viola! finished, finally!

so, here is my social commentary. i know, it's late. it's really hard for me to actually find time to set up a photoshoot with people and lighting when i'm so damn busy with school, my internship, yearbook, and work. anyway, it is finally finished!

i did my project on animal testing. i wrote a paper about it last year during my ap lang class and what i found out really bothered me so i wanted to express it with this. the amount of crazyness that goes on in an animal testing lab is amazing. it's disgusting and horrifying. for this, i actually went with my original idea for this. i took a mascara brush and dipped it in red paint to look like blood because some make-up is tested on animals. i then splatter painted my lovely bff, claire, with red paint to look like more blood too. i decided to do the selective coloring to help the red be emphasized. last, i erased the label on the original bottle and replaced it so people would understand that this is supposed to be about animal testing.

overall, i like this project. i really like the idea and it came out mostly like i pictured it. before i started doing this project i should have took into consideration how hard it would be to selective color a bunch of tiny blood splatters. this took me a good three hours, i even bought a mouse to make it easier, but it still didn't come out perfect. i want to find an easier way to do it... maybe i should print it out entirely black and white then somehow go over the paint splats by hand? i need to invest in a tablet...

 

p.s. thank you claire for modeling for me and taking off your necklace (:

i'm a good friend again!

i've been promising for a while to make a logo for my best friend and her fiance's photography business. i finally did it this morning. they want to shoot weddings and andy's last name is tree (hahaha) so the name of it is "a knot in the tree photography". therefore, the wedding rings represent the knot, aka tying the knot and there's a leaf for a tree! yipee!

"you suck at life..."

...thanks for that little tidbit, mrs. kerr.

the reason i suck is for not doing my social commentary. i have a good, solid idea... i just have to execute it. i barely have any time to breath so actually spending time to set up a good photograph is kind of difficult. i also need the photography studio at school and since i'm never there with my internship and work i have to take some time to do this.

since i don't have my piece, i'll share my idea:
i did animal testing and how it should be abolished as my topic. so, what i want to do is have a girl putting on mascara, but on the brush will be red paint aka blood. i don't know if that will get the point across of animal testing being bad, so i'm thinking of adding some bottles of make-up or lotion or whatever in the corner and changing the labels. for example, instead of saying "lengthening" mascara, it will say "bone crushing" mascara, since animals get their bones crushed during testing. i also may make the photo black and white and just make the blood red.

that's the basic idea, suggestions are welcome.

yes, i am a creepy fangirl.

i feel like i don't really have any specific moment in my life that has impacted me in some magical way. my life has been full of bumps and bruises, but most of my life is made up of awkward pauses, laughing at things that aren't supposed to be funny and spending all night having parties in random parking lots throughout castle rock. i don't really know what memory i should document for the world to see and to turn into a piece of art...

well, let's go with this one:

i've been called a concert whore, groupie, what have you... i like music. i spend a good majority of my time (and money) at concerts. whenever i feel like i am at a concert i am truly, 100% happy. i love the people, the sights, the sounds, obviously, everything... except maybe the smell /: so anyway, i've been to a lot of shows. i mainly listen to silly, typical "pop-punk" bands; all time low, versaemerge, the maine, etc... and i've been so lucky to have been able to meet them all. sure, usually it's just the "hi, sign this... can i have a picture?". however, sometimes i can have a full out conversation. i get to hear the inspiration behind their songs and how they feel about every show. it's kind of surreal because they're all so normal and they appreciate everything.

i guess i should focus this more on a specific memory... i'll go with the first time i met a  band that's a huge inspiration to me, paramore:

as a surprise gift for getting straight a's all of freshman year, my mom signed me up for what's known as the "official paramore fan club"... cheesy and weird i know, however as a member you get access to ticket presales and you can win special tickets for a meet and greet with the band. so, one night i was just getting ready for bead when my mom came bursting through my bedroom door yelling at me, "you get to meet paramore!". at the time, i didn't really know what to think. my mom handed me a piece of paper, a printed out e-mail that read at the top: "CONGRATULATIONS! YOU'VE WON TICKETS FOR A MEET AND GREET!". my stomach dropped, but in a good way... i couldn't really believe it.

i had to wait over a month for the show, and the meet and greet. every time that i started to think about meeting them, i got nervous. the day finally came, november 4th, 2007. i still had no idea what i wanted to have the band sign, so i made something; a sign with paramore on it and it was the colors of their new cd. this sign now hangs above my bed. this was one of my first experiences meeting "band people" so i had no idea what to say or what to wear. i was a bit of a mess. the e-mail instructed that i was supposed to wait outside the box office and an "official representative" of the band would call me, and the 5 other winners back to meet the band. i waited outside with my cousin, tyler, who was going to the concert with me, and my mom (i swear, she's a bigger paramore fan than i am). so we waited there for a while, people watching. we started talking and over my shoulder i saw two guys walk into the wendy's next door... those two guys were from the band, the bassist and guitarist. we ended up playing creepy fangirl and followed the two guys into wendy's. my cousin and i ran up to them and asked for a picture, of course, they said yes.

i had to go back and wait in front of the box office until will, the representative, came to get us. he walked us into the venue where we all chatted until the band came out. i was completely starstruck there was hayley williams, the singer, zac farro, the drummer, and josh farro and jeremy davis, the two guys we met earlier. i walked around to all of them to sing my poster and take pictures. all the members seemed pretty stoked that i actually took the time to make something. i was able to get a picture with everyone and we all chatted for 30 minutes. they seemed like such cool, and real people. i'm pretty sure that they enjoy meeting their fans as much as their fans enjoy meeting them.

from this point on i have let music kind of overrun my life. i live for spending hours sweating in dark, musky venues. it's just... fun. wow, i didn't expect to write this much. i take back the comment about having a specific moment in my life impact me, this is that moment.

...now to turn this into art, ugh.

there's an app for that.

my droid has an app for blogger... how convenient.

so, this took me forever. i feel like this project is such a cool idea, i wanted to make sure my book cover is perfect. the thing that was hard for me was actually creating something with my hands vs a computer mouse or camera. i litteraly spent a good 3 hours just staring at the blank cover trying to think of something awesome. in the end i just decided to go with something, the first thing that pops into my mind. this helped me to realize i really overthink things. i need to just go with something... i can always redo it.

anyway, here is my book... i ripped out pages and covered the book with them, then added the (overly) girly pink paper and ruffled ribbon. i had no idea what to do with my hands. when i googled hands the first image had hands making a frame, so that's what i did. thhe picture in the middle is a band (because i love music) and it's really colorful, like myself. i am very open for suggestions, so help me out. especially for the back... i have no idea what to do!

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