Currently

Currently waiting for inspiration, here some more pictures:

























I didn't take this, but it's a great picture of my sassy toga from the weekend! Designed by yours truly with the help of shavy-shav (on the right).



























This isn't very good, but hey, give me a break I'm still learning!


























Chica-Chica-Whaaaaa?

























Artsy?

Peektures

I've recently been suffering from a bit of a writers block, and what I have been writing are pieces that I don't feel like sharing with the whole world. I have, however, been exploring the visual possibilities with my new Flip Camera and Fujifilm. Please enjoy a few of my most recent pictures (no videos today, sorry kids.):

Black Swan and other randomness.....

So many levels to this bad boy. One could, of course, argue that the primary goal of the film was to illustrate the pain behind ballet in an exaggerated and haunting way. However there were so many levels, the most prevalent and evasively effective in my opinion was the whole concept of “reflection”. Black Swan touched on this theme both visually and conceptually. A portion of the film was viewed through reflections, when Nina (Natalie Portman) danced the audience often viewed her via a reflection in a mirror or window, while the camera was focused on the ballet director, Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) as he watched Nina. Then of course were the reflections interwoven into the story; first, Nina’s life was reflective of the ballet Swan Lake, a component foreshadowed within the first 20 minutes of the film -beginning with her dream that opens the film and Thomas Leroy’s very clear synopsis of the ballet. The rest of the film is guided by Nina’s subconscious and conscious fears reflected and exaggerated by her surroundings and the people that dictate her life. You often see Nina's fears reflected by the actions of her peers. I don't want to say too much because to spoil this plot would be very wrong.

I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed if Portman or Cassel earned some serious recognition from the academy on this one.



I'm gonna end this with a cute picture of a puppy that I took:

Teaser

I just saw Black Swan and really enjoyed it! I'll post a full-fledged review in the next few days or so, until then, enjoy this poem:

Toolbox of Nothing

Society expects us to balance

They want us to humbly walk the line between self-loathing and self-righteousness

Society is giving us signs, pointing us in directions and muddling the ideas that compromise our minds

For years I followed strict moral codes, believing in my gut and following my faith

For years I followed in the footsteps of civilization

Never question, rarely realizing, hardly living

I don’t know what you would call me now

Sometimes I still wake up groggy and out of breath

Trapped by blankets, haunted by my dreams, annoyed with reality

I’m fed up with my lab grown expectations

And my myth defined definitions

Sometimes I wish I could just build a new world from scratch

But I can’t

I lost my hammer, and am out of nails

My tool box is empty

And whose fault is that?

DOS.

Hey Kids,

There's a few things to cover today!

1st: Olivia Wilde at the premiere of Tron:






















Dynamite!





2nd: My new camera! I have named her Penelope! Penelope is a Fujifilm FinePix S1800 and she's awesome! Admittedly I haven't exactly figured out how to take GREAT photographs yet, but I'm working on it.

The Limbo Tango

Home has welcomed me back with a torrential down pour,

My alternate reality infused with out-dating memories, old friends stitched with awkward silences

Comfort and unfamiliarity are linked together here

Exploration and history meet at the head, daring one to surpass the other

At a standstill I scramble around reality, trying to choose a side

Infusing my life with culture; seeing plays, participating in discussions, reaching out to old friends, while keeping the new ones close by

I’m in an awkward kind of limbo, content with now, calm about the near future, grateful for the past few months

Just a little...

How about a little bit of poetry to get Winter Break started off with a bang. It's not an original work of Maddie, it's even better. I've been really enjoying writing by the Persian poet Hafiz, here are some of my favorites:

The Subject Tonight is Love


The subject tonight is Love

And for tomorrow night as well,

As a matter of fact

I know of no better topic

For us to discuss

Until we all

Die!

At This Party


I don't want to be the only one here

Telling all the secrets -


Filling up all the bowls at this party,

Taking all the laughs.


I would like you

To start putting things on the table

That can also feed the soul

The way I do.


That way

We can invite


A hell of a lot more

Friends.

A Great Need


Out

Of a great need

We are all holding hands

And climbing.

Not loving is a letting go.

Listen,

The terrain around here

Is

Far too

Dangerous

For

That.

And my favorite: