part two

for those who do really dig photo, there is a year's worth of pictures on the blog mindofthephotographer.blogspot.com as a forwarning though, you may want to read lightly. goes with the territory. but the pictures are good if you want to look through his archives when you have some time. the blog is complete (it was only meant to last a year), so he doesn't post very often at all. but the frogurt is also cursed.... :D

days in frames

it's interesting to see progression through art. i developed the Reshoot of the studio shoot today, and you have a lot of time to think while holding the canister of fixer and doing the half-bouncy, sleepy baby mom-stroll around the dark room. the pictures turned out great, and what's better, ms. tuttle found that they Hadn't deleted the test pictures off of the digital, so i have a cd. good stuff. but it made me laugh to compare the pictures to those that i've taken through time. even just from last year, there's a marked style change. some of it just may be the mood of the studio, but i don't think that all of it is. it makes me wonder what happened that changed my style so much. the year may have had a lot to do with it (two best friends on missions, another married, the penguin, and other things). how have a changed? it's times like this that i wish that i could change lenses and look through another's perspective. how would i think of myself a couple years ago if i had seen what i would become? i wonder sometimes.

p.s.- the cat is eighth grade, the park is last april, and the rose is last week. they're a little out of order. hasta.

when it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year...

in light of thursday's haphazard events (ah, scheduling stress-hub. i hate being the person who's in charge!), today's even better. my film was due wednesday, but i had to shoot wednesday after school and then thursday after school too. MT gave me an extention to monday to have it developed. perfect. photo shoot during class and then develop after school. well, i pull my models out as fourth starts and we head to the studio. however, it took my studio partner the entire time to do her work and i didn't even start shooting till the bell had rung. i matched the readout of my camera with the digital and we shot, finishing in an hour. not bad. so i develop and when the moment of truth arrives, there was weaping and whaleing and nashvilling teeth. the strobe was out of sink with the shutter. i get the last milimeter of each picture. the other pictures were all fine, just the studio shots were messed up. so i have to REdo the Entire shoot. it's so good that i can go do it during the UBSCT tests this week, or somebody would die.
--if i can get my scanner to be somewhat functional, i will scan a neg or two and post them.--

omphaloskepsis

n : contemplation of one's navel

creativity

i really have the urge to do this creative-like, but there's no possible way. all i can think of is a frog (or penguin) in a tutu. he wasn't even there. but it makes a sillier picture than the ocelot does. maya needs an animal. something, well, maya-ish.

i'm a semi-poetic type. it comes from reading too much lewis carroll, and growing up in an anti social family of ocd nerds. the end result: beatnik poetry night! can't you see it? the little theatre, a stool in the far corner, with a light illumiating the dusky orator. round tables scatter the floor and the room is heavy with dark purple light. ah. it's there! we can do it!

i think that keeping a straight face throughout will be the hardest. let's see if i can come up with a good improv poem for the tigerline interpretive dance advertizement.

the deepest shadows of my soul are here exposed...

the twenty-fifth! the twenty-fifth!
the english world starts to shift!
not in d hall, nor in c
the main office is where you want to be

the dateless dude shall lose his woe
bring her to the theatre,
his beatnik side begin to show,
and with his words entreat her.

come one, come others and move it to the beat-nik

with the macarena in the foreground? yeah, it'll be good.i need feedback tough. i really want to write a real poem now. i'll see what i can do. chow all.