digital test shot of the 4x5 film shot. so excuse the blurryness. at my grandparents' place.

i am procrastinating.

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I'm home and continuing to shoot interiors of homes, mainly mine and my relatives' places. May I state that I hate the mobility difficulties involved of shooting w/ a tripod? (correction: a lightweight tripod w/ a 4x5) It doesn't help that it takes forever to set up a shot. Checking first with the light meter, then the D70, then add gel filters, then loading backs, then praying the backs were loaded correctly and doesn't snag in the camera, then then then. It's a long process. Oh, for the sake of art! I'm realizing that I might enjoy the digital process more since I love instant gratification. Making contacts sheets is gratification. Shooting.. hmm, I don't know how I feel about the process. It's more like, "let's get this over with!"

Anyways yesterday I saw a real dead body in the street (eyes wide open), a lady stopped me in the street to tell me my future and turned out to be a psychic, and a nasty zit appeared above my lip.

happy thanksgiving. it's just any other day for me.

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My mother has 2 drawers dedicated to family photos.. it's a mess. I went thru them this summer and found 8mm film negatives from the late 70s-early 80s.

So this is shot sometime during the early 80s, around Lincoln Center, with my uncle.. probably shot by my dad.

I love how natural it is.. not overly cheesed w/ the typical touristy expression.

It's almost the end of the semester and it's amazing how burnt out I am.. I'm so lazy I don't want to cook or bake anymore! That's crazy!

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pretty "boy" Julian Cheung (Cheung Chi Lam).. see, I do like asian guys.. rarely but there's hope.. (tho the majority don't look this good. haha!)

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The auction price of 20 Gurskys combined.

The Pessimistic Artist Manifesto

Art is made from money. Art is a business! Yet, we do not want to conform into the boring life of moneymaking in the traditional sense, but how will you make art without supplies? Who will buy your art? How will they see it? Art is a privilege of the Museums, Galleries, and sadly the rich. It does belong to banks & fancy investors. Art is food. You can’t eat it but it feeds you. Money to create art will feed you. Art is not cheap and is not available to everybody.

Art soothes pain?
Art wakes up sleepers?
Art fights against war & stupidity?
Art is inventive, art is a challenge, and art is a tough field.
Art is a business.

Be realistic. You just want to be famous and have money to make art.

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Junior Seminar Photo Course, Fall 2006

First Project = $19.95 for 5 rolls of Kodak Portra-160NC film
$13.10 for development.
$31.87 for digital prints (to produce 6 images).
Second Project = $20.74 for 4 rolls of 120 BW film and 2 rolls of 35mm film
$21.30 for development.
$78.99 for a box of Ilford B/W Fiber Paper (to produce 10 prints).
Third Project = $31.75 for digital prints (to produce 5 pairs of diptychs).
Fourth Project = $37.50 for a digital print.
Total amount spent making ART= $255.20

Reflection of the Cheap Art Manifesto.

going home this weekend, yay!

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