In a rush, in the shower.

 My family, They rescued me the other day when I lost it.

                                                             http://vimeo.com/33366598

                                                     ^ link to my Vimeo account for My Intro to Doc final.

It turned out being quite different than originally planned, I focused on one specific final club rather than getting into all of them. It's more of a vignette than a documentation. It became less about how mysterious the final clubs were to me, and made them seem so un interesting. There is nothing special about the parties at these clubs other than the "Brand Name" Harvard logo in the name of the clubs, that's the only reason all of those girls go to Cambridge, to be among the Harvard men, looking their "best."

 Sexting is a portmanteau of sex and texting. It is the act of sending sexually explicit photographs, primarily between mobile phones. Although sending intimate pictures starts with two people, the amount of sharing and forwarding between people is limitless. I’m interested in creating the “What if” scenario in this portfolio. “What if this nude picture of myself gets forwarded to a stranger?” I was once asked to send an exposed picture of myself to an acquaintance, where I felt violated by just being asked the question. Ever since I’ve been interested in turning the table around and making people feel the same aggression I once felt. I asked as many friends and strangers as I could if they would send me nude pictures of themselves for this study, as well as any pictures they currently had saved on their cell phones of others. I have a collection of 58 pictures, some of my friends, and some “stolen sexts” of complete strangers. These images are no longer in their original intended sexual context, and have been taken out of the confides of the digital world.

Currently editing the rest of my Harvard footage for critique.

Cellophane, I'm not sure where this is going, & I only have two weeks.

Color class.

The A.D: check

The Owl: check

Just trying to document girls looking there best, but capturing them at the worst when they're toppled over on the floor or puking in a toilet, trying to make sense of why girls put themselves in these situations.

Sarah Barges, being a huge champ and participating in my Harvard final club documentation

                                                                                             First Color Critique 

I think I figured out what I want to do for my color project.

"Bangs" in the sink.

I really don't have anything to say about these other than being comfortable and very tired produce twisted things. I'm into it.

Some Fragments of my summer on film.

                                                        http://vimeo.com/28970504
                                    ^^ FINAL STRANGER VIDEO ^^
                                         (Intro to Doc)
                                                                                                          check it out :)

First Doc Photo assignment, I chose to do video, and here are a few screen shots. Our assignment was to photograph a stranger, My boyfriend & I found a few winners, but this stranger seemed to almost be mentally available, and able to open to us in an unforced way. Final video soon to come.

                                                                  Purple, black, blue, green & yellow makeup made bruise. 

The big questions: how to sort out your life, how to work out what you want, how to deal with men and sex, how to be true to yourself and how to figure out what that means - those things are the same today.

                                                                      Three weeks. Three weeks. Three weeks.
Everything changes again in about three weeks. This time it won't be so drastic, I'm some what familiar with the surroundings in Boston, and how i'll handle my emotions with the people I won't see. However the situation will be entirely new. I've recently been collecting last moments with friends and family. This time I won't be traveling home quite as frequently as last year.  I plan on coming home for a small portion of winter break (three weeks tops), and maybe one or two random weekends. But this move will continue into the summer of next year, and into 2013 semesters when I graduate. This has been one of the best summers, Starting with Bonnaroo, and then traveling to Brooklyn to see one of my closest friends. The rest was a compilation of asking all of my friends to send me inappropriate pictures of themselves via text msg, for my summer project....working/sleeping/apartment preparation and being close to people I love. I genuinely feel "better" I've been eating more, reading more and can wake up and not have this weird weight on my shoulder that tends to come when I get worried/sad/jealous. I feel like I continue to put myself in unhealthy situations mentally and some people are just waiting for me to screw up, in order to drop me. Maybe it's all in my head, maybe not.
  -Also getting this "triplet" tattoo done on the inside of my left arm, within the next three weeks. 

Who really owns this "Photograph" after is has been sent, and how is it being used draws me in. I'm collecting these images like someone who collects coins or stamps. By taking theses seductive "photos" out of their intended sexual context/intrigue creates a new identity for them. Im interested in who normally collects these images, more often then not, males have these images "saved" on their cell phone where they stay hidden, or shown to others once the are received. Being a Female, I find it awkward and some what strange to ask for these images. I'm trying to bring these low quality cellphone pictures out, and print them quite large to create an actual tangible object.

Things I want right now: Tempura Shrimp Sushi, and to be back in Boston. I Just wish I could take a couple people back with me.

Jeff and Linda are my favorite couple ever.

Two down,  a few more to go. My mom did ALL of the sewing on the mint flower pillow,  I'm clearly only at a beginners level on our sewing machine haha

Sewing 25 of my old dress into pillows of various shapes and sizes for the apartment

I'll post some finished products soon.

pic from my cell-bad qualityyy

I know exactly what I want to do now. I have this feeling that it's going to be big. Traveling on a bus by yourself reading Sylvia Plath really helps you figure things out.