Go Forth!

It has been a while since I have posted a blog on here. Not too sure why though. I guess I have been somewhat busy, but that would kind of be a lie. I just haven't had that "need" or "want" to blog out some words onto this thing the kids call the "world wide web."

Well here's some good news to those few who stumble across my blog. I received great news yesterday morning via email that one of my photos has been selected to be shown at a gallery exhibit at the Union Square Levi's store in San Francisco. I was in shock when I saw the email headline in my inbox. Yes, I had day dreamed a couple of times when I first submitted the pics in July, but I really did not expect to win. Why? You may ask, well because there were "tons" of photos submitted and there were many many great ones from my perspective and yet I was one of five people selected to the exhibit.



Another reason I am excited is because this is the 2nd contest I have been on the winning end of in the last 6 months. To those of you who do not know, I won another photography contest earlier this year through the clothing brand GrnAppleTree. They selected my photo to be used on one of their new t-shirt designs coming out at the end of this year. Also, I am excited because the only other time that I had anything in a gallery was at Mesa College when I had a drawing shown at the school gallery on campus.

I have already had a chance to check out one of the other photographers work and it is awesome. He's a freelance photographer, went to art school and has done work for Etnies and work for some snowboard companies, along with work for bands. I am excited to meet the other photographers so I can learn about them and how they have gotten to where they are at now. I feel like I might be a little overwhelmed because I'm sure some of them will have gone to college for this type of trade and have some nice cameras, whereas I bought an old Canon camera off ebay 6 years ago and taught myself how to use it. I haven't had instruction in photography, but I really want to learn more about it and keep capturing things going on around me. Art is what I love, hopefully I can find a way to make it a bigger part of my life and see where that goes.

Now I just wait for them to contact me about travel arrangements. I'm getting flight and room accommodations paid for. Oh yeah lol.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Picasso

Obey

On my bucket list.

I need to go there.

Hey Ya.

Today was a good day.

So lately I have been a little stressed out due to a few different things. Over the last week they have been getting a little better. Today was one of those days where I just kind of stopped in my tracks, sat down, took a deep breath, and realized that I need to appreciate what I do have.

As a part of my internship I took my group to Old Town. We were sitting there in the courtyard; in the beautiful sunshine, eating chips and salsa, drinking an ice cold Coca-Cola, had the hiccups, and hanging out with my group. I sat there and looked around just taking in the beautiful scenery when it hit me. I had my weekly realization that yeah I might not be in a "perfect" situation right now, but I do have it better than a lot of people out there and I need to grasp that thought more often.

On top of all of that, one of the boys from the group gave me a "trinket", I guess you could say. It looks almost like a dream catcher of sorts but it's from China, where this group of kids is from. They are a nice group of kids; pleasant, polite, and disciplined group, which has been a pleasure to show around town.

And, last but not least, an old old friend I used to work with found me on Facebook. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw he had added me. He was one of the coolest supervisors I have ever had.

Good times.

That just happened!!

So I was leaving the public library today, don't ask me why. I just have a lot of time on my hands due to not having a job. Anyway, as I'm leaving I see this little kid outside kickin it by the bike racks. He was a funny looking kid and was semi-mad dogging me so I laughed as I walked past him. Next thing I know, his large mother walks outside to see where he was at. As soon as she sees him out there she starts yelling.

This is what ensued, "What are you doing out here? Haven't I told you not to leave my side. You could have been hit by a car or taken by 'that guy' (pointing at me as I am about 10 feet away from her)."

As soon as I hear that I just kind of stopped in my tracks, stuck my arms out, shook my head, and chuckled while saying to myself, "What the fuck? Seriously?" I continued walking, thinking about whether I should have said something to this woman. This came to mind, "Hey large professor, are you trying to imply that I would kidnap your child?" or "Hey good job keeping an eye on your kid." I actually felt the event was fairly amusing so I wasn't angry. Kudos to you Miss for making me laugh.

Is that Matt Damon?

I just came across this picture through a yahoo! article. What I found amusing was the guy on the left is looking straight at the camera and looks like an overweight Matt Damon.

perty.

This woman is beautiful. Just had to put it out there. She is Rashida Jones ("The Office", "I Love You, Man" and "Parks and Recreation")

30 is the new 20

I turned 27 today. Fuck. Growing up I had always thought that my life would end up falling into place as I had wanted it to. If my life were to be what I had "planned" when I was a senior in high school I would be; graduated from college, have a career, married, have at least 1 kid, own a house, and be living the perfect life. Well as of April 30th 2009 I have accomplished one of those, I graduated college. I have no idea where my life is headed and I am nowhere near getting married. I really don't even talk to girls What is a girl? More importantly where do I meet them? Plus I tend to date sluts. Not by choice. Over the last 8-9 months I have gone from being happy that I finally graduated to being frustrated in not being able to land a job with the various places I applied (most of them I did not have enough experience. No shit I was in college) to finally realizing that this is it, this is life. No one ever said that you had to get married or own a house by a certain age. I am realizing that these are goals of mine and that I will get there but I am taking the long road. Some people get there sooner than others, but at this point in time I believe that I do not have that because I am not quite ready for all of "it". When will I be? No clue, but it is on my to-do list. Along with applying to go back to school and starting my own business by the end of the year. We will see what happens.

Like my little brother said to me today, "20 is the new 30, oh wait 30 is the new 20, or whatever the fuck it is."

NCAA Tourney

March Madness has come and gone and it has left us with a new college basketball champion, UNC. I love watching the NCAA tournament. This year I filled out a bracket online through channel 8 and I would like to say that I did pretty damn good. I had 3 out of the final four, I had UCLA in there instead of Villanova and, but I did pick the championship game correctly. I also chose North Carolina to win it all. I am proud of myself, I placed 7th out of over 1,000 people.