Tuesday, April 20, 2010

my own brand of company.

tuesday, tuesday, tuesday.
you were no better than monday. i was sick all day, it definitely put me in a shitty mood. i got in a fight with my "best friend," but we always fight. sometimes i don't even know why we're friends. positive things? chocolate milk.


today i tried out my other lenses. i was kind of disappointed because i noticed that most of them were semi-blurry, but i love how all the pictures looked. my tripod would just not work with me today. it was frustrating. personally, i hate these types of plants. they're like fake flowers. maybe i'm biased, but it irks me.
i have pet chickens. they're alright little guys. they used to be so small, but now they're huge as. soon they will be able to lay eggs. therefore, our family will spend less money on eggs. in theory, we will be saving money...? yeah, let's go with that. honestly, i have no clue about what's going on in the economy. all i know is that it's crap. it's plummeting, aka we're fucked. [not completely, but still]
quite frankly, i'm lost in politics as well. is that a bad thing? i feel so uneducated sometimes, but i really cannot pay attention to that stuff sometimes. obama? yeah he's alright...? i don't know. i prefer not to talk about that politics. i get lost. maybe i'll find the time to actually study it more in depth sometime.


this is a long week already. go faster!
-kim.

Monday, April 19, 2010

stop: rape?

hello sunshine. well, it's more like goodnight. it's pretty late, and work was not the best today. serving huge tables is not really pleasant. i hate trying to juggle all their petty needs. so the pictures i'm posting were pictures i actually took yesterday, but eh, it's something. i got new sunglasses yesterday. classy aviators, so that was nice. in addition i bought a new wallet. i wish i could've bought more crap, but i've been spending a bit too much lately, so i have to hold back.

stop rape. this was really a quick picture. i saw it while my brother was driving to saigon pho [which is a fantastic viet restaurant]. i made him stop and back up, just so i could take a picture. rape is frightening. i think sometimes we forget the severity of it. i'm reading lucky by alice sebold [author of the lovely bones]. it's an autobiography graphically describing her rape incident and the effect of it. it's so powerful in its text, it really makes you think, but i'm still not done with it.
i am sad to inform you that this moth was nearly dead when i photographed it, but i think it turned out to be a stunning picture. truth be told, i don't care for moths, so i'm sorry if you don't like the idea of dead moths. i love how it camouflages with the leaf, and the composition is just great. maybe it's just me, but i love it. i must admit, i hate moths. they're gross, icky, and nasty, as with most insects. BUT this picture. i likeee.
michael, aka piggy, has a unibrow. it's gross. it was in the picture, so i had to crop it out. i figured out that i'm allowed to drive with him. [i only have my permit -sigh-] so i made him let me drive. i'm not terrible, but i'm not good. i suck at parking. i just can't get it in between the damn lines. they suck. hopefully, you're better at driving than i am.




that was my sunday.
laid back, easy, peasy, cheesy.
today was comparably awful, but it's a monday. expect no more.
-kim.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

waffle and pancakes.

so, i've decided that i will take pictures daily [or try to, i'm busy with school and work] and blog them. whether it be a simple picture of a flower, portrait, or an elaborate set up, i think it's good to see exactly what i can take a picture of. it's hard to see the beauty in simple things when all we strive for is the best, but quintessentially, it is those mundane subjects that strike a different bell.

these pictures were a few days ago. i was helping my brother take pictures so that he can paint it for a class. we were at the wafflehouse, and it was definitely awkward taking pictures. i did order a chef's salad, which turned out to taste pretty bad. i ate it anyways. i'm a hungry teen, what can i do? i didn't eat the egg. i'm not too fond of sunny side eggs. i'd eat it, of course. but i'd eat anything. i guess you could consider it a healthy habit to a certain extent. i can't pinpoint the mood for this picture. mark, my brother, wanted to portray a sort of negligence in an apathetic. like as if i was waiting for someone, but he/she didn't come. it's as if he's communing the message of giving up. or at least that was how i intepreted it from. sometimes, i feel as if i'm in that position. just waiting and waiting, giving up on the idealistic dreams, but still helplessly optimistic that something will turn around.
now, i'm out and about on a tangent, but hey, i have nothing to do. [except for that mountainous pile of homework, but that's besides the point] ... what you read these pictures to be, is your point of view. there is no right answer, it's up for grabs.



and that sums it up. i took more pictures today, but i'll post them later. i'm a tad bit lazy right now.
mondays suck; have a good one.
-kim.