I know, I am a terrible blogger...sorry for the sporadic posts over the past month or so! All of my time has been put towards planning the trip my mother and I are taking to France and London. I leave in a few hours, so I must say goodbye for the next two and half weeks. Although I have to admit I am more nervous than usual because of the Air France crash, and the fact that the two Americans used to live in my town.
Anyways, I will definitely have lots of pictures to post when I return. And hopefully then I will be able to get this blog back to how it used to be.

Au Revoir!

Days Replace Days

Finally, I have the time to actually return to blogging, as school is beginning to wind down (two more weeks!). It is also a three day weekend for me, and so far I have spent the day doing absolutely nothing, besides relaxing with tea and a cupcake..



..And browsing through We Heart it..







Whilst listening to:

Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
Alone in Kyoto - Air
Destiny - Zero 7
Track 4 - Sigur Ros
Mea Blóanasir - Sigur Ros
Window Blues - Lykke Li

The last two photographs above are by Barabara Cole; her stunning underwater photography has inspired my search for an underwater disposable camera. However, I recently purchased a new video camera to keep myself occupied with, for my trip to London and France in a few weeks. It is the Flip Ultra HD and I like it so far, even though it is noticeably larger than the Mino.



Also, the link to my We Heart It account if anyone has one and would like to add me, since I don't have any contacts so far: http://weheartit.com/user/gimi

I apologize for the two week gap between posts; I will hopefully get a new up this weekend. Lately everything has been revolving around standardized tests and research papers, but after May 14 (the AP test..) it should all level out again.

And thank you for the lovely comments, I will be replying back to you all soon as well.

À bientôt

(Photo from We Heart It)

Picking up Where I Left off

I am returning...finally. I have been meaning to for awhile now, but most of my time has been spent focusing on school, reviewing for the AP test, and completing driving (which I am now finished with as of last Saturday; it is the best feeling).

Anyways, going back to the title, here are the lace tights I posted back in January, when they were new. These are from awhile ago, but you will have to excuse the photographs, as I haven't been able to shoot anything decent over the past few months.





A better + longer post is to be expected for next week. This one is not much, but I am happy to have finally returned to blogging.

P.S. Please always remember to drive safely. A boy in my year was tragically killed recently, and it has been really hard to see the toughest of guys crying and having friends break down in the middle of class. I definitely have a new perspective on life now. Please never take anything for granted.

This is short as I have finals all this week, and I kind of need to stick to at least one of my new years' resolutions.
Actual update to come around the weekend.

Anyways, I was tagged by Lauren to do the 4 Things tag.

Rules:

1. Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures.
2. Pick the 4th picture in that folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 people to do the same!



I took this for my father's Indian friend, Vasoo, at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris when I was eleven. A few nights before my family had dinner with him in Germany and he told a story of him being an exchange student in Louisiana. He claimed to have wrestled an alligator while there, which shocked everyone as he is no taller than 5'2".

And a preview?

I've been tagged again! This time by Micaela, to post six more things that make me happy:




1. Collages. I made the first one in art last year for my final project, which had to be themed (French, quite obviously..to go with my room). And then the second is from a few days ago.

Does anyone know a site that can pictures big when you click on them? Photobucket doesn't do that.


2. Traveling and planning trips. I promised myself when I was 8 years old that I would travel the world and I am going to do just that.


3. Fields of flowers. In Italy when we stayed in the countryside I wanted to take off my shoes and run endlessly through the sunflowers. (And then to also film it with a piece by Yann Tiersen or Dario Marianelli playing in the background.)


4. Shooting film and printing the darkroom. That's actually two, but I can't wait to get back into the darkroom, sometime this month, and then every Saturday through April or May.

5. Teacups.

6. These two lovely editorials:











Vogue UK December 2008
'Tales of the Unexpected' shot by none other than Tim Walker.
See the rest here.
















Teen Vogue February 2007
'The New Romantics' photographed by Nick Haymes

An outfit post is in the near future, as they have kind of been nonexistent lately.
And I chose new songs..what do you all think? Should I change it back?

P.S. One photograph has been repeated 3 times in this post, can you find it?

Dragonfly

I can see it all tonight underneath a perfect sky

Where the universe revolves around the pupil of an eye
And infinities stretch out from infinities within
And I'm a part of everything, I'm a part of everything

Am I falling asleep? Is it all just a dream?
Well, the cars are like water and the road is like a stream
Rolling down through the city, flowing out into the sea
Going nowhere like me, going nowhere like me

When the morning starts to glow out in the corners of the sky
All the people come and go, and the time just passes by
Then I'm only gonna see it from the corner of my eye
When the planet spins, it sings like the wings of a dragonfly

I can see it all tonight.

Dragonfly - M. Craft

One of my New Years' resolutions is to post more often; I'm not going to break it.
Happy 2009!

Where We're From
It is related to The Ones We Love and focuses on where 'the selected photographers have grown up, lived, or are currently living.'

A few of my favorites:






Aleksander Adams
New England






Ada Augustyniak
Cracow, Poland




Maximilian Haidacher
Linz, Austria




Jackson Eaton
Seoul, South Korea

These photographs make me want to shoot with my grandfather's small Minolta that he passed down. I haven't ever used it because it takes 16mm film, which I would somehow have to cut down from 35mm. Anyways, I hope to do something like this project when I possibly go back to Massachusetts this summer, where I consider myself from.

Also, I was tagged by the lovely Ella to post six things that make me happy:

1. Staring up at the stars on a clear night.


2. BB Brunes. Every one of their songs makes me smile, even if I can't completely understand what it is they are saying.


3. Moleskine journals. I have always loved the thought of keeping a journal (like Cecilia in The Virgin Suicides does) and have yet to decorate the ones I received for Christmas, but I quite like this one from Champignons on Etsy.







4. Taking photos from airplane/car windows.

5. Lily Allen's video for The Fear.

6. Dancing. I danced today for probably the first time since I stopped competitive dance last April. It felt so good. I am actually going to have free weekends from February through April for the first time since the second grade!

And I tag everyone who reads this post.