Back to Work!

On Saturday, Fred, Gene, Robyn, and I went down to Mount Sterling to pick up Rachel and took pictures of and in some abandoned houses. On the way to Rachel's, we stopped at the Cracker Barrel. What is it with all these crappy farm-like restaurants. I mean, really? Ew. It was alright, I guess. Gene bought us stuffed elephants. :)
Mount Sterling wasn't as far away as I thought it would be. That's where the houses were. It was really cold. My fingers and toes started to lose feeling...so I went to sit in the car at one point. There were a lot of vultures down there. They were really big and really ugly.

I had fun. It was good to see Rachel after 7 weeks or so. And Robyn after almost a year. Geesh.

I was afraid that I wouldn't have any good pictures. I got lucky, though. I've decided that I want Rachel's camera. It looks like it gets really good quality pictures.
I don't like going out to take pictures with big groups of people because we all get the same or similar pictures. I hate that. We did some trespassing. We're bad. But it was fun. It's not like anyone's coming back to those places anyways.

The power went off last night at my house. It was 12am-ish. It was off for a little over an hour, I think. So I got bored and took some pictures of magnets.

Ok. So I hope this month will be busy. I would like to have the gallery finished and up by May 1st at the latest. Wish me luck. :)

Butterflies...

Well, I guess I'll start off by saying Happy Spring to everyone...

I just wrote an ekphrastic poem on one of my pictures. It's make up work for a (very) old class.

I have a hard time with writing. I want things to be as good as they can possibly be. And when I feel like things aren't exactly that, then I give up. I just never think anything that I do is good enough. Even when I have 20 different people telling me that it's good, I never feel confident about it. Why the hell is that? Why can't I get over these stupid insecurities from the past? I know that if I don't let it go, it's going to control the rest of my life...and I don't want that to happen.

Anyways...I sent the poem to Gene. He let Jen Bosveld read it. Jen wants to publish it in The Pudding House Magazine Issue 53. So here I am, worried that my poem is terrible, and an important person actually wants to publish it.

So now I have butterflies in my stomach. It's just weird.

Just Great...

Gene has been sick for the past two days now. So I had to stay home (which is obviously a huge problem) :)

I want to enter a photo contest. But the only good one I saw is 21+ which is totally unfair. :(

I turned in my walkabout proposal today. I got Melissa to be my blog reader. Hooray. I didn't see Rachel Kemper ( >:( ) or Harmony. Those jerks. Oh well. They were probably going to come in later, if at all, but I don't want to be at school all day.

I guess Fred is coming over to the Pudding House tomorrow. I guess I'm going, too...even though it's the first day of spring break...

I'm bored...and tired.

Bored

This past couple of days haven't been very productive at all. I don't feel so great, either. I'm so tired. I am definitely ready for spring break. After that, we are going to get started on the gallery work. I can't wait.

Rachel Kemper is back...FINALLY!!!! Yay!

My proposal is done. I'm going to school on Thursday to turn it in an to say hi to people that I haven't seen for a while.

I probably won't be writing much, if at all, this week. Sorry for being boring.

Paint.

Does anybody know any other places that sell paint, besides Lowes, Home Depot, and Sherwin Williams? I found a place called Pittsburgh Paints. Now I need a model. Does anybody know Jordan Henry-Jones' email address?

My series is coming along good. I took a picture of Eva in front of the bulk candy. It looks ok, but not as good as the paint samples.

We went the the art museum today...(snore). We bought ears. Ear clips...or whatever. They're funny. I need money...(that rhymed) Ah!

Eva and Harmony...

Yay!

Eva visisted today. :) Gene and Jen were really happy to see her. So happy, that they pretty much ignored me.

I worked on some pictures that I took over the weekend during and after the "blizzard".
I am making a series with the paint samples. The ones I took of Harmony turned out pretty bad.

Me, Gene and Eva went to Meijer to take pictures, because they have paint samples there, but a lot of them were missing so I changed my mind. I've never been to the one on Broad Street before. It was weird...and different. Not ghetto. So I took a picture of Eva in front of candy. Later, we went to Sherwin Williams. I got some good shots there.

Cut.

Gene and I have decided to cut the idea of having four other photographers included in my show. I don't want to share the spotlight and he doesn't think it's fair to me because it's my walkabout and I'm the one doing all the work. True Dat.

