“playing with your food”
My mom loves to send me forwards of little jokes and whatnot that she finds humorous. Most of them are not worth spending the time to look at, but I recently recieved one that got me smiling. Here’s a couple images that it contained;
marc garanger.
Marc Garanger was one photographer that we learned about during Art History 103. The portraits that he took of these women are extremely powerful and I find them very compelling.
In 1960 he was serving in the French army as soldier and at that time the French government introduced identity cards as a security measure for all Algerians. The woman were forced to unveil and be photographed against their will, creating heavy emotion within each portrait taken.
Later, Garanger produced a book which contained a large number of the 2,000 pictures of the Algerian women that were photographed and he stated that his photographs “often led to angry reactions from viewers and critics at exhibitions”
Check out this website if you are interested in seeing more images or want a little more information of Marc Garanger.
sleep, what’s that?
I have been laying in bed for the past two hours trying to fall asleep.. counting sheep just wasn’t cutting it, so I began thinking about my day tomorrow — then about my CGIA blog — and I realized that this would be a great blog entry and probably a better use of my time then slowly getting more and more frustrated with the fact that falling asleep is difficult tonight.
I’m going to post some “wikiHow”Ways to Fall Asleep, well.. the ones that humour me! Hope you enjoy,
1) I don’t want to sleep! Tell yourself you don’t want to go to sleep. Slowly, your eyes will close by themselves and in a few minutes you will be asleep.
——– for some reason I don’t believe this one, but I’ll be giving it a try in about fifteen min.
2) Don’t count sheep! Your mind is like your body and exercising it is stimulation. Clear your mind of thoughts, or if that’s hard, focus on something relaxing and even repetitive, be it trees in the wind, rain on a window or maybe something as simple as your own breathing.
——– I guess this is where I went wrong? Although, I must admit I wasn’t actually counting sheep, but I was counting sharks..
3) Train your bed. You can train yourself to associate your bed with restfulness rather than wakefulness by the practice you adopt. Sleep-inducing bed permit only two activities:sleeping and napping. All other activities -jumping, talking, school work etc – should be banished from the duvet, preferably to another room.
——– I have poorly trained my bed…I often use it to do homework in, haha.
4) Make up an imaginary friend. Discuss your days events with them. talk about your feelings etc. Think of what your imaginary friend can say back. It’s calming and very good for troubled minds
——- No Thanks…?
5) Tell yourself you are tired. This may not work for some people but for others it is very effective. Convince yourself that you are really tired and your brain will follow these signals and actually make you tired.
——- I think this contradicts #1?
6) Imagine you are a computer.Think to yourself the same process that your computer goes through when it shuts down, or something along those lines: “I am shutting down, falling asleep. All excess functions are being shut down. I am only breathing, and my heart is beating….
——- haha, I guess I’m going to go now and pretend I’m my macbook shutting down ..
check out the site, there’s 40 different ways to tell you “How to Fall Asleep” !
CGIA Project #1 – panoramic image.
I took the panorama photos at White Rock beach (near Whale Park). The story behind my panorama is that this area was once a utopia for the girl in the image. The red rose represents love and her dark clothes are meant to contrast with the flower and represent the passing of a certain love. The variation of dark and light areas within the panorama are used to further emphasize this point.
utopia or dystopia?
Firstly, some quick definitions from dictionary.com
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U⋅to⋅pi⋅a [yoo-toh-pee-uh]
–noun
1. an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
2. (usually lowercase) an ideal place or state.
3. (usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or social perfection.
dys⋅to⋅pi⋅a [dis-toh-pee-uh]
–noun
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
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When I think of my own personal Utopia, I think of Shuswap Lake. It’s about a four hour drive from Vancouver and just past Kamloops. The lake alone is gorgeous; seems to go on forever, clear water, surrounded by big, lush mountains. And to add to that, it’s a great place to go and forget about all the stresses of ones life. Because the lake is so big, it’s easy to find a form of isolation if that’s what you’re looking for, and if not, the people who live there are generally extremely easy-going and friendly.
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.ashes and snow.
Gregory Colbert
Gregory Colbert is one of my favourite photographers. I discovered him when I was fifteen years old and have followed his work ever since. The relationships he portrays between humans and exotic animals is inspiring and something that we don’t get to see in everyday life.
“In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals. The images depict a world that is without beginning or end, here or there, past or present.”
—Gregory Colbert, Creator of Ashes and Snow
A video made after the exhibition at the Nomadic Museum, 2008.
ashesandsnow.org
Back to Reality.
My first ever post on a blog!
The first day of school in 2010 and also, my birthday.
Here’s to new beginnings!
