Boo

Surpised? I'm still here. Promise.

I'm going to skip the banter and get to the photos, mostly because I'm weirdly tired today. Didn't sleep last night, and it's showing.

I shot the SGA debate on Tuesday night. Couple highlights here ...



Jump over to my other blog (it's somewhere in a side panel) to check out my other blog for a couple stitches I've been working on, including one of the debates.

Ciao for now.

Whoa, been like ... a long time

Holy crap, I haven't written in here in too long.

I haven't had much to write about, though -- classes are continuing on, I'm still working for the Red and Black (some weeks more often than others) and people are still idiots. I'm still working on my mother's site, and I'm also trying to get my own revamped. And my roommate wants help on his.

Looks like I'm going to head up to the Southern Short Course in Charlotte (? That's right, isn't it?) with at least my friend Amanda, but that's not until the end of March. Speaking of this month's traveling, I'll probably head up to West Virginia finally. It's something I've been wanting to do for a couple years now, and I might actually have the opportunity this year.

... hmm ...

Been a while ...

So I'm terrible at this "updating" stuff. I happen to find other things to do, ie. watch movies (such as I am at the moment).

Uhm ... I'm stringing for the Red and Black, which is fun, but I basically have to drop everything and jump on assignments. Which is simultaneously an enjoyable and annoying. I almost dropped Deepy's birthday party at Applebee's for a photo assignment. She's worth more than a clip file, though, so I declined.

That's sort of a defining factor of my life at the moment. Classes are classes, people are people, my personal life is confusing -- the normal stuff.

I'll load some photos later since blogger is being a punk.

Valiant efforts

In my valiant attempts to avoid starting work on the three (? I think that's right ...) internship applications due on the 15th/16th, which I admit will not actually take that long aside from picking and choosing photos I want to send in, I have managed to ...

... add four new feeds to my NetVibes account.
... look up seven different articles on Zoe's Ark, the French charity group that stands accused of trying to kidnap 100-103 Chadian children. That's the type of clusterfuck that happens when idealism goes awry. Also, Chad's prime minister/president/monarch (I can't remember and I don't feel like looking it up again) accused the group of firefighters, doctors, nurses and journalists of trying to ship the kids back to France to sell to pedophiles or to harvest their organs. Jesus.
... watch a ten-minute video of a journalist undergoing water-boarding and interviewing various professors and such on torture.
... look up an interesting, and somewhat inspiring, article on attraction, and the social signals regarding such things. Yes, there is indeed hope.

Yep, yep, I got those skills.

Ciao.

Oh, and I'm officially a Red and Black photo stringer now. I've had two assignments, a "Low Country Boil" at the Delta Gamma sorority house, and the homecoming parade. One of my parade pictures got published. I'd just link the photo, but I can't find it on the R&B website.

Oh, and I just added yet another feed to my Vibes.

Okay, now, ciao.

Update

First off, let me say that I want to strangle Nikki and Tara. Now that I don't really know anyone named Nikki or Tara (well, not well enough to actually want to strangle them), so it's just the outward signs of annoyance at third parties. Specifically, the third parties on the advertisement for the "Eye-Fi," an SD card that transmits wireless from one's camera to one's computer. The murderous desire is not due to anything they've actually done -- I simply chose them to be the direction of my ire tonight. Annoyances.

Anyway.

I had my first little assignment from the R&B tonight (as a stringer) and lemme say, it sucked. Which is to say that I had fun, I took some decent (not great, not even "Pretty Good," just decent) photos, I met a bunch of sorority girls that all looked pretty much the same, and I met one of the regular photo staffers at the R&B, Lindy Dugger. Well, semi-regular -- she claims she hasn't been working too much lately. Also, I was informed that I've been thinking wrong about aperture, since I usually try to utilize the smallest possible to get as much depth of field as possible. That needs to be the other way around, most of the time. I mean, it all depends, of course, but I should start watching that, especially since I seem to have a fondness for close-in with a wide-angle.

Not much else to report. I skipped Johnson's photo-j class on Wednesday so I could go with Aleks (but I think this has already been mentioned), but she'll have to wait a few weeks to actually get her citizenship. She aced the test, though, not that that surprised me. "How many stripes on the flag? Who was the first president? Who's the current president?" She's a frigging International Affairs major who attended high school here in the States. Not to mention she borders on painfully smart.

I'm just babbling because I'm tired. Capoeira angola hates me hard.

Ciao.

My first online article ...

This is a bit of my writing, a short overview of Anime Weekend Atlanta. I'll probably write something more on it which will be a little less newspaper-esque.

The Red and Black