Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn't know what to do. She fed them all broth without any bread, whipped them all silently and put them to bed."

A recreation of a mother goose nursery rhyme. In a studio setting with a black back drop, a beauty dish in the front and two back lights.

Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn't know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, whipped them all soundly and put them to bed"

Little Red from the Hood

For this project I recreated a well known fairy tale. Here I have created a little red from the hood instead of little red riding hood. These were taken in a studio enviorment with a basic light set up including a hair light and a beauty dish coming up from below

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

- Christopher Morley

moving on forward

SO in honor of all the bitching I was doing about my job and money I have made some steps in the right direction. Currently my parents are helping me buy art supplies, my rent has been payed and I no longer have any speeding tickets/parking tickets (well accept for that one due in november) I also do not owe anybody mass amounts money, just money for bills. In two weeks when I can pay all my bills I will finally be ok. Not comfortable or anything but not stressing either. ALSO I WILL be the next shift manager at taco bell. I have been working my ass off there for a year and they just hired a lousy no good manager. He's not gonna work out so I told them i wanted to do it, of course they didn't believe me but I pursued the topic and our agm is gonna work with me to get to where I need to be so I can be the best shift manager there is. Granted its a hell of a lot more work and longer hours but I will be getting paid almost two dollars more which would be lovely. I am determined to be in that position.

ARTISTICLEY speaking I have started shooting for my concept project regarding my family. I think I am starting to understand a bit more about that direction I am trying to take and the areas I do not want to go. I harassed my family all weekend which I quite enjoyed. This weekend its on to my richmond family! For studio I got the a.ok on my proposal, so as of now I am collecting stories that kids have told and recreating them in the studio. 5 different stories, 5 photos, 5 sets, 5 kids. Gotta get started now! All in all I am EXCITED for everything I am about to start and I can't wait to see the end product! oh yea my painting class is coming along, I think I could be a good painter however I hate my digital printing class. its boring to say the least.

Dearphotographer

This is a really cool concept. I wish I had come up with the idea lol.

Dearphotographer

This semester I will tackling the concept of exposing my family. I want to try to capture the essence of everything they are, the things that make me mad, the things I love and so forth. These are a few images from earlier work that are kinda the idea I am going for. I want the most honest and unplanned images. The ones they probably wont be thanking me for

get up up up!

Hurricane Irene has reaked havoc all up and down the coast... for a city that is no where near the cost we got hit pretty decently. trees uprooted, limbs every where, power lines down, cars smashed all that good stuff. The best part about it? Treking through the storm with my room mate and friends. Being in the middle of a natural disaster, feeling the rain and the wind, seeing trees fall and just all the chaos was an awesome reminder that i am indeed alive and well. I SHOULD be happy with my life and who i am. I have a house over my head, food in my kitchen and amazing friends and family who love me more the anything. Im learning that its moments like those that really matter. I wish i had a picture of all of us doing that cause it truely was priceless.

Learning to control my mood swings is another issue that is slowly being tackled. I am learning to hold my tongue and take deep breaths but its hard. so many things set me off like a ticking bomb and one person is particular really knows how to push my buttons and set me off but she is also the first person to snap at me when i catch an attitude. I am trying to work out on a regular basis, getting up earlier then normal or when ever i have free time. its a trial and error kinda thing. trying to kick this depression mood swing phase of mine in the butt, so far? BABY STEPS

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Warholize It

Procrastination

1. “Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ~ M. Scott Peck

2. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” ~Olin Miller

3. “Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun until you get the bill.” ~ Christopher Parker

4. “There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.” ~Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

5. “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” ~William James

6. “It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” ~Earl of Chesterfield

8. “Someday is not a day of the week.” ~Author Unknown

9. “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” ~Eva Young

10. “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” ~C. Northcote Parkinson, 1958

11. “Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.” ~Victor Kiam

12. “If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” ~Olin Miller

13. “What may be done at any time will be done at no time.” ~Scottish Proverb

14. “Procrastination is something best put off until tomorrow.” ~Gerald Vaughan

15. “The best way to get something done is to begin.” ~Author Unknown

16. “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” ~Spanish Proverb

17. “Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” ~George Claude Lorimer

