• Let’s talk about NUDITY!

    March 27, 2021 /

     

    CAPTION FOR VIDEO ABOVE:

    Hi friends! It’s good to see you again, it’s been a little while. I wanted to come on here to invite you to this weekend’s event for Going Beyond the Lens. If you’re new and you have no idea what I’m talking about, Going Beyond the Lens is an art community that I cocreated with Lior Allay + Roarie Yum. All 3 of us have been in the photography/modeling/art industry for… I believe all of us have been in for over 10 years, so we have a lot of information about that world.

    This community isn’t just for photographers and models, it’s for any creative medium, period. If you make art at all you’re totally welcome to come. Even if you don’t make art and you’re just a fan of art you’re also welcome to come. This community, we host virtual events twice a month. We have an art share on the 3rd Saturday of every month, which was last weekend so that already happened. We have a community conversation that’s on the 4th Sunday of every month, so that’s coming up as of when this posts, it’s coming up tomorrow!

    If you’d like to join us, this month we’re focusing on the topic of NUDITY, so all of the ways in which nudity shows up in art, or doesn’t, there’s a whole spectrum of nude to non nude in art. We wanted to go over nudity and how it’s incorporated in your art, my art, everyone else’s art, so we’re going to have a conversation about that on Sunday, tomorrow, at 1pm eastern. We have a guest speaker that will be speaking about their art and nudity. I’m giving the guest speaker my spot, because usually me Lior + Roarie, we usually talk about the topic a little bit and our art process around that topic, and then we open the floor for everyone to discuss.

    We have 3 speakers and then the rest of the event is just a conversation with the community so everyone is welcome to join in. To make space for the guest speaker, I’ve given up my spot to be a speaker and I will just be there participating, so I’m very excited. I’m going to read off the questions we’re going to focus on right now so you can get an idea of some of the things we’ll be talking about tomorrow.

    The questions are:

    Define your personal experience with nudity whether in your art or life or both.

    How do you distinguish between when nudity is presented in a sexual or nonsexual context?

    What is your intention behind the use of nudity in your work? What does it represent?

    Was there a time you observed controversial usage of nudity (can you describe how it was used and why it felt controversial?)

    I’m so excited to dive into this with yall, very excited, so I would super love for you to join us! It’s a choose your own donation price entry, so it could be a dollar, whatever you want to donate. The conversation tomorrow is donation based, the art shares (the next one is next month) those are free for everybody. The conversation we go more in depth and we are also trying to build the community so having some funds makes it much easier to build, and to pay the guest speaker and all of that. So yeah choose your own donation, you can come for whatever price you feel. I’m very excited and would love for you to join us.

    If you’re curious about some of the nuance of this before going into the event, me and Lior + Roarie have been doing livestreams on instagram around this topic and some of the questions, so if you want to look into some of those before joining the event, I’ll put the links down below. I’ll just put the link to the GBTL account because that’s where all the lives are. That’ll be in the caption below.

    CLICK HERE FOR GBTL INSTAGRAM TO WATCH THE LIVES

    I don’t want to talk about too much in this video because I realize the longer it is the less likely it is for people to read it, because huge blocks of text can be overwhelming, so this is your official invitation to the GBTL conversation event about NUDITY that’s happening tomorrow, so please join us we would love to have you there!

    If you’re a Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color and you are in need of financial help, like if you would like a scholarship to join the event for free, send me an email at bunnyluna@pm.me and I will give you the code to get in for free.

    Okay I love you, thank you so much for joining us, or me, haha I’m used to talking for GBTL. Thank you so much for joining me here on my website! I am looking forward to creating queer and ecosexual and self love content for yall. I’m still figuring out exactly what I want to do for that, but I will for sure start posting content in that realm by June for sure, but I also want to give myself a break from doing things on a regular basis since I’ve been doing basically a weekly post on my website since… 2016? When it was originally on patreon, so that’s 5 years. I’m taking a little break to recalibrate, so that’s why there’s not as much from me. Yeah I will come back and be better than ever!

    Yeah I just wanted to invite you to the conversation event that’s tomorrow, please come, here’s the link in the thing below. I love you, thank you for being here, and I will talk to you soon!

    CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE COMMUNITY CONVERSATION ABOUT NUDITY – TOMORROW 1PM EASTERN!

     

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  • Eva Luna & KH

    January 2, 2021 /

     

    CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:

    Hi friends! I am doing this video a week in advance and prepping this week’s content a week in advance also because when this will be happening, when I usually would have been recording this and sharing it I will be in Durham with Lior and Roarie for Going Beyond the Lens. I wanted to do this early so that I could really focus on being present with Lior and Roarie while we’re in person together in Durham. I’m so excited. By the time this video comes out the event will already have happened, but if you missed it and didn’t get to sign up for the Backstage Pass event, I’m going to link below to all the information about it, because if you missed it, I’m not sure how, but just in case I’m going to put the link below. (CLICK HERE FOR INFO) If you missed the event, because this is going to be coming out on January 2nd and the event is December 30th. If you missed the event and you didn’t sign up and you’re like “oh nooo I really wanted to watch yall create together and I really wanted to see what questions you answered and I wanted to be a part of that and I totally forgot!” or whatever, you can donate $11 or more to me or Lior or Roarie or I can link our bigcartel shop below which is where you can donate, there’s a lot of different amounts you can donate, but if you donate $11 or more we will send you the recording! (CLICK HERE TO DONATE) So if you missed it and you’re kicking yourself for it, email me or something and I can get you set up. So yeah $11 or more and you can get the recording, yay!

    Okay now back to website things. This week I’m sharing a photoset that I took in the summer of 2019 with Eva Luna and KH and this was outside of Portland Oregon. We went to a nude beach, which was amazing and probably my favorite place that I went when I was in Portland. There’s a lot of places I went and I can’t say that I had one particular favorite over the whole trip, actually maybe I can I have a couple of favorites, but… In terms of my time in Portland, my favorite place that I went when I was in Portland was this nude beach. I just love being places where it’s expected for you to be naked, who would have known haha. Places where it’s okay to be naked out in nature to me are super important and super my kind of places so yeah this was a very fun shoot. I met up with Eva and KH and we drove together to this nude beach and we hung out for a few hours and took a bunch of pictures and it was super fun. I did have an upsetting thing happen while we were there. So earlier in my road trip when I was in Joshua Tree I posed for Moss Von Faustenberg and he took several polaroids and he gave me 3 or 4 of them which I was super excited about because I love having tangible things and also the photos were really amazing. So these polaroids I had in my camera bag and when we were shooting we didn’t want to lug all of our stuff all around the beach the whole time, so we found a nice spot just in the woods right off of the beach. There was this little clearing and we put all our stuff there and kept an eye on it as much as we could. We didn’t keep an eye on our stuff well enough because someone went through our stuff and I…. guess, I don’t know, they must not have cared much about stealing cameras or phones or credit cards. They just moved our stuff around and the only thing they stole from me, they stole those polaroids, and I was very sad. But I was also very thankful that it wasn’t like my whole camera bag or my phone or keys or credit card or ID or all the things, I could have been so screwed. All they stole was… I had this tin, it was like a tin that chocolate came in from Switzerland, it was like swiss chocolate, used to be swiss chocolate, it was a tin that had swiss chocolate in it, it was the perfect size to keep polaroids in. I had the polaroids in it and this like crinkley rainbowey holographicy shiny clearish paper plasticky stuff that was really fun to put in front of the lens to get cool light and color and stuff. That film paper stuff and the polaroids were in that tin and that tin is the only thing that got stolen. I guess they really liked the nude polaroids and didn’t care about my camera and credit card? I’m very thankful that that’s all they stole but also I’m really sad because the only evidence I have of those polaroids is a really short video that I took of the polaroids. If you’re in the first look tier, the Nov 28th post that I did when I shared the like fuck ton of stuff that I was a part of in Joshua Tree, you can see that really short video that includes the polaroids in it, in that content. So that’s the only evidence of those polaroids that I have. I was supposed to have the physical polaroids that I was bringing home, but they didn’t make it. Somebody stole them when I was in Portland. I was really sad about that, but I was also very thankful that it wasn’t anything more crucial that they stole from me because I could have been really screwed. Those photos, these are the single exposures that I took of Eva and KH and also I’m sharing the BTS video from that shoot. I think they’re amazing photos I’m so excited.

