Project 365: Day 26/ The End

I had a plan, but things never go exactly as you want them to go. My project 365 didn't get funded. Boo hoo. Though I am disappointed I'll get over it. Just because one part of my plan fell through doesn't mean I'm going to give up on the things I want to accomplish this year. Though this is going to be a little bit harder now. I'm still going to have my degree by the end of the summer. I'm still going to travel somewhere outside of NY twice.  At the end of this year I'm still going to create my first book.

I'm just going to have to be a tad more creative now that I don't have any extra funds. Money is VERY tight for me these days! Actually money is always tight for me. My time is also very limited so project 365 is going to be postponed for now. Let me explain what that means. When I decided to do this project I wanted to do it a certain way. I wanted to do it with instant film. That's just not possible right now.  So though I will be taking alot of photographs, and sharing them here, I won't be doing a photography every day. For the majority of the time I'll be using my digital camera. A soon as I can I will buy an external hard drive.

At the end of the year my book is going to be a little bit different, now that I'm not taking a photograph every day. For now though I'm keeping the details of that my little secret.

 A la prochaine!

Project 365: Day 24

Seen while waiting for the train at 23rd street after a short day at work and a long walk afterwards (from 59th to 23rd). It was cold but I was feeling great about all the new things happening for me this year!
Edited:
So I was staring at the image and it hit me what's wrong with it. I think it should read "When you see this: Remember me." When I read it I read it the correct way. Which is why I almost never catch my own mistakes when I write. You guys have no idea how many times I've posted an update here just to have to edit it again, and again!

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Days 20 + 21

Day 20: I got a new job, and was running around getting the necessary paper work done. I took my Ipod out of my pocket and it slipped out of my hand on to the ground. I don't think I've had the thing for more then 3 months yet. It still works I'm going to continue to use it until the glass splits my finger open. =/
Day 21: Views from my window.

Project 365: Day 17

Rock Climbing at Brooklyn Boulder!

One of my goals this year is to take every chance I get to do something new. I was invited to go rock climbing with the teens I worked with past summer(and a couple of summers ago too) from the Brooklyn Children's museum. It was amazingly awesome. Not only because I got to see these guys, but because I got to do something I had never done before. I loved it, and hopefully will get to do this again, and again, and again! A new hobbie in the making!

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Day 15

A baby shower for my friend from high school on Saturday. She had the baby on Monday at 7am. She wasn't actually due for at least 9 more days. I guess the baby shower was just in time!

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Day 14

Oh Vermont you sure are pretty!

I've been apart of the Postcrossing community for only a little while. I'm totally hooked though! I love receiving postcards from around the world. It's nice to see what other peoples homes look like since I can't actually visit them right now. I think I might start framing my favorite ones. Like ones where I plan on visiting asap (i.e. France)!

Become apart of the Postcrossing community today! You won't regret it.

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Day 13

Day 13: I woke up to great hair! And then some how managed to capture a great photo of myself! Something that doesn't happen alot, and something that I couldn't repeat right after I changed into my clothes.

Great hair made for an even greater day! Everything was just grrrreat!

A la prochaine!

Time to Work

I've been sick since Wensday. Blah! I'm on the mend though and this morning I remembered all the things I let slip in the days I've been in bed. I missed a couple of Sunday Morning Music post. I haven't been looking for any art openings to go too. And I haven't posted any photographys from my Project 365. Day 15: a baby shower. Day 17: Rock Climbing! I've been so out of it.

Don't be alarmed. I'm getting back on track starting today! This post is just a quick hello, and saty tuned request.

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Why wait until the last minute? Take action now!

There are 16 days left to raise the money that I need to do this project. For past couple of days I've been trying to figure out how to say: "Yo guys don't wait to the last minute become one of my backers now!", or "Hey looking at the email I sent you at the beginning of the month isn't really showing me support", or "Really you can't give $5 to a support a project you've said is a great idea?", in a nice way. In a way that would make you go right away to my Kickstarter page and make a donation in any size amount. Instead of saying to yourselves "Oh yeah, I'll do that later", and then forgetting.

I haven't had any such luck. I'm not the best with my words. So how's this: Why wait to the last minute? Go, right now, to my Kickstarter page and make a donation to help support a me in my quest to better my art. Don't wait until the last minute because by then it might be to last. Any size donation will me alot to me!

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Day 10

This year I decided that I was going to make my lunch for school and work. I love good food, but eating at Wholefoods everyday is expensive! There are a couple of dishes that when I make them there awesome every time! I want to be able to vary what I bring so that I don't get bored to often and spend like crazy!

This is my first failed attempt to make spinach rolls. I brought pizza dough, frozen spinach, feta, shredded mozzarella, and "beef" crumble from Wholefoods and came home ready to play chief. Not! Have no worries I won't give up. A part-time closet chief I will become!

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Day 4

Walking in Soho I found this enlightening wall.

I'm not the street photography type. I find it very hard to capture the story of someone you don't know as there passing you by. My favorite things to capture are walls like this one. Walls were someone has decided to leave a message for the people passing by.

A la prochaine!

