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[29 Jan 2008|08:25pm] |
For our Digital Photography class, we have to do 9 self portraits at different exposures, different light, distances, ISO, etc. I took two last night and played around with them. Since I don't have a studio I just did them in my room of course (Booooo! I wish I had a backdrop!) Don't mind the backgrounds. Here are the originals.
Light setup was just a lamp on one side with a 100W light bulb, and a lamp on the other side with a blue spotlight. Not bad for crap light eh? Still learning how to use this camera properly. It's so hard with self portraits, cause you can't look at your settings when you're taking the picture.
Aaaaaaannnd, here are the edited versions.
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[26 Jan 2008|06:12am] |
Just want some feedback on what could be causing this....
About three months ago I had a series of migraines over the course of a couple days which prevented me from going to school. A few days after the headaches, I woke up with a terrible pain in the right side of my neck, which prevented me from turning it to the right or backwards, and limited my neck movement to the left as well. This pain lasted for about a week at a more serious level, and took about two weeks total to go away.
But since then I have felt a sort of bruised feeling in my neck, up until now even (three months). During that episode, my neck made more grinding noises, and it was noted by myself and friends that I had knots (what almost felt like tendons really) where the pain was worst. I attibuted it to a bad sleep, and didn't think anything beyond the fact that it lasted for longer then I would have expected.
Today, I woke up with a killer migraine, and AGAIN the severe pain started up about 3 hours after my migraine went away. I was showering, and just looked upwards to rinse my hair. There was no grinding, or snapping, or anything else that felt like a cause, but all of a sudden my neck started to ache in the same spot as before, and over the course of the next half hour, proceeded to get worse, to the level of my original neck pain situation.
I want to know if the migraines have been caused by a problem in my neck. Could this be a pinched tendon? Damaged nerves? Or is it just a strain from sleeping badly (which I didn't think I did since I didn't toss and turn). I don't have numbness in my arms or fatigue beyond my usual layabout-ness. Is this worth seeing a doctor over? Or will he just tell me "No problem. Just don't move it for a few days and it'll be fine."
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| Animal cruelty. |
[17 Jan 2008|11:09pm] |
Animal Testing
I think I'm going to go throw up now. This made me feel ill and I cried for 10 minutes. You were warned.
Fuck. Those poor animals. That poor kitten.
Chinese fur farms. I couldn't even watch this one. Warning, this one is really bad, extremely graphic. Animals are skinned alive to provide fur, and one poor racoon dog still had the strength to raise it's head to look at the camera after being throw into the corpse pile with the rest of the skinned animals.
Meet your Food A look at how animals bred for food are routinely treated. Craziness.
Fur is dead Narrated by Trent Reznor. Cats and dogs are killed in China for their fur, where there are no laws that govern the fur trade and the treatment of animals in this industry.
Question: Does anyone have stuffed toy cats, rabbits, dogs or monkeys (more real looking ones would be nice) that you feel like donating to a worthy cause? I have an idea for a shoot and I'm thinking of submitting it to PETA.
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| Child nudity vs child porn |
[17 Jan 2008|10:12pm] |
So I've been thinking about my thesis a lot, and have run into a little rut. The reason this has happened is because one of my ideas would require a female child aged 5-6 to pose in underwear, with her chest taped up . She would pose with her arms in front of her to cover the tape. But in the final result, she would look like she is only in her underwear. This material would be in NO WAY presented to be pornographic. She will be a representation of animal testing and the morality behind it. She will be covered in wounds (makeup of course) to show the "torture" of animal testing. She would also be wearing bunny or cat ears, and look like she is either on an operation table or in a laboratory cage.
Yes, a very sensitive way of presenting it. Namely because it is a GIRL posing basically topless instead of a boy. I want to push the limit in a way and force a strong reaction in the viewer, but I also don't want to get in trouble. What are your thoughts?
EDIT- EUREKA!! I'm totally changing my thesis! Instead of the photos, I'm gonna do an ad campaign for PETA, and even submit it to the company! So I don't even have to worry about this issue at all! BUAHAHAHA!!
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[17 Jan 2008|04:09am] |
On Tuesday I finally went to check out my pap results, and just like everyone though, and just like I finally made myself believe would happen, the results came back inconclusive. Too much blood fucked up the test results. So that's good news of sorts, but it also means I'm back at square one. I'm a bit frustrated at this, because it took over two months to get my friggin results! I don't want to have to wait ANOTHER 2 months to make sure there's nothing wrong!
