Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2014

there's a whole world out there (washington dc)

Hellooooo darlings!
I feel like we're all traveling these days, and since you were all kind enough to share pictures of your trips, I thought I'd share mine too! This is kind of a photo heavy post but I picked my favourite of the gazillion I took so bear with me please. :)



smithsonian
national building museum
Two weeks ago, I went to Washington DC on a class trip and it was amazing and kind of crazy!
The organizer was really... well disorganized so we walked in circles and got lost a lot (even though she was looking at a map. On her phone. Which just by the way was in her hands). Also, the food was mostly salad and burgers but other than that, the trip was full of really cool museums, walking, a lot of monuments, and going from room to room in the hotel. It was delightful to see so much grass and greenery and have it actually smell and feel like spring as opposed to summer 24/7, even if that meant putting my sweater on then taking it off then wearing three sweaters then none again.



national building museum
The really really fun part though was that, when we got to the hotel every night, the teachers would lock themselves up in their rooms and let us run around to each other's rooms, to the gym and anywhere else in the hotel. Some people had a pillow/candy fight the first night and -- don't ask me why -- but someone brought out a cheese grater (???) 
In my room, my friends and I built a fort, had a dance party (loud music, bed jumping and all) and laughed at reality tv shows. We also went to the gym once to play with the machines, got pranked called by the guys a million times, played an intense game of uno which led to a short pillow fight (me attacking my friend and then people throwing pillows at me) and played ding-dong-ditch. 
I know, I know, you're wishing you could be as mature as us! 
(You probably can't, sorry...) 

national building museum
arlington national cemetery
arlington national cemetery
If you go, I really recommend going to:
the Holocaust museum (they have a four floor exhibit so make sure you plan enough time to see most of it), 
the National Museum of American History, 
the Library of Congress (the architecture inside and out is beautiful), 
the Air & Space museum, the White House, the Capitol, 
the National Building Museum (the architecture is beautiful and they had fun activities but the tour was a little boring), 
the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and going on the Ford Theatre Detective McDivitt Investigation tour (an actor plays the detective in charge of Lincoln's assassination and takes you to all the different places where the events happened), 
 and seeing all the monuments during the day and at night.

Have you ever been on a class trip or to DC? What was your favourite trip?

library of congress


mount vernon (george washington's estate)
the white house
the white house


smithsonian american art museum;
the piece is made of lightbulbs, aluminum and other everyday objects
smithsonian american art museum
library of congress



Monday, April 14, 2014

feel like a woman, wear a dress!


~ IT'S SPRING BREAK ~
Last saturday, my friends and I went to the museum, specifically to see The Journey of a Dress, but we also saw a bunch of other exhibits. 
We saw "Urban Lights" and "Metropolis II", an exhibit about football/soccer, an abstract art exhibit and an Agnès Varda exhibit.

Journey of a Dress

 

The Journey of a Dress was so colourful and well lit, you could tell they wanted you to take pictures.
 It started with a hot pink hallway that served as the wrap dress' timeline and, at the end of it, "Feel like a woman, wear a dress!" was written in pink neon lights.

diane von furstenburg

 The hallway also led to another room in which art based on/inspired by the wrap dress and Diane von Furstenburg, the creator of the wrap dress. *angelic music*
We may or may not have dorkily analyzed the art to see what materials and techniques the artists used.


diane von furstenburg
diane von furstenburg made of ashes


Agnès Varda

house made of agnès varda's rolls of film


Chris Burden


urban lights
Yes, these are the street lamps you always see in movies and yes they are super fun to take pictures of/next to and climb on. Being the mature young ladies we are, we did all three. 
Especially the climbing. 

metropolis II
So this was a sort of city with I'd say, a thousand hot wheels that actually whizz around every hour. There were so many little boys staring with their mouths wide open or running around trying to follow the cars. 
It was little boy paradise.


Other

a part of the berlin wall
That night, my family and I went to see Alan Partridge, a hilarious british comedy that I definitely recommend. It was so quirky, full of politically incorrect jokes, comedic (and sometimes awkward) situations and so many puns. The movie is even funnier than the trailer! To quote my mom, "I haven't heard a whole theatre laugh non-stop in a long time!" 

Long story short I had a great day! 

Pictures were taken by Christina and Prescilia
The header picture is from the Agnès Varda exhibit
p.s. I will be posting more this week (hopefully) because no school

What are you doing this week? Have you been to any museums or seen any movies lately?

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

my memento bursts in flames

Friday night, I went to a $5 benefit concert with my friends. It was in a quaint little pizza place and there were, at most, 100 people so it basically felt like a party with live music. All the money went to AIDS research so confetti was replaced by free condoms. Plus, it was hosted by Lost Dog, a label/collective/community that showcases underground artists. You can (and should!!) read more about them here. DEBT, Bobby T & The Slackers, ATM and IMD, and So Many Wizards performed and you should definitely check them out!
By the second set the crowd started really getting into it, dancing, mosh pitting and even crowd surfing(!!!). I took part in the mosh pit twice but I kind of got pushed out and walked on by all the taller sweaty people *shiver*. The concert was really loud but sososososo fun and the music was really good! Plus, the lead singer/guitarist in DEBT looked like an older version of Randall from Recess; he was even slightly dressed like him! 
The title is a lyric from BT&TS's song Enough Is Enough.
The pictures were taken by my friend Christina.


Bobby T. & The Slackers 

So Many Wizards

Thursday, March 20, 2014

crossroads


I watched the cars drive past as quickly as my future; gone in an instant, driving farther and farther away from my reach. It was scary, really, to see my life and future flashing before my eyes, at a fork in the road, letting the three of us be the judge of which one was the best. Who were we to know anyway? We were just three little measly humans, stuck at a crossroads in our lives, trying to predict the future. I guess now, only time will tell.



Friday, January 3, 2014

a few faded memories

dance the night away

i want to go to the seaside
lights in the night sky
overpowered
window to your soul