Thanks giving :]

Well it's almost time again for thanks giving and I am more than excited to nom nom nom on some awesome food! This year is particularly different in the sense that it will be the first time I will have a thanks giving with another family member besides my mother! haha

It's certainly been awhile since posting on this, and its mostly because school and work has kept me busy. I keep getting distracted though, mostly feel like i should be done with school by now, or i dunno, just totally frustrated with how hard it is to just make a project. I feel like creating a production company just so i can get my school work done and not have to play all the rolls myself! haha

Speaking of roles, i saw that new movie "twilight" the other day with my friend Caity. I was mostly curious because my friend Alex is in and i wanted to see him haha.

what else, oh! back to thanksgiving. I was standing, waiting for the street car to come one day before class and this older african american female asked for some help picking up some papers she dropped. For some reason or another she felt obliged to ask me if I had some where to be this thanks giving, i said probably just head home with my mom. However, she offered me an option just in case I was stuck with no where to go and didn't want to be alone.



she handed me this lil piece of paper with all sorts of scribbles and doodles and an adress for a shelter at some christian church haha I thought it was very thoughtful and nice of her.

lets see, oh also this Sat I am going to do some runway for my friends over at rock'n rose again! haha they pay me in drinks and food and clothes, awesome right? I am by far any type of model, but its for friends so why not!

check it out if you can:


and woo! yea schools hard but ok, work is getting old, but ok and my relationship status? haha that's a whole other story, not to say im in some complicated love triangle, its actually the total opposite, i apparently can't find anyone in oregon, several in other states and countries (damn you myspace) but nothing here in Portland. I know they are here though, just gotta keep the chin up and hopes high! haha

i am hoping to blog more a lil later, but finals are coming up so chances are i'll be out of it for a few weeks, so hold tight phantom readers haha

:]

Portland is a mess

A hot one that is!

It's been awhile since I have posted cause life has just been so darn busy! School and h/w is kicking my ass per usual, however I did find time to go out and make a short video for my friends at our local party Hot Mess, people assume we don't get super crazy in Portland...but you better believe we throw down harder than most.

Check it out!




On other fronts, I am broke broke broke. Which leads me to the bad news, recall about a few weeks ago I mentioned possibly going to New York, about 90-95% sure...well that 10-5% got me haha

My car needed to be fixed, so I take it in, thinking oh it shouldn't be more than a couple hundred bucks at the most, well it turned out to be a cool $1,200 bucks :[

So I had to get my moms help, plus I had to pay rent, so thus the money she was going to use for my birthday / xmas trip to nyc went into my car! Sad, sad day.

Well new york city will always be there, being able to get around is more important, for the time being...that trip is on the back burner.

hmmm, time to get back to h/w and another grinding day. I have a new short film project in mind which will roughly be done in about 6 weeks, keep an eye out :]

ciao.

Branded

I shot this with the concept in mind of hearing stories behind physical scars, I did my best with my limited crew of well just me and my friends carrying equipment haha



Like in anything you can tweek and poke at a project for hours, but I only had a week.

let me know thoughts, comments, etc all are welcome :]

A new beginning

Last night was by far one of the most exciting nights of my life, I am not alone when i say this. All through out the day i read countless bulletins and comments from youth all over telling people to vote, and vote for CHANGE. It's amazing what this one man Obama did as far as bringing people together from all aspects of this countries society. The outcome was JUST and people felt vindicated, for the first time in a long time, America made the right choice.

For example, this is the first thing I read this morning, and not once have I read people feel good about this country, ever, especially youth. Not even after the 2004 elections did I see people going out trying to bring change. This quote I think is a good sum up of what I am talking about.

"I've never liked America as a few of you already know, since i wasn't born here and not raised here- even though i have american citizenship from my father..

I always thought people were lame, ignorant, and naive here.


But after last night...and after seeing the wonderful man Obama..

I HAVE HOPE


In my lifetime, i have never experienced a real leader...never felt safe in this country, never felt excited for change..

I feel soooo blessed to see change occur...to see history take place right in front of my very own eyes..

God Bless Obama..
and God Bless America."

I havn't seen this kind of outbreak after in election in my life time.



In Portland, I could hear through my window fireworks, car horns, people screaming and cheering for hours after the election ended.

My generation has had its big moment, and not just because we elected a black president, but because we elected someone who will bring about positivity and good.

Obama, don't let us down.

I belong to the blank generation

From my last post about art, its meaning, my place, and where does it go? Mr. Wilde was right, all art really is quite useless.

However, I believe for me its more of a feeling that there is no more ideals of a counterculture, a feel for underground unity, maybe I am just in the wrong location, not generation. Like every good thing that starts with a good base, it will eventually be sucked into this capitalistic society, so essentially, ideas will be profited from no matter what, such a pity.

Now I would like to go on a small rant about things that annoy me, feel free to skip over this, or read it, it's just something I do.

1. It annoys me when people advertise their "photo shoots" on myspace when in reality its just pictures they took of themselves in their parents bathroom. Please, this is not a photo shoot, so stop saying it is.

2. Speaking of photo shoots, I have a grudge with Modelmayhem.com I have an account as a photographer I made there like over a year ago when I needed some extra bucks. Listen here ladies, modeling is not you in your under ware or totally naked, this is called soft core porn. So please, you covering your breasts at an awkward angle with a glamor shots type of background is NOT modeling. thank you.

3. Retail would be a really rad gig if it just wasn't for all the fucking customers.


OK, moving on !

My cousin was in town this weekend! We went out and ran around the city, got drinks, I blacked out and ate a hot dog on the way home, he drank too much and throw up in the middle of the street.

I love halloween :]


last: FUCKING VOTE! DO IT!

thank you.