So in the space of less than a month, I've spent hours on end looking up stuff online about:

- harajuku girls
- elegant goth lolitas
- i harth darth
- the golden verses of pythagorus
- the devil's panties
- sigur rós' upcoming album "takk..."
- jim campbell
- doing google image searches on things like "myself" and "justice"
- the titanic

and then there's the photograms and photographs on the way and the photoshop and the digital photos still and the usual angsty angelboys and the cutesy pretty drawings tom forwards me from some mailing list and rainbow brite and the fact that everything that was new orleans has now been nearly all washed away and rock stars and the bikeride to the beach with daffy and tomorrow is forever and empty buildings and old stone and---

..and I'm as curious (and anxious) to see what I wind up making from all this as anyone else is. *giggles and is fecking nuts*

...

ok and in the last five minutes, one lj-hop to another led me to this, which I'm liking lots and lots tooooooo~

 
*cackles*

This was for a contest over on the Fredonia Underground (our campus forum), to replace the faces on mount rushmore..

bwahahaha.

 
Two happy photograph stories, while I'm on the subject:

One. When we all got back here to Fredonia, I snuck into Tom's dad's car a little tupperware of cookies and a card, as thank you for putting me up for that week earlier this summer. The card'd come out really pretty, I used a photo I took in the park in Huntington, that Tom and I walked around one day.. it was really pretty there, and the picture was of this little area by the pond where there are trees all around and there's a little stone bridge connecting a little island to the main grounds.
Tom told me the other day.. his dad really, really loved it. He was all complimenting the composition and saying it was well-framed, with the trees and the placement of things and all of this.. and he walked around the park trying to sort out where I'd taken it from - it turns out the bridge area is one of his favourite spots in the park.
That.. really made me happy, for a lot of different reasons. ^____________^
(And it's so sweet, seeing how much Tom and his dad are alike.. I can so picture him doing the same thing. *g*)

Two. I'd gotten prints made of this picture for both Tom and I, picked up some frames, gave him his for our anniversary.. it's sitting on his dresser now. A friend of his stopped by the other day to hang out awhile, and saw the picture.. and asked Tom in surprise if he and I'd gotten married! *falls over giiiiiggling* (*and blushing!*) Apparently at first glance, it'd looked to him like Tom was wearing a suit and me a dress.. *giggleblushes all over* It was too cute, I wish I'd been there to see how flustered and adorable Tom must've been.. *G*

 
*bounces* omg that was way too fun. ^___________^ spent a good couple of hours down in the darkroom, with happy results. hadn't realised how much I missed playing and making pictures. the process itself doesn't even really intrigue me *as* much, but.. but even still, those few seconds when paper darkens from empty white into all the intricacies of an image... yeahhh. <3

and that was even just making photograms. *G*

(note: photograms are.. like to print a photo, you let light shine through a negative onto photo-sensitive paper, wherever there was darkness in the negative, it blocks the light and makes it dark on the paper. a photogram, you don't use a negative, you just put stuff on the paper itself..well, or I s'pose in the air between the light and paper, too. and wherever there was stuff, it's white on the paper.)

these are just digital pics of my prints.. didn't feel like running around and ganking someone's scanner. and resized - the real things are like, what, 9x12 or whatever my paper size is, so between the camera and the sizing, some detail is lost, but you can get the main jist anyway. *g*

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

1 and 4 I think are the two I'm going to turn in, he wanted some variety in them. (won't be turning them in 'til tues tho, so any opinions are more than welcome. ^_^) I tried different things with each, so even those I like less (5 and 6) have some really interesting bits in them, like where I put some water on the paper in 5, or the way it looked having draped a scarf over the star-shaped cookie-cutter in 6. What I really, really love though, is in 3 and 4..the little fragments of words that came though. Those are actually off the plastic bag I'd brought everything in, I laid it out on the paper, then set the objects on top of it, knowing it would leave little crinkly faint lines and faded areas here and there. I wasn't sure if the words would come through, but they diiiid and it looks so cool. *G* The other thing I hadn't realised would come out so clearly was where the objects were resting on the bag, and were on a little bump or wahtever, and so have part of them closer to the paper and part a little farther.. so they kind of blur and fade where they're farther from the paper, and I reeeaaally like that. ^_^

(and yes that's a my little pony in 3 and 4, heee. her wings are translucent so I knew she'd be fun to use in this.)

*dances!*