Monday, March 2, 2009

55 Things About Me

1.) My favorite color is light purple.
2.) I am 24 years old.
3.) I like all kinds of music so I don't really know which is my favorite.
4.) I grew up in Commerce all of my life.
5.) I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters, but one died 9 years ago.
6.) I have like 10 nephews.
7.) This is very strange but my mom and dad has lived next to each other whenever they first met.
8.) I am very patient
9.) I have a tattoo of my daughter's initials and a paintbrush on my left shoulder.
10.) I want to get my sons initials which is L.S.L.L.M.
11.) My favorite sport is probably volleyball.
12.) I couldn't tell you my favorite movie. There are to many.
13.) I love using color.
14.) Whenever I look at things, I think of art.
15.) I practically was around boys all of my life.
16.) So i like doing boy things such as: playing pool, fishing, bowling.
17.) Now I have kids so I don't do stuff like that anymore.
18.) I really have'nt gone anywhere out of Texas except for Oklahoma.
19.) I have been to Columbus, Tx; San Antonio, Tx; thats about it.
20.) My favorite thing to do now is playing with my kids, and doing kids stuff.
21.) I like to paint, draw.
22.) I have been at Texas A&M Commerce for like almost 6 years.
23.) painting is my major and with a teachers certification.
23.) My kids take up a lot of my time, but I love being a mother.
24.) I'm pretty quite at first, but once you get to know me I think i start talking a little more.
25.) I don't liek public speaking.
26.) I get so nervous, sweaty palms, heart beats out of my chest, can't talk well.
27.) I have 2 beautiful children, Laura-3; Langdon-17 months.
28.) i am kindhearted
29.) I try to stay away from danger.
30.) I don't like people who thinks they are better than everyone else.
31.) I don't smoke.
32.) I don't drink alcohol.
33.) I don't like people who drinks or smokes.
34.) I have breast cancer that runs in my family and my aunt died from it.
35.) My grandma lived it.
36.) I am part Irish and German.
37.) I had many nicknames growing up such as Amelia Bedelia, Pumpkin, Bush (because in fifth grade I had a perm and it was short right next to my head. It looked like a bush on top of my head.)
38.) I went to Commerce High School, didn't like it much though. I liked the art teacher.
39.) I like to sew by hand but not really on a sewing machine. i don't like to fix it everytime.
40.) I don't wear to much makeup i don't really like it.
41.) I am doing my student teaching this fall.
42.) I am nervous about it.
43.) I signed up late for it.
44.) I just hope I'll get the level I want.
45.) I like nature and old houses.
46.) I have been in the jury art show for almost every year I have been here.
47.) One of my drawings, when I was in high school, went to washington D.C.
48.) I have long fingernails. People is very surprised when they see them.
49.) I have long brown hair.
50.) I like to watch movies when I have a chance.
51.) I love to listen to music with my children.
52.) I like to dance with them as well.
53.) I have my ears pierced.
54.) I want my nose pierced.
55.) I really want to paint.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

I fixed these pictures




The OlympusContest


Here is the image I am sending in for the Olympus Contest.  Vaughn wanted us to put it up on the blog so here it is.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Lee Friedlander


Lee Friedlander was born Aberdeen, Washington, in 1934.  He fell in love with photography as a teenager.  

Art Sinsabaugh

Art Sinsabaugh was born in Irvington, New Jersey in 1924.  He married twice and has 2 daughters.  He studied photography under Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Harry Callihan, and Arthur Seigel at the institute of Design IIT.  He served as a photographer for the War Department from 1942-43 and with the U.S. Army from 1943-45.  He went to teach at the ID from 1949- 59.  He made a break through as an artist in the early 1960s with a glant "banquet" camera that produced 12*20 inch negatives.  He captured the sweeping horizons of nature and the relationships between the land and its conventional components He has received many awards starting with New Talent U.S.A., Society of Typographic Arts Award, Art Directors Club of Indiana Award.  He has also received several grants such as:  Illinois Arts Council Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship, and numerous University of Illinois faculty research grants. 

Monday, February 23, 2009

The picture of Audrey came from the photographer/journalist: Martha Cooper. She shoots graffiti and behind Audrey is graffiti.
I will put more on this blog later.

Pictures of Terianne





I know these pictures have the date at the bottom. i will fix that. something happened to the ones I fixed.