Even Without Wars...

I hate Nylon magazine...

2009-12-10T23:01:12Z

Very much so. I look at it occasionally for the same reason I watch fox news from time to time, to try and understand the world in which I live. But then my head hurts--and I give up. But, that's besides the point because I havn't updated in sooooo long!

After summer ended I got two part time jobs--but then they both asked me to come on full time and for some reason I agreed. So the past three months have been working 6 am-12 am pretty much 7 days a week and really not much else of any consequence. I couldn't handle that schedule anymore so now I just have one job-and a good amount of savings. And with that savings I took a trip to ikea to redecorate the apartment and bought Jason a new camera for christmas-so starting next week I hope to have more time to use it to take new pictures! I've only taken a few photos I like in the last months--which I'll post, along with before and after of my living room :) Also an advent calendar I put together and what I was for halloween!

My boobs got bigger all on their own! (maybe from the stress of work?)

The bottom is my new living room!

The christmas advent and tree!

And I was vintage barbie for halloween! Only a few people knew who I was though...
Halloween was pretty much the last time I went out and had fun so I hope to do more of that, and maybe have a small christmas party of some sort. I have more photos on flickr, which is where I put all my photos now anyway. I hope to take more pictures soon in between work and applying to grad schools! ah scary!

Merry Christmas to all!
Until next time,
~Bridget

Anniversary in Hawaii again

2009-09-27T19:37:00Z

For our four year anniversary me and Jason took some friends to Kauai. What can I even say? Kauai was even more lovely then Oahu, I really want to live there...it was so wonderful. It was a very perfect end to the summer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordsunderwords/sets/72157622405357640/
It was just so wonderful. We explored mountains, caves, oceans, forests and did some shopping. There are chickens everywhere on the island! We saw fish, seals, geckos and turtles and even swam with them! The worst part of the trip was that we had to leave, but I hope we go back soon.

Overall I adored this summer, I had some really big shows, one where I got to sell my artwork to the public schools! I had the time to spend with my friends and tan, swim, shop, eat, drink and go for long walks. I also had two really exciting trips to Kauai and Japan. It's always a heartbreaking feeling when the summer ends, I think even more so living in Seattle because the summer drags on so long I always start to feel it just wont end. Now I'm back to teaching, taking a year off school before my Masters but still taking all those tests and doing al those applications! gah!

I have a few ideas for photos I'l have to start taking soon, maybe get some more practice in with other people and get some new shows lined up. Halloween is right around the corner which I'm off course excited about and I think me and some friends are going to plan and warm winter trip--maybe to Thailand, to make the winter more bearable. Thats all for now until I do some new work!
Until next time,
~Bridget

Silver Eye Center for Photography Show

2009-09-03T00:20:21Z

~Bridget

The Carnegie Museum of Art

2009-08-29T17:53:46Z

What an absolutely amazing show! All the work was so good and well done, the museum looked lovely, and the crowds were really large! Jason and I got to dress up, see the work and have some drinks. My friends and family got to come and I even sold one of my pieces! It was bought by the pittsburgh public schools so I can only wonder where it might end up hanging :) It was a great and exciting night to see my work in the museum, and watch others look at them. The reactions seemed very good, I was around as a large group of gay men gawked at my sold print and told each other how "gorgeous the woman in the photo was." An old man also saw me standing near my photo and casually smiled at me and said, "Don't worry, you're better than all this." Than he paused and looked back me after seeing my photo and said "Oh wait, you are this!" Just an utterly wonderful night, I'm glad I could make it in to see it, and soon i'll see my work over at the Silver Eye Gallery :)

See the rest of the pictures over at flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordsunderwords/

Until Next time!
~Bridget

A whirlwind trip of Japan...

2009-08-16T16:42:21Z

I recently got back from a week in Japan, it was such an amazing experience! I got to see Tokyo, Asakusa, Narita, Shibuya, and Oeno. It really was lovely and my pictures don't do these places justice.

