What an interesting last week.




To say the least....





Ok.. so.. I decided to take this job offer for this man who wants me to take pictures for this event.. it's a documentation of a funeral. Two day event, his father passed and one will be at the church he went to for 40 years and the other will be a 21 gun salute. I mean.. who really gets this opportunity? Plus it will be enough for me to invest that $ into my photography. yesssssss.




I've also had the worst anxiety... Playing loads of Left 4 Dead (I want to beat the boys, of course) Kameron didn't think I could keep up with him when it comes to drinking.. I had to prove myself. I'm Native American. I can hold my own.




My 4th of July was spectacular.




I went to the Maystar fashion show, I don't think photography is holding your camera above the crowd and blindly shooting in the general direction of the person walking down the cat walk, but that's just me.




I'm surprised there weren't more people on the rooftops in down town. There were about 5 different sets of fireworks going on all around us. It was awesome. The best I have seen in a long time.




Went to an underground DNB party on Friday in a warehouse in down town SD.




I have quite a few pictures of people drinking and smoking. hmm.. I think they would make excellent prints.







You can look at more on my FLICKR. Also.. someone has been wasting a lot of time to sign up for new Flickr's just to try and insult me. Any publicity is good publicity? Why do people waste their time? Insecurity? Maybe? Speaking of that, I've been having the worst anxiety. When is to much? People are crazy, curiosity I realize that.. but please please please stop stalking me on here, flickr, myspace, facebook if you're just snooping to try and find something to start drama over. Grow the fuck up! I don't do that! It's weird.

Trying not to get sick.. Second time I've woken up in the last three days with getting a fist "accidentally" to the face. Thanks much. Brightens my day I'll tell you what.

Yesterday was such a Monday. Started with the stated above morning fist to the face followed by extreme nausea and dizziness which almost led to me losing my stomach. (The two were unrelated, it just happened to be in that order) Needless to say, I missed going to the counseling office and I just stayed in bed a napped until work. The system was down at work which makes everything just awesome.



8:30am





I'm in a total loss on what to do with my hair. I've dyed it, had extensions, had almost every color but blue, short, long, curly. Now I'm just stuck.

I took pictures of Minaya for his web site he's making. I had so much fun.





Pen and oil on wood.


My mind always goes blank when I sit down here to write. I've been pretty busy with pictures and painting. Been motivated. Remembering to take my vitamins. I'm sure I don't get enough iron in my system.

We're currently finishing up Southland Tales. Anyone seen that movie? haha...



Check out the rest of the pictures from the shoot.





( xoxoxox )

Meant to post this weeks ago, but this was the painting that I put a gloss finish over the top and the glare was just too much when I took the photo. So I put a matte finish over the top and I can now take pictures of it. Oil on wood.




I'm going to paint the antlers and bone, but I need to clean it since there is still some meat on the bone. Anyone have any tips on how? Should I soak it for a while first in soapy water then scrub it? I don't know what I'm doing.

Adam and I drove up the coast from San Diego to Seattle. I hadn't been in about 5 years.





The first day of driving, L.A

( about 50 pictures. )

All in all, good trip. No run in with the law, no accidents, no car problems. It was a lot of driving, so I didn't really feel like taking pictures all the time. I visited family and friends I hadn't seen in years. I kind of wish I would of switched up the lens, but it's all good. I'm glad to be home. I felt kind of unproductive being out and about and it was all something I've been to before. It was Adams first time up north, I'm glad we have this experience together.

I did a shoot on Saturday for my friend who is filming a short movie. They're stills for his web site. Other then that I've just been trying to get back into the daily grind of everything. I love having a lap top and checking out different internet cafe's in the North Park. I have yoga tonight, then I plan on cleaning my work area. That room is a mess. Paintings every where, there are clothes and just clutter which makes me not want to sit down and work on anything. I lost weight, I guess that's a good thing? haha.