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

live

Dealing

Well can successfully say I am not ready for my Mass Comm test today. Library attempt was decent but I should not leave studying til the night before. I was up until about 430 then had to go to sleep. Skipped my 3-D art class this morning.. opps. Probs not the best idea but whatever I have to study.. which im not even doing im writing on my blog.. that no one reads. Haahah anyways I just wanted to let the world know that I HATE SCULPTURE. Like no offense to those who do, but its just not my "cup of tea". I'm not very good at it, blahhhhh. Anyways if youre reading this, you should deff follow my blog. Reasons... hmm. 1. sometimes I'm interesting.. 2. I post semi-interesting pictures.. 3. pity cause I have no followers.. and 4. I'm a nice person. Haha hope I convinced someone, that'd be sweet. LATERR, I will be studying from now until 12:30 when I face that test I'm going to fail.. I think minoring in MCOM is no longer an option. OPPS.

UGH!

Looking for followers, so itd be really great if you'd be one. But actually thinking about it, people could look at my blog and I have no idea.. I wonder if they could motivate me to keep it up..? doubt it. ahaha. Yeahhhh so I'm gonna put up some new pics I took for a project I handed in this week. They're decent, nothing im overly excited about... enjoy if anyone is even looking.

DRAG

Okay, so this is my favorite picture I have ever taken. I am really proud of myself (as gay as that sounds). But i was not expecting to be so successful and have so many useable photos out of the group I took. Maybe I brag about it sometimes.. or maybe not. But I don't care because I worked very hard on it.

SELF PORTRAITS!

long time no see

So I guess you can say I took a little break from the blogging world, its a little hard to be committed to writing on here when I have no followers. But I guess in reality.. I wont get followers if I dont write.. hmm TRUE. Anyways, I've taken some pictures that I'm pretty proud of lately.. so I guess thats good. My whole idea of transferring is kicked to the curb, I've been a lot happier here and making the best of the art program I am involved in. I have applied photography wherever I can. It's not always easy but I am looking to be a more successful photographer. I have noticed a change in my work and I am becoming more comfortable with the types of photos I take.

I realized I may want to get into photo journalism, so concerning a minor..... uhmm i dont know. Its kinda hard to decide if I want to commit to a minor, when it may just be pointless for me in the future.. but who knows! Well I guess I'll stop rambling and post some pictures because thats probably the only way I can get me some FOLLOWERS!

FOLLOW MY BLOG, thanks

SAVE ME

I forgot how stressful it is to create a portfolio. And this time I dont have any guidance. There is no way I will sleep tonight with this stress. I feel like I have no good pictures.

greattttttttttttttttttt

I need to be somewhere that knows SOMETHING about art

Seriously.. why would I come to Towson to be an art major?

Some choice it will get my no where to say the least. No one even knows photography is a major here. I wish I went to school in the city. Soo im taking action, lets see if ill go through with the change... I guess we'll see.

Lazy

Well I guess you could say I've been incredibly lazy this weekend. My Nikon has been sitting on my chair for days now. I won't say that I haven't done anything because I did a few contour line drawings for my drawing class. And I also had to make my sketchbook for my V.C class look unique.. so i painted it and printed out some of my pictures so make it look more complete. And thats about it.

I did get all my art supplies... finally.

That time I went to France

Summer 2009, heres a taste..

Starting with Paris and then Southern France..

Hello Spring Semester

I'm a Jersey girl going to school at Towson University in Maryland.

I'm on track to be a Photo major, but still taking preliminary courses for Art and Design.

I got stuck taking three studio art classes this semester, including a Drawing class which will absolutely throw me for a loop. And to make it even worse, its a four hour night class... ahhh. I can see why as a photo major I have to take this class but I really do not want to. How about they just start letting me take the photography classes already? My Nikon is getting a layer of dust of it! Soo frustrating. The good news is a successfully completed a full body self portrait today. Over two hours of my time. Hopefully I'm still as proud when it's compared to everyone else's.... doubt it...

Taking a 3-D class.. hopefully it'll be fun and be something different. Maybe I'll find something I'm good at.. who knows.

And the last studio class I'm taking is another four hour night class called Visual Concepts.. whatever that means. I'm not sure what to expect but maybe I'll get to work digitally a little? I hope so! I love using photoshop and illustrator.. there is so much to do with both programs. So I'll be crossing my fingers. Or I hope it's at least kind of interesting or I may fall asleep.

And heres a picture to describe me ..