Woohoo!  I finally decided to start a blog.  How silly is that?  But with all the scrapbookers who have such lovely blogs I couldn’t resist.  Hopefully this will become quite the lovely blog soon. 

So on to other better things! I went to one of my teacher’s shows today.  And she actually surprised me!  It was awesome, and I was quite impressed with her work, unlike the last show of her’s I went to.   She had some really beautiful images, and she printed them on the strangest paper, velvet watercolor!  Basically her body of work was a narrative about the African Woman going from a free African perspective in Africa and going through the passage of time and process of becoming a slave, being imported into the United States, being a victim of Katrina, and finally a spiritual outlook filled with hope of a changing future. 

And…she made me feel really bad about being white, and not shooting "ethnic" subjects.  But none of my friends let me take their pictures anyway, and the friends I had who were "ethnic subjects" have moved or graduated.  It’s not like I think they should be discriminated against, and its not like I only like shooting white people!  It’s just the people that are around me.

And I’m so excited that I didn’t skip my 20th century art class today!  We’ve actually started talking about photography, instead of crappy blocks or splatters of color (my opinion of painting in 20th century..)!!

Piet Mondrian - Composition Red, Yellow, Blue 
1921
Oil on canvas

(Images from allposters.com) 

And we’re even looking at some cool photographers - Weegee, Frank, Evans.  But even better!  We’re talking about photographers I DON’T KNOW!!!  Not many…but still I love hearing about photographers I haven’t had to criticize or LOVE simply upon sight (that’s what history of photography classes do to you!).  We’re talking about Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, and Allan Kaprow.  So I have to add them to the list of people to check out, along with Paul Outerbridge (really cool color work - found out about him in History of Photography or some related Malcolm-Woods class).

Scan courtesy of Masters of Photography

Helen Levitt
New York
c. 1940

 It’s also my 4 month anniversary with Jon today!  It’s so crazy, the last relationship I had that lasted longer than 3 months was with Danny.  Jon’s so sweet to me and takes such good care of me.  Anyhoo!  Got lots to do today, gonna try to join some new forums and do a layout - maybe I’ll post that!

 Anyway - here’s to my attempt to stay up to date on a blog and still feel free to say whatever I want on it!  No matter how silly it might seem!