Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Opposites!

Today was a beautiful day! I started off my morning right by...no, wait, I didn't have breakfast, so it started with class. Digital photography was eh...alright. I just made a bunch of prints and finished my panorama (which I'll eventually post). I also had studio today and continued to work on my Opposites project. Here's the photos!

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Then Kayla and I decided to take some silly photos

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And Me!

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Recap

So I didn't update all weekend for a few reasons. The hard drive in my poor macbook went, so the apple store had to take care of me and replace it. It's a good thing that I had almost everything backed up on my external hard drive. Another reason I didn't update was because I was out having a good time. I saw two movies too, Taken and The Haunting in Connecticut...which actually, both were good. I brought back my little Nikon Coolpix camera to school so that I could update daily with silly pictures from my days that I don't have actual photographs. The next few pictures are from the weekend.

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This is the machine that I was using until my baby was fixed...pretty old!
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I had to bring my little brother to his baseball practice...I sat in my truck and read...and twittered of course!

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I got chinese food with Ryan on Saturday night and these noodles were possibly the best things ever

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And last but not least...the train ride back to the city. It was a bit of a blur and I was very upset because I came from Dakota's wake. It was nice to see a lot of people there to pay their respects. He will be greatly missed.

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These next two videos are time lapse photography videos. There were many of them featured on Abduzeedo, but these two really caught my eye...please check them out, and then click the link and check out this amazing site if you don't already (I KNOW YOU DO SAMER!)


London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.


Timelapse testing Panasonic DMC-G1 from MILapse on Vimeo.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Home Sweet Home

Hello New Jersey!

I have missed you, even though it has only been about 2 1/2 weeks since we were last together. This morning I registered for my classes for next year. I was pretty happy that I got almost all of them. The Astronomy class that I wanted to take was full (as it was last year when I attempted to take it), but it's okay. This is going to be a short post as I am expected to get my little brother off the school bus in 5 minutes. I'm going on a small photo adventure with my lady Alissa the Kissa later, so there will be some new pictures up soon! Stay Tuned!

Thursday, March 26, 2009

A Sad Day

My mom called me yesterday and told me that a close friend had passed away. His name was Dakota McNabb and he was only 14 years old. He had a rough past year and even though we all thought he was getting better, he wasn't. I babysat Dakota and his younger sister Madison for a few years. I became very close to both of them, and their parents as well. Dakota was a great kid. He loved to play sports and was just overall one of the sweetest kids I have ever known. He will be greatly missed. It feels like I've lost a younger brother. I'm trying to keep my head up as difficult as it is. Rest in peace Dakota, I love you <3

Got the news the other day,
a child's innocence taken away.
(You were never scared, I'll always care)
Grandson to son and a memory we'll never lose in time.

Am I making you proud of me?
'Cause I know you can hear me.

You were too young, too fast for you to go
and now I don't understand why.
I can't stand to watch a mother and father cry.
I look up to you.

Four years your younger brother caused me to always wonder why.
(If it's the only way, I'll talk to you)
Home is not home, I swear I'll still see you.
I miss you.

Am I making you proud of me?
'Cause I know you can hear this.

You were too young, too fast for you to go
and now I don't understand why.
I can't stand to watch a mother and father cry.
I look up to you.

You were too young, too fast for you to go
and now I don't understand why.
I can't stand to watch a mother and father cry.
I look up to you.


-Bedlight for Blue Eyes

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Crazy Day

Today has been...odd. I am never in this mood and I blame my Critique class that I had today. There was just something about today's class that put a million thoughts into my head. I now have to sort through all of my ideas and place them into corresponding spots to organize my brain. It all started, actually, because of my friend Julie.

So two weeks ago my school had our Spring Break. Julie is in a band and they decided to take a week and a half road trip down to Texas. They had a bus that ran on vegetable oil? or something like that, and decided to take a group of about 20 people (4 bands) and just go. Listening to her talk about all the amazing stuff she saw and encountered, not to mention seeing her photos, makes me really want to leave the city and do something similar. I've never been out west and would love to just drive to random cities and towns and photograph the people there.

My teacher also assigned us a project due in three weeks. We have to create a series of photographs and then make a book. He doesn't want us to make a traditional book though, unless it really goes well with the series. I have a few ideas about how I might go about doing this, but it's really difficult trying to come up with something original and creative, and just...epic.

There are 5 weeks left of school and I really need summer now more than ever. I want to get away from the business and commotion of the city. This summer is going to be amazing.

