January 18

I've been getting more into French books and movies lately...maybe because they are so hopeless and depressing. I spent over two hours watching "The Class" which was about a classroom of troubled kids...and it went nowhere. Nothing was fixed, everything was wrong and unfair, and then...The End.



I spend a lot of my time watching movies...I liked this one a lot:




Currently, I'm trying to move all photos from my old laptop to my new one so I can organize my portfolios...but its taking way too long. I don't even know if I want all of them because 80% are of Matt. I can't get myself to throw them away though.


On a completely different topic...My brother recently confessed that he doesn't really care about the people in Haiti. The death count of 140,000 just doesn't effect him. Is their culture too foreign and far away to be respected? Are they less human than us because they are underprivileged and less "advanced"? He told me he just simply couldn't get sad about it. What if that many Americans died?

Anyway.

I'm trying to plan what I want to work on this semester and it's nearly impossible. I can never plan what to do. I just have to start doing something and it hopefully ends up somewhere decent. I am trying to take portraits of people on my phone with this strange application that makes them look like they were taken by a toy camera. It's interesting to me and hopefully I'll print them large again. Or maybe small would be nice. I also want to finally organize my surface photos...pin them up and figure out their order. I have a lot to do this semester...I know it's going to fly by and before I know it, I'll be out in the "real world" without all of my connections to available art teachers and expensive tools.

Over winter break I met the principal of a K-12 school in Iowa. He said that their art teacher is retiring in May and there will be an opening, so he'd hold onto my name and contact information. I hate Iowa, but I'm still interested to see if anything comes of it.

I'll randomly end with this: