Kicking Ass Mouse.

This is the mouse Hesher fed to his pet snake that kicked ass and punched the snake in the face so the mouse wouldn't be eaten.

funny how things pop up at certain times.

CDs

Whenever I see a cracked CD case, it reminds me of when I used a CD player to listen to music and had to bring CD cases in my backpack for bus rides to and from school. The more cracked CD case indicated the more I listened to the CD.

This also kind of scares me b/c I'm still too young to have memories like this one.

love and marriage love and marriage

just last friday my sister got married! (YAY WOO HOO HOORAHH!, :irish sidekick: )




twas a grand time. thanks to my cousin jack for taking the last two photos since i was in the ceremony and couldn't take any photos.

anywho all this marriage stuff of course got me thinking about my own, and what did i think of immediately weirdly (yet not) enough? being proposed to like this:




it would be so kick ass. hopefully i'll be the opposite of lindsay. haha otherwise.. "wanna just make out or something?" : D

anywho, going to add some more photos to my portfolio website soon hopefully. i need to go to some concerts this fall to add to my music gallery. toodles!

internshipness

So i've been interning for the past 2 months ish at the daily record in morris county. & it's been forreals helpful. i've been treated nicely and equally (as in no coffee-ing and actually given assignments instead of just watching or doing computer editing or something) & i've met a lot of ppl in the community/have a new respect for community newspapers (no offense from before). Anywho, i basically just really enjoy this internship and thought i'd share some photos I have taken for assignments.

This was my first published photo:


went to a homeless solutions apt. complex and used my own camera/flash. it didn't come out too well on the kids, but after some editing, it's not too bad.

this was the same assignment and I just liked the angle and light/shadows



this was the whippany park high prom i had to shoot. i wanted to avoid high schoolers but i got caught w/ a prom assignment. haha it's okay though, cause the place ended up being where my sister's reception's going to be so i got to see the place/see how an event is run there. it's beautiful. & i liked this girl's dress.

this is the first front page photo that got published i think. granted it's a fake plastic baby, it doesn't look too unrealistic when it's just the feet. haha


@ fosterfields family farm, little kiddies with little chicks. cute overload. except i was sweating and it smelled like farm animals, which i'm not very keen towards. this assignment was kinda difficult b/c i had to get the kids' names and their parents' permission and finding the parent that went w/ the kid was difficult at times. especially that one girl at the top. not to mention i wore completely the wrong shoe attire for this assignment. you live and learn ('& then get luv's' would be so pun-y here. haha) .


i wished the boy's hat wasn't covering his face in this photo for the newspaper, but as a photo just for funsies, i like the hat covering.





this little dude was drumming during a rehearsal at School of Rock in Long Valley. this assignment was pretty fun for me b/c it is the closest i've been to live music photography. anywho, this drummer, Jack, was sucha heartbreaker/will be one. haha i can't remember off the top of my head how old he is but he is YOUNG. and really good. trust me. i know my drummers. hahaha just kidding, but he's got real talent. that much i can see.

same assignment. i got this idea after i went outside the room cause my left ear was buzzing. i really like the idea of this photo. the execution wasn't too bad either, as I humbly add. i hope they publish this one but we'll see how much room they have cause i'm sure they'll want faces more than artsy if they can only choose one or two.

this guy was kind of a uppity douche but only a little. anywho, the restaurant's Farm2Bistro and he basically buys as much local produce he can and just cooks them for his restaurant. it's a pretty cool idea. i liked this photo cause it reminded me more as a magazine portrait thing.

this assignment was dreaded but totally had fun when i was there. the only reason why i dreaded it was b/c i had to spend the day outside for like 9 hours originally (stayed for 6). a.) i didn't want to be outside for 9 hours in the hot sun lugging around camera equipment in jeans and boots. b.) i didn't want to get a tan line before the wedding c.) (this came later) i was having pretty shitty allergy attacks. BUT/nonetheless (yes that was redundant, whutever.) i had a really good time and the female farmer (it's a story on female farmers) and her partner were really nice and down to earth (pun intended :DDD hee) despite using a buttload of tissues and sweating balls, avoiding stray cats, and trying not to be sniffed in the crotch by a massive but friendly dog, i had a lot of fun.

now to the first photo, (wow i rambled way more than i intended to) i liked the angle and full frame-ness of it, except it didn't come out that well, exposure-wise. i edited it to the best of my abilities, but her face looks real drained looking. le sigh.

took this as a weather shot at Sunrise Lake in Morristown. just a fun splashy moment.. as i stood on really fudgen hot sand w/ my bare feet. i have to say, good thing i'm a young, asian girl or else some of these parents would have flipped a shizz of someone taking photos of their kids. haha

this was at the morris county policy training ..place haha. it was junior police academy camp week and they had a helicopter come. i just liked this photo despite seeing only part of the helicopter, cause you see the students w/ their last names on the back of their shirts, the helicopter pilot, and the helicopter in one photo w/ no dead space. at least none that i can tell (which i bet means there is. haha)

that's it for now. i should update my portfolio soon w/ some of these. oh the laziness of summer vacation..

