Im a proud person.

And being a proud person I do not often admit bein anything less than the best. However, at the start of these four weeks I knew next to nothing. I got easily flustered at the thought of using photoshop, not because it was boring, but because i did not know what I was doing. So asking me what I am most proud of is easy for me to answer. I am most proud of how far I have come. Of how much I learned. Of the fact I didnt give up somewhere along the way.

TV time

F-r-e-e-that spells free, creditreport.com baby. Number one most epic commercial of all time. I remember this commercial along with all of the other ones that accompany it. I remember this commercial mostly because it has a catchy song that is easy to learn and easy for you to sing along to.

And then of course there is Flo. Who is the beautiful wonderful spokesperson for progressive. I honestly find this commercial to be a tad bit obnoxious, but it is obnoxious in the good way. I find hat Flo is a very great choice to represent anything and she is the reason i enjoy that commercial.

The boy with a Skittle tree growing out of his stomach. I honestly have no other way to describe this commercial except with that. I like this commercial because if its originality and humor.

Only special to me..

So the question is if I could chose one person to hang out with, alive or dead, who would it be and why. I could come up with something unique to say or someone famous to meet, but that's like talking to a stranger and I do not think that would be very fun for me. So instead of telling you I want to hang out with Kurt Cobain ( which I would totally want to do), I choose Jake. My best friend. I never actually get to see this boy, let alone hang out with him and his girlfriend is making it impossible for me to see him. In one year he will ship off into the Navy and not return for 4 years. After he leaves, I am not sure i will ever really see him again. So you understand when I tell you that he is the only person in the world that I wish to hang out with for a day. This boy who will soon be out of my life, but i am not ready to lose.

For the future to know and me to find out

Currently, the best career match for me is to become a Director of Photography. And in case you had no idea what a person does, don't feel bad cuz I had no idea either and I am the one that got matched with it. A director of photography is in charge of lighting a set and filming a movie. Amazing, right? I am not sure if I like the idea of that. However, to succeed in this, there is no set requirements for schooling. Yes, it is always better to have a degree or even degrees, but it is not required. If I were to persue this, I could make about $20.37 and hour which accumulates to about $42,370 annually. I guess it's not that bad, but I have always been determined to become a lawyer. And any computer program can tell me what I can do best, but I do not plan to base my plans around this. I still plan to become a lawyer.

Payday!

What am I going to do with my first paycheck? Well, unfortuantely i owe my first paycheck to my mom to pay her back for the gas and insurance she has put on my car. After I elimate that portion of cash from the check, I will most likely have little, if anything left. However, if i manage to have cash left, I plan to use it to buy a set of drumsticks for my best firneds birthday. He will be 17 and his birthday is in August. He's leaving soon, so I plan to do whatever it takes to make a memorable imprint in his life.

If I'm a billionaire..

Well, to be totally honest I have no plans as to how I would spend my money if I was a billionaire. This is because, let's be honest, the chances of my being a millionaire are like zero. I have no issue hoping for money. Definately none at all. Which is why I can say that I will buy everything. Nothing specific is on my list, but if im walking down the street and my eyes glance towards a window and i see a cute little dress thast has pin stripes and a bow and i could see myself wearing it, I would buy it. If I decide i want something that I've never had, I'd buy it. As long as i thought it was a good investment. Okay, so there is one specific thing on my list. A big green house on a secluded road. I got lost on my way to my moms work one day and found it. And now everytime I drive by that road, I detour to it. It's for sale. Has been for awhile. The people who owned it got it foreclosed on. And now I dream about living there. With the bookshelf wall in the living room. Me and my best friend Brye will own this house one day. We will pull our cars into the long serpent like driveway and park in the huge garage. And if I were a billioaire, I would make that happen for us.

SC4

So this is me. Im the girl behind the green camera. Next to me is Chelsea. My newest friend. We are touring Sc4. This is the only picture I plan to post featuring the tour of this college. It might be that I did not take a lot of pictures. It may be because the pictures I managed to take were scenery or exhibit type things. But it could also be that this was one of the best parts of the tour. Just capturing a moment like this one; one where you are smiling and your friends are making faces. I suppose i was nto thrilled about the tour we took. I've done it many times that it all seems to blend together in my head. However, I still managed to suck it up and trudge down the hallways that students trudge down everyday. It's not something I would say that I would plan to do again anytime soon, but I suppose it is a great experience.

