Last time I wrote on here was July 15th. Three days later I get a phone call from my Dad saying that my brother was having a breakdown. The next day I got on a plane from Chicago to Columbus, Ohio and my brother was checked into a hospital for two weeks. Other than a [...]
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Catching up in order to fall behind.
July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Ok. God who knew blogging could be so challenging. Having a blog that no one reads somehow is still this burdensome guilt trip, like a dying houseplant that you keep walking by but not watering. Me posting here again is part of what is possibly a process of me stepping back onto the grid per [...]
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It’s done
May 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
May 21st, 2010 I picked up my cap and gown today, I walk at graduation tomorrow. My brother and Dad are on their way here right now to spend the day with me. I am currently sitting in the ESP lab at RIT, in front of an Epson PRO 3800, Flextight scanner, fully loaded IMAC [...]
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TWENTY-FIVE
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
My senior class graduating from the Fine Art Photography program at RIT consists of 25 people. As part of our last quarter here we put together our own gallery show that opened on friday May 7th at the Siskind Gallery at The Visual Studies Workshop here in Rochester, NY. The experience was honestly priceless, unendingly [...]
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Delivery
April 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
I returned home from a long day at work to find a lovely package in the mail from Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago. I had already forgotten about the order I had made, making it an excellent surprise. First off I must thank Quimby’s for always being so friendly and providing a venue for young and [...]
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April
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I am graduating with my BFA in Photography from RIT in five weeks. Between constant reminders of the horrors of the job market and encouragement to continue on to graduate school we have all lost sight of the value of what we have been doing and will be completing. It is easy to feel that [...]
Spring
March 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
I have put up a new series of photographs on my portfolio currently title Spring. This is work from spring of 2009 that I originally felt very conflicted with. It didn’t seem to be concept-driven enough, or structured enough. I was lost that quarter, but in hind-sight maybe those sensations had something to do with [...]
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words. now.
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I have been writing an essay this week on the topic of language change and technology. Most of my research has come from the books of David Crystal: Language and the Internet (2001) and Txtng (2008). For the record I am not thrilled to have one author as my main resource but have not found as [...]
Tags:communication·David Crystal·Evelyn Beatrice Hall·Language and the Internet·linguistics·txtng·Uncategorized·Voltaire
Childhood work
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
My Mother recently scanned this and sent it to me. I have no idea when this is from or what I am saying but it’s pretty weird. Translation: Chicken Once upon a time their lived a chicken it’s feathers looked green. it was the biggest chicken i’ve seen. Isn’t it. This one is weird as it [...]
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Recognizing my worth?
January 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I have been submitting my work all over the place. Who knows. But it feels good to be trying. It is kind of like admitting to myself that my work is worth being viewed by someone else if I send it out intentionally. I have to convince myself before I can convince others.