my inspiration, my hero

Stephen Christian is quite possibly the most brilliant man on this earth. Seriously, his words push me forward. His music is amazing, and so is his book.

Self portrait

Recent not so interesting photos

Lyrics that are constantly stuck in my head...

But Your love
Your love
The only thing that matters is Your love
Your love is all I have to give
Your love is enough to light up the darkness
It’s Your love
Your love
all I ever needed is Your love

Anyways...
I'm so glad that I have found my passion.
Wednesday, I spent somewhere around 8-9 hours in the dark room at The Art Institute just messing around. I was completely absorbed into what I was doing. I'm getting better at printing. I'm so sucked in to learning about the dark room and developing now... I love film so much more than digital, it's just.. different. I don't know what it is. But it's different. And it's real to me. I'm not saying that digital isnt real, not at all. Both film and digital require skills to take a good photograph that isnt just another snapshot by someone with a camera. But there is just something about film that I love. Seeing your images appear on your roll of film is just..awesome!

Well considering I havent been too proud of the photos I've been taking (rushrushrushrushrush)..This is the best I've got.. for now..I just havent put any new photos up lately and I feel like I should be putting some of my recent work up... The lighting on my drinks is slowly getting better, I think.

 

 

Monkeys!

I havent really uploaded any of my recent assignments... because for the most part.. I am disappointed with my work since I'm rushing this quarter. I don't even want to look at most of my photos and I would prefer to drag most of them in to the trash bin..

So here. This is what I did my first quarter at AIP. Both were for Fundamentals of Design. I guess I have some sort of artsy whatever in me.

A monkey made out of letters.

This was part of a seven deadly sins project.. It's suppose to show greed.. and I had to use the monkey. I made it in Adobe Illustrator. Apparently I can draw better on the computer than I can with a pencil (I can't draw crap with a pencil)....

I got an A. woot! I really love that monkey ^^^^^

Derp

It is completely possible to get photo assignments done and have fun at the same time.
Actually, I haven't had much fun in weeks. I need stuff like this once in a while......or I'll go psycho again like I did last quarter....I froze my butt off today to get photos for my assignments (and so did Claire, THANKS!!!)

What once was just my photobooth... fish picture... turned in to a mess of other photos...(yes.. we STILL have fun in photobooth...) I'll upload photos from my real assignment once I get them set up in Lightroom and junk.. they are still on my camera :P

I had a plan... which involved painting on Claire's face to get photos.. well.. I should have known we would never be able to handle something like that..

I really, really hate that I'm trying so hard in digital image management, but I am like.. a borderline C right now. seriously? I dont know what else to do. That is the class that I spend the most time on because I consider that teacher to be absolutely brilliant. I am improving too. And I keep getting the same exact grade every week. Apparently I'm not improving enough. I need to think of ideas....


..............

I'm out of ideas for this quarter.
I want it to be over.

YAY!!!!!!!!

Claire is home, Claire is home, Claire is home, CLAIRE IS HOOOOOME!!!!!
I feel so much better knowing that my best friend is 15 minutes away from me instead of 12 hours.

I had to shoot photos for a project due Tuesday (what else is new?).. and I got some really awesome shots thanks to Claire..

but of course, the usual goofing off had to take place......

So glad you're home. I missed this kind of stuff.