photography expo.

as i walked through Jeff Sprang's expo in the art gallery i felt like i was being transformed through time. all the old photographs really makes you think about what has happened before you. my favorite set of pictures were the ones of the impeachment of former president Nixon. I've always been particularly interested in that part of history so to see pictures and know that he was there and actually saw the whole thing makes it feel a little more real to me. i enjoyed this expo much more then the previous one but i believe thats because this one was more simple, you could just enjoy the art not have to think what it was about. the pictures told a story you didn't have to create one or look for a meaning. simplicity at its best! <3

music map (the soundtrack to my life)

this is basically the soundtrack of my life. everywhere i go i have my i pod in my pocket. i'm always listening to it, discovering new bands, downloading new songs. i've been to ever 35 concerts so music is obviously important to me.  i just love it. when i realized my texting map wasn't going to work out (friends do not know how to cooperate.) i thought what do i love most? something i could have fun with? music was the first thing that popped into my mind. so i took an entire day listening to music and wrote what artist and album of every song i listened to that day. the more opaque the less i listened to that album then they are in order from most favorite to least favorite. (i love them all!) i hope you guys like this i worked really hard and think this is the project i've enjoyed the most so far!

the begginning revised (sorry!)

this is only the beginning ;) what i was planning to do was each color represents one of my friends  and i wanted to show our communication patters. the lines and squiggly beacuse were all in motion and the layout is friends that are the closest emotionally closest. i was planning to use lines to represent the back and forth texting that we all do everyday. not only between me (the pink line of course) and all of them but the rest of them. we are like a big circle of communication. go verizon for making it happen! haha

october 15th

for my map i had two different ideas. number one. i wanted to map out the texting patters between my 5 closest friends and myself. texting is our constant way of communication so i thought it would be a good idea. second idea (and my favorite.) is the repition of concepts in the 3 albums from my favorite band. which would you guys prefer?

my choice

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=460&index=17&domain=Music
firstly i hope the link worked! secondly i know i liked all the things that had to do with music. seeing as thats one of things im most obsessed with. i just think this looks really cool and the concept is great. :)

war on beauty

thanks for waiting guys i was having some technical difficulties.  :)



sorry! haha ok heres my statement!
this post is about basically our war on beauty. the girls on the stage are what america tries to tell you is acceptable beauty. this is starting younger and younger as you'll notice the young girls mixed in on stage with the adults. these young girls (usually toddlers but even BABIES) are put through many things including spray tans and being forced to wear water bras. i dont know about you but my parents always let me be free, they encouraged me to use my brain and have fun. thats why i included the collection of "normal" girls of all shapes and sizes in the front of the stage. this is what they should actually be doing. having fun and being themselves not print out copys of each other.

work in progress

 this is my work in progress but i feel like i may go in a complete different angle.