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Friday, December 18, 2015
dream journey jornal (cuz i can!)
The end :p
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Anecdote within an Anecdote With a Few Pictures
Recognize this butt ? What you don't? Haha it's okay you probably don't. Ignore the date on the picture (sometimes cameras get the wrong date) but this was actually a student's art piece at Dominican University. This was when I went to visit universities in Northern California. That should ring a bell. Believe we went here in April of 2014! That's crazy! I feel like it's been longer than that. But them again it is almost 2016!
Okay now to the actual topic of this post... Photography! So I remember before I went on the Northern California College Trip, I asked my parents if I could have a digital camera so I could take pictures because I remember at that time I had a cheap phone and the camera quality wasn't the best and well I really wanted to take pictures. (And I lowkey missed my old digital camera, I owned a digital camera back in 2011 it was a Nikon digital camera that was touch screen and it was pretty awesome!) So they were like but cameras are really expensive luckily my sister chimed in that they sold cheap cameras at Kmart so we went. And I bought a cheap one, I wasn't so content since the brand was Vivitar and I had never heard of that brand before. It was only like 9 MP but I bought it anyways. I mean a camera is better than no camera right?
Well apparently not to my 16 year old self. I don't know why but when I was around the ages of 15-16 I was very concerned about being updated with technology. Here's an example. When I was 15, instead of having a quincenera like any Mexican girl, I went on a three day trip to Catalina Island with my parents and my sister. On that trip, my family and I owned phones which were pretty much outdated for today, they were non touch screen and had a low quality camera . My parents always like taking pictures ya know for memory like any other parent. I remember being on a tour in a jeep with my family and an older couple (I think they were in their 60s) and in this moment I noticed the technological gap between my parents and that elder couple who were older than my parents ironically. The elder couple was taking pictures of the landscape with either a digital camera or their smart phone while my mom took a picture of the landscape with her nonsmart phone and my dad didn't take any pictures because he got so frustrated with his old phone. I don't know why but in that moment I felt so embarrassed. Well I do but I'm straying too far off topic. This little anecdote might turn into another discussion of materialist obsessions. Well the point is. I felt so embarrassed that my family didn't have such technology. They didn't have smartphones or digital cameras.
Well this post has gone on for too long so I'll try to make this short. So back to my original discussion. When I was on that trip with my little 9 MP camera, I felt so inadequate and so out of touch. You see I knew how to use smartphones and digital cameras but I just didn't have any. Everyone on that trip either had a smartphone or a digital/professional camera. My camera was so basic compared to theirs. Every time I took a picture it made a noise while the other kids' cameras didn't. Every time I wanted to get a good picture I had to make sure I was still and as far away as possible in order to get a good picture while the rest of the kids just had to have their phones a bit far back and effortlessly got a good picture. The worst part was that the tour guides rarely stopped which meant I rarely had time to take good pictures. I never looked back at those photos because I
A decent photo taken at Stanford with my 9 MP camera |
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Blogging
So hello? I guess you probably won't read this since you made your own blog haha. (I haven't been stalking you what are you talking about? I just stumbled upon a Google plus post of your blog) But I'll write about this anyways.
First it's been officially 8 months since anything was written. And well this blog was a very interesting idea. Since those 8 months there we've sort of gone our own ways. You go to University in Northridge and I go to one in Irvine. It's been officially one week since I started school and 4 or 5 weeks since you started. My school year has started out rough and I have felt like I wasn't good enough but I won't go into details. One of my assignments has been to start a blog for one of my classes called Humanities Core. At first I was excited after I turned it in extremely confident but afterwards when I saw a couple of students' blogs I felt like I had done the assignment wrong. The truth is the content of their first blog posts were extremely elaborate while mine was just... basic. I still believe this. The prompt was to look for a picture of war and describe what the photographer wants us to feel about war. I was being basic and decided to just directly answer. That was my mistake. Yet when I look back on this blog I feel like when we wrote personal blog posts or just blog posts about our feelings I feel like they were good. I mean I guess the reason why I was so confident is that these blog posts are more real and personal. While when I am writing for my class blog I know that my peers and my instructor are going to read them so it makes me more conscious. Maybe if it were just peers I wouldn't feel so conscious but the fact that a teacher is reading it makes it feel like I have to answer in a somewhat formal way and I can't be as casual. Like one of my classmates even had a bibliography on her first blog post. I feel like the blog I'm making for class is so... fake. I feel like I am forcing myself to write a blog. I mean yes I know it's work. But having a minimum word limit I have to meet makes me write nonsense. I feel like it shouldn't have a word limit. Maybe a maximum but having a word limit you have to meet feels so limiting. I don't know maybe I'm just complaining for no good reason. Maybe there is a word limit so I can challenge myself and come up with new ideas. The whole purpose of this blog post is basically to explain my frustrations. I felt like I was good at blogging but it turns out I'm not as good as I thought I guess I just have to push myself more.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Damn You Jessica!
