These are some images I might end up using for my final on environmental portraits... Christian got a kitty :PSo. I have been neglecting this, and every other blog-ish type thing I've tried to do. It seems like I always end up posting here at ridiculous hours when I should be sleeping or doing something else.
I've been printing and working on my drawing homework for the last couple hours. I bought this printer from RIT's labs last Fall-- it was a great deal, but I'm still constantly replacing ink in it that's run out or gone expired, and I had to use a ton just to get it aligned and calibrated decently again. It's tough to drop $60 on ink at a time, but it beats getting charged $1 for every little print I make, having to work around lab schedules, etc. Plus I get to drink beer and sit around in my PJ's when I print at home. Nothing beats that.
This quarter is going by in a blur. I finally started shooting for my autism project, but I haven't gotten to go back yet since I've been so consumed with everything else.
This is Elliott, the boy with Asperger's Disorder that I'm photographing.All the Photo Arts 3 students had to shoot this "allegory" assignment... which I'm kind of irritated with and just being ridiculously flamboyant about. I chose to emulate Francisco de Goya's painting of Saturn Devouring one of his Sons. My bestie/neighbor Christian and Chloe went out to a creek in a park with me with some strobes, a baby doll, turkey legs and liver meat... and you can imagine the result. It's pretty gross, but I think it works for the image. I'm just struggling with my limited photomanipulation skills to make it look genuinely fucking crazy, and not just amateur photo/some kids messing around in the woods.
Let's see. I got a pet bunny! Her name is Lucy. She's finally getting used to me, but she still pees on John :/ And my roommate's dog desperately wants to eat her.
And I'm also trying to keep these little guys alive...I'm realizing right now that things are changing very rapidly, and I just haven't even had time to give it any thought. Spring quarter will be done in about a month, which means John will be graduating and therefore is job hunting like crazy. He's a mechanical engineer, so I used to give him a hard time about how I, the photojournalism major, would be the one without a job, but it's been tough so far. I'm sure he'll find something, but he's understandably worried.
After May, I'm going to get another minuscule break and then go right back into 15 credits, all shooting classes. By the Fall I'll be doing all my Photojournalism classes. I feel like I have so much work to do and not enough time. I got into a video documentary class this quarter, and I'm really enjoying it. We're shooting pretty much weekly videos with dSLRs that have HD video and editing in Final Cut. I think it's making me a much better storyteller already; the way I approach everything now feels much more succinct and direct. Video is cool stuff.
Hokay, I am going to bed for real now. It's 1:00 and I have glorious Materials & Processes at 8 AM. Goodnight darlings.
And here's an awkward picture of me and John!
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