I need to keep up with this

Ooooppps, its been a little while since I've written. I guess I say that all too often but keeping up a blog is something I need to get use to still. With finals coming up i have THREE final studio art projects. jeeeeeeeeez its so stressful, especially because all the projects are so open.

So I'll go through everything that I'm working on...

3-D Process: The project has to be a sculpture or 3-D something that relates to my major. So what I'm working on is a cheap 35 mm camera, I started out melting it and distorting it a bit. Then I had the idea to melt crayon onto it. It started to reallly come together and I've become addicted to working on it because its just so fun to create. I also put a roll of film in the back of the camera and I'm going to weave wire into it to make it standup up and wrap around. Then I'm going to drip crayon onto the film as well.

Drawing: I have 4 wood panels and cut up newspaper and glued then down with a thin layer of glue on top. I plan on drawing old cameras onto tracing paper and putting it over the newspaper and creating a different scene on each panel by drawing camera parts.

Visual Concepts: The project I plan to do is relatively extreme. The topic is war. And I am going to take photographs at night. I will have a burning american flag in three different photographs. I will also include small plastic army men in each photograph. They will be very intense and controversial. I am nervous to actually do it but I know I have to. Im anxious to see how they will turn out.

One of those times I wish people read my blog..

So i have a project due on Tuesday that has to be about a religion and spirituality. It can't be my own though.. so I have to do research on another religion and create a piece of artwork that has meaning? I'm so bad at this kind of stuff, I have zero idea what to do. This project is extremely uninspiring to me. Maybe if I do some more research I'll come up with a good idea.. who knows. I just feel like when im not inspired, my work is not that good. But who knows.. I do wish I had people who read this so I could get ideas or feedback.. unfortunately, I'm not famous. aha.

And now I have way too much work to do to be messing around on my blog.. that no one reads.

mucho amor
Emily Katherine

southern livin

Who would of thought I'd love writing a paper so much?

Soooo.. normally I leave papers I have to write til the last second. But it's the end of the semester and I thought I'd let myself not stress out as much and get it done a few days early. Well I have absolutely fallen in love with writing this paper. I'll explain! Its a Career Assessment paper and I chose to write it on Photojournalism. I have some across the sickest shit. NOT even exaggerating. I have been contacting the sites I visit and have been getting myself overly excited because I ABSOLUTELY know this is what i want to do with my life. I LOVE photography and the idea of practicing it as a journalist and being able to enhance stories through my pictures makes my heart race.

Who would of thought I'd be so excited about this? Granted my paper is still not done because I'm getting distracted by everything I find. The upside is that I'm actually learning something instead of stalking facebook to pass the time. I interviewed a freelance photojournalist named David Burnett who was so nice to get back to me and I got some great information from him. Also his pictures are awesome.. so if anyone is actually reading this.. take a peek its really cool. Also I haven't been able to get off The Village Voice site for the past 45 minutes. (thevillagevoice.com) Its literally so awesome and so many of the articles are really funny. It seems to be very hip and laid back. That is the exact kind of place I would love to look for. I could imagine that being a job I would love. AHH just me daydreaming. But seriously look at their site its sick! I did e-mail the art director and I'd be cool if I got a response but I feel like with that sort of thing I will most likely not get something back. I just sounded like an awkward little girl looking for an internship, haha. I might try calling their one day next week and finding someone I can send my portfolio to. Hmmm you never know til you try.

I'm learning to think outside the box and be optimistic because you never know what you may come across. Making connections with indiviuals is KEY as well as rewarding. I find it comforting to discuss photography in any form to those who are professionals because maybe one day I will be in their shoes... I HOPE!

Okay I'm done blabbering.. gotta get back to this paper... 20% of my grade.

Drawing

Woooowwwww why can't I be good at drawing. That would be lovely. I'm working on my homework for that class now and Im just frustrated. Well I guess practice is the only thing that can help me? AH HATE IT! I wish I was just decent, thats all i need.

Dream

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