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My newest inspiration

I am very far from avant garde when it comes to music preferences.  I don't go seeking for the latest anyone and I still listen to my favorite tracks from the 90's on my current playlist. Unless I hear it perchance and fall in LOVE with it I don't really go looking for it. Don't get me wrong- there are new songs that come into my life on the daily but they've usually been known and loved and used up and tossed like a condom by other music enthusiasts by the time I get around to hearing it for the first time.

It's not that I don't care for music. I absolutely need to have music in my life. Constantly. I just don't need constant musical revelations in my life. I never really felt like my music library was lacking some one ridiculous band that is a must have on any and every playlist. Again, don't get me wrong- my library is extremely limited. I have friends who have several separate hardrives full of just music and I can barely fill up my 8 gig ipod. I've just never felt that musical drive to collect more, have more, experience more.

Until now.

Chris Owyoung is amazing. Amazing. He's not even a musician. He's a photographer. And he makes me want to know more about every band and musician he has ever done a portrait of.

His photos are amazing. I can't think of another word right now that's all I've got.

Just go look.

Be sure to look at the galleries page too. Maybe you're thinking yeah well lots of photographers take great portrait shots in studios with ridiculous equipment. But check out his concert photos.


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photo by Chris Owyoung


I swear if i couldn't see the screaming fans I'd have thought those were done in studio too. They are SO sharp!! Holy crap. Seriously If I could practice and practice and somehow eventually, maybe, by some stroke of fortune, with a minor revelation of hidden talent, take photos like any one of his. That's just where my sentence ends.


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photo by Chris Owyoung


He is definitely my newest inspiration. Now if you will excuse me. I will be poring over everything and anything his name is attached to so I can maybe absorb some of his skill through my eyeholes.
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Winter is here!

With only four days of fall in between Summer and Winter. My fingers are freezing off at a speed of really really fast. :/ My NaNoWriMo assignment is... failing to say the least though i DID start. i did i did. But why? Because my mommy bought me a christmas present early and tis is... tis is.... YES!! IT'S A CAMERA!! remember?

And my god I can say that though i've always said it i've proven myself right in that when I know myself, sheesh I know myself. Despite completely forgetting about my "Camera Wish List" post, I ended up getting pretty much exactly what I wanted. Seriously-

Introducing: My first DSLR

Like my car it is dependable, beat up, used, completely endearing, stock, and RIDICULOUSLY functional. Exactly like I wished for. Only difference is I didn't get the Canon T3, I got a Nikon D70s. Uh-mazing.

For $250 I got this lovely used camera body with the kit 18-70mm lens just like everybody else. Though because I bought it from a very good friend of mine, Kellen, I got a great deal to include a few CF cards, an extra battery, the pretty little manual, and just the happy feeling of not having to worry if i'm being ripped off with a shit product.

that's meeeeee! taken at Frenchman Coulee where i climb the day I got my D70s.
photo by Kellen Harrel

Then, as a treat to me-self, I got a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G prime to go with my pretty little camera!! Though not the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM (for obvious reasons) I will say that I pretty much got everything I said I'd get. And for a grand total of $410.

Learning so much already- I'll post a photo of my little dear as well as a photo of my OTHER little dear (Mori) so you can see how much he's GROWWWWN!! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

One thing I regret is that I did not have this camera sooner so that I could have taken some very pretty pictures of Bungae for us to remember him. As it is, there are no frameable photos of Bungae to hang in our house in his memory :'(
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When in need for words....

POST PICTURES!!

a visit to cowiche canyon after work

the sun changing colors by the minute

unbelievable clouds



And on another day....

concord grapes!

the sweetest we've ever tasted... buckets and buckets!

and October wouldn't be without pumpkins

martians hiding in the brush!!

dried corn stalks... almost time for the corn maze!


and yes... yellow watermelons~
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General update: and videos!!

I'm doing this silly watercoloring business which is taking up a lot of my time lately... but it's a good thing I s'pose... this whole not-being-a-lazy-creature stint.  I have been inspired by.. my brain.. to continue this non-lazy behavior and document the multiple self-creation projects that I have going on.

So! Without further ado, may I introduce to you my other works in progress?

~Drink as much wine as financially and physically possible while obtaining all relevant information about said wines.  Now don't think I'm some alcoholic or anything.  In fact, if you knew me, you would know that "as much wine as physically possible" actually only means about two gulps because goddamn my asian super liver, I can't digest alcohol to save my coolness!  But the biggest point of that project is just to learn as much as I possibly can about all the different kinds of wine out there.

Some empty, some unopened, all cheap :P

~Stay on top of my physical fitness by committing to a schedule and working the program accordingly.  So far, what I'm focusing on is using my pilfered TURBOFIRE workouts as my HIIT/cardio routine three days a week and hitting the weights at the gym three days interspersed between the cardio.  On Sunday I go and Zumba with my mom which is always more of a fun day than a "training" day.  I'm going to try to keep a weekly log of my progress in terms of keeping to my schedule.  I'm thinking accountability will keep away the lazy dizeaze.

~Take photos with my dinky digital camera and make the most of what I got.  My town has amazing opportunities for taking photos every morning and evening because the sky here becomes a mixture of colors that I am sure has never been seen anywhere else in the world.  The problem is, my camera cannot handle said colors so until I can capture these hues and gradients the way my heart sees them every day, I will make do with photographing... other... things.  My goal is to upload five of my favorite shots once every week.

{sigh} It really is a pity that a day only has 24 measly hours, especially since I have to sleep 9 of them :( well lately that's another thing I've been working on.  Two weeks and I've gone with whatever sleep I can get and still wake up at 7 in the morning.  Sometimes that means 5 hours with a two hour nap during the day, or passing out at 10 pm and catching some serious zzz's till 7.

~Videos.  I want to start creating videos of some things.  I think maybe I will combine my "Do-it-yourself" section with my video experimentation.  I love making things by hand.  Everything I love I'll try to find a way to make the home version of it.  With food, it's so much healthier, with beauty products it's way more natural, with everything else it's just way awesomer.  You know what I'm talking about. Or if you don't, I'm sorry, because you are seriously missing out on some good shit.  Now, I want to create a DIY section with videos of how to make things.  Who knows, maybe this idea dies down and I just start posting video as opposed to writing.  But then that would be the ultimate laziness, so maybe not.



~Foodage.  I'm going to make and document one recipe a week.  I'll be cooking way more than that but the problem is I've made about 50 recipes, which would have me way further along on that particular bullet of the bucketlist, and I rarely pull out the camera.  I wish I had a cameraman just follow me around ready to photograph when I'm cooking!  bah whatever... so I'm going to be doing all that good stuff.

Ok, well that's all for now I guess... I'll be making updates about the bucketlist soon because I've been working on.... some things..... oooooooo mysterious~~~
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