New News:

School is kicking my ass.  Which is exactly what I needed.  This summer was excellent but I was stuck with no creative outlet and confused about picking up a camera.  In the fine art photo program at RIT we are trained in a very formulaic process.  Pick a concept, start a project that can produce images for critique weekly, Work for ten weeks and then make final images.  Obviously there are pros and cons to every academic method, but stepping out of this structure after a year left me unable to photograph recreationally anymore.  Talking with  my roommate Nikki we realized we are in such a competitive atmosphere that we have become afraid to recreationally photograph at the risk of taking a bad one.  Just shooting like an 18 yr old again is healthy, its like a sketchbook or doodles for a painter as well as a means of documenting our lives.  In school we get so busy and overwhelmed but I think it is still important to photograph our surroundings and experiences, if only for ourselves.

I have started a new series of photographs documenting the libraries of Rochester, NY.  I am excited about photographing again and I am having fun with it.  Fall quarter is almost over and then in less than a week I get on the train to head back to Chicago.  I am really excited to go back to my pseudo-home.

Plans for thanksgiving break:

Tour SAIC?

museums

meet some people, talk about art

read a fiction book

update my website with the beginning of the new series

cook real food  for the first time in about 2 months