Gone Fishing...

on wednesday, after i found out that i am the brand spanking new leader of the pastoral care portfolio i went job shadowing at the animation studio, triggerfish, in cape town. very recommended, i had an absolutely awesome day! i know exactly how the animation process works. i feel privledged to have seen the formation of their new feature film 'khumba'

although job shadowing is suppose to give a better idea of what you want to do one day, i feel more confused now. i absolutely love the working enviroment of animation and the people are very cool. i guess to best explain it is using an analogy: i love painting and i can do it for hours at a time, but i dont want to become a painter. although animation, shading, modelling, texturing are all skills that i would like to have, i dont think that i'll be able to it every day? it almost feels that it would be undermining my intellegence. listen i'm not saying that animators aren't intellegent, on the contrary, they are creative and technical geniuses. i think that maybe i'm capable of more. . .

it was a very interesting day that gave me a lot to think about, i came to a half-conclusion: if i was to go into this industry, which ireally want to, then i would like to be the director. although that sounds so ignorant! "i wanna be like, the director? cuz they're like, the most important?" dont get me wrong, thats not my attitude, i know i'm going to have to work my way up like a beast. (rawr!)

A Misty Disposition

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i took these photos the other day. i went cycling with my camera when this fog started coming in and i was snapping away like a rabbit eating a celery stick. (i dont know where that comparison came from either)

anyway, had an absolutely great day! what a way to celebrate the first day of holiday! wanted to go the beach, but it was so windy that the plan just failed completely. (sad face) so my brother took me with him for sushi with his friend laurens, whom i consider to be my friend now too. anyway was the first time i've ever had sushi, was totally amazing!

spent the rest of the beside th pool with a bunch of awesome peoples. many laughs and being pushed into the pool totalled up to a great day! thanks guys :)





These hands of . . .



been a really interesting week. went to the beach last friday, was totally awesome! also i was chosen as student leader! thats prefect for anybody that doesnt go to somerset college. to be honest i didnt expect it and if i did i really thought i would have gotten cultural portfolio, although i now consider pastarol care as a better option.

i took these photos of hands the other day, right before i went to the beach actually. i was busy painting and my hands were full of paint and thought they looked really cool. i'm really starting to like black and white as a photography medium.

i really wanted to talk about something else but i completely forgot what it was

Feel the Sensation

today is about textures. i often take photos of textured surfaces. it has a makro quality which i love. theres not much to say about them really.

in life, well, schools finally starting to draw to a close. to say that i'm excited for a mere 10 day holiday is a complete understatement!

HUMANISED

this week i had this really depressing thought. after i had it i couldnt get it out of my mind and i just kept noticing it the whole time. this defenately doesnt apply to everyone, but it often just feels so hopeless trying to be someones friend because that person always has someone who they regard a better friend than you. it feels like i'll never be that important person in someones lives.

ok, enough of the feeling sorry for myself, i'm starting to sound like zita! obviously what i said was a bit of an exaggeration but it is a theory that does seem to present itself quite often. 

Flag Montages

Its a QOUTE, my friend

"your friends know you, but your enemies truy understand who you are." by myself :)

what i was thinking was that our friends know us and understand us very well, but it is our 'enemies' or 'people we dont get along with very well' that know a very different part of us. because i believe that the way we treat our 'enemies' shows us who we really are. so therefore, our enemies understand us very well and know exactly what we are capable of. . .

on saturaday my family and i went to the mt nelson for the high tea. awesome! i ate so much i almost pucked. also took some of the first portrait photos which i will later blog. it was an interesting dicovery.

when you get bored....

when you get bored, what do you do...i take photos or do anything that involves some sort of creativity. i also had an epiphany. we call it judging when somebody assumes characteristics of someone else before they actually know them. although i agree with this and agree that this is bad but i do think that this is often confused with something else. i dont know what you call that something else but it goes like this: if i assume something about somebody it doesnt neccessarily mean that i'm judging them, i am just making an evaluation about them based on my current relation to them, whether it be friend or foe. the way i perceive them is accurate to what my current position towards them is. hope that made sense!



nougat and champagne

this is from when i went to jone's house to work on our film. i dont know if i mentioned this, but i love jess's house! awesome!

trying to blog and watch CSI at the same time...not as easy as it sounds.

hu?

its a glass paper weight i took pictures of the other day. the glass bulbs of colour were just so cool i had to take photos of it!

hard work+coffee=good results!

i was trying to make an awareness video for our extremely consummersist society. thank you jones for inviting me into your awesome house so that we could work on it. it feels like term is over, but alas another 2 weeks before a well deserved holiday!

pins that stand together

i took these photos of the pin cushions the other day. what makes them beautiful is that a single pin means nothing but all of them together creates a flower which is both beautiful and functional. (cliche pukeness)

i one more than anyone is someone who dislikes teamwork. it always seems as if i do all the work and the other sponge. but when your working in a group with your favourite peeps, then it doesnt matter if its functional, its the beauty thats important! i'd choose beauty over function anyday!

P.S. for the very few people that read this blog, sorry i havent posted in such a long time!

blurry vision

yes, i know, another colourful object on a white background. be patient, i'm showing them all now so that i can move on later. not much to say. . . ellen's theory about the characteristics of each term is proving very accurate, basically, third term sucks! no use complaining though, got to try and make the best of it!

the contours of my brain

these are my little clay creations that i took photos of last year. the molding of the clay reminds me of something that i strongly believe in. just like you can mould the clay into a shaoe that you want, you can mould the outcome of an event depending on our mindset. never underestimnate the power of the mind! if you go onto something wanting to like it, you will and the opposite is also true.

so, if you have the choice to make something great, why wouldnt you?