Wara is a shortened form of my professional name (Akonwara).
It's a Mohawk spirit that lives in the woods and steals away wanderers.
It was initially my dance name (and still is); when I entered my first battle, I couldn't even remember my own name, that was the only one I could think of.
Jessica is my first name--hence the nickname "Jessi".
I chose "Magnolia", because it's an homage to my late step-father who passed away suddenly in 2008. Magnolia, deriving from the Dead song "Sugar Magnolia", and my stepfather considered the dead the end all be all in music.
After he passed away, I told myself I'd do something with my life, that would make him proud, so if I ever succeed at any level in modeling, using Magnolia as my last name, would be a kind of tribute to him.
Nightshade is the poison that Sally used to knock out Dr. Finklestein in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It's an actual flower that is purple and extremely deadly.
When I signed up, "Brian Hilson" was already taken. But I never set up a profile before. So I had to come up with something else. At the time I was having a lot of trouble sleeping (off and on since childhood in fact)and had just finished reading a book. One of the characters was slowly going insane because he lost the ability to sleep and kept hoping for "that thin slice of oblivion." I ran with it.
he term paradigm shift, as a change in a fundamental model of events, has since become widely applied to many other realms of human experience as well, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share." (The Essential Tension, 1977). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, "a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself." (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). Once a paradigm shift is complete, a scientist cannot, for example, posit the possibility that miasma causes disease or that ether carries light. In contrast, a critic in the Humanities can choose to adopt a 19th-century theory of poetics, for instance.
Although I mostly just think of it as a reminder to view things from an ever changing perspective.
Paradigm Shift wrote: he term paradigm shift, as a change in a fundamental model of events, has since become widely applied to many other realms of human experience as well, even though Kuhn himself restricted the use of the term to the hard sciences. According to Kuhn, "A paradigm is what members of a scientific community, and they alone, share." (The Essential Tension, 1977). Unlike a normal scientist, Kuhn held, "a student in the humanities has constantly before him a number of competing and incommensurable solutions to these problems, solutions that he must ultimately examine for himself." (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions). Once a paradigm shift is complete, a scientist cannot, for example, posit the possibility that miasma causes disease or that ether carries light. In contrast, a critic in the Humanities can choose to adopt a 19th-century theory of poetics, for instance.
Although I mostly just think of it as a reminder to view things from an ever changing perspective.
I've often wondered if you were referencing the concept or the popular definition. Now I know
Great name choice.
I actually gutted my way through The Structure of Scientific Revolutions...though I admit I only understood a small fraction of what I read.
I photograph life thru my lens as I see it or translate it. not much explaining. I was hacked to find out I wasnt the first person to come up with that name. lol.
It's because I have awesome pants. That simple.
I have awesome pants that you'll never see in this profile.
Also, this is my name because I was thinking of a name when I was changing it and it sorta just popped into my head.
I love my first name...never met another Patrice. I used to use my full name until someone approached me at a gig with one of my implied pics on their phone. My two worlds collided just a little.
"D. T." is drawn from Robert Heinlein and Edgar Rice Burroughs. In the former, it is the name of John Carter's wife "Number of the Beast".......which draws from Burroughs Mars series. Like the former, "D. T." does not stand for anything; it can as easily be David Taylor (American Engineering Admiral) or Deja Thoris or Dejan Thoris.......etc..
Masters is a popular name in Brit sci fi stories.......and it's also the name of the novelist that Magnum and Higgens worked for.
Zay is named after my best friend who was taken much before his prime from AIDS. His partner, Jordan, followed about a year and a half later. Jordan affectionally called me Nori because of my sushi habits.
and there you have it!
