still a film newbie.

shitty weather outside means tonight's going to be a CSI:NY night. my least favorite CSI, but they always have good music, e.g. they have DJ shadow playing while they track some prints in the sand.....? i don't know, it make no sense sometimes.

there is probably a reason why my f100 came with an instruction manual (and instructions from the agent  at b&h to read the instruction manual), but regardless, i still haven't touched it. proooobably would really help my pics, but oh well, still kinda like these. grainy but i guess it's kind of part of their charm? haha just trying to make up for the fact that i can't use this camera properly. so until i actually read the manual, i guess y'all will just have to deal with my "intentionally" grainy/blurry pics!

jar of sunshine on film / dc landscape / trinity church juxtaposed.

i should probably spend tonight reading the manual since i'm not doing anything.. but that fact usually precludes any chance of productivity. only goal for tonight? finishing off my smoothie and mint chocolate chip ice cream, and finally listening to the thom yorke/four tet/burial collab (guaranteed to be legittt)!

feeelin' laaaazy..

feelin' lazy and feverish, so just a quick update. some random scenes from this past weekend.. although not really indicative of my weekend at all. haha, oh well.

top 10 reasons i know i love my puppy.

1. i probably say "i wuv you wacco" at least 20 times a day. yes, in a baby voice. you know how it is. i think any girl that's ever accosted rocco in the street (and there have been many) reverts to the highest voice in their vocal range.
2. i don't get jealous by the other girls that give him attention, butonlybecausehelovesmethemost.
3. i'm okay with the fact that he left a shit stain on my pillow. true story, it happened when i came back from work today.
4. i skip the gym to be back that much earlier to be with my puppy. seriously. huuuge sacrifice. a sacrifice i've been willing to make consistently for the past two months.
5. for the most part, i always share my food with him. i couldn't say that about anyone/anything else in my life.. ever.
6. i make up excuses for the ('love') bites/scratches he gives me.. "what happened to your arm?" "oh, i walked into the door." "oh, again?" sad part is that the latter scenario is also entirely plausible and probably half true any given morning. if you didn't get the former part of this joke, then you are a good person or i make lame jokes.
7. he would be the first thing i grab from the apartment in case of an emergency. blackberry and macbook are second and third, respectively. yup, i would take him before my bb!
8. because he loves me! :)
9. and how do you not love the cutest puppy in the world?
10. umm i'm sure there's more.. buttt he's on my macbook and ready to play!

testing 1, 2, 3..

REVELATION!

i had been wondering why my pictures were coming out so pixelated when i uploaded them into blogger. of course, it was because they were compressing my 4000x6000px pictures into a tiny little 500x600px (i made up both those dimensions for reference). so yeah, duh, as if anyone needed any more evidence of my retardedness.

so here i am testing my appropriately-sized pictures:

they still came out a little weird, very hard around the edges.. but i'll figure it out later. going to READ a physical book finally, with dvorak's new world symphony playing in the background. i like to class it up sometimes.

and just for good measure:

 how do say no that face? i don't. i can't. it's impossible. thankfully his puppy metabolism keeps up with the amount of food i feed him.

april showers bring may cherry blossom flowers.

i went to the cherry blossom festival this past weekend in DC, and i got hail, rain, and extra bright (not the nice kind) sunlight all within twenty minutes, annnnd now i hate cherry blossoms. however, i took most of my pictures on film, and by virtue of that fact, i will hate them a little bit less.. even though my pictures came out really, really blue.. oh well, practice makes perfect..decent..good-enough-to-justify-buying-this-camera (i have low standards).

despite my newfound hatred of cherry blossoms, i did have a few revelations (re: only revelations to me) this weekend:

1. there are no cherries on cherry blossom trees. i don't know much about flowers, so you know, this was quite a revelation to me. i think flowers are nice once in a while, but generally, they're kind of boring and weird-looking, especially when you stare at them for a long time. something about their reproductive organs being out in the open also freaks me out.
2. i need to learn how to focus my pics. wearing glasses (in the rain) does not help any. plus, manually focusing and refocusing each shot over and over again was nauseating, and the fact that it was an endless sea of white flowers did not help my cause.
2a. did you know that cherry blossoms are white?! not only are there no cherries, they are not pink as i had previously thought.
3. japan gave these trees to the US as a sign of their nascent friendship in 1912 (only one of two cool revelations/facts i learned this weekend.)
4. the US almost gave up on aviation in the early 1900s, but it was revived as a result of the US postal service using it to send mail. (second cool fact i learned this weekend.. obviously the nerdier of the two - courtesy of my brief foray into the national air & space museum.)
5. my title is technically incorrect since cherry blossoms bloom in early spring, but i liked my lame title too much.
6. i.love.jelly.belly.sours.
7. i know every rest stop between NJ and DC. i can't help my small bladder.
8. exposure is tricky, tricky thing. i couldn't sleep one night and ended up reading about it from 4-5am.
9. asian tourists will always have a bigger, better camera and lens than you. always.
10. there are cherry blossom trees all over DC. like everywhere. even in front the the shitty apartments on the outskirts of dc. i don't know why i subjected myself to the boredom, nausea, and hunger walking around the tidal basin for two hours.
11. i don't know much as is evident by the fact that i am having revelations every 10 minutes apparently.

ok, enough rambling for one post i suppose.

can you tell that the sun finally came out in the last picture? haha, and unblossomed cherry blossoms definitely resemble cherries. a little..?

a jar of sunshine.

just because. :)

monday.

this picture basically reflects how i feel right now.

the high line.

everything's hazy and unfocused. just struggling to stay alive above the fray.

ok, maybe not so dramatic, but it's still monday and it sucks.