Sunday, November 14, 2010

LA ART WALK

11 November 2010: Me and Stef brave the cold streets of Los Angeles for the monthly Art Walk. Scouting. My first real trip with my new camera. If you haven't noticed by now, I have an obsession with depth of field.









This kid was about seven or eight years old. So cute. When/if I have kids I'm going to fully support them in anything thy want to do or try.





























I love live art.



















Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Obama's Speech at USC

22 October 2010: Thousands of people lined up for five hours to watch Obama speak for about.. 20 minutes. Good times.











Suffering from Obama stroke. The result of standing for five hours straight in the sun. Joy.



A protester who was screaming about abortions, the good of God and free speech.







Eager beavers.





Despite running around in impossible humidity with a sweater on, I had fun. Met some cool ass people, including a photographer who has the original negatives from when he shot Jimi Hendrix. Obama's speech was.. Obama. I don't know how to describe it. He's a great speaker with incredible charm. It was amazing to get to hear the president speak, even though I couldn't see his face due to a teleprompter in the way -_-



xx, loveLC

JACC Weekend

15-16 October 2010: The Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) had a conference at CSUF. Basically a way for journalism majors to network and attend workshops to learn more bout their craft and compete in contests. I got honorable mention in the Sports Photo.



Obviously, I was super excited. See the photo at photoblogandjunk.blogspot.com

Some pics from CSUF and the conference:



I got to experience glass blowing first hand!









My feature photo entry:





I want to try it one day. But knowing my friends, I'll probably just end up making a bunch of bongs.





A couple of my other choices for the Sports Photo Competition:





I love Talon Marks!



At the awards ceremony. We're hopeful haha.



Can't wait for spring when we get to go to Sacramento!

xx, loveLC

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

BAKE NIGHT: Bake and Be Baked

17 October 2010: Bake Night. Pretty self explanatory if you have a thing for titles.

On the bake night menu we had:
Baked apples with ice cream
Pumpkin pie
Lasagna
Apple Crisp
Tye-dye cupcakes
Banana bread






















Out of focus, but I love this picture.










Huge thanks to everyone who came and brought something and biggggg thanks to my fellow fatty at heart Stef for coming early just to bake and grubbbb!

xx, loveLC

apologies

Okay, I've been lagging again. The school newspaper has been draining me of my time and energy.

26 September 2010: Vegas Turnaround. I didn't take many pictures because: 1)I was drunk the majority of the time (I know, I'm a lush. I'm working on it.) and 2) Mr. Allan from Last Night's Elixir pretty much took care of business. Check out some of his stuff here: lastnightselixir.com

The Jakkmode went down to the beautiful Palms for it's California Love pool party.



Naturally, I was down. That's the fourth turnaround trip this year, first Vegas pool party, period.



Nothing much to say, Vegas is Vegas. Shaun had to go to his DJ thing, and I stayed by the pool and mingled. Met this cool ass chick Brittany and hung out with her and her group for pretty much the rest of the day. I think I love her.



Coincidentally, she was here with her BF too, DJ Coke-E.



They were all from SoCal, and Brittany actually used to live a block or two away from where we live now. I also met a Mr. Ernee Felix, who DJ's at Avec. Shaun spins there too. Crazy coincidences. I think it was meant to be. Either that or we were all at a pool party for southern Californian DJ's, haha. I still say it was fate.



I'm kinda into the whole Vegas turnaround trip idea for now. More than two days in Vegas and I'll feel like more of a lush than I am now. And it's super fun when you're with great people. Plus, it's a perfect way to get your Vegas fix if you're as busy as I am.



Afterwards, we went to wet republic to see Sidney Samson. I jumped out of the pool and ran up to him after his set and he just responded with "Ah! You're all wet!" That's the second time meeting him and I'd have to say he's one of the nicest people ever. So humble.

So that was that. I love meeting new people.

xx, loveLC