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About Me

I quite enjoy xylophones, I also like windy days, procrastinating which I'm doing right now, chocolate (oh yes!), my gatos Icky and Ringo, taking pictures of marvelous things, frollicking, climbing trees in fancy dresses, having fake sword duels with Sage, music, watching old monty python's flying circus videos over and over again, thunderstorms (when you're inside, not so fun when stuck in the middle of a lake, but that was a long time ago), making cootie-catchers in class to keep from falling asleep and putting lots of strange fortunes inside, guava popsicles and coke in the glass bottles from mexico, along with many other exellent things that I really shouldn't list right now because if you recall I'm still procrastinating and I really should get something done now.
P.S. I also work with my aunt who makes mosaic sculptures; some of the public pieces that I've worked on with her include- that giant beach ball at the Nob Hill in Capitola and the mermaid statue above the entrance to Margarittaville as well as the wave on the floor inside and the columns throughout the restaurant.

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People who like to go on wild adventures whilst pretending to be pirates or princesses.

My Blog

Hyper-Real

This is a series I did for my digital photo class, we had to make "hyper-real" images using photoshop.... so here's what I came up with. A midnight photo shoot in my backyard becomes a surreal journe...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:36:00 GMT

Daydreams & Nightmares

This is a book of Van Dyke prints that I made last semester for my alternative processes class. Each photo is a combination of two sandwiched negatives; one of which I took myself, the other being an...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:47:00 GMT

Possibly Perilous

The intent of this project is to capture images of people who are in the midst of some sort of calamity. I wanted to capture the expression on their faces just as they realize the degree of their per...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:57:00 GMT

Drawings ~ still lifes and random objects

From my representational drawing class; we did a lot of still lifes in class and had to draw random objects for homework. It was hard... and kind of boring, because we didn’t get to choose our ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:16:00 GMT

Lo-Fi series (w/ Holga & pinhole camera)

This was the final project I did for my black and white class. It took me a really long time to decide what I wanted to shoot for it, I was left with no models and little time. As the days went by I...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:19:00 GMT

Color of Night

Hullo there, I have more pictures! These are from a couple projects I was working on for my digital color class; the first is a set of five images that are supposed to convey the "color of night" and...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:01:00 GMT

Vintage Black & White

This is one of the first black and white photo projects I did, it's from about two years ago. I decided to try to do fashion photography and ended up loving it. I borrowed a bunch of my aunt's and m...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:37:00 GMT

Cyanotypes & Van Dykes (solar prints)

I took an alternative photo processes class last semester and then did a solar prints workshop this summer at cabrillo so I have a bunch of cool new prints! Cyanotypes are blue and Van Dykes are dark...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:58:00 GMT

Surreal Color ~ final photo project

Ok now I've been working on this one for quite a while. It's actually made up of old negatives I had from a project I did last year and some really old ones from a project I did 2 years ago... but I ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:52:00 GMT

Self Portrait Multiples

This is a self portrait project I did for my photo class; we had to use one image of our self and reproduce it 20 times altering each one by hand in a different way. I added magazine transfers to the...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:00 GMT