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Sunday morning, rain is fallin’

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Sunday Morning by Maroon 5.

I love this song so much.

A lot has happened since my last update, which was quite a while ago really. I just found out today that I did, in fact, get accepted into the Illinois Institute of Art! And as per request by my adviser, you should all know the school is awesome. So that kind of tones down my worries about college. I know where I’m going, and I know when. I just have to figure out how I’m going to pay for it, haha. So that leaves me with a year to tackle as many scholarships as I possibly can.

As of August 30th, I no longer am employed by a gas station. As of September 1st, I am employed by a truck stop/restaurant as a buser/dish person. Wish me luck with the new job!

I got my deviantART bag for my camera and it is awesome. It’s just a little awkward to use right now because it’s so top heavy. That’s where the camera goes. And the bottom is currently empty because I do not own any lenses. I’ve considered transferring my uncle’s film camera into it just to add more weight to make it sit right but. Hah.

I started a painting of Bear. I kind of should get to work on that again, actually.

I started Beowulf, and I love it. I have to do three journal entries per book (Beowulf and Oedipus) and I got one third of the way through Beowulf, so I have one sixth of my assignment done. Haha. I just haven’t done more because it’s much easier to read when I don’t have the computer in use. At the time, I was doing updates/virus scans/defragmenting and everything. Which is why I got so much done.

I finished Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare. I played it last weekend with my uncle and we took turns finishing it off. Now I need to get Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare 2. Also, when they come out, I need LittleBigPlanet 2 and Batman – Arkham City.

Band Camp starts next week. During that time I’m going to be doing my APUSH homework with my friend as well as going to see the new Cats and Dogs movie. I remember the first one from when I was little. I really wanted to see Vampires Suck! It looks hilarious. I loved the Scary Movies though so that’s probably why.

I have ordered four shirts from Threadless. One I ordered earlier this week and was shipped already (waiting for it to come) and the other three I ordered first today. One of them I got for the purpose of my senior pictures, which I have to take. As soon as I find my tripod at any rate. It should be interesting, doing this myself. I wish I had someone to at least give me a hand, ha.

And… that’s it. I think.

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I’ve never been so sure.

Friday, March 19th, 2010

“Reflex. Reflection. Click. Off the top of your head. The sum of what you see, think you see, remember, project… I came, I saw, I conquired. Veni vidi vici = to photograph.”
– William Klein

I’ve never been so absolutely, positively sure that being a photographer is what I want, until I went through the Street Seen exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The entire thing (save for one painting that I’m not sure why it was included here) consisted of photography. Photography almost all in black and white, going back to, if I remember right, World War II. It was fantastic. It was beautiful. Some were blurry, some were sharp, some were spontaneous, some were planned. But they were all completely and totally amazing.

I may never be able to live up to the photography of people like William Klein, Robert Frank, Saul Leiter, any of the others displayed, or even any wonderful photographers like them, but I will die trying. And I will die happy.

“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
– Robert Frank

We went to the art museum today as a field trip for AP Language. Prior to today, I had never actually been inside the Milwaukee Art Museum. But it’s a fantastically designed building. The main lobby area and the walkway leading into the collections is designed like a ship, with huge windows over-looking Lake Michigan and the walkway along the beach. I have two pictures that show the inside of the lobby, facing toward the windows. I also have one that shows the ‘ceiling’ of the lobby.

I think the only depressing part about the museum part of the field trip was having to watch tons and tons of kids my age with SLR cameras. ): You’re probably thinking “What a stupid thing to be bothered by.” Well, if any of you know Islie… all I can say is that I want this camera about as much as she wants to meet Johnny Depp, if not more.

Oh yes, I went there.

None of the people I saw had Canons though. They were all Nikons (of the SLRs) or the little tiny Fuji things that make my camera look like an SLR.

Which just means that if I ever get my hands on the 7D and I go back, I’ll kick some serious behind.

