Lipstick.

        I really don't want all of you to think that I'm completely self-absorbed or obsessed with pictures of myself.  Nothing bothers me more than "Selfie-Sunday" and Instagram feeds with nothing more than countless pictures of your own face.

It's just that we found our old tripod from my mom's old film camera and I wanted to try it out yesterday afternoon. I have also been meaning to test out my white/grey bedroom wall as a background. It could potentially be extremely useful with other people's pictures I'll be taking (Lord willing). 

This is the result of my tripod/wall run. I had an, well, interesting time pretending to be ferocious and sometimes in pain. Cameras are pretty amazing and so is red lipstick.

Natural lighting and black and white RAW filters are my favorite. 

Also.. to keep in style with my music trend right now I am listening to Devil On My Shoulder by Orla Gartland.  She's the bomb. 

cheesin.

Alright.. cough.. this next post is a little, well, embarrassing. In Art class we had the option of either A) creating a collage out of pictures or B) submitting a poster to an Art contest with the possibility of winning 50 or something bucks. So naturally I choose the option B. The only draw backs of this little contest is that there was a theme, and that theme happened to be "Don't be a bully. Be a friend" GAG. I might have thrown up a little. Don't get me wrong, I AM anti-bullying. It's awful and kids should never have to go through anything like that. We should put an end to it. I just felt over cliche, and if you know English very well over-cliche is super super cliche. I felt like a teeny-bopper (as my mother so lovingly coins us) who shares gagy "swag" pictures on facebook. In the end I swallowed my pride and bit off the poster. My friends, Talia and Tori, who you all know so well, collaborated with me and thus we developed this picture. It was a very fun project to create. It involved thinking of as many insults as we could then writing them on my face (we even had to google some... which I guess is a good thing), trying numerous arm postions, and making Whitney cry. I literally was crying during the shoot. We discovered that Avril Lavigne's "When You're Gone" opens up my easy accessed flood-gates like a charm. We also YouTubed the saddest moments in Disney history. Struggles. 

The finished poster is bellow. 

Shout-out to Walgreens for printing it at 9 PM. 

okay this was sorta fun. 

<3

Hiatus

       Last weekend was glorious! It was not only our usual three day reprieve from school, but a five day break! I couldn't have asked for more! The longer hiatus was because of a snow storm that (sort-of) blew through on Wednesday night. It lasted all day Thursday, thus canceling school on friday as well. The extra two days were just what I needed to get some required sleep and spend some time reading (re-reading Harry Potter) and playing my guitar. I also got the chance to have Katie over and do a little photo-shoot we had been longing for since summer.

      The break was amazing, although it almost made returning to school last Tuesday even harder. I say we skip these last three months and go straight to summer! Who's with me?

    Also, since I have seemingly been on a streak of posting what I'm lisstening to while typing I figured I'd include it in this post. Right now I'm jamming to Fist Full of Silence by the Glitch Mob.  I know.  I go hardcore.