Tuesday.

I am at a loss.

I don't know what to look at. 

I keep thinking about super bowl commercials and knowing how they will be ruined makes me depressed.

This massive attack song is good but kind of melancholy and is making me sluggish.

The work I have to finish on my senior project is staggering.

I should have brought my flip camera so I could be productive.

I think I'm going to look at sites now and try to find something.

I'm so...uninspired.

I just spent twenty minutes on both stumble upon as well as look book and all I can say is BLAH. Nothing is standing out, nothing is catching my attention, nothing looks that great. I'm at a loss of what to do. The pictures I saw on stumble upon are great whatever but now I've seen almost every good looking nature photo that they've put up. As far as lookbook all I can say is that everyone has the same face in every photo. It's like a clique in high school. It's pointless. I'm so angry. 

Sorry. Broken Jeep. Broken Heart.

Blah.

Wednesday.

I realized about five seconds ago that I haven't posted in nearly a week, and, fearing for my grades, I figured I should come up with something or other.

I am currently watching Romeo+Juliet, the good one.

This one.

It is so wonderfully fantastic and I highly encourage anyone reading my dear little blog to check it out. Personally, I know it word for word, every line, scene, costume change, and facial expression. It's kind of one of my favorites. Plus it made me fall in love with Leonardo but pretty sure everyone who saw it did.

Anyway, This week I haven't really watched anything of importance though I have started compiling a list of movies I truly want to see; the list is as follows:

Moonrise Kingdom

Jeff who lives at home

Into the wild

Wristcutters: a love story

Detachment

Garden State

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

I'm sure I am forgetting many but this is what the list is so far.

Aw, Paris is dancing with Juliet and has no idea that she has just seen Romeo for the first time and is so infatuated. This movie is just so fantastic.

Back to things, in class today I started working on my new project, but this makes me worry about my old project, valley sounds. I think, however, after I have new project (oh the places you'll go) filmed, I can edit them nearly simultaneously given that I will more fully understand the editing process. Furthermore, I will hopefully have filmed my intro by then...

Oh, Romeo has just realized she is a Capulet, heartbreaking dispair. Now nurse has told Juliet of his being a Montague, though she still looks as if she has hope. This movie is so tragic, sigh. 

Gosh dang it now I'm noticing flaws.

CURSE YOU MR. BROWN

Romeo's mask changes positions multiple times during the party when it keeps cutting back to him. ugh.

NOOOO, now the metal stand he knocked over trying to hide from Juliet is standing back up again.

This is ridiculous, yet sadly okay.

Her hair was pinned up when she fell in the pool and now it is just down.

UGH.

I don't remember watching anything else lately, though I have been reading the girl with the dragon tattoo series which is just wonderfully gripping. I literally finished the second book in two days and the third is nearly over. Great read if anyone is looking for a political thriller. Though I must put up that it is extremely graphic, and doesn't really become political until the second and third book.

Anyway, I think that is all I have to say.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody.

Thursday.

What an interesting day. End of the term blues, over stressed-underfed-running on no sleep teenagers spiraling out of control, a look at a photo shoot that didn't go as expected, and a real life glimpse in to what I'm supposed to be looking for into photography.

I took note of the comment posted about looking into what I actually like about photography, about reflecting on my culture and figuring out where I want to go with it. I made a list after viewing all of the sites I posted last time and trying to sum them up in a few words hoping to find some link between all of them:

Hipsters

Creepy old pictures

Books/libraries

Palindrome. Learning

Real life new york

Blog interface/ whimsical shots

Celebrities/real looking portraits

Extreme close up/black and white/detail

New york.

Old school/vintage lighting concept, run down, old, growth

Vintage, blurry

Celebrities, real looking.

While looking at this list I found a clash, between modern and extremely old age. I LOVE New York, the bright spiraling loud city. I love modern straight lines clean cut but yet I love old photos. I like vintage-looking photos. The bus in the field just stuck out to me. The clash of the in between:

Like this for example, I love how straight on all the lines go, yet the under growth looks so perfect next to it. And the dark color palette just finishes the photo for me. Makes it look like it's supposed to be there. I can't decide if it's modern elements that I love more or the more vintage elements. 

I also figured out that since I love books and architecture so much these libraries really just stood out to me. specifically this one:

The clean lines just freaked me out in the greatest way. Plus the thousands of books just waiting to be read, and the sunlight filtering in making it look like the most fantastic place to sit down and read. Oh I really truly just love it. Plus the photo composition itself is wonderful, you have your rule of thirds down to a t, your focus directly in the middle, and your eye just flows with all of the straight lines directing you around this temple of knowledge. 

I'm going to keep trying to find the elements that catch me and relate them to the things that I love and that define me. Lets see how this turns out. 

Tuesday.