Taken 1/4/2011 in New York, NY

Project 365: Backers and Rewards.

First I wanted to say thank you to the people that have already became one of my backers on Kickstarter! Thanks you and remember to tell a friend about my project to help get it funded. There are 22 days left!!

This update is for my potential backers. The people that have never used or heard of Kickstarter before. I wanted to tell you guys how Kickstarter works. When you become one of my backers and you make a pledge to give $10(for example) your saying that if this project reaches its goal of $1000 your going to give $10. You’re not actually paying anything right away though they do ask for your information. If the goal is met then your charged the $10 you pledge. If not you get charged nothing!

If you have any more questions you can refer to this link.

Now lets talk about the rewards. I have never sold or even gave away any of my prints. I hardly even print out my work. I was reluctant to give my prints away as rewards, but now I'm very excited about it! This may lead to me opening up a online shop and selling some of my prints in the future, but that's a different post. The prints that I'm offering have never been sold or given to anyone and the will never will be again. So I think that makes them limited edition! Just think people if you support me now your getting a collectors item for when I become a famous dead person, like Picasso. Each reward that comes with a print there will have a different image. So really I'm offering three different limited edition prints.

I'm keeping the three images a secret for a little while longer. By the end of the week I will have them up! Click here to become one of my backers, and remember spread the word!!!!

A la prochaine!

Project 365: Launch Day!

Tomorrow is the beginning of my year long photography project, Project 356. You have no idea how excited I am! It's not just the project that has me so happy and proud of myself. This isn't the first time I've wanted to do a photography project. This is the first time that I've taken the necessary steps to starting and completing a photography project though. And I have been taken some huge steps! I decided I was going to do this project using instant film(view sample images above) the day after I decided I was going to do Project 365. Tonight I'm going to launch my project on Kickstarter to help me get the funds I need for this project. I won't be putting all of the images on the Internet. I'm thinking I will post an image from this project about once a week or month. Depending on how busy I get once I start school again. All the same the regular content of this blog will continue as normal.

Now lets talk about Kickstarter. I first heard about Kickstarter after Kasalina Nabakooza emailed me asking me to help fund her project. I meet her at a Black Girl Project premiere back in August which she later interviewed me for her website. I really must send a huge thank you her way!! I'm asking for $1000, that will go towards covering the cost of film and creating my book at the end of the year! I hope you guys can feel how inspired and determined I feel and will help me by backing my project in whatever way you can. If you can only give a dolor then that's totally fine!! If you can only help by spreading the word then that too is fine and very helpful. Happy New Year All! I'll see you there!!

A la prochaine!

Ignoring those pessimistic voices. Mine and others.

Today's post is dedicated to self doubt, pride and pessimism.
So as you guys may know starting January 1st I'm going to be doing Project 365. In the middle of last week I made the decision to make a book and do this project. That's big, and I'm very proud of my self! I've been trying to figure out how I wanted to approach the project. Digital or film photographs. I'm crazy about film photography, more specifically instant photography. I was devastated when Polaroid stopped making film, but very excited about Fuji's new instant film cameras.
I decided that I want to do the whole project using this camera. It would be great! It would help me become a better photographer. It would help me with the tiny problem I have with creating something every day. The only problem I have is funding this project. I HATE asking for anything! I'm a prideful creature, and along with that pride is the tiny pessimistic voice that I carry around with me. My main problem is that I can talk myself out of anything! I also come from a family of pessimistic individuals. I say that pessimism is our religious view, they don't like that.... I started doing some research in hopes of finding some inspiration, and some way of funding my project with out feeling like I'm begging.
I found this web site called Kickstarter, where you can ask people to help you fund creative projects. Score!! I found out about it when my friend sent me a link to her project. View it here. I've been working on writing my project out. I'm very good when it comes to talking about something, but have a hard time getting it on paper. Send some positivity my way and I promise to continue battling my pessimistic ways.

A la prochaine!

Project 365

I have this bad habit, I have a hard time starting/finishing new projects. I get discouraged. I set unrealistic goals for myself. I lie to myself. I say I can't do it. I say no one will be interested. I say I need more training. But really all I need is more balls. I need a little more moxie.

I've been trying to figure out a photo project to start while I'm not in school for winter break. I've been throwing around these big ideas that I just won't have time to fully commit myself too. I have heard about project 365 many times, but I guess I thought it was too simple for me to do (because I'm so great, Ha). Anyway, why would I won't to do something everyone else has done? Example one of how I lie to myself.

Well today I decided that:

1. I want to write a book.
2. I want to make a book filled with my photographs, if for nothing else then to put on my bookshelf.

I decided to take a chance with Project 365. I Googled it and found this article on photojojo. Before I read the article I figured that if I wanted to I could change the project around so that it was more complicated, and would there for be better. Example 2 of me lying to myself and creating unrealistic goals. After I read the article I realized that the project will be hard enough and would be great because at the end of the year I would be able to create my photo book!

I'm going to start this project on January 1, 2011. I'm not going to post every photo I take on the internet because I may wind up selling the book. Anythings possible right! Wish me luck!

A la prochaine(until next time, it's French!!) ;-)