COMPUTER IS DOWN!

My computer broke so the blog will be on a little break until I fix it. have a good break from my blog!!!

Tune in tonight for an other installment.

I am going to be doing a photo shoot tonight for today's post. I am going to try some weird photoshop stuff with the photos so they may be uploaded pretty late tonight. Don't think I forgot about today's photo. It will be coming.

It Shot Into My Face

Today was pretty shitty, but in a funny way. Well the first part wasn't funny. I got on the train and did that thing where you kind of puke in your mouth and your like "ugh that was gross" and hope no one saw you make a gross face. Well that happened today. It was gross and couldn't drink water for like an hour because I was on the train. After that I got to work and thought I was going to puke and got all sweaty but couldn't go home because if I did I would screw every body over. As the day went on i started to feel much better but then.........I tripped up the stairs holding my bosses coffee and the way I fell made it a messy situation. I fell forward up the stairs and put my arms out to catch me but with the coffee still in my hand and when my hand hit the ground It made the coffee shoot into my face. Mind you I was having a conversation with some one I met only 2 days ago. 

     Completely unrelated; school is pointless cuz i've lived my whole life just fine without knowing how to use a semi colon. 

OH YOU'RE COOKIN FRANKIE!

My titles have nothing to do with anything and I think they would be funny if people heard how I said them.  Just watch home alone 2 and you will hear how the uncle says that when he is taking a shower. It is soooooo funny!  I did this photoshoot for my girlfriends friend Bri. She liked them a lot. Im usually not happy with photos I make. I always get mad that people like Timothy O'Sullivan made amazing photos with the most difficult chemistry and equipment and I can't make stuff that good with the greatest technology. ....poopers. I do like this photograph though. 

And their bombs and their bomb. bombs bombs bombs. zombie zombie zombay ay ay

Wow. No one looks happy here. prolly cuz it is a metra station. My personal hell (not real) is the metra station.

Dirty

Here is a creepy old abandoned house. I photographed this a few years ago in film which I printed on warm tone paper. I tried to make the same type of feeling with these digital ones. It also smelt like death in there and even though I do like photographing this spot I need to prepare my self every time before I go in. 

Oh Fuck Yes!!!

I know I could barely contain my self also! You have no idea how badly I have wanted to go from flat to flab in a "pop". Really? Who made these and why was it so hard for me to not buy them! Imagine me wearing these to work and acting like there is nothing different about me. 

My Boy Gonzo

This type of lighting may be getting boring to some people since I have done it for like 4 or 5 photos so far. I sort of am getting bored of it also, but I do think it works well for this photograph. Plus its Gonzo and who besides him deserves a spotlight on their face? not many people. I should have made it similar to the Obama Hope poster. Turns out that guy didn't even take that photograph. He took some one else's photograph and photoshoped it. That would piss me off so hard if some one did that to one of my photographs.  I wish I had someone to type this for me. You know like in the movies where the guy in a fancy suit paces around an office where everything is made out of some fancy wood like mahogany saying things out loud while some one types everything for him. I am also not sure if mahogany is a fancy wood but its a fancy sounding word so it must be. right?

Have you ever died before?

Nah? Same here. 

I think the lighting as well as the hand gesture shows the mood of depression. There may be some underlying themes of loss. This photograph is filled with emotion.

I actually hate shit like that. As an artist it may be wrong for me to say that when ever I hear an artist say stuff like that I can't help but think it is all an act. I'm not saying all the time. There are some amazing photographs and other artworks that do have some amazing symbolism but really when ever I hear some one talk about it I just think they are a douche bag. Thats right fuck you art school. make me owe you a bunch of money. I am also having doubts about this "job placement service" you claim to have.

Here is an other thing that has kinda been on my mind. I can't help but think the members of Anti-Flag are just acting to make money. I mean come on do you still have the same ideals as you did when you were 14. Even if they did want to change the world as much as they yell about it then they should prlly do something proactive and stop singing about it. 

"Ladies and gentlemen! ABC News!"

