The Holga in Mexico

Well, seeing as I took about 25 pounds of camera equipment to Europe over the summer, I thought I'd take the opposite approach and just take 2 cameras- my trusty canon powershot, and my holga. For those of you that don't know what a holga is, it's basically a toy camera that takes fun, unpredictable photos. Here is a picture of what the camera looks like:

And here are the photos I got from it:

Cruise Pics!

Well we just got back from the most awesome cruise ever and here are some pics:

Sans School Assignment

Being done with school has definitely had it's perks- no homework to do at night, free weekends, and no stress about getting assignments done and getting good grades (although my job has taken the place of school stress times about 10) Anyway, I decided that the things I have learned in my classes at schol are far too valuable to let go of. I think that even though I don't have a teacher assigning a task and giving a due, I should still be doing projects on my own. So here is a short list of projects I have assigned myself:

1. Take at least 1 roll of film of photos a week- and get them developed and processed, I don't need any more negatives sitting around that I don't do anything with.
2. Recently I purchased a few supplies to make more linocut prints- the problem I have is deciding what to actually print. So I decided that the next print I do has to come from something I find in my house- not including anything from the internet.

I'm going to start with these 2 and see where I get. Simple enough.

Lunch Break Blog Time

Well it's definitely been a while since I've been able to write on this, but I thought that because I don't have school to keep me busy, I should be able to post more. Plus I just got a new wireless router that gives me blazing fast internet at home, so now I won't get kicked off the internet every time I check out a blog...

So here's what's new in a nutshell:
1. I finally graduated from college
2. I did get rid of facebook because I feel like if I want to know what someone is doing with their life, I should just call or go see them instead of being a creeper.
3. I got a new job. I'm working as a designer for an architecture and interior design firm.
4. I'm going on a cruise!

Those are the biggest ones I can think of at the moment, but since I've made the goal to update my blog more- including giving it an awesome design- there will be a better flow of current events. Until then...

It's Christmas Time!

A few weeks ago my sister in law posted a blog entry about a promotion going on through the company Shutterfly, where anyone with a blog can receive 50 free Christmas cards just for blogging about these great cards! That’s pretty easy for me. I’ve used Shutterfly before, and they were great to work with, so seeing as last year's card was a total flop (I designed one, even took a picture for it, but that's about as far as it got) I decided that this would help motivate me to get some holiday cards out to our friends and family. I should be working on my big research paper that is due next week (at least I have an outline I guess), but I can't stop looking at how cute the Shutterfly Christmas cards are! If anyone is interested you should definitely check their website out: http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-cards

Hope you all have a great Christmas season! Yay for the holidays!

Here's a Funny Story

So sometimes I like to drive down to Orem for work/school instead of taking the bus. I think the parking passes are ridiculously overpriced, so whenever I do drive to the school I generally always park in the paid visitor's lot located conveniently outside my office. Well today I forgot to ask my boss for a validation, and was therefore in a bit of a predicament when it came time to leave and realized I would actually have to pay to get out. I could either 1) Pay a whole $20 (plus another $2.50 for the atm fee to even get the cash) and leave at 5 pm when I finished my class, or 2) wait it out until the parking attendant goes home at 10:30 pm and try to get out of the lot when the bar is up. So what did I decide to do? Yep...wait. I was actually able to get a lot of homework done that I probably would have put off all weekend, so I guess it could be looked at as a good thing. I've been periodically taking sneaky looks out the doors to see if the gate has been up and it finally is, but I'm still nervous that the booth attendant is still in there and will try to make me pay if I leave, so I came back to my office and decided to kill a few minutes by writing this blog post. Wish me luck, and let's hope the last 5 hours have not been wasted in vain. I did listen to the Dave Ramsey show online and watched Serendipity, so it's been quite an enjoyable and educational evening. 

A Little of What I've Been Working On

Well, seeing as this is my last semester of school (yay!) I have been busy working an various projects for my classes. Here are a couple images from those projects. The first is for my senior project- I'm printing images from the film I shot in Europe- so far it's all been done in the darkroom- no computer, no photoshop. It's been an adjustment after working with photoshop so much to have to go back to the darkroom, but it has been great. Once I get the other images I've done scanned, I'll post them too. The second image is done with a process called cyanotype. I've been learning a lot about the old photo processes (before photoshop and photo paper you can go buy at the store :-)) I've loved this class this semester, and will also put the other images I've been working on up once I get them scanned.