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.