Mary and Max

So my great friend at BU, Tesla, told me to watch this movie called 'Mary and Max' last night. At the time, I was in a pissy mood and knew i shouldn't start watching a movie at 12:00 midnight since i was supposed to wake up round 6:00am the next morning. or the same morning. tomatoes, tomahtoes.

i did it anyway.

i didn't finish it til now, but let me just say, this song: 'Perpetuum Mobile' by Penguin Cafe Orchestra that opened w/ the film totally filled my insides w/ happiness and joy. It still is. All I want to do is download this song and play it in my car. it's so happiness.

the film is also really good. it's described as a dark-comedy clayographics film. it's by a man named Adam Elliot who has the same birth date as me and is from australia! a place i wish to study abroad in next spring. he has another film, a short one, called 'Harvie Krumpet' and it's also streaming on Netflix so i will watch it some time. he seems to focus (at least on these two) on ppl with mental 'disabilities.' i'm not sure what to call them. should research that.

anywho 'Mary and Max' (i keep saying max and ruby from the book i had to read in jumpstart haha) is a sweet film that brings you out into idealistic situations yet keeps it grounded to seem like it could really happen. i believe i learned a term for this in philosophy & film but i can't recall it at the moment.

i hope you who are reading this, watch this film sometime. it's worth it.

starting my internship tomorrow. a bit nervous and bit excited. mostly just happy i found an internship and pretty happy w/ this one. starting my productive summer officially. hope to find a part-time job soon to pay for a few concerts i would like to go to in the near future + summer endeavors + fall semester.

listen to the song!

Awesome Reflection photo

this photo accompanied this article and is by Sim Chi Yin.

i saw it and was like this is an awesome photo. that's it. haha

Mystery Woman

Another photo of Vivian Maier kinda. haha it's just fun to find her/her shadow/her reflection. there was another one w/ her upper body shadow at the beach. it's like eye spy except.. if you were like 3 i guess. haha


& i liked this one cause she made me smile

there's this internship i found online for street fashion photography and this would be as close as street photography as possible for me so i'm considering applying for it.

**okay just kidding. i just checked the site and it's turning into a bro site? cause of money issues? what?? haha

anywho. maybe i'll still e-mail them and see.

anywho been busy with applying to internships. hope i get at least one!

Jean-Baptiste Mondino

so i recently went to a free screening of Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre at the Museum of Fine Arts (in Boston). at first i was like that was all right, wasn't too special from what this period pieces are usually and that's probably still true but the day afterwards, i was like damn i wanna watch it again. i don't know what it is about these stories where it seems like they don't even like each other and then all of a sudden they declare their love and it's like a surge of love energy that you are like where the hell did that come from? and then omgosh crazy good. haha

there was a q & a session afterwards w/ mia wasikowska (girl from alice in wonderland, the kids are all right) and cary fukunaga. fukunaga was pretty funny and wasikowska was quiet but she didn't get a whole lot of questions. my friend had work to do so we left early unfortunately but it's okay.



^taken by my cellular.

it was cool anywho, what this post is leading to is that Mia and the guy who plays Mr. Rochester, Michael Fassbender (German guy in Inglourious Basterds), recently had a photoshoot of them published in W magazine. they're really good looking together or else the story has manipulated my mind to think that haha which is most likely true.





she's really pretty here:


this is my favourite:


so i looked up the photographer: Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
googled his site and found out he's a french fashion photographer and music video director. he made the really hot commercial w/ Charlize Theron



he seems to have a few where there's a lot of ppl and males/females are all similar looking as one gender. it's pretty interesting.



this was one of my more favourite fashion photos:



this one's a good one but i mostly like it b/c of the bowtie. haha


this is my favourite from his site:

TiMER

So i watched this movie on netflix a way while back called TiMER



i think i actually kinda like it. i mean there's kind of a hollywood rush to it at the end to resolve everything, but still, the idea's really interesting and it's not badly acted.

here's the summary from netflix haha:

In this comedic fantasy, science has facilitated the search for a soul mate via biotechnological implants that count down to the moment one is supposed to meet his or her match. But Oona (Emma Caulfield) is worried: She's nearly 30, and her TiMER isn't ticking yet. Will her dream guy get snatched up by someone else? John Patrick Amedori co-stars in this film from first-time writer and director Jac Schaeffer.

so it's not really that good of a summary, but i'm too lazy/haven't watched it for a while now and can't remember all the details. but i want to watch it again. it has john patrick amedori in it too so that might be part of the reason i like it haha. he's just a good actor. and cute. : ]

Huff Post

So I came back to my room like.. 20 minutes ago and found e-mails from FB from my photo editor posting up a link on my wall. So I click thinking it's some assignment or whatever, and it's the photo I took on somewhat of a whim yesterday for the freep and it's a link to a huffington post re-post of the freep article w/ my photo enlarged, re-cropped (again) and really bad quality. sigh. my initial reaction was a mix of HOLY SH** & HOLY SH** THAT'S A HORRIBLE PHOTO. i'm calming down now, but yeah. unknowingly, i am published in a non-school-related thing. : D

here's the link for the huffpost one and here's the original at the freep

& here's the original photo

Weird.