Any one who has ever walked down Madison Ave. in Chicago has seen this guy. He my constant. No matter what I can rely on this guys playing his 5 gallon bucket screaming about local news on a bridge. When I started to take photographs of him he stopped pointed at me with the drum stick and said "Ladies and gentlemen!" did a drum roll and then said "ABC NEWS".  I think I may try and photograph him from below. I don't like that I am kinda "looking down" on him. 

More China Town Love

Another photograph from the el train, of china town. China town looks pretty good around this time of day. One day I should actually get off the train and take a good photograph. I decided to pick up a copy of the very popular book, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Well guess what Suzie C!  Koushun Takami wrote the book Battle Royale which got published a whole 10 years before your book and it is pretty much the same plot. Suck it Suzanne Collins!!!.......Im still going to buy and read the next to books because I do like them. :)

I wish the rose did smell like poo.

This is just one of the many flowers I gave my girlfriend for yesterday's affairs. I did not know that they dyed flowers... That kinda takes away from well. everything. I thought they were naturally pretty. They prlly look like poo in real life. I have home work I really do not want to do. ugh I wish I could just not do it but my girlfriend helped me pay for the class.  Who am I kidding she paid for this broke ass to get some knowledge. Also, I got my picture taken by a real life photographer for the newspaper today!!!!! I actually hate being on that end of the camera. (even though the photograph from two days ago was of myself) 

That Sofa Needs To Get Its Hairs Did

This is kind of a weird thing to have on the side of the rail road tracks. This photograph doesn't really show how weird shaped this building is.  I HAVE TO MUCH TO DO RIGHT NOW!!!!!.  kinds pisses me off. Kinda makin me a little P.O.ed. I hate when people say that. Pissed of isnt even that bad. People need to swear and say funny things more on intercoms. Who doesn't get a little happy when that happens.

narcissism

 

I took this photo because I am so hot and every one should see what real beauty looks like..... I look so oily in this photograph. Which BTW n photographing your self is a huge bitch. I dont know how you did it Cindy... I just dont know. 

The Bent Pipe Tree

 

 This is a little tree thing on my desk that I got from walmart. Fo Cheaps!!  Well it made me remember a field trip I took in 3rd grade to some forest reserve or something like that. At any rate I got yelled at during this trip. We were all there to see this amazing "Bent Pipe Tree" which was kinda shaped like this one.  The reason I got yelled at was because I was being any 3rd grader and running around instead of looking for some bent tree. For realz thats the most exciting thing in the world.....tree.   so stupid.

Minolta Shminolta

 

Look at this bad Larry we got here. It is actually the first camera to have aperture and shutter priority metering which is kinda neat. but im sure boring to most people. This is just a standard product type photograph. the paper I was using kinda sucked so it could look better. I mean obviously it is the paper's fault not mine. Unless every one thinks it looks good. If that is the case then I chose a kinda creased paper for aesthetic reasons. 

sorry about the lack of a photo

To make up for it Ill post a whole bunch of photos.. well maybe 3. And since most people out ther have a max of two hands three is quite a hand full! Keep posted!

Thanks Giving Is Fabulous

Tgif!!  And boy do I mean it. I was so fuckin tired today. My eyes were burning. U know that feeling you get when u stay up all night playing video games in the dark then make the mistake of blinking and ur like "wow that kinda burned and now im sleepy". That was my whole day. and now i'm still awake cuz of you blog... damn you.  plus I don't even like this photo. I could make some shit up and say that its a ying tang between nature and man made. but its not. its a building and the sky... suck it art!

Put it on my thingy..

Today I was shooting photos of students artwork . I noticed that a lot of them looked sorta the same. All the abstract ones sort of looked like.....well.. phallic like vaginas. Yeah It makes sense. This got me thinking about that one building designed by Sheldon Schlegman in Chicago (yeah i googled her what of it). You know the "Vagina building".  Gather around kids. Legend says that Sheldon design the building to look like a vagina in a sea of phalli (yum). Well guess what Sheldon, if thats even your real name. IT STILL LOOKS LIKE A PENIS! It is long and erect. Just cuz it is a diamond on the top doesn't mean Its a vagina! Turns out that is just a legend though. Although, I bet if you ask any one they wouldn't know what you were talking about if you said the Smurfit-Stone Building . Smurfit does sound funny.

Aight Im out boi

Smurf it

Cuz ya had a bad day.

I don't like how twangy guitars sound. Also today was shit. I got on the metra train and realized I didnt have my wallet. no train ticket no debit cards. I had four dollars on me which i needed to buy a train ticket with. So i couldnt eat and every 10 seconds I would get sorta shocked and scared when ever I sat down thinking I got my wallet stolen only to remember I forgot it. It was a constant reminder of me being dumb.  also...Imagine a world where firefighters used ketchup to put out fires. ponder that for a little bit.

worst day ever!!!

I had a shitty day. Forgot my camera. Then Had to walk through the fuckin snow in the worst area of the city ever to find an atm to get on the el  only for the el machine to take my $20 bill. Then they said I could get my money back at an other el stop which wouldn't be a big deal but I was going to miss my train! so I didn't get on my money and go the train.. Then some one thought their car stuck on the tracks so the train was delayed like 20 min. After all this I had to come home to do home work and spreadsheets for work that took about 3 hours.  and now im doing my blog. Damn you people who read this. if there are any. making me stay up to post this!!!!.... worst day ever! oh yeah here is a plant.

SOUP dare it is

Now I know what you are thinking. "how are those cups and plates not sliding off such a tilted table?"  GLUE STUPID!  Not really I held the camera at an angle.  Here is some home made soup my girlfriend and our friend made. It was pretty damn good.

You know whats pretty weird. Polygamy compounds. I watch a documentary on them and it just blows my mind. Like literally. I looked like Paulie D after watching it. So the leader of the compound who is apparently a profit had like 40 something kids and his youngest wife was 15.. Oh yeah he was 50. Thats really really really weird. But wait there is more. The reason they have so many kids is so they can start re populate after the apocalypse. Sorry if there are any mormons out there but if there are will you please send me a copy of the book of mormon I need a good laugh. 

Touch Down!

Woo Puppy Bowl. I bet animal planet gets way more viewers than...uh..what ever channel the super bowl is on...all I guess. I dont know I was never really into sports. I bet I would be if I didn't suck at all of them. For realz I hated when we had to pick teams. It was almost as bad as choosing partners in a class where every one knows each other except for me. Why does that seem to happen to me all the time. In middle school the only thing that separated me from that weird kid with braces was just that... the braces..........but then I got braces.   And as a side note The closer we get the Jan 1st 2013 the happier and happier I get. I, like many other people around the world will be able to make fun of so many people. And even if I am wrong and the world ends then fuck it no one will be around to tell me I am wrong. So I win either way. 

I aint no creep-OH

So today I took photos of my girlfriend's little sister for her school dance. I was pretty pleased with how they came out. So after looking them over and trying to pick on out for the blog but then I started to realize that it would look sooo creepy if I put photos of a few 15 year old girls online. even though I know it was a favor to my girlfriend's family you don't know that. So here is the least creepy photo out of the lot. 

I was drunk.

So that is why I did not post yesterday. I woke and felt like shit and my mattress was in the living room and I don't know how it got there. I have a problem! .....not enough beer. I'm just jesting

Snow Day Round 2

Got called off again to day. This storm was big. almost as big as my.......socks. It has been nice to not leave my apartment for two days because dana's car is under 3 ft of snow.   for real Mr. Storm if we were BFFs we would totes be havin a little tiff right now. 

The Night Before and The Morning After....and im not talking about the pill.

The top photo is the Woodstock square on my walk home from the train station around 5:00pm right before the bulk of the storm hit. The photograph on the bottom shows there aftermath. It was actually physically taxing to just get into the square. The snow was up to my waist at some points. Harris bank's door is almost completely covered in snow and the stairs to the ally are no longer stairs. The snow came to the top of the stair. It was cray cray. And actually our neighbor just broke his shovel in half trying to clean it out. He broke it long ways!! haha. poor guy.

"Potentially historic and destructive snow storm"

I would say that the weather channel was right with that statement. Dana and I walked about a block away from our apartment before I was covered in snow and Dana thought her face was going to fall off. I'm sure I don't need to tell you guys I am sure you guys have windows and if you don't you must sleep in sooooo late. Hopefully since no one is outside every one will be online and look at my blog. gimme dem views bitch!