DMF Final Project

Well, here it is. I did my best even though I have virtually no clue how to work InDesign.

All photos belong to me, the girl is my friend Sara and the horses are her's.

Burn, burn like a wicker cabinet.

So I know we're supposed to make two blog posts a week and I know I have been seriously neglecting that, but it's hard for me to update this regularly because I forget about it.

I rarely even blog on myspace and I'm on that ALL the time.

So I'm in a rut. I have no idea what I want to do with my life right now. I'm taking a break from anything Communications related next term because DMF and my Journalistic Writing class seriously burnt me out. Don't get me wrong, DMF is cool and I learned a bit from the lectures, but I don't feel like I accomplished anything during the labs. I've been working with digital editing software for a long time, and though I only recently got into using photoshop the basic principals are still the same and so I've been kind of bored.

I've also been in a rut photography wise. I need to just take a drive and take photos. Photography is my passion and I've done nothing with it since July, other the some photos I've taken for class.

I need something to inspire me, and although Ashland is beautiful it isn't particularly inspireing.

Anyone have any suggestions? Maybe I just need to drive around and find stuff.

InDesign Table of Contents

Took a bit to get used to the program, but I'm pleased with the end result.

I have to say I'm turning into quite the Adobe fangirl.

Letters

So I screwed around with photoshop and slammed some letters together. The whole thing pretty much gives me a headache and I didn't have much of a plan. I'm also a little upset with the jpeg compression, but whatever.

Movie Poster

Just making fun of the "theory" that says the world will end in 2012.

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I voted!

I just want to share with everyone how excited I am for being able to vote for the first time. I guess, it's not that big of a deal since I'm a Washington resident I vote via absentee ballot. So I sat in my dorm room and filled the damn thing out, then dropped it off at the post office.

I really believe that every vote counts. Even all the dead people in Florida that manage to vote. See, that's initiative right there, voting from beyond the grave.

Seriously though, I want to hope I'm making a difference because so many people my age, and older, are so apathetic. They figure that they don't need to vote because thousands of others will, so their vote won't make a difference, but that isn't true. One vote could cause the other guy to win... Although you could also pulled a Christine Gregoire and have the votes recounted three times and somehow only win one out of three recounts but still manage to become governor.

Hah, whoops, did I just interject a not so subtle distaste for Washington state's governor?

And now I have to go on a slight tangent. So, I was watching the most recent episode of Family Guy, "Road to Germany", last night and it pissed me off. Yeah, I know, Family Guy, there's your problem.

If you haven't seen the episode basically Stewie, Ryan and Mort end up in Poland the day the Nazis invaded. Two things about this episode struck me. One being an obvious crack at our middle east invasion, the other a disgustingly obvious political opinion on the part of the show's producers. The trio needed uranium for Stewie's time machine in order to get back to their current time and this is the dialogue as follows:

Stewie Griffin: But where do we find uranium in WWII Europe?
Brian Griffin: There's only one place, at the top secret atomic research facility, in Berlin.
Stewie Griffin: Wait a minute, Germany's building Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Stewie Griffin: Well, why doesn't America go in there and kick their asses?
Brian Griffin: [Turning towards the viewer and squinting his eyes] I dunno, maybe because they don't have any oil.

So that I found slightly humorous, but the bit that pissed me off was when Mort, Stewie and Brian put on Nazi uniforms, in order to blend in, and Brian's appears to have a blue button of sorts. The camera pans into it and the button says, "McCain/Palin."

Sorry but, Republican party does not equal socialism and yes, I still would have been irritated had that been an Obama/Biden button.

I know Seth MacFarlane has as much right to free expression as the next person. But I feel if your show is that influential, and I know it is, as ridiculous as that sounds, you need to make fun of people equally and not imply that German socialists would have supported McCain.

tl;dr: I voted!

Photo Montage

So, I'm not entirely satisfied with this, but I have 20 minutes of battery left and so I'm going to call this image finished. It feels like it needs more, but I don't know what to add...

My cat, sleeping in the rose bud and my horse who has seemingly sprouted wings and antlers.