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Coachella

It is defiantly safe to say that this years Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was the best. With Roger Waters of Pink Floyd headlining and closing out Sunday night, the festival had a hippie feel rather then a usual hipster vibe.
While acts such as rap duo The Cool Kids and trip hop heroes Portishead played, it was still evident what we were there to see. The legendary front man of Pink Floyd perform his oh so hip album Dark Side of The Moon.
The show began with a massive screen over taking the Coachella Main Stage. On the screen was what appeared to be a radio and a giant hand of a teenager in a very 70’s esq. bedroom. The hand periodically ‘changed the station’ and the music we heard from the speakers. This literally drove the crowd absolutely mad.
When his set finally started the crowd ate it up. It was hard to imagine anyone at the festival choosing to pass it up.
Madness ensued when Mr. Waters began playing Pigs from the 1977 Pink Floyd album “Animals”. A giant inflated pig covered in graffiti took over the sky. Fans screamed as the pig moved about the crowed.
Political slogans suck as “Don’t be led to the slaughter” and “Obama” were spray painted on the pigs body.
Planes circled overhead closely and dropped tiny pieces of paper that read “Vote Obama” on them over the top of us. Loud speakers surrounded the crowd and confused us with sounds of sinister laughing, cash registers closing, and crying coming from each direction.
The second half of the set was the entier "Dark Side of the Moon" album. A laser light show insued and the moniter flashed some of the most frightining images. The feeling of unity and crazy rock music was over powering. Thousands of fans ranging from three to 80, stood jaw dropped, shocked at all they were witnessing. A young girl next to me lit a dolar bill on fire and held it up whille singing along with the words of the song "money". None of us thought it could get any crazier.
Roger waters closed out his set by singing "Another Brick in the Wall" and "Comforatably Numb". Imagen for a moment some 60,000 people screaming at once "We dont need no education". It was one of the most intense moments in my Coachellla history.
Other Notable Artists This year: Austin TV, Porter, The Teenagers, Man Man, Devotchka, Rilo Kiley, the Shout out Louds, and Stars

yesterday megan asked me how i do it.
how do i stay away from josh so long?

jerico is leaving for utah for four - five months,
and i have no advice for her.
its the hardest thing in the world.
but its worth it

set time leaked.
and no one is even awake yet.

(im so cool damn it)

"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. "

"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. "

Reading quotes from Annie Lebovitz on photography, listining to Justice, drinking coffee, constantly refreshing the coachella website, thinking photography(always). researching class options at the Art Instiuite (buissness classes are avalible there thank you jesus.) editng maui pictures compleatly and totally in love with a fool that lives an ocean away and still manages to have dates with me and be romantic.

how i wish someone at this damned school would just ask me what im up to.

im so cool damn it,

today

i just got home from work.
well, a bit ago.
i think i needed to take this opportunity to tell you i love you, amanda.
you didn't answer, and i don't want to wake you.

goodnight.

103

102

" a pictures worth a thousand words, or in this case a fifteen minute speech"

black and white or color?

"I have noticed durring this project that my photography usually consists of a lot negative space"

post # 101

things im going to say about photography durring

my fifteen minuite speech i have to give

on April 28th and then again on May 9th:

"i have already seen how many oppurtunities a Photographer is given. I have been able to talk to people about being an artist and have them not only suggest amazing places to take photographs but take me their as well, and show me things that they find beautiful."

"durring this project my confidence as a photographer has just boomed. Telling people that my project is on photography led them to ask if they could see my portfolio or a few examples of my work, the feed back and suggestions I recived was amazing. So many people thought what I was doing was fantastic, and I really hadnt expected people to even like it."

mmmm

i like chromeo.

http://www.coachella.com/media/

Music has always found a way to inspire me in every aspect of my life. Whether its my style of writing, my state of mind, or my photography, the music I am listing to helps persuade what comes out. All of my life I have been exposed to different types of music and different kinds of people. I was raised in a very accepting environment and I believe that that has also played a huge roll in who I am today and what comes out of me.

I discovered my passion for photography while taking a black and white photo class as a sophomore in Arizona. My instructor, Robert Guignard, always found a way to incorporate music with our art. We were always sharing music as a class, and listening to different bands he had found during his travels. It was when Mr. Guignard gave us an image recreation project that I realized how much my photography was inspired by music other artists had made. The assignment allowed us to recreate music as a photograph. I’d chosen to recreate Bob Dylan’s 1963 album “Freewheelin’”.

I moved to Washington right before my senior year of high school. This decision was all my own, I convinced my parents that I needed the environment to grow. Moving around a lot and starting over is something that can always be found difficult. Having similar tastes in music can be a great way to meet new people. Since moving to Washington I have begun to write for my high school newspaper. I took journalism for the first time as a senior. I am reviewing shows and artists to students at my high school. While my first love is photography, my second and third are music and writing. Being able to write for the paper allows me to share what I love with other students I hope one day to do the same with my photography.

This scholarship could help me so much while I am attending The Art Institute of Seattle and have been juggling around the idea of how my life will be affected. Going to and paying for school will force me to cut out things like going to shows and buying CDs. While working and attending school full time, having a chance to discover new music will be hard. Music is what Inspires my life and art. I am worried of how much that will be affected.

To say I am solely inspired by one artist or band is absolutely absurd. My taste in everything changes from day-to0day, and my art shows that. The photographer who’s work I am probably most influenced by is Nan Goldin. The tone and mood of her photographs can be compared with mine. Nan Goldin has always said music is what drives her. She has Nick Cave lyrics accompanying her images in many of her published books. As far as musicians go, I find inspiration most in the band, The Arcade Fire. I began listening to them around the same time as when my art started getting most serious, and like photography my love for The Arcade Fire came almost accidental. I happened to stumble across their set in the hot California sun during a music festival in the Indio Valley desert. The energy The Arcade Fire possesses and their TONE can be seen on and off though out my portfolio.

Music has and always will inspire me. I continue to make different CDs and Play lists depending on the task at hand. I hope I will continue to be privileged to discover, have, and share music though out my time at The Art Institute.





GIVE ME MONEY

I just dont have much to say anymore. Im making a website to sell my prints. money

okay. on the sidebar, under the list of events, click on Amanda spring break maui 08. that's where the pictures are. i linked that Casiotone thing too.

spring spring.

i know you are going to read this and wonder why i didn't send them to you, amanda.

it's because i am putting them on a website. it's easier and you will get them faster.  but i won't be able to do that until sometime at school tomorrow. which might be after you read this.  anyway. in time. i love you.

people ask the most ridiculous questions.
and get angry at the most ridiculous things.

oh closet, if only you knew how much i want you to be empty.

i want the next six weeks save coachella to vanish.

baby, i miss you.

i work and work and work over the next couple days. which is good. i need the hours. but for some reason i have sunday and monday off. i don't want that!

i am going to start posting mp3s on here and talking about music.  for now, i will just let you know what i have been listening to in every post. and post more frequently.  KEXP won't stop playing. which is good.  also, cloud cult's advice from a happy hippo has been on repeat.  lovely bobby.

goodnight. josh.

why do the Canadians in south park look different then Americans?
I body is confused. its currently thinking that its seven o'clock
but my mind is tired and knows its latter.

i haev a constant feeling of needing to vomit.
i miss you/joshua so much,
it comes in waves...

its like my mind wont think straight.

i need chocolate.

joshuajoshuajoshuajoshua
where are you i just want to talk with you.
i like being near you

i need chocolate. god

i need routine,
i need school work coachella


you you

josh's mom is the mongoose whisperer

its lovely here.