The beginning of my exploration very early one morning after we had rested. I look (and felt) so accomplished to have made it out there.

We stayed in Asakusa most of the time which was a gorgeous little down by the river. I loved it there most of all, it was quiet and safe and actually reminded me a lot of Olympia. We spent our early morning walking along the water watching the boats and eating our snacks we would get at the corner store, and then took the train to the busier areas.

Walked the streets, saw lots of shrines, temples, parks and did lots of shopping. The most interesting shop was where they sold the fake plastic food that they sell to all the restaurants for their display windows, it was very cool!

Visited Oeno park and zoo, which i think has the largest pond in the world, and if it's not it was huge non the less! Also got to see Shibuya's street crossing which may also be the largest in the world, and if not it was a strange feeling to be in the crossing, it felt like a salmon going against the current upsteam.

Stayed a few days in Narita as well, and i've never seen anything so green! It was the rainy season, but my goodness, again, this picture doesn't do it justice. We stayed in a little place in the middle of miles of rice patty feilds and farm land and got to wander the streets, it was very beautiful.

And, to be expected, the ads were amazing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordsunderwords/sets/72157621967675470/

Japan was lovely and I hope I can go back one day. I've been enjoying the summer immensely, going to the lake with my friends (i got an inflatable pirate ship which has been amazing!) and tubing down the river too. Been able to relax a little, working quite a bit as well, shopping, and traveling. Next week is my show at Carnegie Museum which will be so exciting to see.
Until next time,
~Bridget

More photos of me and friends...

2009-07-25T18:45:46Z

I'm trying to get better at taking pictures of other people...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordsunderwords/

This summer has been going extremely well, when I'm not working I have little get togethers with friends, go tubing down the river, swimming at the lake with my inflatable pirate ship! shopping or going on long walks with Jason and the baileykins. It's been great so far, and I hope the summer is going well for everyone else too :)
Until next time,
~Bridget

Attempts...

2009-07-12T22:54:00Z

Trying to get that silvery skin effect, I think I did pretty well.

~Bridget

New pics..

2009-07-05T17:37:39Z

This summer has been so great so far! I finally get a chance to relax now that school is over! My goal this summer was to get a tan for the first time in my life, and everyday I have off I've been spending in the sun, going to the lake, tubing down the river, and picnicing with friends. I finally have a pretty good tan, yesterday after the fourth kinda of turned it to an all over burn, but soon it will be a tan too! :)

All my burns! hah

I was inspired by the Hoff :P

~Bridget

Two exciting big group shows!

2009-07-04T01:51:15Z

This summer I'm in two really exciting shows, both for my photography. The Silver Eye and the Carnegie Museum, both in Pittsburgh! I'm am so excited to have been selected for these shows not only because both the gallery and museum are a big honor but they've both meant so much to me in my life and while I was growing up. I spent hours at the Carnegie Museum, especially as I got older, wandering those large halls and staring at the work as I thought about my life. I spent so much time at the museum it became like a second home at times. I didn't spend as much time at the Silver Eye, only because it was smaller, but I loved it there as well. When I was in high school I started doing my own artwork more seriously and staring at the museum walls and wishing I could see my own work on it. I wanted to prove to myself I was talented enough, and I wanted to see my name on the wall, knowing that I had finally made a dream come true. These last few months i've been working on pieces and framing works in hopes my two dreams might happen this summer, and this last week I found BOTH places had accepted me and my work! I'm so excited about these, it will be such a thrill to walk the floors I used to wander and be able to see my own work, my name printed and see the faces of others looking at my work as well :)

I can't wait to attend my receptions, pick out something pretty to wear, and to enjoy my small dreams coming true.

July 8 - September 12
"Self Portrait: Silver Eye at 30"
Silver Eye--Pittsburgh, PA
http://www.silvereye.org

August 29 - November 8
99’th annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Museum of Art
http://www.cmoa.org

Until next time,
~Bridget

I got new backdrops...

