reflections of a skyline

Stumbled across this little film earlier. I'm not really sure what to say about it, but I think it's worth a watch (or two, or three).

The dialogue is apparently an excerpt from Sarah Kane's one act play Crave.

I kinda like it.

2/52

teardrop on the fire, originally uploaded by avalilly.

fearless on my breath, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Images from this week's shoot for my 52 weeks project. I chose the first one to represent this week, but I really like how the hair was captured in the second one too. I've got a few more outtakes I'd like to edit, so I'll probably post those up soon as well.

Recently I've been really digging Massive Attack, particularly these two songs:

Teardrop (the video is a little creepy, but the song is great. You'll recognize it if you watch House.)

Joy Luck Club -lovelovelove-

Anywho, is it just my browser that appears to be cutting the images off a bit on the right, or is that just a blogger-not-being-fat-enough thing?

the beginning 1/52

the beginning, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Hello everyone! Happy New Year to you~

So I made the impulsive decision to start a 52 weeks project as a new year's resolution. I really don't feel I'm ready to commit to the 365 project, where you do a portrait everyday for a year, so I'll just be doing one per week instead. It's not unreasonable for me, plus I have a lot of ideas I'd like to try anyways, so this should be a good thing!

The image above is my first of the series. Click it to follow the link to my Flickr and there'll be more info there.

2010 brings some new funsies I'll be able to try out on the photography front: I bought myself a new lens! I got the Canon EF 50mm f1.8 (would have rathered the f1.4, but it was too expensive, unfortunately). Very excited to try that out with portraits. My uncle also got me an Opteka 5-in-1 reflector! I may actually start needing an assistant of sorts.

Anywho, I'm hoping this project will unfold nicely and I learn lots along the way. We'll see if I'm actually able to keep up with it...

merry christmas!

Just wanted to say a quick merry christmas and happy holidays to everyone! Thought I'd throw in some fun holiday-esque imagery too. I love this season, specifically for all the lights~

Anywho, that's all from me for now. Wishing everyone a great new year too! I feel a new lens will be added to the roster soon... we'll see!

last.fm

So, my friend made me highly recommended I make a last.fm user account.

http://www.last.fm/user/lauracrowell

Unfortunately, someone had the name avalilly already, so I just went with that.

If you also have an account, feel free to add me! Or if you don't, you can still go and judge my taste in music and general listening habits. Trust me, they're weird. Or make yourself an account! It's kinda fun. You can compare your taste in music with your friends and such.

Anywho, I am finally free of my crazy second-last semester of university. I can't believe I'll be graduating after the next one. I'll have to be a real person soon. Scary!

the silent witness project

December 6 of this year marked the 20th "anniversary" since the Montreal Massacre in 1989. The human resources centre at York University approached the faculty of fine arts to do a free public exhibition in one of our central buildings on campus to commemorate the lives of the victims and to raise awareness about violence against women. Myself as well as ten other students created 14 silhouettes of female figures that represented each of the thirteen female students and one female teacher that lost their lives twenty years ago.

York's press release:
http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=13823

Our exhibition was held on Monday, December 7, 2009 in Vari Hall, York University. Here's a few photos I took while passing through between classes:

Barbara Daigneault

Age: 22

Artist: Laura Crowell

-Mechanical engineering student.

-Teaching assistant to her father, Pierre Daigneault, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

I think these two were my favourite of the bunch.

It was really neat to see all the students passing through on their way to classes and then stop to take a look at each one of the figures. They all had a small bio about the victim on the reverse side and some had an artist statement explaining the imagery on the front. They may end up being exhibited each year for this memorial, or in various other violence against women awareness related events put on by the university in the future.

I'm glad I got to be apart of it!

deviantart

I revived my deviantArt account a couple days ago. Not entirely sure why, but I figured it might be nice to have another venue in which to display my art. It's sort of a weird community, bountiful in 'cutesy' art, but there are a lot of really good artists and photographers that continue to post there, so I figured no harm in indulging for now.

http://avalilly.deviantart.com/

Feel free to add me or say hi if you're also a member!

Perhaps I should start focusing more upon making an official website instead of posting on a variety of web communities. I really don't know where to begin with something like that though. I have several different ways I'd like to go in terms of the design, I just don't know which is manageable enough for me to try coding myself or what represents me the most... I suppose I'll start looking into that sort of stuff more in depth over the christmas break when I have some time.

If anyone has any tips they'd like to throw my way, I'd greatly appreciate it~