Rachel Kemper: You are the only one (so far) allowed to hang pictures with me. I like you enough to stray some attention away from my pictures. :)

I might let one more person in...but I don't know. One or two people, but not four. If I had four people hanging stuff, that would be 12-16 pictures that aren't mine. I'm already going to have 20 pictures up.

Ehhhh!!! GROSS WEATHER!

Slick.

I overslept this morning. I left the house at around 10:15, and that's about the time when it started snowing. I put the car in 4WD thinking that would save the day. I was careful on the roads, so it took me twice as long to get the my site.

I was 5 minutes away from Gene's and the road split from one lane to three and I couldn't see the lines on the road anymore. I ended up getting in the turn lane on the wrong side of the road. When I tried to get back to the other lane, I slid. It was a frightening moment in my life. My first time sliding on the road in this weather.

And to make it scarier, there was a red light and a car a foot in front of me. Luckily, there wasn't anyone in the right lane or I probably would've hit them. I felt helpless. I wasn't in control and it scared me.

I got to Gene's and he told me that my mom had called and was worried about me because I wasn't there yet. I called her and told her that I was ok and she told me to leave early. Jen told me that I should have just left as soon as I got there which I didn't.

I should have just stayed home. Now, the weather is worse and it's not going to stop snowing anytime soon. I wonder if there is a snow day at school...

In Pudding House news:

We've narrowed down my pictures from 40 to 30, and down to 20. We put them in an order that fit and we named them. Now, we need to figure out the sizes. We're going to cut our own mattes to save money.

I don't know what I'm going to do for my fourth quarter walkabout. I might ask to stay at the Pudding House. I've been here since October and I really don't want to leave. I haven't put much thought into what I could do next quarter and now I really feel that it's too late.

I don't want to go back out there. The roads are terrible and it will take me an hour to get home. I'll have to tip toe around every little nick and cranny on the road and there are some crazy people out there and that makes it scarier.

Gene's show opening has been canceled. So...don't go. It sucks. DAMN YOU, EVIL SNOW!!!

Finally...

I feel like I am making some headway. :)

Fred called Gene and they talked about my gallery. It's going to be at Lai Lai's (most definitely). I am 100% sure of that. I guess the owners are excited to have artwork around because they've never really had any. It's cool to be the first.

We're going to try to get the pictures up by April 1st.

I started to narrow down my choices of pictures, and I guess the theme is going to be "abstract".
I always start to get mixed feelings about my pictures while I narrow them down. I have a hard time choosing. But...it shouldn't be too bad.

I now need to find a few more photographers to add in. I don't really know many (good) photographers...which kind of sucks. So even finding two more is going to be tough.

When everything is almost finished, I'll give you the address of the restaurant and a specific date. I'm not sure if i'm going to make postcards or not. It would be cool to.

Like I said before....

Gene is having a gallery - PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!

March 8th - April 26th, 2008 @:

The Jung Haus
59 west Third Ave.
Columbus, Oh 43201

Gallery hours: Tues. - Sat. 11:00-2:00
Gallery Hop reception: Saturday, April 5, 6:30-9:00 PM

The opening day (Sat. March, 8) is at 12:30.

BE THERE!

It's gonna be good. I promise.


Ok, so, you know how sometimes you can get really annoying songs stuck in your head? Well, I have one. And it's all to blame on a picture that I took. It's called "Allison Road" by The Gin Blossoms. I used to love that song when I was little...because God knows that every little girl whose name is in a song title thinks it's their song. I don't particularly care for it now. It actually kind of makes me want to vomit. Yep. But anyways....here's the picture I blame it on:

Guess what it's called, lolololololololololol.....

Grrrrr.

I wish that you could be good at anything you wanted to do from the getgo. I hate looking at old pictures and seeing how terrible they turned out. When the subject is blurry and the background is nice and crisp looking. It's ridiculous. See:

Subject: Flowers...NOT IN FOCUS!! This would've been beautiful!

It's like at my grandpas funeral. I wasn't a great photographer. I didn't really know what I was doing with the camera. So even though they have sentimental value to me, they are washed out and grainy. I wish I could've been good then. It's photography...I mean, really...how hard could it be?

Anyways... Gene is preparing for his upcoming show. He and Jen are going to Jung Haus to hang his pictures and he said it would take around three hours to hang his stuff. *yawn* :)