cleveland,ohio wknd

So this weekend a couple of my friends and I thought it would be a good idea to drive to cleveland,ohio after we got done with our thanksgivings. Ohio has one of the best bike parks for bmx in the country. Rays MTB park is probably one of the funnest parks I have ever ridden. I did tons of filming for a short video that we're making of the trip but I squeezed in some time to snap a couple pics of a couple sections of the park. This weekend was interesting for me because I really learned how valuable the high iso is during situations like this. The lighting in this park is pretty poor for photos and video, I didn't want to set up my flashes and stuff, so I took advantage of the good quality iso that my camera has. Check them out.

visit to jim lennons studio

So this monday the photo seminar class took a trip to Jim Lennons studio. as we waited in the lobby to be shown around the studio, I looked around and was really interested with pretty much everything. I was psyched to see how "professional" everything looked. The studio was really clean and organized. As we got shown around I was constantly thinking, how much hard work this would take to make something like this come about. When being in the studio, you immediatly got the vibe that Jim and his wife were really hard workers. I liked that. The actual studio in the back where they shoot the photos was the best part obviously. Everything seemed like it went though a system type order, prep<photos<computer<edit<print<hand deliver. Well what I am trying to say here is I was really impressed with just about everything in the studio, I would like to visit more studios like Jims sometime soon.not going to lie, it was pretty inspirational.

These two photos were from yesterday when I went out to greenport with a bunch of my friends. Havent gotten many riding photos that I've liked lately, but I do like the top one. I show these two photos with my sigma 10-20mm lens to get that distorted look.

so i went to a monster truck show this weekend...

Yeah so I went to a monster truck show this weekend and got some cool pictures. Just kidding, these photos were for my digital photo class. we had to do a scale assignment and I thought making to monster trucks look semi-real would be pretty cool.

I was in long island city this weekend for a friends art show and the next day on the way home I figured we should stop at the very well known "5 ptz." For those of you that do not know about this, 5 pointz is a legal painting spot for street artists. 

Above are photos that I have taken throughout this weekend. I've been really busy lately and have been trying to manage my time wisely. Coincidentally, last weekend Prof. Naideau handed out a time management worksheet in art 144. The assignment consisted of writing down what you do every hour, for a whole week and then we have to hand it in when we're done. After doing this assignment I noticed that I clearly need to add more time for studying and home work, and less time working on my car.  I felt that this was a good exercise for the class because we all know most college kids have bad time management skills. Even though I felt like this assignment was kind of tedious, I felt like it had a positive  outcome.