and another one

one of my favorite NPR tiny desk concerts :D

video post YAH

NOICE :D

Man in 7-11

Something interesting happened tonight:

I was walking home from pollak in a terrible mood-- someone stole my filters and anti-static cloth in the darkroom. I was feeling sorry for myself and being very angsty about the whole situation, indignant that these things always seemed to happen to me, whine, whine, blah, blah. I stopped at 7-11 on the way home to buy something for dinner, still brooding about my horrible, filter-less life.
There was this old man buying a 40oz beer ahead of me in line, and when he reached the register, the cashier asked him "how are you doing tonight, sir?" in a monotoned voice that didn't even sound like a question. The man, after setting his beer down on the counter, took a deep breath and smiled.
"I'm...blessed," he replied, looking around at a few other customers. His eyes only met mine for a split second. "We're all blessed. Not everyone realizes it."

Now, I don't believe in fate. I don't even really believe in signs. But I do believe that life has a habit of humbling you at the most unexpected times, like in the checkout line at 7-11. I couldn't feel sorry for myself after that. I have no idea who this man was, and I'll probably never see him again...but I marvel the way he has affected me today. It's beautiful and complicated and fascinating how the smallest of incidents can make you remember to appreciate things that you should have been appreciating all along

Slightly Narcissistic Post

I'm not an avid blogger. But I keep idealizing myself coming up with insightful, intelligent things to post; paragraphs and paragraphs of philosophical musings and observations about life and the world around me. I romanticize people perceiving me as a smart, competent, respectable person. Which is pretty silly. And shamefully narcissistic. I think I try too hard most of the time. I also think that I try too hard for the wrong reasons... as though I feel like I have something to prove to somebody.

10 random/insignificant/very irrelevant things about me:

1) Coy fish freak me the eff out; shivers and chillsSsSsss
2) I had braces for almost 3 years
3) My middle name is Michelle. I wonder if my life would be significantly different had I decided to go by my middle name.
4) Sometimes I talk in my sleep
5) I wish I had blond hair so I'd have more fun
6) I am a BAD DRIVER (womp womp womp)
7) I hate the texture of bananas
8) I am currently procrastinating on doing work for digital photo
9) My hips are 10 inches bigger than my waist O__0
10) AUEIYRGHLAIUERTGHAILUTGHALIUTGHALIUETH

ok bye

weavesilk.com

stumbled upon this today...it's very entertaining
From the website- Silk was created by Yuri Vishnevsky as an experiment in generative art. He is currently working on his degree in Computer Science and Linguistics.

check it out here!!!

oh and a picture, i guess

HDR assignment from digital. Since I edited the image using the trial version of Photomatix, i'm stuck with that watermark until I decide to photoshop it out. noice

herrow

I've never had a personal blog before! Am I just supposed to use this for photography? I see myself posting irrelevant and random things that I happen upon throughout the day. Which is silly, because nobody reads these anyway. I'm basically talking to myself. Well, okay. I appreciate that we're doing this to have a place to accumulate our inspirations and exercise our muses. It's kind of cool, I guess. I spent a ridiculous amount of time choosing templates and backgrounds...there were so many of them that i became overwhelmed by the number of options. After a while I got tired of going through the blogger background pictures and just stuck with the one I had been working on. But I'm so indecisive. I'll probably go back later and change it again.