Just watched Eat Move Learn videos. Super great. I'm writing vimeo down right here right now so I can remember what it is. Today I looked through a whole lot of sites and here are a few of them.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2lg2bk/media.divinecaroline.com/ext/article_images2/hipster/hipster_lg.jpg/ best list of all time.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Vt2Kp/www.cracked.com/article_19512_16-real-old-timey-photographs-that-will-give-you-nightmares.html/ so weird.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2YXNG4/www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-libraries.htm/ I want to go to these

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2yplgk/www.sadanduseless.com/2010/10/words-on-pictures-part-13/ palindrome. We all learn something new every day

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2pvagS/blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2010/08/30/awake-in-the-sleeping-city/ I’M SO GOING TO BE THERE!!!!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/9v78rt/www.cartright.com/ I don’t love the photography except for a few of the beauty shots. But the interface of the website is really quite something.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2hm87g/www.mullerphoto.com/ Have you ever seen a famous person? This guy probably took a picture of them. Go to portraits. It’s slightly insanity.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1jlqxF/thumbpress.com/25-incredibly-detailed-black-and-white-portraits-of-the-homeless-by-lee-jeffries/ I can’t handle the detail on these shots. I wonder what kind of lens they used.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5nTdZe/www.designfloat.com/blog/2011/09/22/new-york-day-night-photography-stephen-wilkes/ This is really cool.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Dm1Ty/www.behance.net/MarkMawson/frame/108877/ I really like the lighting in this.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/9USCUf/www.annhe.com/6386-personal-memories/ great

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1fJLFE/www.havve.net/things/focusme/ depth of field website.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1VxkyI/www.pristina.org/2011/02/27/martin-schoeller/ celebrities that look real!!!

Sunday.

I suppose since I posted a look I might as well post a post right?
Oh dear weekend you slipped away so fast.
Many a thing happened in the past three days:
One, I cannot go to a certain digital production competition due to the unfortunate tooth extraction going to take place on one friday the thirteenth.
Two, I learned that I appreciate Lord of the Rings far more then I had ever intended to. (I might've watched the entire trilogy)
Three, I miss disco skating. Never thought I'd say that again.
Four, Family domino night is possibly the greatest night ever
Five, Procrastinating is the best form of motivation.
Ha. I really like that last one. Only because it gets you motivated in that last minute to finish. Even though I'm sitting here posting...
It's funny how fast time goes, especially when you are trying to make it go slower.
Yet when you want time to go fast, it just draggssssss on and on. Terrible.
Alas. I've spent more time on here then I was going to already, and here I thought I was being so productive.
TV Shows watched in the past two days: New Girl, Dexter, and Vampire Diaries. So great.
I'm going to hopefully get off now and go do something actually productive, like homework.

Friday.

Today the hammer came down, it was decided everyone in my class had to not only make a blog, but post in it everyday. Sigh. I apologize in advance for the posts about to be endured. Hopefully we can all make it through together.
Before this conclusion came down I have been spending my "very important" class time looking at various blogs, websites, and photos. Here is a list of what I've got so far. Please, enjoy.
P.S. I did make a few comments on a few of them. You can choose to disregard or not.

http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/timburton/index.php

lookbook.nu

mypetsquare.com

coggles.com

jacjacjac.com

scottcouncil.com

stumbleupon:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4hvy77/owni.eu/2010/12/15/still-life-bent-objects/ this shows photography and objects and being able to make fun of and manipulate both.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1QGIv5/www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/paris.htm/ this is just a gorgeous shot of paris.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/25dXew/www.cocacolla.it/arts/jamie-beck-e-kevin-burg-cinemagraphs/ I do not understand how they make these move!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/18nVQq/www.2expertsdesign.com/showcase/50-most-strange-and-unusual-buildings-around-the-world/ I absolutely LOVE architecture. This is so cool.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7LdvYO/www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/outside.html/ WHOA

mentalfloss.com-information for knowledge junkies?

Lorinix.net-her style looks like its made for the picture-like a clay house or something. I cannot figure out how she does it.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1DQo1m/fireballed.org/linked/2011/06/07/bts/ behind the scenes movies. Super super amazing.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2VuXD6/www.colerise.com/ I realize your super cool and have already seen this but I thought it was inspiring.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2exkI5/warholize.me/ GET WORHOLIZED

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2Klgak/www.photographyserved.com/gallery/Unrealistic-Scenes/872302/ before you shrug this off as photoshop madness just appreciate it.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2U9c42/totallycoolpix.com/2011/02/world-press-photo-of-the-year-2010/ wow.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1QGbkz/www.fredrikodman.com/ haven’t looked around yet cannot wait to!

https://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1WajtF/www.pxleyes.com/blog/2011/12/these-50-photos-will-blow-you-away/ .. I really can’t decide if these photos are photo shopped or not. So gorgeous,  but so colorful, its hard to tell if they enhanced them.

https://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6KOW1I/dornob.com/artistic-photo-editing-of-everyday-built-environments/ The captions explain it all. Under every photo it talks about how you almost believe the illusion just for a second, before sense comes in and you realize it isn’t real.

https://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1zmXB6/www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/14732/stephanie-de-rouge-in-your-fridge.html/ THIS IS THE COOLEST IDEA EVER