2009-06-27T17:42:26Z

And I graduated from college! :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordsunderwords/

~Bridget

I always burn in the summer time...

2009-05-23T06:45:06Z

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wordsunderwords/

~Bridget

piiiiictures

2009-04-22T23:15:50Z

~Bridget

Donuts!

2009-04-16T00:33:58Z

Jason and I went to Voodoo Doughnuts the other day down in Portland.
http://voodoodoughnut.com/
We also stopped by Five Guys Burgers and it was a wonderful day for food! :)

Until Next Time,
~Bridget

What I got for Easter.

2009-04-14T00:17:00Z

Mmmmmm!
~Bridget

Happy Easter! tehe :)

2009-04-12T05:58:51Z

~Bridget

New photos

2009-04-11T18:02:37Z

Until next time,
~Bridget

More new photo's

2009-04-04T06:50:44Z

I'm so happy I finally have time to take pictures again! I got a second light (a ring flash this time), Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 a little bit ago but haven't gotten a chance to really learn how to use them until the last few weeks, I love using it all, I can't wait to take pictures of other models! :)

New photos...

2009-03-29T00:45:43Z

This break was amazing, lots of time to relax and recoup from the stresses I had, and I think next semester (MY LAST SEMESTER!) will be much better. I will have to make sure to take more pictures, they make me happy. I have a lot of ideas I hope I can put together over the next few months.

And of course a funny one,

I think I forgot (or am learning?) how beautiful I find black and whites, and I like how they are turning out. I hope I can start taking more pictures of other people and things as well, I like my self portraits but it's starting to get tiresome and I hope I can find some other models in the coming months.

Also, I think I work better in life when I have an outrageous goal to work towards. My whole life (up until it came true) my goal was to live by Seattle, be happy and be an artist. (Looking back I don't know why or how that became my goal, it just did) and I don't think people realize how big of a dream that was to me or how far fetched it was to me at the time, I had no means, support or help in making that dream a reality, but I worked really hard and I finally feel that those dreams are a reality, and maybe every now and then I should feel gratitude for how far I have come. I made it to Seattle,I go to the school I wanted, i'm in gallery's and museums and I really am the happiest i have been in my whole life-even if i am stressed sometimes.But for the past year or so I haven't had any more dreams to achieve, I haven't been working towards anything, just working. I have a vague idea that i'll teach and keep doing art and make money..hah..but it's all very vague, which is fine but I think I need another large dream to see me through when I have no idea what to work for, so,
I do have in a few months;
Graduation!
Jersey shore to hopefully see my grandmother
Kauai vacation with my friends!

In the next year I MUST:
See this big pink bunny and picnic on top of it http://www.gelitin.net/mambo/index.php?set_albumName=album14&option=com_gallery_proj144&Itemid=91&include=view_album.php

And in the next 10 years I will make sure:
To have a billboard in NYC (or LA) that I photographed-even if I physically go and put it up myself.

Hopefully I will have many more pictures very soon, it makes me happy just to take them :)
Until next time,

~Bridget

a little paper...

2009-03-21T07:09:43Z

just wrote about my pieces in the feminist art show.

http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/2923/

~Bridget

BAM!

2009-03-17T04:05:03Z

It's finally break! Thank god! time to play with some photos, rest up, go drinking, dancing, traveling and what have you! I have lots of photos from my shows from the past few months once I get a chance to upload them, but until then, some fun pictures!

Until next time
~Bridget

New Show

2009-03-03T05:28:46Z

~Bridget

If I were a math equation...

2009-02-27T04:55:25Z

It would go something like this...

~Bridget

...or so they say...

2009-02-22T09:49:30Z

~Bridget

New Photos...

2009-02-21T23:18:33Z

Which I will probably make into something else later on, but for now I thought i'd share, mainly because I really like the dress,tehe

Until next time,
~Bridget

It's bizznizz time!

2009-02-19T06:58:30Z

My new business cards...

~Bridget