my latest sewing project

I started this back during the break between summer I and summer II semester and I finally finished it last week :)

I didn't have a pattern so I just eyeballed the shirt and the embroidery is all hand done.

I should get a picture of the whole thing, it's done in the style of a mexican peasant blouse.

Still in the Christmas spirit

here's a few pics I took of my grandmother's tree

and a few from mine :)

well since I couldn't see the eclipse last night

this is a photo i took a few nights ago of a moon halo

It is caused by the light refracting through ice crystals in cirrus clouds in the troposphere (which is the lowest level of the earth's atmosphere)

School is out!

Well it's been 6 whole days since I finished the semester and if Iv'e learned one thing it is that as much as school interferes with blogging, free time does so even more!  Between catching up on missed shows, finishing old and beginning new sewing projects and just generally being lazy i've hardly taken any photos at all. So my semester break challenge to myself is that i will post at least one photo every day.  I will try to take photos everyday as well but this will be a good way to force myself to go through all the photos that I've taken and not yet had time to edit.

Since Christmas is less than a week away and I'm definitely feeling very Christmas-ey here's one I took last week of my sister's cat.  Not the most artsy photo i've ever taken but he's pretty cute :)

V-J Day Kiss

This past weekend I had the opportunity to meet Glenn McDuffie

The V-J Day Kiss is one of my favorite photographs of all time

How cool is that?  

Digital Photography Final

I'm test driving an idea for my final thesis next semester, I want to portray images of women in WWII, Cindy Sherman  "Untitled Film Stills" style, but i haven't quite figured out exactly my field of focus yet.  I know I want to focus on the emotions of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances but whether i want to focus on all women's roles, just military and combat related roles or simply the women from one country or just axis or just allies.

anywhoo, here are a couple of my favorites so far, I'm only portraying Russian snipers and partisans for this project (Fact: Russia was the only country during WWII to allow women in fully functioning military combat roles) i will have to have 10 for my final but i've already shot over 100 :)

Gallery Mock Up

For my thesis class I have to create a mock up of how I might display my work in a gallery space as well as examples of artist installations that I find interesting so here is a couple of my ideas:

here are a few pictures of exhibitions that I like the layout: