Lateralus

Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
Lets me see.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all I see in my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
Lets me see there is so much more and
Beckons me to look through to these infinite possibilities.
As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to
Feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
To bathe in the fountain,
To swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to
Suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. Im reaching for the random or what ever will
Bewilder me.
What ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no ones been.
Well ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no ones been.
Spiral out. keep going.
Spiral out. keep going.
Spiral out. keep going.
Spiral out. keep going.
Spiral out. keep going.


I am absolutely in love with this song. The lyrics are amazing and moving and they inspire me. I really want to do a photo series based on these lyrics and I'm gonna try it eventually.

this song is called Lateralus by Tool ,if you did not know.

The Definition of

Good- too subjective to be defined. Something I think is "good" now may seem horrible the next day.


Art- Also far too subjective to be defined. Art can be found in anything and anywhere, and can mean a whole mess of things to different people.

Photo- A moment in time, an idea, a person or group of people. Something to be remembered, a message.


Me in Photo for the first semester- A learning experience. I did many portraits and played with different lighting. I also got very into digital and am now obesessed with texture layers.


My Assignment- I like to take pictures that will make people kind of stop and look at it, provoke them, such as horror photos with blood and other things of the sort. So my assignment is to take a roll of film of all things "disturbing". But school appropriate for the most part of course.

A Basement creature.

Is basically what I have been photography wise for the past couple of weeks.

And I feel extremely narcissistic for taking all these self portraits, but I have no models. So, someone model for me pleasee. I get my license (HOPEFULLY) on Friday, so the fact that I live an absurd distance from PFA won't matter anymore.
And I also realized that I took pictures of my other two cats but not Morey so I felt bad and took a picture with him. He's a cutie. :}

Sunday night boredom.

I've always wanted to take bloody pictures and tonight I finally got to it.




I'm far too obsessed with textures. And I just realized how beastly the editing made me look. oh well.

13.

12.

Only felt up to taking one picture today. That's my father by the way.

I forget what day I'm on.

I personally hate football, but as you can see my family is all into it. This is my nephew Jackson.

Now here are some old pictures I put textures over. All of the textures I used are mine and I took them today so it still should count for the 365 thing. But I guess I kind of screwed up the 365 thing anyway so it doesn't matter.


This one I actually took today. I'm quite happy with it. And I'm going to get my whole head that blue I decided.

Textures

Yes. This is Selena. She took the photo of herself on her myspace and when I get bored I go around on people's myspaces or whatever and edit photos to see if I can make them interesting. Is that a creeper thing? I don't mean to be a creeper I'm just obsessed with photoshop. But it came out really cool none-the-less. I used a texture from deviantart.com
This is my nephew jackson. My sister took the photo which is actually pretty cool by itself. I put a texture layer from the floor in my garage.
I hated this picture originally. But it works well with the head in the clouds thing.
Another self portrait with a woods texture. I like this better than my darkroom self portrait.
I also used two pictures from deviant art for this photo. It kind of reminds me of Marilyn Manson now which is quite awesome.

As soon as it's light out I'm going to take pictures of a bunch of interesting textures. I haven't slept yet because I have an unhealthy obsession with this photography thing.

I fail.

I didn't take pictures last night because of the concert and falling asleep disgustingly early.
I also don't feel like taking pictures tonight because I have just finished 12 straight hours of algebra 2 work.
But a house just recently burned down two streets away from me so those pictures should make up for it. Or am I being completely insensitive by taking pictures of it so early? No one died or anything. Idk I feel kind of hesitant about it but the pictures would probably be epic. bleh. idk what to do.

6 & 7.

These pictures aren't my best. Two are from yesterday and two are from today. I might take better ones later. I've just been stressed from the concert and algebra and haven't had the time to take nice pictures.

5.

I wasn't really inspired by a whole lot today. Perhaps later I'll take more interesting ones. I feel vain and narcasistic using myself as a model for a lot of these but I didn't know what else to do, plus I like how my hair turned out.
I'm jealous of my cat's eyes.
He touches noses usually. I just didn't take the picture at the right time. It's still kinda cute though idk. Or maybe just creepy. I'm not into animals in strange ways though don't worry.




This last photo gives me inspiration to do something else and I shall carry out that idea at some point in the future. I'm also going to try to take some film ones today since I haven't taken film ones in so long.

4.

I did another collagey picture thingy, but this time it wasn't completely my photography. My friend helped with choosing some of the images and with the design and it came out ridiculously awesome. She's actually the model for the torso and hand with the feather duster.


Also here is a portrait I took of her too.

3

I woke up before it was dark out today so I actually got to take some outside. And it snowed which made everything prettier. Enjoy.

2

Technically it is Saturday but I took all these before midnight. It just took me really long to edit them. This I took outside in this flower pot thinger.



I got bored and I thought this would be a good idea and I really liked how it turned out. I'm gonna put all these images together too so it's like a choppy form of myself. I absolutely love this project and I'm surprised that I can keep coming up with ideas. It's also forcing me to figure out new things on Photoshop which I need.