I know we're at the point in time where social networking sites have pretty much taken over most ppl's lives. (okay a littttleee of an exaggeration but not totally) but it still surprises me and makes me laugh when i read things like this:

“We basically decided on principle that we couldn’t work for a country that was using snipers on rooftops to pick off its citizens,” said Gregory L. Vistica, the firm’s president, who first announced the decision on Facebook.

^in an article in the NY Times about lobbyists in the US gov for Arab countries. (here it is in case you wanna read it)

so serious and then "announced the decision on FACEBOOK." weeirrdd..

Website

So i'm finally done w/ my website w/ my portfolio and stuff. I'm pretty psyched bout it.

here it is: click

not the easiest free url but whatever haha

so cool.

flipping through Spin's 30 must-hear albums of 2011, i saw this photo for a band called Beady Eye.




totally awesome.

Vivian Maier

So last month I forgot how I got to this site but I stumbled upon it and Vivian Maier is now one of my favourite photographers. John Maloof, the blogger that has many of Maier's negatives, found/bought them at an auction (i should get myself to one. haha although i probably wouldn't be able to purchase anything. i need to find more garage/yard sales in boston/cambridge this semester once the weather's nice.) and started to blog/post Ms. Maier's photos. (you can read more about it on his site)

(photo courtesy of http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com)

I find that street photography is so intriguing. in fact, if i could actually make a living out of it/didn't have some antagonizing (but also justifiably so) ppl asking me why i'm taking photos of them etc. i would want to do street photography. anywho, her composition is awesome and timing is great and almost all if not all of her photos i've seen so far have impressed me a lot.

These are a couple I really liked:







(in case you can't see, it says on the bottom, "BUY THEM HERE!". this may be my favourite haha)


this one reminds me of the twin girls from 'the shining' except less creepy.

New Camera, New Photos?

So over break I bought (I say "I" but really it's my father and I. went halfsies) a new dSLR. Went on an internal debate right before break between Canon Rebel Ti2 (i think. haha) and Nikon d3100. everyone was telling me to get Canon, but both are great cameras/no real big difference, so what did I do? I chose Nikon, where my heart was set on. So a few days after being home, my pops and I went to Best Buy after work and ba-boom! bought that sucka.





Hello beautiful.

So i've been playing with it for about two months now. I like it a lot cause my photos are coming out clearier and less noisy. But when it's set on AF, it won't let me take some photos if the subject's too close which is a real bummer and annoying. But i'll live.




These were my first few photos w/ the nikon using Auto mode b/c i'm a noob and didn't have time to read the manual/figure shizz out. bite me.


Sox-y! he kept posing for me. haha



Babyy Tyler! :D so cute.


one of my b-friends in italy right now. this had a nice natural glow to it, i feel.

So my first show of the semester was also my first show w/ the nikon! didn't totally work out, but experience, practice, practice s'more, etc. i'm not entirely sure where i'm going with this.


This band, Xylos, opened for Tapes 'n Tapes @ Paradise. They weren't all that great, but fun enough to dance to.

The next band, Oberhofer, was better but got super repetitive.


Once again, there's this photo i like but there's a head on the bottom. I don't know how i feel about it. my eyes aren't drawn to it immediately, but i do notice it later. hm.

I've been really into watching performer's feet for some reason.

<-- Tapes 'n Tapes bassist. <-- Tapes 'n Tapes super hipster drummer that I had a crush on for a night haha he was a pretty good drummer though.

went to another show, Wakey!Wakey! and the Spring Standards, and definitely like the spring standards way more now. met with two of them and they were uber nice. don't really have any great photos from the show though.

been using the video option on the nikon and it's really not all that great, especially the microphone. i'm thinking i'm going to try and change the file to jpeg for video and see if it makes a difference. got another two shows (potentially two) next week to practice s'more. : D

i'm in high hopes that I will actually post more than two entries a month in the future. but i'm not unrealistic. haha it's great to be in a photo class now b/c I have photo assignments and a photo lab to work in and someone critiquing my work and I really want to upload two photos I took at the preschool but I can't since it's of the preschoolers. sigh. wish I had more time to go 'sploring. once the weather's less crappy, I will just screw some hw and go out and shoot some photos. also want to read more. but with what time? good question. will make do.