August 12th. Thicke.

Worked on some tv show where we went to some guys concert, so many people were lined up under these colored lights, so I took a picture of them.

August 11th. Sista

Shot a cool picture of my sister trying to keep me from taking a picture of her. Funny thing is, she just framed her face perfectly.

August 10th. Digital cameras.

Finally got mine back. Shot something on it, gotta find out what though.

I am also pretty sure I took something on bart.

August 9th. Yarrrrrr.

Took a picture of some pirates on this shoot I was on. Shot it on my holga at iso6400, should be sweeet!

August 8th. My New Bed.

A terrible picture, but a good thing.

August 7th. Picking Tangerines.

Got a shot of my sister with lots of lens flare! My sister was picking tangerines in these peoples backyard...

August 6th. Scrabble.

Shot like 6 photos of me and Lani playing scrabble in this park. It was tonnnnns of fun.

August 5th. Different Colored Buildings.

Shot a bunch of funny colored buildings outside of sleeptrain where I bought my mattress.

August 4th. Berkeley.

Shot something in Berkeley with my Holga, but then the back fell off...Hope things are all right.

August 3rd. Beach!

I went to the beach today to shoot this pirate music video. Shot a bunch of random things. Don't expect too much.

August 2nd. Getting lazy.

Took one 35mm still of my computer just before I was about to sleep. I'm glad I even remembered to take a picture last night.

August 1st. Suprise!

I took a picture of my sister coming into her room. She was so surprised.

July 31st. Street Photography.

The other day I went to my girlfriends art show sort of thing and I found this guy who was like, an amazing photographer? Anyways, his pictures blew my mind. I ended up talking to him a little bit about his pictures and street photography, something I had never really been introduced to.

It sort of inspired me to take pictures of people I didn't know, and on top of that, without asking them. I ended up seeing a good opportunity on BART, as the guy across from me was falling asleep, but I really couldn't build up the courage to put the camera up to my face.

I ended up with a compromise, I didn't look through the viewfinder, but I did take the picture. Hopefully something came out and he definitely didn't notice me. I'd like to give this more of a shot, and I think my holga with some sorta grainy black and white film may be the way to do it. Well, maybe tomorrow I'll have to give it another go.

I'll get this photo up as soon as I can, I've decided to always get CD's with my holga rolls, so it should be relatively soon. Maybe next week.

July 30th. Lake Merritt Bart.

Sometimes when I'm coming from San Francisco, I'm way too impatient to get on the train that takes me closest to my house, so I get on the fremont one. Then...ultimately I get off at this station. Lake Merritt. Sat around for a few minutes because I thought getting a shot of someone walking into the train would be cool, but I took one as it was coming in and thought it would be even better. A bit of motion blur because of the slow shutter, but oh well, can't win em all.

July 29th. Psych Ward?

I heard about this abandoned hospital in Alameda, so I went to check it out today. Took a bunch of holga black and whites. It was really cool.

July 28th. Flowers.

Took a picture of a flower in my bathroom with the water running. Super cool!

July 27th. Family Party.

Took a few snapshots of some people at this family party I went to.

July 26th. Bedrooms.

Shot sort of a creepy picture of my sister looking through her door. :/

Starting to get a few pictures up from a while ago.

July 25th. Filmmaking!

Got a shot of my friend Carmen on our shoot today. Today was our last day. :(

July 24th. The Mural Guy.

Shot another 35mm holga photo of this huge mural painted on the side of a building. It's all dutched and like, just part of this guys head. I dunno, you'll see...

July 23rd. Mia's B-Day.

Shot a few different pictures today. One was of my sister blowing out her candles, another was of this apartment across the way from mine. Then one last one of my computer mouse. I got the film developed from my trip finally and I'll probably try and make a trip to my dads friday or on the weekend to scan some of them.

July 22nd. Redscale and 35mm conversion!

Did weird weird things today. First I modified my holga to take 35mm film, so the photo goes over the sprockets. I also did this thing called redscale, where I take the film out of the canister, flip it around, and shoot through the backside of it. It gives all your photos an strange red tint.

Anyways, with that I shot a few of my friend carmen riding down the street on her bike, then a few on piedmont ave. I also shot one of Lani sitting outside my door.