The doctor wants me to possibly make an appointment with a gyno just to be extra sure. Because I was on depo provera for a couple years, and because I haven't had a pap in like 4 years, and on top of this the excessive bleeding at my last pap test as well as my period being very irregular and abnormal (for me anyway) for the past couple months.... They are pushing me to get this done asap, which I want to. Prolly next week I'll go for another pap I think. I really hope everything turns out to be good. I hate worrying about my health, and I'm kinda tired of it.
I think I gotta start treating my body better then I do. Eat better, get some exercise. I've been feeling like crap, tired all the time. It's no wonder because I sit on my ass in front of the computer all day, or lie in bed and read. Bleh. Sooo me and Jeff are gonna start going to the gym a couple times per week. Get the heart rate up and work it out, get a bit of muscle tone so I'm not such a pathetic weakling. Need to drink more water. Ugh such hard work when just doing what I'm doing, and being lazy about my body is so much easier eh?
Question for the ladies:
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| Model callout |
[16 Jan 2008|02:00am] |
I need a plus-size model to pose for a creative shoot. Will involve posing in your bra and underwear, will make use of acting skills, so I'm looking for someone who is expressive and talented in taking direction and acting in front of the camera.
Please note, these images will not be made to look pretty. I will most likely warp your body to be extremely obese, so if you are not the typical sort of model pretty, I don't care! These pictures will be a statement on eating disorders, so if you're interested in doing a creative shoot with an important message on social issues, please email me or post here. If you know anybody that would fit into this role, then please let them know.
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| Feedback.... |
[15 Jan 2008|03:01am] |
Ok so I'm starting to work on my thesis project. This week I will be shooting my "pollution" themed photograph, which means that I had to make a background for the model. I'm aiming for something artistic, barren and sorta fantasy-like. I just did this quick, using the lowres images from a stock photo site. I want to be sure of the images before I buy them (which is why I didn't remove the watermarks). Whadya think? I just did it quick for now. It will have much more color tone refinement in the high res versions to make it match better.
The model will be facing forward and either standing in the stream or with one foot on either side of it.
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[11 Jan 2008|02:00am] |
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really kinda scared....
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| the day goes... |
[09 Jan 2008|05:11pm] |
Today: Beginning rating: 5
1:30- Woke up late cause alarm didn't ring. Do I turn the fucking thing off in my sleep or something?
1:40- Showered
2:05- Can't find my gym clothes and wasted 10 minutes looking!
2:15- Both new belts I bought are the WRONG FUCKING SIZE! Waste another 5 minutes. Grrr.
2:15- tshirt is too short, gotta find another one in the mess.
2:20- Forgot my cell phone, had to turn back from subway to go get it
2:30- on the train, find out I forgot my earphones. No music.
2:35- no gum in my EMPTY PACKET IN MY BAG!!!! WTF??
Total points lost for a difficult morning: 3
3:15- got to school, and have 3 good friends in class with me to make out semester group. Yay!
6:00- Wendy's with Kait! Bitching, girltalk and bonding ensues.
Total points gained for relatively good afternoon: 4
7:35- King streetcar fucked up cause of police thing. Found out after 30 minutes of walking. Not enough time to go meet Jeff before his meeting.
7:45- I GIVE UPPPPPP!!! Going home.
8:20- Found out I ran out of Diet Coke. WAAAAAAHHHHHH!
Points lost for a bad ending to the day: 2
Overall day rating so far on a scale of 1-10: 4
Yipee. I'm going to bed now.
EDIT: 9:08- Just got a call from the doc. They finally got my pap test back. Annnnnd I have to actually go in to the office, which most likely means bad news. Points lost for stressing about my uterus: 3
Updated Day rating : 1
Yipee. I'm gonna get as stoned as I possibly can now and cry.
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| Last shot! |
[08 Jan 2008|06:55pm] |
Okies! This is my last shot at playing around and refining my personal site (not the portfolio one)... Hope you like it!
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[31 Dec 2007|11:59am] |
Omigod. Johnny Depp as a psycho villain, AND singing!!!!!!!
And Alan Rickman too!! I think I'm in heavennnnnn!!! I MUSSSSSTTTTT go see Sweeney Todd!!
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| Last site version |
[28 Dec 2007|07:28pm] |
Soooo I think I got the nav all figured out. This is the sample of the navigation once you get into the gallery sections and start browsing photos. There are also samples of the site with different section images.
