New Project Alert! (...and Free!)

Hi all,

I wanted to tell you guys about a new (and free) project that I'm taking part of. It's called Letters to Your Childhood. Its a project I found out about from stalking the Sketchbook Project. If you guuys remember I tried to do it a couple of years ago but didn't complete it. I've found that smaller projects suite me best. To participate all you have to do is by Jan 22nd, and get them your letter to you yonger self, via tweet or email by the 30th.

So I'm going to do this project and share whatI come up with here, ofcourse. Let me know if any of you sign up as well!

A la Prochaine!

Words to Live By

"If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to build theirs"

Every time I'm thinking about giving up because it seems so hard. Every time I think I'm to tired, too un-skilled...etc etc etc. I think of these words, and they always put things into perspective for me.

Sweetest Thing I've Ever Known.....

A la prochaine!

Video of the Day: Danny and Annie

Watching this took me one step closer to understanding what love is!

Exciting news!

 I just wrote out the first page to my book! It's not for the photo book I want to have created my by the end of the year. It's for the book I've wanted to write, about my life, for a long time now. I have "started" it before but it didn't feel right. I got stuck, and then I quite. I'm not going to say I that I feel like this time is different. What I will say is this time I feel like I have to write. Because if I don't get it all out...I'll explode.

Any way, I'm very excited to have this one page written out. I was feeling guilty because I haven't picked up my camera in a couple of weeks. Before then I was carrying my camera around, but not using it. I got tired of feeling that way and started snapping pictures again! I'll post some images when I've had time to sort and edit them.

A la prochaine!

Artist Talk: Why do I do it anyway?

I started doing these monthly interviews in December 2010. I had wanted to interview artists for a while, but I was too chicken to try. Then I was interviewed for the first time and my desire started to out way my chicken heart. The questions I ask are things I always wonder when I meet artists.

I always wonder what do you call yourself? As I'm always struggling to define myself before someone else does and gets it all wrong. How do you create(inspiration)? Because aren't we always looking for new forms of inspiration? Why do you do it? Personally I think the hardest thing to call yourself is an artist. There isn't always a clear career path(or so you may be led to believe). Your art isn't always valued the way you want it to be.

I've switched my "title" from aspiring photographer, to aspiring Art Therapist, and now to aspiring Art Educator/Director. Every time I find opposition from someone along the way. I've taken more then one "break" where I'd given up and didn't think I wanted to be an artist. Just to have art creep back in to my life and save my sanity! This is way I do it and I've always wondered if art is a need for others like it is for me.

So the questions I ask are just questions I've wanted to ask my artist friends(and there friends, and there friends friends). So I would like to take the time to say thank you to everyone that's interviewed with me so far. And a thank you to the people that I will interview!

A la prochaine!

Untitled/Infatuation Poem

Please don't say those things,

because they make me want to love you.

And I can't.

I can't lean on you in public,

I can't hold you hand,

I can't plant a kiss on you just because.

When you break my heart,

there can be no ceremonial burning of the ex's pictures.

You can never be mine.

So how come I can pick your voice out of a crowd?

How come your scent lingers for hours after your gone?

How come the thought of you makes my heart race?

How come your hugs feel like home?

How come you touch chills me and heats me at the same time?

How come a simple glance from you makes my stomach muscles tighten,

and tiny beads of perspiration form all over?

How come if you can never be mine?

You can never be mine,

So please don't say those things.