Week One down.

And what about it would you like to know? I bet you'd like to know what I did and stuff. Well, I honestly just had fun. Photoshop can be quite entertaining. So I took pictures and did things with them. I made collages and pretty pictures. I made myself smile and made myself think. There wasn't that much that I did that I didn't really like. So that's it in a nutshell I guess. I met people i didn't know and I learned things I couldn't do before.

What lies in my future..

Sure, we're only talking about the weekend technically, but to me it all plays a part of the future. You know what I'm saying? Okay, So today..The best of all three if you ask me. I get to go to my best friends house after work. We plan to swim, a lot. So swimming and movies and junk food, sound good? Totally. But it gets a bit better. We're going to Petco to carry on our tradition of looking for that one special fish. Oh yes, we are not that normal. Then we'll rocket to the beloved cinema and buy our tickets to go see Despicable Me. I cannot wait to see those little yellow dudes in action. Then back to her house for more movies and more junk food. I never really get to see her, because she works at 4 and i get home at 4. Work is harshing our friendship. So that is today. And for the rest of the weekend? Your guess is as good as mine. Live in the present. Do what you want. It's my motto.

Remember Me

Or not. It is truly your own personally decision. Although I would love to be the girl that holds the power to make decisions for you, I am not. I am just a girl. And easily forgetable, yetr extremely loveable girl. I guess my thing is just that I am not sure I want to be remembered. In movies you see 30 year olds go to their reunions and people bring up how they used to be. Well, people grow up and people move on. I would rather prefer to not be judged based on how I am now at the age of 16. I have everything to look forward to still, and believe it or not, now is when i make all my mistakes. So asking me to be remembered as this girl is kind of just not right. I know that is not the answer you were looking for, so I'll give you what you want. If I had to be remembered, if my life depended on it, I would be remebered as the girl who didn't hold back. I would want to remembered as me. Just me. Not the girl who dresses according to style (because I don't). Not the girl who says what people want to hear (because I'm just honest). And definately not the girl who tried to fit in ( I don't mind fitting in, but i mind not being myself). But like I said, I don't really want to be remembered.

Representation at its best

So here it is. The magical logo that consumed my mind yesterday. Yeppers, there it is. I made it.

Now here's part two: If I had to hire someone what would I look for? That's the question..what? I have no idea to be honest. At the same time though, I guess that that is something I would look for; Honesty. But how can a person see honesty during an interview? I have no idea. None at all. But I sure would look for it. Ohhh, and I would look for organization. That is not because I have this weird fanatic need to be perfect. Although, I guess it could kinda go with that. It is just because if a person stumbles into a room 5 minutes late spilling coffee on a report, that pretty much means they are five minutes late in life and they're spilling coffee all over their hopes and dreams. So that's two.. I guess I need three more. Attitude! I want a good attitude from a person. I do not want a jerk that slouches in his seat and grumbles when he needs to do things. That is just un called for. And another thing I do not want to deal with is someone who thinks that they're better than everyone else and refuses to work with others. Superiority complexes need to be nipped in the butt; so I guess that means that I want to look for a team player. I saved this one for last, I just want an individual who isnt afriad to express themselves every way possible. That does nto mean that I want someone in purple pants and a bow tie. I would like to maintain the business atmosphere, but I would not want all business all the time. Thankfully though, I have time to change the things on this list. I do not believe that I am quite ready to go out and start hiring people for any reason. That gives me awhile before this list will come in handy and that means that there is a good chance that this list will change.

So I made up a logo..

And this logo is for a business. A business I techincally don't have. Yet. Everything in life comes with a 'yet'. Everything a person does can get better by a little. So I made a logo for when i become a lyricist. Yes my friend, in the future i plan to write lyrics for people who I may or may not know. I plan to rock the world with words. See, I am blessed to be a writer. And I am not half bad if I do say so myself. As you have read in my earlier posts, music is my everything. Music is seriously my means for survival. I listen to everything. In the future, i am ecstatic to think that some girl will be sitting in her room with her headphones in listening to the words that i created drift into her mind and swallow her subconcious. That is what I thrive to achieve. And with that, I created this logo.