Okay time for pictures. In studio class we have to do a photograph that has to do with opposites. I've decided to turn this into a small series. I'm doing opposite colors. Here are two that I took yesterday:





I am now off to look at some inspiration sites that Samer (http://www.shamefuldesigns.blogspot.com/) has given me to look at. Then I'm going to sit down and sort through some of my ideas.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
— Chris McCandless

Monday, March 16, 2009

Slacking

For the very people who actually read my blog, I am very sorry that it's been so long since I've updated. This past week was my spring break and I wasn't around/on my computer much.

I worked a many hours at Toys R Us to make some money to last me the rest of the semester in the Big Apple. I also started dating...well, officially started dating, a nice boy from my town. He makes me very happy and extremely comfortable. I like being able to be myself around people and not have to worry about them judging me seriously. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a VERY judgmental person, but usually it's about people I don't care about. Haha, I'm such a bitch.

BUT ANYWAYS!
I started classes up again today, and there are only about 6 weeks left, and I can't wait for summer!

Hopefully I'll have some pictures posted soon. I didn't have much time last week to take some photos, so this week I'll be taking a lot.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Home Sweet Home :D

I am finally back in New Jersey for a week of Spring Break. There's so much snow on the ground though, so hopefully with the upcoming 60 degree weather, we'll get it out of here.

Last night was the night! At midnight a few of my friends and I went to see Watchmen. For 2 1/2 hours I was in amazement. The movie was AMAZING! Granted, I read the book and the book is much better due to more details and stuff, but for a book adaptation, the movie was so good. I'm probably going to go see it a few more times too, haha.

Well, today is going to consist of me eventually getting off of the couch, showering, heading up to the daycare by my house to acquire about a second job for when I come home in the summer, then heading to toys r us with my grandma to pick up a basketball hoop she bought. Hopefully tonight I'll be seeing Ryan :]

I hope everyone has a good weekend!!!

Samer - Good luck this weekend with your gallery shenanigans! <3


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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Instead of Packing

Instead of packing to go home tomorrow night for spring break, I'm going to update my blog.

Yesterday was a full day of classes since the city of New York can only shut down for a day out of the whole year for snow :P Digital photography was okay. I just printed some photos for my portfolio, nothing too exciting. Then, in studio my group and I decided to try out putting gels on the lights. We used a blue, pink, and yellow one on 3 different lights, and used that to light the model. The outcome of the lighting was very cool, however, the model was a bit difficult to retouch. I'm definitely planning on doing this again with a different model, and definitely different clothes. I think it would be awesome to do it with a model in a bathing suit. Anyways, here are 2 of the pictures from the shoot:






Well, Important Things with Demetri Martin is now over, so I'm going to watch the rerun of The Real World that was just on. Hopefully I'll start getting at least my clothes together for break. I am extremely excited to get back to Jersey tomorrow.

And tomorrow night at midnight you can find me seeing this!

Monday, March 2, 2009

History

Today was the first day since I've been going to SVA that we've had a snow day! It was very exciting, but very boring I must say. I didn't do much but edit some pictures, go up on the roof in an attempt to take some pictures, and then watch Heroes. This is going to be a short post, but here are 2 pictures from today. The second one is a self portrait taken in "another world". I had to do it for my digital photography class that I have tomorrow morning. It's pretty cool, I guess. Goodnight, blogspot!

City on the Edge of Forever

Look Mom! I'm on Top of a Mountain!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Apparently, Blogspot is better than Tumblr

Dear Blogspot,

I am so very sorry for trading you in for a tumblr. Tumblr is not nearly as fun as blogspot. So now I am back. Samer is going to be very happy to see this post. Let me give you a recap on what's been going on.

I have been very busy with various classes such as my digital photography class and my studio class. Thursday night I did a photoshoot with 3 boys I go to school with who are running for our student government, VASA. Pictures posted at the end, don't worrrrry! I also did a few "musician promos" for my photography on assignment class. I didn't feel like asking any of my friends who are actually in bands because most of them are unreliable when it comes to making plans and actually following through with them on time. Luckily, my one roommate Teresa was available for the job so she was turned into a guitar player for the night. Friday rolled around, which meant the weekend. Samer came to the city early to surprise Kayla, because we are VERRRRRRRYYYYY clever (and sneaky). Friday night came and Ryan came to visit. The four of us ventured to Brooklyn where we stayed for a whole 15 minutes and decided to come home. Yesterday consisted of a photo adventure. Samer's designs (Shameful Designs) is going to be featured in a magazine, so I helped him out by taking photos of one of his hoodies. More to come about that at another time.

Here are some pictures I've recently taken. The ones with the SD hoodie are links to Samer's blog! So definitely check it out!

New American Classic

The Sound That Saves Me

Be My Escape

The Fresh Princes

The Fresh Princes

The Fresh Princes



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