In many traditions, healing is said to occur when you raise your vibration into Divine Alignment (which sounds like a really tough task, but I’m finding incorporating practices and habits little by little might make this more manageable). I discovered Ra Ma Da Sa, Sa Say So Hung today and couldn’t wait until Self Care SundayContinue reading “Meditation for Healing: Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hung”
Author Archives: Kristyn Potter
Bali
J’adore Paris
Lit Love
The Diamond District
[short story] On the outskirts of town lay a compound of mobile homes, placed in rows and set on identical basement foundations. Decorative potted palms engulf the front doors of these silver bullets, with twinkling Christmas lights strewn on each of the front porches, frankincense and sandalwood incense filling the air, and a calm thatContinue reading “The Diamond District”
Coney Island
[poetry] My despondency is at an all time high, the circumstances which brought me here an all time low. Where is the reality tv producer when you need him? Someone to yell “cut” and raise the lights I’m a slave in my own castle, lacking the self discipline to eat three meals a day, myContinue reading “Coney Island”
Clean sidewalks
[spoken word/poetry] This council meeting is called to order. Raise your hand if you’ve recently felt overburdened by the weight of the world simply from doing a small, mindless act like taking out the trash. Those large bins were made to overflow from consumption, sitting in the junkyard of materialism. Celebrate your spending, your materialContinue reading “Clean sidewalks”
Unknown forces
[poetry] You’re nothing but a piece to me, an artery, an intestine; a lung. You are nothing but a warm heart that my body needs for a short period of time before I reject you and cast your limbs away. Take a number; my body is here for the taking but not my mind. WatchContinue reading “Unknown forces”
Role play
[spoken word/poetry] Because of his accident, we always make love with him on the bottom, his legs dangling beneath my weight like collateral damage, his stomach flattened from the air seeping out of his lungs, arms skinny from nerve deterioration, his member hard as nails. He never liked his disability to get in the way,Continue reading “Role play”
Visa Pour L’Image
New York Fashion Week
Diversity In Media Awards
N. // Preview
“I like people quite well at a little distance. I like to see them passing and passing and going their own way, especially if I see their aloneness alive in them. Yet I don’t want them to come near. If they will only leave me alone I can still have the illusion that thereContinue reading “N. // Preview”
Paris, September at Sunset (2015)
Who, Moi?
Hi beautiful people! My name is Kristyn. I’m a Digital Marketer by day, an undercover novelist by night, and a Francophile on the weekends. I have a M.A. in Media Communications from Webster University (and studied in London for a bit of that) and a B.A. in Communication-Journalism from a small liberal arts school in theContinue reading “Who, Moi?”
Words I Love
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the pointContinue reading “Words I Love”
Side Project: Left Bank Magazine
I decided to create Left Bank Magazine on a long subway ride home from work one evening- the “undiscovered” and underground art and music scene is quite inspiring, and I wanted to get more involved with it, as well as focus more on creating my own art. In 2010, I launched what would become a fairly successfulContinue reading “Side Project: Left Bank Magazine”
What I’m Reading
Wanderlust
Published in Jetset Extra March 2013 “Oslo, Norway: One of the Prettiest Places I Have Been” (feature) March 2013 “Eight Hours in Paris” (feature) January 2013 “Global Street Art” (feature) October 2012 “London, UK: Friday Night in Soho” (travel tips) September 2012 “London, UK: Spending the Day on Marylebone High Street” (tips) July 2012 “London, UK: Talkin’Continue reading “Wanderlust”
Marketing
Strategized and managed digital marketing campaigns for global entertainment brands and produced marketing calendar for various digital channels // Wrote direct-to-consumer marketing copy for websites and landing pages, emails, social media assets and advertisements, and blog // Product Descriptions: Outlander Store, Better Call Saul Store Initiated and developed content marketing program, from ideation and strategy toContinue reading “Marketing”
PR
DIGITAL PR Client: POPmarket Placement in global vinyl and music publications around exclusive products and deals. FleaMarket Funk The Second Disc The Vinyl District Client: Columbia Records Placement in Billboard Magazine regarding Bob Dylan App, built and powered by rGenerator. View article. Client: Sue’s News Bookstore Social media and traditional PR strategies for a St. LouisContinue reading “PR”
Graduate Thesis: Semiotics // Street Art // Rhetoric
My graduate thesis Global Art And Media: The Semiotics of Street Art is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating street art as it relates to rhetoric and semiotics. See below for portions from Abstract. View the site here. ABSTRACT FOR GLOBAL ART AND MEDIA: THE SEMIOTICS OF STREET ART Situation Analysis Global ArtContinue reading “Graduate Thesis: Semiotics // Street Art // Rhetoric”
Firefly. // A Short Story
Firefly. Kristyn M. Potter He stood outside of her front door, glancing down at the last text correspondence that they had collectively engaged in, shocked that he had made it to this point, and so quickly. It had only been a few days of their texting- day-long endeavours, beginning with a coy text about aContinue reading “Firefly. // A Short Story”
Art //
Visual Art Mixed Media- Newspaper, Acrylic, Flower, Euro, Tassel on Canvas Graduate Thesis on the Semiotics of Street Art // Info here. Wrote a graduate thesis paper that analyses the viability of street art as a cultural narrative, using prominent texts on semiotics, art history, and rhetoric. Captured original images of street art inContinue reading “Art //”
What I’m Currently Writing
Today my dear bandmate texted me to tell me that I was going to be an inspiration for one of the characters in her upcoming novel that she was working on for National Novel Writing Month. Shit, I thought, I hope the character is the cool version of myself and not the introspective, deeply spastic, equallyContinue reading “What I’m Currently Writing”
Elements.
The brisk spring air enveloped your body, The night sky left soft kisses on your face, You passed us by into the night, A beautiful mind to erase. Deep along the constellations, Your fallen tears sparkle like glitter from afar, Still air moves us, Waves crash, damaging our hearts, Rest, just rest, As your shipContinue reading “Elements.”
A Tale of Two Cities: The Situation in Ferguson
A Tale of Two Cities: The Situation in Ferguson News of the Michael Brown execution by Ferguson police has the nation in an uproar; the world in a heightened sense of involvement for the global movement against injustice, particularly where officials in authority are concerned. Cat Power and Sky Ferreira frequently post radical images onContinue reading “A Tale of Two Cities: The Situation in Ferguson”
“N: A Collection of Short Stories”
For March 13th. And, May 13,2013. —————————————————- “I lost you on the subway car Got caught without my Metro Card. I waited and I waited for the express train. Gotta catch up to you, wherever you are … It was metal on the mental. It was somethin’ in my heart” –Yeah Yeah Yeahs, SubwayContinue reading ““N: A Collection of Short Stories””
Music Journalism
Music Journalism Interviews June 2014- I Am Oak (Left Bank Magazine) November 2012- Nina Sky| More than Reggaeton Duo (PLAYBACK: stl) October 2012- Kung Fu Crime Wave| Family Band (PLAYBACK: stl) October 2012- Choir of Young Believers (PLAYBACK: stl) October 2012- YACHT | Transcending Culture (PLAYBACK: stl) October 2012- BRAINSTORM | Relationship, or Band? (PLAYBACK: stl) October 2012- Robert DeLong|Existential Whiz Kid (PLAYBACK: stl) Reviews MarchContinue reading “Music Journalism”
Gloucester Place.
An imprint, A first impression, A desire to get things right A post A notice A glance across a room A glass Spectacles Clear skies, Set sail A heavy heart That evaporates with the rain Dark clouds A pond … A tiny glimmer of hope, Unfaltering. Always there, always there.
Kristyn Potter 
You must be logged in to post a comment.