hurricanes, tsunami's, tropical storms(like the one here last night), now a mudslide in Guatemala....what next? locusts? lava? bubonic plague v1.5? we're all going to hell I'm convinced and no one realises it. argh!

yea so we got slammed by a tropical storm last night...the doppler radar for our area looked like a splattered bug on a winshield. it's sunny now but I don't think its over quite yet. dammit...looks like shooting is suspended for yet another day. I have half a roll still in my camera but I think I'm just gonna rewind it and get it processed cuz i gotta get moving on making test prints for my monday crit...and i have a slight handicap since I haven't done any color or b/w printing in 3 years! should be fun! hopefully its like riding a bike. I met w/my prof and showed her some of what i've done and she offered some good feedback and recommended some great artists to look at especially barbara kruger. i'm pumped. i even feel motivated and inspired now to the point where this class might as well not exist and I'd still continue shooting - which is what its all about. if you just shoot for a class then you're not much of a photographer. my parents just moved to a new house with a kick ass piece of land and i'm even excited about going home and shooting there over turkey break. ok time to get goin i gotta finish a stupid renderman asssssss.ignment for class at noon.

I wrote a long ass entry several days ago and when I hit submit it never uploaded and I lost it for good. poopies... i'm tired as hell... photo is going well...first roll of film was surprisingly good. I shot a lot last night. its raining hard as fuck right now so i can't shoot tonight...not good. i put my shit on the wall on monday for my first crit. it's all good... alright back to work... hi meg.i miss u.i love u baby! oh and not that it really matters to any of you but programming SUCKS...renderman - while cool as hell - SUCKS - I HATE IT...MEL script, TCL script & RAT can DIE!!! :-)

My UPS Package Tracking page says "out for delivery" ... sweeeeeet ... oh! the anticipation! the smell of fresh professional film! mmmmmmmm just like mama used to bake! i was again thinking about class today and i realised there were many more reasons why I decided to take this class (besides getting back into a passion of mine). i'm def stoked about meeting new people. it's nice to get out of montgomery(the vsfx building). and I was hoping to get back into critiques that were far more involved and intense. Montgomery is seriously lacking in critiques and feedback which totally baffles me. One day some of us are going to be working at ILM, DD or R&H and some bigshot a-hole vsfx supervisor is going to be leaning over you telling you what to do and if you can't take the heat/feedback now you're certainly going to be fucked when you enter the real world. Yesterday was the first actual crit and it was great...just like old times at Ithaca College. It was great to be surrounded by so many people eager to give opinions and constructive criticism. I will admit, out of the work that was put up yesterday nothing really did it for me. A lot of these people seem scared to break free of the traditional stereotypes and cliches. Many seem afraid to think outside the box and merely shot what is closest and most familar to them. Every project yesterday seemed to be some half ass documentary/portrait thing with a tagline like "oh well...i know these people they're my friends or they're my family and I just wanted to shoot them". I did keep an open mind and offered my thoughts on everyones work. It was only the firt crit so I hope everyone will continue to grow and expand. Being that all these projects yesterday were of people didn't help either...i hate photographing people. let me repeat HATE HATE HATE photographing people. people bore the living fuck out of me. I will continue the last paragraph later but for now I gotta get ready for class and the day! xo.shux

rawk on...i'm blogging or maybe it's logging it may be a 'soft' b. I'm doing this, I'll admit, partly for a class here @ SCAD and well partly for me(that's right mutherf**kers!) So yes... Personal Vision II PHOT-402-02 bring it on! So I will say this...I apologize in advance if I bore some of you with this photography stuff but for now that's going to be the (fiber?) bulk of this blog(for now). In the future there will be other things I'm sure. Ok so here we go...entry #1 It's been 3 going on 4 years since I've picked up a camera and done any sort of art or picture making. The real world bogged me down for awhile and although I told myself I'd never stop creating photos - I did indeed stop. i suck. At first I will admit i was merely taking this class to beef up my portfolio for visual effects. I originally had planned to go all digital/photoshop/all high tech and geeked out. But as much as I love the digital world and more specifically the digital world of manipulation, I found myself cold, alone and sweating at the thought of going forward with my original ideas. I told my professor I didn't want to go back to my old ways of landscapes, night stuff and painting with light...i was gung ho for the cold crisp world of digital. Then I began thinking....my work involves the search for purity the search for truth and documenting and finding that line where man meets nature and nature meets science. There was a guy in my class (Greg?Craig?) and I was floored by his work...he too does the night photography like I do. He mentioned an artist by the name of Todd Hido during his presentation. So I began thinking, researching and studying....I stumbled onto another artist by the name of Clemintine Roy and was also floored by her work. In short I said f**k it to the digital stuff lets go forward with something else. The search has begun again. Tomorrow(assuming my supplies from B&H show up accordingly) I'm into the wild world of night to see what I can dig up. I have an idea set in mind but I'm not going to go into that quite yet...I'm going to wait and see how things go and how I feel after my first shoot. What I will say is this. I'm going for more open spaces this time around. Fancy locations, dark allies, old abandoned houses are far to cliche so I plan to avoid them. I'm interested in the space that has yet to be occupied. I should stop there and I will...again we'll see what happens after tomorrow! -xo.xo.shux