Happy Easter

innocent

I work with children every day all day. people say children are the innocent, the younger they are the more innocent they are. it's true they are innocent, but to what? the kids I work with are 4-6 and there is a fair share of crying each day because someone isn't sharing, they tripped and fell, someone pushed them, the list goes on. by this age they know everything isn't always fair, they know scrapped knees heal and they know that some people are nicer than others. if they already know the flaws in out world than how are they innocent? sure these are minor reflections of our society's problems but to a child little problems have the same impact as our big problems. so I ask again why do we view children as innocent?

salem

35mm

Finished a role of film today :) oh and it was lovely weather to be out and about, I wore flip flops [YAY!] I have been steadily using up my film for about 2 months, so I will have winter and spring shots. Today I got some great pictures of my grandpa's old violin and case, I am really excited about how these will turn out- you'll understand if you read my post on violins. I was also very lucky to get a profile shot of my brother, I think it will look very striking. fingers crossed the film turns out well, I will hopefully process the role next week- I just need to find time to get to the dark room.

words

I made beads out of paper! I have a bunch of very old books I bought at a goodwill store for the sole purpose of crafting with them. I would put a how to thing up here but honestly there are already a ton on the web. I cut my strips of paper from the pages in a yellowed book so now my beads are very vintage awesome and wordy :) my next dilemma, what to do with the beads? and today I came up with a solution- put them in a hemp bracelet! I am very excited because it will look very cool. as soon as I'm done I will post pictures and maybe a bit of a description on how I did it.

sounds of violin

I have a complete obsession with violins, I think they are beautiful instruments. The sound to me is so raw and moving. I really like bands w/ unusual instruments [arcade fire] because it gives them such a unique sound and unsurprisingly i am drawn to bands who have a violin in their list of instruments [ horse feathers]. I personally have always wanted to learn the violin, my grandpa played for the majority of his life- i never heard him play and I wish I had. I have his violin now- of coarse i cant play it, it's very old so I think if I were to learn I would use a new one. I want to photograph the violin and its case because there is alot of wear i think it would capture it perfectly in black and white, film obviously. A friend and I were having a great conversations about bands and the sounds we like- we have different taste but definitely over lap sometimes so it's nice to discuss. we got on the topic of violins and she admitted to always wanting to play the cello and I the violin, we would produce fine music if we had any ambition :)