    For First look this week I’m sharing a self portrait photoset that I took with my mom and some behind the scenes video from that. The self portraits that I took with my mom we took them in this room, my bedroom. This was before I moved in here again so this room was empty and we took advantage of that space. I’m gonna turn this… just took photos in front of my curtain. Uh yeah so self portraits with my mom in here when there was nothing here and yay.

    That’s my story for this week. I love you! Thank you so much for being here! It is because of you that I’m able to do any of this and that means the world to me that you enjoy my content and you care what I have to say in some capacity, that you support me in this adventure that is my self employment as an artist, even when I barely create anything anymore. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there are major changes coming to my website soon, I don’t exactly know what that is yet but I know more and more that that is coming up. Head’s up, things are changing, I don’t know what or when but it’s gonna happen at some point because I’m not totally happy with the way things are done on my website right now. Like, I have a system in place that works but it’s not as fulfilling and exciting and fun as I would like it to be, so I want to shift things around and I don’t know exactly what that is yet. You’ll know when I know.

    I love you so much! Thank you for being here, it means so much to me and literally means that I can pay my bills so that means a lot, in this capitalist bullshit existence. Well the existence isn’t bullshit, it’s the capitalist stuff that’s bullshit but you know, I’m trying to live outside of capitalism in any way that I can, which is very hard, but we’re doing what we can here. I love you. *blows kiss* bye!

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  • Waterfall Introspection

    December 26, 2020 /

     

    CAPTION FOR THE VIDEO ABOVE:

    Hi friends, welcome to another week of… my website. So this week I have a self portrait set that I took in 2018 on that first solo road trip that I went on, I talked about it… 2 weeks ago in the other waterfall self portrait set that I shared. I visited a whole bunch of waterfalls on this trip, it was like a long weekend, so this is a different waterfall and somehow after I took the photos and uploaded them to my smugmug, I forgot about this whole trip of self portraits that I took, somehow? So that’s why I’m sharing them now because I like somehow lost them / forgot about them after I took them and just never shared them. These photos I took I don’t even remember the name of the place that I was hiking. I probably could find it if I saw a map and looked back through some stuff. I hiked, this was in the mountains because that’s like my favorite place to be, I was hiking in the mountains near some waterfalls and I came upon this area that was a whole bunch of bare rock next to the river that had a little waterfall on it further up the river. I just hung out there for a long time and nobody really showed up for a long time so I was like “okay I feel safe being naked here” so I took some self portraits and then I got dressed and I think I was pulling oracle cards and journaling, and then a small family, like 2 or 3 person little group of adult and little children came by, and so I was like “okay so that’s perfect that I wasn’t naked when they showed up” because usually its people with kids that get annoyed or angry when people don’t have clothes on. So yeah that’s the photoset I’m sharing this week.

    I have a video that has nothing to do with this photoset that I’m also sharing. This video I took.. I believe it was 2019, I’m not sure if it was before or after my cross country trip (EDIT: it was after). This was me when I lived at my sister’s house, hanging out in the living room in my sister’s house and listening to music and like, dancing and moving around and playing with the kittens… I call them shittens. Playing with shittens back when the cats that my sister has were actually kittens. They were so friggin cute. So this video is me just playing and dancing around and moving my body and playing with little kittens, so me and shittens, and dancing kindof, yoga ish, movement video.

    First look people, I’m sharing more photos from Columbus Ohio. These are photos that Jacs Fishburne took of me and Lior Allay when we were traveling there, so these are I believe… all of the photos I am sharing with me and Lior and Jacs, which there are 3 photosets. I shared one of them last week, that was Lior’s photos of me and Jacs, this week it’s Jacs photos of me and Lior, and then next week I’ll be sharing… no I already shared those. The ones of Lior and Jacs that I took were the week before that. Next week I’ll be sharing something different. But yeah, so these are all from the same day and it was very fun. So first look is getting the photos and BTS videos of Jacs photographing me and Lior.

