Burning of the Midnight Lamp - Jimi Hendrix

Hiiiiii. I’m so horrible with keeping up with my blogs. It’s not that I don’t want to or that I have no time. It’s the reason being that I hardly live at home anymore and home is where my laptop resides for safety reasons, as we all know.
Although Sus did give me a pep talk on keeping up with my blog so lets try this again.

So waking up this morning was close to horrible due to the fact that the guy who I bought my new gloves from yesterday had warned me “tomorrow there is going to be a 100% chance of snow and at least a foot if not more”. As you can imagine it was horrible looking out the window this morning knowing that my fate would most likely leave me with soaked boots, cold ears and nose, and everyone being crabby. So I got dressed with as many layers and I could possibly find and just went for it. Ten hours later in the day I am sitting at work looking out the window. The only way I could express the outside world is white; pure white with not even a hint of color. I haven’t seen it snow this bad for a while… stupid groundhog coursing us with his stupid shadow. If it weren’t for the feeling of bitter cold I would really enjoy these days. The days where everything looks so pure and make you stop and thank whichever higher power you believe in for this blanket of beauty. Everyone is saying how school is going to be cancelled but that does me no good considering I don’t have school on Wednesdays. How about canceling Thursday class anyone?!?!

Besides the bitter cold world that awaits me after work, I’ve gotten a lot done in my artist world. I’m preparing for the Senior Gallery Show March 14-19. I spent the whole day at Jay’s yesterday designing my posters and postcards. It’s pretty exciting, minus the fact that it’s in a month and the actual artwork has yet to be composed. My biggest fear is $$$$. What I have envisioned for my gallery are these HUGE prints that really make a statement about the human face. This vision will most likely run me anywhere between 300$ – 400$. I think I’m going to start putting on the puppy face and asking the family to help their lovely starving artist. Here is my design thus far.





Tomorrow I meet with my prof to get some critiques. I hope it goes well

Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT

Today was Susan's first day in Michigan. I tried to make it really laid back for her considering she is on vacation. We woke up at around ten, picked up some food, made these awesome sandwiches, then headed to Ericas. We watched Kyle play video games while Steph and Erica tried to solve this 100 piece puzzle. Their off to a good start. After hanging around for about an hour, Susan, Erica and I all went to the studio to play around. At first we played around a little with the lights and some gels. Then Melissa showed up and I was able to get some really good pictures! <3

Then after our small shoot, I wanted to give Susan a tour of campus. Unfortunately it was raining and muggy. So I just showed her around the art building until we headed back to my apartment.

Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT

Today was Susan's first day in Michigan. I tried to make it really laid back for her considering she is on vacation. We woke up at around ten, picked up some food, made these awesome sandwiches, then headed to Ericas. We watched Kyle play video games while Steph and Erica tried to solve this 100 piece puzzle. Their off to a good start. After hanging around for about an hour, Susan, Erica and I all went to the studio to play around. At first we played around a little with the lights and some gels. Then Melissa showed up and I was able to get some really good pictures! <3

Then after our small shoot, I wanted to give Susan a tour of campus. Unfortunately it was raining and muggy. So I just showed her around the art building until we headed back to my apartment.

Reckoner - Radiohead

HAPPY FIRST OF THE MONTH!

No way is it November already. I'm pretty sure we skipped over September and half of October.

Well yesterday was my favorite day of the year, HALLOWEEN!

The day was much nicer then the one before so I gave Susan a real tour of campus. The sun wasn't out but you could still see how beautiful campus was.

I took her to the art building wall that is beautifully turning all colors.

Then we went to the botanical gardens where everything was dead except for this

amazingly yellow tree

After our walk all around campus we met up with Steph and Erica for some wings. Then headed home to start the festivities! The night was so much fun and everyones costumes were great!

3rd Planet - Modest Mouse

Today was a good day. My critique in color photography went by so fast. After that I just went home and finished editing some photos.

Then I pretty much just did an extreme clean of the apartment because susan is coming tonight. It's going to be so wonderful to have someone from home come just so that I can get that home feeling for a couple of days.

"Music is what feelings feel like"

Dull Life - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Hi! I'm so sorry that I have neglected you my lovely blog! I wish I could say it was because I haven't had time and I have been super busy but that would be a lie. Yeah I've been busy, but my nights are mostly spent catching up on my daily TV shows. I've been working on so many projects these past weeks and honestly I couldn't be more proud of them. I can really see myself developing and growing as an artist. Freshman year I hated everything I made and was never proud of one thing. I dreaded the critiques and the embarrassment of having to hang my project up in front of the class next to a brilliant work of art by some other student. Well finally I can say that my critiques are getting easier and easier to deal with!

Lets start with Graphic Design. This is a book cover that I designed for a fairy tale. I chose The Adventures of Alice because I have always been in love with that story and I figured that since it's a trippy story I could come up with some cool de

signs. I got influenced by Mona Kuhn and her shallow depth of field. The main idea behind picture is in the story everyone keeps giving Alice things to eat or drink. Although all these things always make her too big or too small and nothing is ever fixed.

I am thinking about changing the font though.

Now on to photography. I'm only going to post up this weeks assignment and I'll post more later on in the week.

Color Gels

Fill Flash

Night Photograhpy

Flash Motion

Also this weekend is Halloween weekend and I know its going to be amazing because Susan is coming!!

Across the Universe - The Beatles

So this week was the first week of fall. You would have never guessed considering it's still in the 70's, but trust me I'm NOT complaining. I'm not ready for seasonal depression.
Yesterday was an average Thursday plus a little bit more. Woke up at 6 to be at class by 8, stayed in class for about 40 min till I went home, then napped, and ran some errands with Julia. She had to go to the study abroad fair and so I joined her in hopes of seeing my old study abroad professor. I saw a much more amazing person.
The only thing I wanted to do before I graduated was take a picture with Sparty and I couldn't have taken it with anyone better then Ju! That pretty much was the highlight of my day. After that I went to Burger-Rama with Sammy. Even though I'm leaving Delta Gamma I'm so happy that I can still be close with girls and I adore Sammy so much. She cracks me up every second. While at Burger-Rama I ran into Megan O'Neil. She lived across the hall from me my freshman year. After chatting with her a little bit I started to realize just how old I'm starting to get and how fast time is flying! Where's the stop button in my life!!
After the bar I stopped by Erica's house for a little bit then headed home. It was the season premiere of Greys' Anatomy. I'm pretty sure there isn't a show that I cry more for than Greys. It's my me time. After the lovely two hours of TV I headed back to my room and talked on the phone with Adrian for probably close to an hour. I do not understand how he can talk to me in that state of mind, I find myself quit annoying.

I woke up this morning at around 6, than 8, than 9. My brain was just not in the mood to sleep and rest up. Julia and I played around with Foster for a bit before her and my other room mates have to leave to go and sign a lease for a house for next year. I'm so happy that they got their dream house, but at the same time I'm a little bitter. I want to live with them too, but there is no way that I'm staying in Michigan. I just can't. I filled out my CPOY stuff and wrote my letters to future photographers that I may meet. At 4 I headed to work only to have the bus break down on me. The only thing that was keeping my smiling was how beautiful the sky looked. Have to keep the small things in mind.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there