community college and is co-founder of Oyster Bay Gallery Art That Matters.

Dancing...

I don't have any complaints about having to dance. It's not my favorite thing, of course, but it doesn't hurt to do something that throws me a little out of my comfort zone. It's also fun. I guess my only problem with it is that I can't contribute much to it other than doing it. It doesn't work my mind too hard, which is nice, but not so rewarding. I guess the real challenge will come when actually doing it in front of an audience and struggling through my own shame and insecurities.
As for Stac Live as a whole, I hope everyone realizes how amazing it will be if we get to do everything we want to. I'm incredibly determined to make it all happen. I think that even though it will be difficult, it will be small compared to how much credit we'll get from the school for pulling it off. Everyone has to do everything they can to make sure this works as well as it can.

Starting Over & Black Swan

Lately, everything is circling around the idea of starting over. Shosta-tree-tree and New Years and just having this break to get myself together. Normally, I'm a cynic and am very aware that resolutions are seldom carried through. Well I still am, but I don't see any reason that Stac can't start fresh and with a clean slate. If anyone can do it, Stac can do it because despite our opinions of each other, one thing we always have going for us is that we're on the same page about what's going on and what we want to happen.
But starting over doesn't interest me all that much. January is June is December and I could start my year on any day I want and the rest of the world won't listen anyway.
I saw Black Swan. Twice actually. It was pretty great. I was jealous of how well the dance scenes were filmed. I found it especially interesting when Nina would be off and on stage in the same shot. That was really cool and it went along with the idea of oneness and not being able to separate out the different parts of you, the good and the bad. It was also extremely Brecht. The push pull effect was clearly evident. The lowest tension moments would end with something bloody or horrifying and then it would cut to a scene in the studio. I was constantly moving from the edge of my seat to the back of it. I tried talking to my brother about the movie and he said it could have been better because you know exactly what's going to happen at the end, and I explained that it wasn't by accident. Especially seeing it twice, I was able to try and figure out why things were happening instead of what was going to happen next. I was very impressed. And it was just as good the second time.