18. “Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.” ~Jimmy Lyons

19. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ~Karen Lamb

20. “One of these days is none of these days.” ~Attributed to both Henri Tubach and H.G. Bohn

22. “Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can’t do it.” ~ Charles Buxton

23. “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” ~Napoleon Hill

24. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right”. ~Napoleon Hill

25. “Procrastination is, hands down, our favorite form of self-sabotage.” ~Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

26. “Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.” ~Unknow Author

27. “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” ~Wayne Dyer

28. “If and When were planted, and Nothing grew.” ~Proverb

29. “In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

30. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.” ~Dawson Trotman

31. “If you wait until all the lights are “green” before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.” -Zig Ziglar.

32. “Even if you’re on the right track-you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~Will Rogers

33. “Doing just a little bit during the time we have available puts you that much further ahead than if you took no action at all.” ~Byron Pulsifer

34. “Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!” ~Donald Gardner

35. “Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy”. ~Denis Waitley

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Gotta love that moment when you realize the thing you were most excited for suddenly turns into that thing you dread the most. Being an art student has many up and downs but right now the biggest down of all of it would be the money. Working full time only making minimum wage and being a photo major with rent and utilities to pay IS NOT EASY. I am always behind on some bill and im always in some financial hole. There is no way out when your parents can't do a simple task, like give you forms that would allow the school to give you lots of money so you wouldn't have these problems.

I had my first class of the semester and of course it was painting. I have to buy an entire oil paint set plus canvases and brushes and lord knows what else, im looking at a good $100 right there. On top of the good $200 that i get to spend on photo supplies, oh plus how ever much i get to spend on text books..... OH AND ALL MY BILLS! wtf, i think its high time to just drop out... all the forces are against me being here in school, some one obviously doens't want me surviving/thriving on my own -_-

the option of a second job isn't even an option... with four studio classes and a literature class plus 40 hours of night shift the little spare time i have will be dedicated to get my fat ass in shape and producing bomb ass photography because I am determined that this will be my best year portfolio wise and I WILL go to peru for the one month summer exchange problem! these are my goals and I will meet them. AGAINST ALL ODDS, even these stupid money odds.... just need my parents to get on the same note as me and understand that I am seriously struggling and they are not making it any easier

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All Hail the Doodle

Every kid doodles when they get bored, Every art student has pages and pages of thoughtless scribbles across hundreds of pieces of paper. Most people consider the doodle worthless and useless but this brings new light to the simple scrawls of ink. A doodle is a way to brain storm, to pass time, map out blue prints for grander ideas. The stepping stones of brilliance. I encourage every one to doodle and doodle to your hearts content.

Having regret is the only sign that you have done anything interesting with your life

If A plan fails, remember you have 25 more letters.

Rules and Regulations

Digital final part 2

part 1 digital final

inspired by the cubism project, my final project will consist of 3 images that I have layered and manipulated to create this ghostly looking image, this is the first one in the series.

Childerns

These pictures have the same lighting set up but i used a warming gel to cover the light so the images wouldn't look so sterile. The image with just a light on the back of him consisted of me just turning off the beauty dish and capturing the light illuminating the back of him. Its probably my favorite image because it appears to glorify the soldier

Military Man

These are some of the better images from my recent studio shoot. these images have a beauty dish flashing up from the center bottom to create a harsh light that highlights all the detail in his face, the set up also consisted of two back lights, one coming in from each side.

MOTIVATION

I NEED IT! HELP ME FIND IT

Louie Palu

My inspiration for my newest studio assignment. Louie Palu photographed these soldiers over in Iraq during the single moments of quite reflection times. I saw these and was immediately inspired. My boyfriend of over a year has just returned from Iraq, he was there for about a year. I'd like to photograph him in the studio while he talks about his experience to see what kind of emotions I can provoke.