"H20, Hip Hop and Oxygen" – HBMS
Wednesday and Thursday night after work I took pictures of the Color Heritage folks and a new Reggae artist.
Friday night I shot a birthday party for Meleni Smith who is a recording artist. Coincidentally, Kevin Powell was also having a party at the club because he’s running for Congress. Like me, you may remember him as the journalist, hip-hop activist and former MTV Real World cast member from the first season.
I took pictures of an actress named Leisha Shorey this weekend. Memorize her photo on the left – she’s got star power.
Oddly, they were filming The Devil Wears Prada outside work today. I think I saw Meryl Streep running down the street.
I just had my first trick or treater in my apartment. She wasn’t old enough to talk, but she was old enough to eat a snickers with the wrapper on. Ah! I love Halloween!
It’s been quite a long time since I’ve written anything in here. Work has been so incredibly stressful and busy. And right before Thanksgiving a good friend’s father died. My family and I were close to this man and his family. It’s still very hard to think about. I do however think about them often and how they are doing. I wish I knew the best thing to do in this situation. I don’t want to add to the constant hoards of people that must be suffocating them with awkward discussions, etc… I would love to just be able to hang out and be around. My friend lives in another area though, so it’s not like I could just call and drop by to see how she’s doing. I would like to go visit her though. She’s getting married in July and I’m so excited for her. My luck has sprung it’s ugly head however, one of J’s best friends is getting married on the SAME EXACT DAY! I am pissed at my luck. That means I can’t go with him, and he can’t go with me. It makes me sad in a way, I can’t believe that he’s going to miss my friend’s wedding. We won’t get to slow dance and get all romantic, It’s just a bummer. Silly I know, but a bummer none the less. WHAT ARE THE ODDS!?
So this past snowfall was very nice and I have a picture of one of our neighborhood squirrels for you to see. Enjoy!
I had a good weekend. Besides not trying to give in full force to my chocolate & sugar cravings (Halloween is hard!), I went grocery shopping, and spent Saturday printing! Wow was that fun. My dad and my brother were at school using the darkroom and I asked if I could go. I had a great time, can’t wait to do it again. I just have to find my book of negatives that has the good stuff in it. This weekend all I could find was my two whole binders of rejects. Go here to see some of my real photography.
I’ve been writing down all my dreams (or trying to) because most of my photography comes from that, especially my digital works. Two of my ex-boyfriends have been visiting me constantly and I don’t know what it means. They are the ones that I feel I have the most unfinished business with, but they always have some sort of role in my dreams. It would be nice to exorcise those demons (not that they are the devil), I can’t seem to have a “normal” dream without one of them popping up.
Normal is a very relative term, however. Normal dreams for me have me waking up yelling and talking in my sleep, like all my action adventure dreams, or the ones where I find myself alone in a car on the passengers side having to drive or use the breaks on the drivers side, or the ones where my EX-BOYFRIENDS show up all the time!!!! Believe me it gets much more interesting than that… Maybe I’ll let you know about my next dream, assuming I’m in the mood.