Slighty Feral Media: The Raccoon's Cabinet of Curiosities

FIELD NOTE// THE FUNCTION OF THE BEHAVIOR Mannequins for Friends, Cold Sweat Cabin and Reptile House at Soundbite Social Warehouse on Broadway Kansas City, Missouri August 5, 2026 Written by: Alethea Mehdipour- Slightly Feral Media  Humans are forever building rooms and then filling them with things the walls were clearly not designed to contain.  Bass. Sweat. Grief. Joy. Somebody’s entire personality expressed through a guitar pedal.  She likes humans this way. Not polished. Not especially sensible. Gathered together in the dark making something temporary and loud and impossible to keep.  The photographs are the data.  The evidence something happened.   On this particular Wednesday, the raccoon arrived at Soundbite Social inside Warehouse on Broadway carrying a camera, several lenses, and the remains of a very long day. The earlier professional habitat remains classified. The small human involved deserves privacy.  The only relevant field note is this...

The System Behind a Million-Dollar Fireworks Show | Pyrotechnics The System: Why a Million-Dollar Fireworks Show Begins with a Piece of Tape Behind the Scenes of the Million Dollar Fireworks Festival and America’s 250th Celebration in Frontenac, Kansas Backstage Pyrotechnics | Camptown Event Center | Frontenac, Kansas Written by: Alethea F. Mehdipour- Slightly Feral Media Most people who attended the Million Dollar Fireworks Festival – America's 250th Celebration Bash in Frontenac, Kansas will remember what happened after sunset. Nearly 10,000 cues, fireworks rose into the Kansas sky in perfect synchronization with music. Colors bloomed exactly when they were supposed to. Every shell appeared on cue. Every effect became part of a much larger story written across the night sky.

The First Expedition Field Notes from the Firing Line, Part Two The First Expedition documents Alethea Mehdipour’s first full J & M Displays fireworks shoot near Bonner Springs, Kansas, through Laverna the Rockin’ Raccoon’s field notes on pyrotechnics, live event production, fireworks safety, racks, shells, quarry heat, and the work behind a fireworks display. The raccoon has reviewed the evidence. Part One was the long fuse. Part Two is where the raccoon enters the field and immediately discovers that the field is made of rock, dust, heat, explosives, and poor shade availability. The first full J & M Displays expedition took place on July 2 near Bonner Springs, Kansas. This show was shot at a rock quarry. A hot one. On a cliff-edge. The raccoon arrived early and waited outside the quarry because new habitats should be observed before they begin making demands. Also, the raccoon was nervous. This has been logged. The quarry was huge. Not large. Huge. The kind of place ...