James bond has LEFT the building =(

Gonna keep this short, as I just took melatonin about a half hour ago and don't wanna start sleep talking... or sleep typing.

So here's the latest upload




Went to day 3 of my class today. It was fairly interesting. Teacher was going over stuff about how to import and use camera raw, which I already had it down and spent pretty much all class time editing this amazing picture I got from the weekend. Turns out I actually DID catch the shooting star in my shot. I thought it was too far from my frame, but after looking at it on the computer screen in full resolution that light white line streaking across the picture is no doubt the falling star I saw. And the irony of it all is that the photo I took just before seeing the shooting star was a themed conceptual self portrait in which I "caught a falling star" in my hands. So all in all it was very fitting and no way a coincidence that I went to that beach at that time with that sequence of events. Thank you God for allowing me to have such an experience despite my camera giving me slight frustrations. So yeah, I am a little excited about sharing it with you... as soon as I get to class on thursday and get the pic off the school computer haha. I saved it to computer, edited it, and then forgot to put it on my flash drive to take home, so its still sitting in my assignment file, which luckily will not be touched by anyone but me and teacher until the end of the semester.

So other than that, my weekend was pretty fantastic altogether. Not only did I get amazing photos saturday night, I also got to do projection on sunday and then spent the afternoon and the rest of the night with momo and her family. We watched momma mia... yeah, I'm not gay, but I survived it nonetheless. Then her dad thought to save my huMANity and had us watch two Clint Eastwood movies. "any which way you can" and "every which way but loose." I think those were the films. All I know is that they were very much needed after watching the former 007 in a retro skin tight jump suit singing abba hits and duets in a chick flick musical.... Sorry Brosnan, You have officially been excommunicated from the male species.

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Not that the movie was all that bad, just that.. I mean come on, its James Bond singing mushy I-miss-you songs along with Abba(Sorry abba fans, nothing against you, I just can't stand it. S-club 7 is where I draw the line)... It hurt to see a hero fall so far. =P

But I have got to ask my dad about the Eastwood movies, as I'm sure he's seen them. The second one was almost offensive considering how poorly they tried to portray a marine boxing. Even with the globe-anchor-eagle tattood on his arm, they managed to make him walk all lanky and fish-like with his arms flailing around and taking punches wide and way outside... and then Clint naturally doused him with a flurry of punches. Given, it's an older movie, so even seeing a very clear distance of 2-3 feet between fist and face despite the 'marine's' attempt to sell the punch falling to the ground in agony, didn't stop me from having a great laugh at almost every turning point of the movie. Except the whole sleeping with your girlfriend with an orangutang in the bed... yeah, I laughed, but still disturbing haha.

So this week's assignment will be 40 pictures of anything within 50 ft of where I sleep... and at first she asked for a narrative, but like half of the students didn't understand what a narrative is, so she said forget it just take pictures. So naturally, I have to come up with a narrative and then some, because I'm not going to take this class lightly. If it's a project that I already know all the criteria for and it's an easy A, then I plan to make it a hard earned A by overdoing it to the point of almost offending the other students still learning the material, because I have no intention of paying money out of my pocket to take a class and not learn anything or try anything new. So I'm gonna ask if I'm allowed to edit the photos or are they due in raw unedited format. If yes to editing, then I'm gonna have a blast turning my house into a haunted mantion or something, since my roomies can easily pass as zombies (the dude hardly sleeps so he looks half dead at best, no offense bro, haha) Ok, the pills finally kickin in an hour and a half later. Time to head out before I knock my head out... on the desk. TTFN!

~sw23

Ooooooooooh the places you will goooooooooo

Just a heads up, I'm really tired and out of creative juices right now, but I cant seem to sleep so I'm just gonna jot down some of the random thoughts and events of the weekend and try to clear my head, at least clear enough of it to make room for some sweet dreams. So here goes.

Saturday... oh boy was it NOT a saturday for me haha. Worked from 9am to about 7:40pm. Really long day filled with sitting around for hours at a time eating twinkies, doing push ups and situps and making random jokes in spanish that I really didn't understand half of them, but still I tried to contribute and pretend I was listening and said yes yes haha. Finally got off work and headed over to Momo's place for a group get together her family was having with her brother's friends. I sat at the table and had some pizza and fudge while I played apples to apples with the moms. It was pretty fun, and then we cleaned up and I came home, said goodnight, then got the urge to play a few rounds of black ops and edit a picture or two... one of which is kind of mandatory as I needed to finish this picture for a client now for a few days but haven't had time or motivation. Hope she likes it.

But here is the photo I finished for the fun of it. The Oxnard Seabridge on a foggy night.




So other than that, nothing too interesting this week. Went to revive for the first time in a year last night, only to find that it is a farcry from any form of 'revival'. certainly not the college movement that I had remembered it to be when last I visited. But before you go and get the wrong idea thinking I'm bashing it or talking bad about it, I'm not. This is a blog and on it I share my personal feelings, and this is what it felt like walking into that room. It felt like high school. I had the awkward privilage of sitting right next to Jill without realizing it til halfway through, and her boyfriend kept sneaking peaks at me... I guess I was supposed to take the hint and move or something.. but I came to spend time in God's house, not jill's so they can leave if they find my presence offensive, end of discussion, I let them know this by ignoring the stares and sang even louder and closed my eyes and just focused on the only one who deserved my attention to begin with. But aside from the awkward seating arrangement, along with leaving momo stranded again (SORRY!) It just felt like high school all over again with all of the cliques and younger people only talking to the 2 or 3 people they already talked to all the time. Nothing against the service itself. loved the music and message, definately felt the Spirit moving in there. The last time I was there it was intense. Everyone seemed to know everyone, and if you were new there then at LEAST 4 or 5 people would come up to you at any given time and ask to pray or talk with you for no reason other than to meet the rest of the family. So it was just uncomfortable afterwards knowing that so many of those people "knew about me" thanks to her rumors, and thus none of them actually KNEW me, which makes it really hard on Momo as she was new there and automatically got ignored when she was seen coming to hang out with me... like i said... high school all over again. I had to find some familiar faces to introduce Momo to without getting awkward stares from the haters, so I found my brother from another mother Emjay and we talked about some basketball tournaments starting up on sundays... I'll need to get in shape but I'm definately game. And yeah, after that we left and had snack / dinner at dennys and went home. So that's the last 2 days, in backwards order. Anything I missed or anything you want to know? feel free to ask or comment with your opinions or feedback or questions. I've been really unmotivated lately due to 10-12 hour work days and the ever-stressful burden known as random increases and studders in heartrates keeping me up all night. So please, feel free to start me off on a topic or sentence and maybe I'll have something new to run with here ya know? What's that you say? My entire post is one giant paragraph full of run on sentences? Haha, no, actually I started a new paragraph when I broke it apart with the picture...right?

Randomness terminated, commencing operation dream-beam. ZzzzzzzzzzzZZzZzZZzzzzZzZ