and this!
Well yeah I would tell you how awesome it is but you already know about it so yeah. Thank you!
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Monster
It was 2:25 in the morning when we went inside the house. As soon as we stepped in the door locked itself. We stayed there near the door. We heard the shattering of glass. I was the only one that went to the kitchen. My friends stayed behind. There was a broken plate on the kitchen floor, that was the source of the noise. When I returned my friends were gone. I went upstairs and I saw a library. There were many rooms. As I passed one of the rooms my peripheral vision caught something very strange. I saw something blue in one of the rooms. When I turned to focus my eyes on the sight nothing was there. I went inside that same room, I distinctly remember how cold that room was. In the middle of the room there was a small table. There was a key on the table. When I picked up the key I had seen something terrifying. It was a blue monster, it was looking at me with the most widened eyes I have ever seen. It reached out to me and I screamed the loudest I have ever screamed in my entire life.
The chase began, I ran out of the room and fell inside another room. I thought this was the end of me. I ended up hiding under a dusty bed. There was no sound, complete silence. I could no longer see the monster. After a while I went outside the room, I was no longer myself, I was traumatized. I was confused, I had no idea if what I saw was real. I went inside another room. In this room there were two beds. My bones felt weak, I was shaking and I fell to the floor. Apparently I had fainted, I was lying on the ground and when I turned my head I saw a hole on the ground. It was under the bed. I moved the bed with the little strength I had left. I knew that I couldn't get out of this house, I don't know how I knew but I did. I heard a strange sound coming from inside the hole, hoping it would be my friends I jumped in. It was dark and I was cold. I heard something move. In the corner on the right I saw one of my friends hiding behind a drawer. She looked terrible. Her hair was out of place, her skin was pale and she had blue splotches on her clothes. She couldn't see me for she was forcing her eyes shut and her hands were covering her ears, she was trembling.
I tapped her on the shoulder and she shrieked. I told her "let's go home together", she only screamed and cried. I didn't know what to do, I climbed out of the hole and wandered around the house. I put my hands in my pocket, I felt something inside. It was the key from earlier. I don't remember putting it in my pocket. My hands were trembling trying to hold on to the key. I Heard a scream of pain. It sounded a lot like my friend. When I climbed back in the hole... I'll never forget what I saw. My friend was lying on the floor, her eyes were widened. Her heart was splattered on the floor. I was confused, I didn't know what was going on.
I woke up, I was in my bed and it was raining outside. I looked at the clock, it was 2:25 am. I sat there in bed for a couple of minutes trying to make sense of what happened, trying to figure out if these were nightmares. I walked to the dark bathroom to wash my face. When I looked up at the mirror my face was half blue. When I stepped out of the room I realized I was still inside the abandoned house. This house was familiar, I knew where all the rooms were, I knew every inch of this place. I reached inside my pocket and the key was there. I remembered this key...it was the key to get out of this house. I was the blue monster, I had murdered people. This abandoned house was my home. I was the one that lured my friends here. They were running away from me but I wouldn't let them leave. I had found every one of my friends and now they were all dead. The blue monster I had seen, I was seeing myself. I was never hiding under the bed, it was just the boy I had killed.
My name is Hiroshi. I am just a boy living in Japan. I was born this way. I was a monster living in the outskirts of town. I can see you, your eyes following my every word. Nothing makes sense, I know. Pieces of the puzzle are missing. All I know is, This is real, I am real and I'll be waiting for you. This is all part of the game, and you're next.