“Seeing is a neglected enterprise.”
– Saul Leiter

While I highly recommend visiting the Milwaukee Art Museum (even though, unless I know you from school, you probably do not live in the area), one thing I do not recommend is eating at the restaurant known as “5 Guys”. It was extremely disgusting. Unless you like grease filled hamburgers (and I mean really filled) and fries so greasy they’re slimy, you won’t like it.

If you like heart attacks, it’s probably for you.

Anyway, on a site-related note, you can clearly see bcf got a make-over. New layout, finally. And I’m going to try to avoid neglecting my updating here. I’ve just been busy with “should be doing homeworks” and running around and a whole bunch of other things.

I did, though, create a wallpaper based off of this picture that I took. Hopefully I’ll be able to get that up soon.

1. Do you like museums? What are your favorites?
2. If you could have one thing, what would it be? *
3. If I made a subdomain here for my photography, do you think I should make it a simple gallery, or make it a photoblog? Any name suggestions?
4. The sidebar looks really empty. Any content ideas?

* I asked this one before, if I remember correctly. But desires change.

Edit / I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT THIS! I got an iguana! His name is Machiavelli, or Mac for short. He’s a baby. Out of all of his possible places to sit, he prefers my head. Dork.

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Open your eyes.

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

So after wandering about like a long lost hobo without anything new to write about, I finally found something to say besides “Happy Thanksgiving.” And it’s actually related to this holiday, so it works out.

On one of the sites I go on, I was browsing the general chat boards and I found someone with a thread entitled “Happy Kill All the Native Americans Day” where conversation kind of took on the feel of how Americans or the “white men” are so terrible because we killed Native Americans. Maybe I’m over-reacting about this one little thread, but it goes beyond this.

It always seems like all the hate is directed at America, and it’s due to the fact that we’re the leading world power. If you look at history, the hate always goes to the leading country. Just like there’s always hate to the current leader of the country (although I think Obama needs it — but that is another story). People look at our history and point out the people we have killed and go “OH MY GOD YOU KILLED ALL THOSE PEOPLE YOU HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE COUNTRY.”

… Do people NOT realize that, like, EVERY country has blood on its hands at some point in time? I’m not saying killing is right. I’m not saying I’m proud to say I’m an American when I look at the Native Americans our founders killed, the land we took, or the innocent Japanese lives lost in the dropping of the atomic bomb, or how we put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps due to nothing but paranoia, and all the other times we were, well, not doing any good.

But, let’s take a look here.

The Native Americans killed plenty of the people who came to the New World as well, and they killed other tribes and other people. Okay, yeah, the settlers did come onto the land that was taken by the Native Americans. It may not have been taken in the way that they viewed property, but it was taken. So maybe this wasn’t the best example, but the point is that they killed people as well.

The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is not a proud moment, in my opinion. But let us please rewind a little and take a look at the fact that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It was primarily a military base, yes, so there weren’t as many civilian deaths, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because they were industrial locations, for the same reason. We also have to take into consideration that if America had not developed the atomic bomb, someone else would have. Although Germany wasn’t as far as we were, they were messing with the same stuff.

No, I’m not trying to justify what Americans have done in the past. I’m trying to even the playing field, because the reality is that war is not pretty. War does not have a total winner, because each side loses a lot. And for each side to lose a lot, each side has to deal many blows. Everyone is related to someone, no matter how distantly, who killed someone else.

Open your eyes and face the facts. No one is innocent in this kind of thing.

Edit / Created a few new icons. I really like this one right here, so much. We’ll see how long that lasts though. The icons I put up are under Icons > Movies > HP, Icons > Characters > Batman and Icons > Weather > Winter.

Also, since I forgot the questions before, here you go:

1. What else should I make for graphics, besides icons?
2. Did you enjoy your Thanksgiving, if you are from the States?
3. What are some things that irritate you that most people probably don’t care about?

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