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| site |
[14 Dec 2007|04:06pm] |
Working on a site layout finally. I been too long without a website. I'm just gonna put up something simple. What do you think about this so far?
EDIT- I added one more under the cut. And I've also updated the first one! Let me know what you think!
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[05 Dec 2007|03:53pm] |
Lately I've been feeling like my health has taken a nosedive. In the past two months, I've gotten Strep Throat, a twisted neck (you know when you wake up and your neck hurts for a day, and you have trouble turning your head? I couldn't move my neck for about 5 days, and it hurt for three and a half weeks) then chronic headaches, THEN another little problem I don't want to talk about but that's not too serious, then a bad cold that knocked me out for two days. All one after the other, with maybe a week or two's worth of feeling fine.
And now, I'm getting fatigue and tiredness and dizzy spells. Every time I eat, I want to sleep. Now, I know that a little bit of drowsiness is ok after a large meal, but I can eat a small meal, and if I'm not immediately on my feet for the next couple hours, I'm tired enough that I have trouble thinking, and I fall asleep. Hell, I'm tired most of the time. I'll sleep for my 8 hours, and still want to take a nap in the day time. And if I DO nap, I feel even MORE tired, and have such a hard time waking up that it can LITERALLY take me about an hour to fully wake up. After just a NAP!
I'm kinda getting sick of this. It might just be stress, but just feeling tired... well I don't wanna see a doctor because of tiredness. But it's making doing anything kinda difficult. It's messing up my sleep schedule (I now stay up till 5-7 am which I never used to do), and it's making thinking kinda hard. I feel like this low energy is messing with my emotional state as well. Blech.
Do any of you get this tiredness? Here's an example.
Yesterday I made myself an omelet consisting of one egg, a bit of milk, a bit of cooking oil, garlic, onion, two mushrooms, chives, seasoning, and two pieces of toast. Not a big meal, although for me it makes the right size meal for me to feel full enough to not be hungry. After eating, I sat down to read a bit (which I do way too often) and digest, and had to go to sleep because I was so tired that I felt dizzy and fuzzy and numb. I slept for almost two hours, and had so much trouble waking up that it took me 4 tries to even open my eyes.
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[30 Nov 2007|02:15pm] |
Do you guys have any idea how hard it is to find someone with a strap-on? I do! But thankfully, I finally found one! Yay!! For what, you ask? Just some photos on sexual discrimination that I have to do for art direction class. Ya I know, why are we still doing all the work for our own projects if this class is about art DIRECTION? No idea. I work better directing a team anyway.
ANYWAYyyyyy lots of things to do this weekend!! Japanese lesson sometime tonight, along with homework and laundry, tomorrow night going to Yon's house to have some drinks. Sorta a housewarming I think. Gonna try and squeeze in a photo shoot tomorrow as well. Then on Sunday an xmas party at a friend of a friend's house. Maybe another photo shoot. I feel like I'm forgetting things..... hm..
Prolly another doctor's visit on monday. Homework throughout the weekend too. Yikes! I SO can't wait for the homework part to be done. And I STILL have to go out and shoot some xmas pictures for the tpa contest too.
Just something to leave you with...
"Creepy, crawly little legs
and scratches on the rugs;
Oh how I love, how I adore
the scuttling of bugs."
Makes me feel like a kid again.
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[21 Nov 2007|05:46pm] |
Yaaaaaa... so I'm looking for models for some creative photos, starting in January. I can't pay (I'm a student.... boooooo!) so anyone who is NOT interested in doing TFCD can look elsewhere.
I'm also looking for photographers, MUAs, special effects artists, hair stylists, and clothing designers who are willing to donate their time for a big creative project.
I want to do a series of photos 12-15 photos representing negative social issues (like war, animal testing, eating disorders, sex discrimination, racism). The point of these photos is to invoke a NEGATIVE reaction in the viewers (like disgust, anger, etc) I want these images to be shocking, possibly gruesome, blatantly rude in some cases, SOME will show nudity but not all (I think I have models already for the nude ones). If you are a model, please note, you will most likely NOT look good in these photos, as the point of these images is to make them look gross and disturbing, but they WILL be creative and depending on what you are looking for, will be a great addition to a portfolio. They will be shot in a studio.
If you are interested then reply here and PLEASE POST YOUR PHOTOS! I will not consider anyone that does not have photos. I'm looking for a wide range of people.
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[10 Sep 2007|04:58am] |
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Stupid people. me included.
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