    Speaking of Lior… if you didn’t already see it, I am going to be in Durham at the end of the month and I just got tested, I am negative, I got my result yesterday, covid negative, yay! I’m meeting up in person with Lior and Roarie and we are going to be brainstorming and dreaming up the future possibilities for Going Beyond the Lens and we are offering an event while we’re all together. We’re calling it Backstage Pass because you get a backstage pass to our shoot, we’re going to create together, the 3 of us, and the first half of the backstage pass event is gonna be the 3 of us answering all of your questions about shooting and how to communicate with the people you’re creating with, how to make sure everybody feels safe, how to make sure there’s consent, how to bounce ideas off of each other, all of these things, so I’m really excited because I have created with both of them, Lior and Roarie, but they have actually never met each other in person so this is going to be the first time that they’re creating together period, and this is the first time that we’re going to be all 3 creating together. I’m very excited because they’re both amazing people and they know each other now through all of the things we’ve been doing together, I just think that like, when you only know someone through the internet it’s different than when you actually get to meet them in person, so I’m very excited that we’re all going to be in person together and yeah I think I’m just super excited in general to be in person with them because it’s been a long time. We’re all getting tested, all self quarantining, being extra careful so that we make sure we’re not going to accidentally spread covid. Like I said I just got my covid test result back yesterday and I am covid negative, and I’m going to continue to like not leave my house until I go there basically. So yeah I’m excited.

    Yeah I think that’s all I have to say today. Come and join us to be a part of the Backstage Pass event. I’ll put a link in the caption below. (CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!) This is a fundraising event for Going Beyond the Lens because we would really like to maybe create a website or some kind of community forum or something. We need to change the way we’re doing things online a little bit, because right now we have stuff in a google drive and it’s almost full already. We need to make some plans in terms of infrastructure, and so we are fundraising through this event. Tickets are $11 and we also have an option if you’d like to donate an additional amount of money that is available also, which is also super really appreciated. We have a lot of really exciting dreams and plans for what we would really love to do with Going Beyond the Lens so we’re hoping that this event will help get us a little bit of the money that we need in order to make some of these exciting plans and updates and changes so that we can better serve the GBTL community. So if you’d like to watch us create together live, please join us, I’ll put the link below (CLICK HERE!!!!) It’s only $11, this is a once in a lifetime thing, I don’t know if we’ll be able to do this again for a while. I don’t want to say once in a lifetime because I assume we’ll be able to do something like this again at some point, but I have no idea when something like this will happen again. Also if you can’t make it, the event is on December 30th, it’s a Wednesday I believe, and it’s from 10am-1pm eastern time. If you cannot make it, every single person who signs up will be getting a recording of the whole event so if you can’t make it there’s no worries because you can watch it whenever. Yeah I’m just really excited, its going to be really fun, and it’ll basically be the first time I’ve created in months.

    Okay, I love you, thank you for being here, and I’ll talk to you soon! Mwah!

    All members:
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    click here to view the 5 minute video of me playing with kittens & moving my body
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    Click here for the passwords, they change the 1st of every month

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  • Backstage Pass to a LIVE photoshoot

    December 22, 2020 /

    Join GBTL founders behind the scenes during a photoshoot, LIVE

    Have you ever wondered…

    • How to communicate with other artists before/during/after creating together?
    • How to ensure the comfort of the models you work with?
    • How to set the environment/mood for a photoshoot?
    • What the creation process looks like for Bunny, Lior and Roarie?

    Then you’re in luck! For the first time ever, Bunny, Lior, and Roarie will be gathering together IN PERSON to dream up the future of GBTL and to CREATE TOGETHER! We are inviting you into our creative practice through this workshop in which we will discuss the bullet points above and then demonstrate during an actual photoshoot, LIVE!

    The itinerary: About 1.5 hours of discussion and answering questions followed by 1.5 hours of creating together.

    If you have questions for us, please submit them while signing up. This ensures we will be able to answer them in the beginning portion of the event.

    The event will be held on FreeConferenceCall. Please sign up online or download the app before the event starts.

    If you can’t join live for any reason, everyone who registers will receive the recording of the event.

    This is a fundraising event for the future of GBTL. We are looking forward to revealing what that future will look like soon!

    Thank you for your time and energy,

    Bunny, Lior, & Roarie

    CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

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