I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone involved in the campaign to follow @GranadaTheater . You helped get me in the door and the rest was up to me. After an exciting stint as an intern, I can now say that I’m officially employed by the Granada Theater! Big thanks goes out to everyone in this screen capture. [1263 x 4181 PNG]
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I’m convinced that photographing children requires 3x’s the amount of sugar that they themselves consume. I recently photographed my friend’s family of which the children were ages were both sub 5yrs old. I’m still working on the photos so I can only share a few unedited ones.
This photo shows one of the many attempts to corral the kids into a family portrait.
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter who’s kid it is, they are going to be hard to handle come nap time (which is about the time we ended up doing the shoot), bad timing.
Of course sometimes you nail a great shot that just leaves you giggling and it just shows the children as they really are.
I’ll share the edited ones when they are done of course.
I’m now convinced that taking photos of children at play is the best way to get a great shot.
Take this set for example, I just whipped out my camera at my nieces birthday party that was at a local gymnastics center. I had no intention of taking photos but the colors at the place were so vibrant I couldn’t resist.
I'm not the princess you think I am
I'm stuck, seriously..
They Call Him George
You can see the rest here on my myspace
To be fair, I have had the time to crop and bump up some colors on these photos since I used them for my final project (last minute idea). Now if I can keep my interest up in photography whenever the new semester starts I’ll be heading in the right direction. Sometimes school just takes over all my free time and I can’t make room for the really fun stuff.
Till the next blog, comment away..
It’s final, I’m staying at my mothers for a bit longer. No date set for an exit. Things have become so peaceful and non soap opera-ish. With Beverly gone and my sister passing it just all of the sudden became a normal house. It was quite hard to wrap my mind around the reality that Kim wasn’t going to be randomly bursting into arguments with my mom or someone in the house. Or that Beverly wasn’t on the couch anymore every afternoon sleeping or watching TV. It is now just silence..only disrupted every now and then by my mom walking down the hallway with her brace/cast. I call it “peg legging” because she walks like a peg legged pirate.
Of course financial reasons are keeping us at the house. Matt just bought a pretty new car that has a pretty monthly payment and an increased insurance costs. He got a Hyundai Elantra 2008, his first brand spanking new car. It’s super cute and is a charcoal gray. Yes. I’m jealous. But I still have love for my Honda (which just passed the 100k mile mark!) I did 55k of that since October of 2005!
I also got us a pretty new thing too.. a freaking sweet 42″ LCD HDTV with Wifi & LAN connections along with a bevy of input jacks on the back. It’s pretty obscene in our bedroom. I’m thinking the living room might be a better setup at a later date. For now having it in the bedroom hooked up to my newly finished HTPC makes me really happy. I’m thinking Photoshop @ 42 inches is just gonna be friggin awesome!
On the school front, I’m still behind. Taking 3 classes was just a bad idea. With all the Kim dying and recently and completely unexpected near death of Matt’s dad (getting better now), school just took a backseat. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t gotten some really cool stuff done in at least my photography class. My desktop that I made all crispy the day after Kim’s death is finally back and running so I can finally scan some of my work and share it with you via my Flickr account. Expect some of that later this week. For now it’s off to work tasks!
Also as a side note: Due to all the insanity in my home life and the setbacks it caused in school I can’t justify a trip down to Austin for my Faux Bday so expect a cancellation notice soon. I’ve gotta get caught up and that is going to take all the energy I have. Perhaps I’ll just come down to get shit-faced after the semester is up? Anyone in for a “what a fucked up year” party in A-town come May?
You know when you used to go to the water park and you’d play in the wave pool for countless hours. Then when you got home that night and laid down to bed you still had that feeling that you were still in that wave pool?
That is the best way that I can describe the feeling of living in the house now. I feel like I’ve been in a wave pool for nearly 2 years and I’m finally getting out..but there’s that fading sensation that I’m still in the pool.
As small as Kim was in stature, she made up for it in the way that she was such a force of nature. She definitely left her impact on that house. It still feels like she might be there. Just in memories, not in a ghostly way.
Just the other morning I was going into the shower and I could swear that I smelt cigarettes from the vents. It scared me shitless. I mean, it was like they were freshly smoked. I had to tell myself, it isn’t real, my mind must be playing tricks on me as I eased myself into the shower.
It is such an odd sensation to witness death so closely. Not like in movies or on the news, to see it up close and personal. I honestly still can not get the image of her corpse sitting in the bed with her mouth open and eyes halfway open as she turned to an ashy green color.
To think at one point in time the person that lived in that body was the source of all my rage some days. The source of utter frustration. Now it’s just a shell, already beginning to rot and all you can do is just look at it in horror. Just sitting there in a bed in the room that I grew up in and with your mom off to the side staring into space as a tear travels down her face.
I never thought I’d cry when Kim finally died. But when the time came I just lost it, right after calling my uncle to tell him. The act of saying it just opened the floodgates and Matt had to hold me because I just simply lost it.
There were a few more times since her death last Thursday that I would just cry because of a memory that surfaced. It happened while brushing my teeth, while driving to work, just discussing it with someone. Grief seems to know no boundaries.
Many people say to me, well she’s in a better place now, she’s at peace. I’ve even caught myself saying it a couple of times. But in reality, I have a really hard time believing it. Simply because I have no belief in any religion. I know it’s probably sad to some to know this but I just believe that we are fertilizer in the end. We are just a part of the cycle of life on Earth and that we just happen to be able to comprehend things more so than our ape counterparts. I myself actually find comfort that we just end. That we are unique to an extent and we only come around once. That there can only be one chance to try this thing called life and no way to go back or to live on in Heaven or as a newborn baby.
We all have a chance to make an impact on this Earth, negative or positive. The best part about this is, you can make that decision to the best of your ability. Unfortunately my sister Kim left mostly a negative one, mainly on people in her life. As far as the planet is concerned she probably didn’t make a dent in the fabric of society. She only lived life for herself, never saw past the tip of her nose.
I really hope that I’m looking past the tip of my nose. I hope that when my existence on this planet ends, that I did something meaningful for someone. Not for some postmortem vanity, but that someone benefited by my actions and were able to pass those benefits in some way to another person.
Life as of late as been extremely trying as stated in previous blog entries. What wasn’t said in the last entry because it wasn’t known, is that on Tuesday, Kim was told she was told by the doctor that they were no longer going to treat her cancer and that they would do their best to make her as comfortable as possible.
So my poor mother along with breaking her leg Monday evening found out the following day that her first daughter was not going to live much longer.
Basically the entire house is now an emotional fault line. I myself have lost it more than once in the past week. When I say lost it I mean, just utterly lost it, to the point of pulling the car over to the side of the road because I couldn’t see straight.
At times, every emotion is in me at once and sometimes at full force. It’s unworldly how they can control me.
My hand seems to hover over the “self-destruct button” at all times. As though I’m about to set off the nuclear bomb in the form of emotions.
Thankfully I’m starting to slowly ease away from that button and turning more towards my to-do list and my red pen. The check marks of completion are starting to stain the paper while at the same time the edges of my mouth move towards the formation of a smile.
I feel significantly better in knowing that I am living a life guided by goals and accomplishments. I know I have plenty of friends and have never purposefully attempted to sabotage those friendships.
Everything is going to be ok, no matter what happens in the near future. I will be ok.
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