Photoshop Days

When I uploaded this picture into photoshop, it was to books with the pages folded into hearts in black and white. It seemed so simple. However, I felt that the picture was poorly represented and it needed color. Hearts make me think of blues and pinks and happiness and laughs and living and loving. Corny as it may sound, it's what i think. So I did just that, I turned the black page hearts into a pink heart and a blue heart. I added the two words that people often overuse; live and laugh. And under the spine of the top book, I put my whole name. It seemed to fit.

As for the daisy, you have probably seen the original before, many times. A white daisy swallowed by the surrounding green scene. I took a simple thing and added an array of colors. I rotated between the colors of the well recognized rainbow; Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. I believe that adding these colors to this flower made it indiviualistic and maybe even more optically appealing.

And I saved the best for last. This piece is hard to explain. To understand the approach i took on this though, you have to understand one thing about me; Music is my life. I thrive off of the strings of notes as they float into my head. And as they swirl around inside my mind, I become aware of myself, of who I am and who I want to be. So this piece is by far my favorite. I started a picture of a trble clef resting on a sheet of music. This photograph was in black and white. I then took another photo of different music, also in black and white and cut it out in the shape of a heart. I made this music note heart almost transparent and added it to the original treble clef photo. However, adding this layer seemed to elimate some of the previous beauty and signifigance of the trebel clef. With that relization, I decided to add the color red. Red is a vibrant color that highlights the importance in many things and is very noticeable. I took this color and traced over the outline of the treble clef. When finished with that, I took a step back, and realized it was done.

That is the thing about editing photographs; you can add anything you want to it, but it is never you to decide when it is finsihed. The photo speaks to you and tells you when it is finsihed and when it is how it should look.

And last, but not least..

Firefox. I like this logo because of its simplicity. The fact that someone just represented what they meant without the extra sparkle and dazzle. There is not always the need to go the extra mile when you are just looking for someone to know what you mean. Thee fox is just that a fox. The tail of this fox looks like fire. Simple enough, riight? Of course. Firefox. Its so simple. The world that this fox is consuming just shows people how far that the tool could reach. It is overcoming the world. And as scary as it may be, this fox is consumingall the information between here and anywhere else. No electronic information is safe anymore. And with Firefox, you have access to it all. It is just simple.

And in second, we have..

The Rolling Stones : )
The big red mouth with its long tongue sticking out,has been the official logo of the longest-serving rock-and-roll band in the world since 1971.It means individual talent unified and magnified. That radical tongue symbolises the free spirit and expression that their music is known for. This logo is easily recognized in todays world. Music is the center point of almost all emotions that people hold and with that, many people look to music for security and support. People are often unable to represent themselves the way they would want to. This simple tongue is the almost the complete opposite. The tongue represents free spirit. The need to impress no one.

Favorite logo

I like this logo for many reasons. The reason I believe to be the most obvious is the fact that this logo stays true to what it represents. A person is always behind a good company and when you incorporate a name or such you have a good representation of the personality behind the business. Connecting to an actual person is always more appealing than connecting to a computer or even just a business as a whole. However, the scale in the background that has been zeroed out perfectly, represents that this business looks for what is right. Outside people will connect to the fact that this logo is centered on equality and will use that when selecting a company to represent them. Purely, this logo has both a logical and emotional appeal to its on lookers and every part of that logo helps me to like it.

WIA to me

So I have been a part of quite a number of extracuriculars. However, to me WIA overthrows drama and BPA. This is the place where I met some of my best friends. I eat breakfast and lunch with these people and tell them my secrets. They know me more than my family. The ability to be able to do this is a wonderful sensation. The fact that I can have so many friends in one place is one of the only reasons I force myself out of bed so early in the morning. Knowing that if i were having a bad or if I just wanted a hug, I know I can count on these individuals. WIA is currently my personal definition of family.