the rough digital shots from my BELIEVERS project.
since the SIX ROLLS of film that I shot turned out blank because of the stupid broken lense on the Pentax6x7 that I rented from school.

Naomi:


Elisa:


Yossi:



I wish that the film had come out...these were just test shots....

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why this week is both good and bad (but mostly busy)

+ only two days of class!!
- the more things there are to do in two days
+ finished with problem sets and think they are all correct!
- midterm for war, peace, world order next week...and these correct problem sets were a group and loooonnng effort
+ not showing for collage tomorrow
- wanted to show
+ have some interesting ideas and FINALLY some direction
+/- no internship on friday means more sleep AND I CAN DO SOMETHING ON THURSDAY NIGHT but I miss my kids!
+ everyone being here for shabbat finally
+ the weather has been sucking and it will rain again tomorrow...so no biking.
- sooo many things to do this weekend (building collages, studying for midterm, etc.)
- STILL have this cold
+ but it feels like finally it might be getting better
- College Republicans are holding a "find the illegal immigrant" game...disgusting.
+ lots of protesters to wreak havoc at it :).

butttt after tomorrow at 6, I am done with classes and just have lots and lots and lots of work to look foward too....I'll probably hang out with people on Thursday night and just do work on Saturday night :( or maybe the other way around...

this is a photograph of my feet at a party we went to on Saturday (there is slush on the ground..so the rule was shoes off and my friend Ben and I found some flip-flops lying around..)

still sick. still waking up at 6:30 tomorrow morning.

trying to go home when you have internships and shooting to work around is really, really, really difficult.
i would so love to go home this weekend and somehow I don't see myself getting to florida until passover :(.

really really sick

maybe valentines day isn't so bad.

today

class from 9:30-10:45
made contact sheets for lighting from the BELIEVERS shoot that I did last week
went to my volunteer tutoring at WIHS 2:30-5:00
wasted time at photo for a half hour and made a new notebook for lighting
came home and making dinner of brown rice, sesame dressing, orange bell pepper, and soy steak. maybe ice cream for dessert?
doing my collage project tonight until late so that I don't have to do it tomorrow night (going to Bailey's show and helping Liz hang her show!)
going to sleep early because I think I am getting sick.


A few more photos from that day of shooting...

a brief update on life...

I'm listening to really old music that is on my ipod (think Yellowcard), just cleaned my (previously) very messy room, showered (to clean my previously very messy body), and now am setting out to cover the bottom half of a manequin in newspaper to collage on top of. I already did reading for the War, Peace, World Order class and I've still got some Aesthetic History of Photography reading left. This week is super busy with the next senior show opening...thats how my v-day will be spent...helping to hang cool pictures :).

I slept at Bailey's for Shabbat which made life so much easier...hung out a lot more with the Syrian girls - so happy that they are going for the same dorm as Bailey and I next year because they are so great.

These are some shots from a project that I am shooting this semester for my lighting class. It is called BELIEVERS. Basically it stems from the way that so many people my age say:
"I was raised _____"

So few people identify themselves as believers in a certain faith. So I am doing portraits of BELIEVERS...these are in studio right now but will probably end up being on location...
there are some ROUGH negative scans of my friend Dee:

I biked from Lafayette and Canal to 50th Street and the West Side Highway and back without stopping. around 6 miles. That felt really great.



Completely unrelated to that, my day got a lot better :).

art is hard.

today was long and frustrating.
this is an old strip newly scanned for my (hopefully) soon-to-come website.

My stomach hurts.


But I do have a new project that I am working on for lighting (and beyond). It is about beliefs and cleverly titled BELIEVERS. details to come...


I hate Wednesday nights.

battle of the cameras

the big one is basically a combination porshe/navigator and the little one is a car that jake might push with his feet.
"INTERACTION" assignment for lighting class


and this is a photograph that someone took of me.



I set up Jackie's shoot for her with all of these strobes and stuff. Very proud of myself :). Saw Diana tonight and finally did laundry after wearing the same dress three times.