omnia erit

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Happy post-holidays! This Christmas wasn't really what I was expecting, but surprisingly, I was able to spend it with some of my extended family, so it turned out to be a happy holiday for me! I got a record player for Christmas! I'm going to look around for some records on South, but I think I'll have better luck ordering used ones online. I can not wait to listen to pure, Carpenters goodness, whilst enjoying a TR biography and some wheat honey tea, alongside a blazing, crisp fire on a snowy winter day at home.. I still have a lot of miscellaneous things to do before 2012, but I'm pretty focused on my priorities, so hopefully I'll eschew from hibernating/being excessively lazy/turning into a hypersomniac..  ANYWAYS, to kick off the end of 2011, I thought I would share some of the posters that I am getting for my college dorm room (COMPLETELY aware that I am starting really early, but these really caught my eye)

BITTER, OUTRANGED

I will just come out and admit that I may (or may not) have bad taste in television shows.. It's true that I have allotted time dedicated solely to leisure time spent nestled inside my bed, watching videos of BGT, XFactor, and K-Pop Star... If I'm not on my bed, then I'm reclined on a couch with my parents, nonetheless watching the shows as we all share outraged/agreed commentary on the contestants.. OK, SO.. Today was X-Factor's finale, and I just cannot articulate how disappointed I am that Josh didn't win!! I was never a fan of Melanie, so yes, maybe I am biased, but being realistic and quasi-absorbed about this show, Josh's voice is so much more unique and has the potential to bring something extremely different to the American music scene. I was also a fan of Chris, but I knew that he wouldn't stand alone to win the contract. I am confident that Chris will top charts though, because his star quality and talent are ineffable traits that everyone can really agree on.

RETURN TO NORMALCY! The days are really, really winding down.. It's almost Christmas break, and I still haven't wrapped presents or gone out to buy presents honestly..  I also haven't compiled the packages for my friends who live far, far away, so I'll probably do that along with the last of my college essays depending on Thursday's result. I am also planning on going all out for my annual holiday goodie bags-  some of my friends have heard back from their top schools (SO proud!) and I plan on decorating their goodie bags based on their new alma mater's colors! I'm really excited for next Wednesday and the frantic decorating/shopping/inevitable cram sessions..  I'm going to NYC towards the end of break, and during it, I think I'm just going to hang out with my friends, camp out in my bed all day/night, and read/read/read- maybe even venture into some new exhibits I've been meaning to check out w/ the Masterman art students. I was disappointed that I couldn't go to the Punk Rock Flea Market on Sunday, so hopefully I can for the second one that's coming up in a few months. Nothing else has been really going on, and I haven't been writing much either lately. All of my creative intuition has been thrown onto my school assignments- it's hard to make calculus a beautiful (thing in my) mind. Anyways, I hope everyone's week goes well, and I will post the outcome of Thursday! It's strange how my first post mentioned the most dimensional highs and lows of my senior year, and the outcome of Thursday will surely  be the former or latter.

snow ball 2k11!

Intermission

Even though my senior year hasn't quite reached the halfway mark yet, I have already grouped photographs into my second senior year album, Intermission. Intermission will be composed of photographs from late fall - late winter, depending on how the weather tolls on the East coast this year. It's been raining a lot recently, and I've prioritized naps over everything else, so I haven't been taking any photographs at all for the past few days. I don't know what Intermission will say at the end, but here are my thoughts on my first album, Premiere :
Premiere featured bits and pieces of my summer, the past year, and objects and images that inspired me a lot during the fall season. I experimented with double exposures for the first time, and was really content with the manipulation process- I was able to connect and combine old memories with new memories, but still maintain the bond that intertwined with the people captured in those photographs. Basking in nostalgia and living in the moment have always been two separate entities for me, but this year, I have learned to find a convergence between them, and live my life completely whilst appreciating and remembering my past for molding the things I like and the people I love. Premiere was the beginning of my senior year-  looking back at the photos now, I would say it captured the essence of those first months in a vague, yet appropriate way. As I dive into my new series, I think about capturing the most subtly personal memories of my year - this is the time for disappointment, glee, and bittersweet revelations, as college letters will roll in and the ephemeral feelings of sadness and worry will sporadically come and go as I realize that my senior year is really coming to an end. I guess it's strange for me to dissect and discuss my photo albums, but I feel that it is important to understand what it was like and how I felt when I was this early-age of seventeen.

Premiere, to it's entirety, will be posted somewhere on the web, and I will share that link at the end of June, along with links to Intermission and Finale.