I'm really trying to get back into the swing of things here. I lost it for a little while.

July 21st. Buildings.

Got a shot on my Holga of these two buildings by lake merritt. While I was doing it though, the back fell off. hopefully the pictures will be alright...

July 20th. Lawerence Hall of Science.

I took this photo today of my girlfriend sitting on this beached whale at the Lawerence Hall of Science. I've been going to this place since I was a little kid and just really began to appreciate how awesome it is.

Along with this giant beached whale, there's a long strand of DNA that you can climb on. I'm starting to think maybe this would be a good place to make a movie....Definitely gotta keep it in mind.

July 19th. Swing.

I took a picture today of a swing outside. It may have been a double exposure. Not sure.

July 18th. Carmen!

Took a picture of my friend carmen at lunch. I also sort of took it on my cell phone, so here is a picture of it. It's not very good quality wise, but that never stopped anyone, did it?

July 17th. Bicycle.

Also took a picture on my cell phone of my bike...Again, not very good quality, but I like all the lines going every which way.

July 16th. Darkness

Took a picture of my dark room. It's not very good. My camera had no batteries and I had to take a picture before it ran out.

BTW. THIS IS SO NOT A COP OUT. IT'S ART.

July 15th. Lani and Mexican Blankets.

I went to the berkeley marina today for my birthday. We decided to make a kite out of a paper bag, we also attempted to use dental floss for the string. It sorta kinda worked. A little.

I just did this mainly because I have this very fond childhood memory of me and my 4th grade class going to this same place and making paper bag kites. I guess I was a lot more crafty back then, because I remember my kite flying just fine.

Oh well. I think this is one of my most epic photos to date, and on the Holga to boot. I'm quite proud of it.

July 14th. Editing.

Took a photo of the music video I've been working on forever. It's coming along pretty nicely.

July 13th. McNally's

Shot one on the holga of this bar that is bright green. Always cool.

Shot it on bulb mode! Woops.

July 12th. Seperation!

Oh man. Some amazing haze and seperation of a bunch of mountains out in the distance today. Some good shots at Mono lake too. Can't wait to see these.

July 11th. Moons!

I'm pretty happy about this shot I got of this mountain by the lake, little bit of moon action on it. Shot it on 35mm and the holga, so we'll see which comes out best.

July 10th. Small things.

After the intense hike up the side of the mountain, we decided to take it easy today. I think I shot a bunch of black and white of waterfalls and one of my sister with the action sampler. Good fun.

July 9th. Waterfalls and Meadows.

Hiked way up the side of this waterfall and man...it was intense. So intense that I had to whip out the black and white and get a shot of my sister mean muggin'. It's the only way to do it sometimes.

July 8th. Pacific Crest Trail. \m/

Met this guy today who was hiking the pacific crest trail, which is basically hiking from Mexico all the way to Oregon...Maybe even Canada. I'm not 100% sure on that one. We gave him some food though, as he seemed pretty awesome.

Also got one of smokey the bear on the Holga.

July 7th. Rivers and Bridges.

Got a shot of this bridge with my holga. My first day of my camping trip...

July 6th. Hippies!

Took a picture of some hippies on telegraph with some nice magic hour light. Also got a shot of a bunch of hipsters hanging outside of Blakes. Should be getting the film back on friday...

July 5th. Wooo?

Not 100% sure what I took a picture of, but I'm going to find out once I get my rolls of film back. I had written it all down, but I accidentally threw the sheet away. I just looked through the recycling for a while and I can't find it...the next week or so is going to be rough :(

July 4th. Dance Numbers!

Took an action sample of our 2nd day of shooting. We had a little dance number go down, so needless to say, that action HAD to be sampled.

July 3rd. Dizzy Balloons.

Shot a music video today. Took a few pictures of our production. Fun times...

July 2nd. Oh gosh.

I was so rushed this day that I think I ended up just taking a picture of the ceiling in my sisters room. I shot a music video the next day so I was all stressed out...The plus is that I'll have pictures of that tomorrow!

July 1st. Snow Globes!

Good one to start off July with. Shot a long exposure of a snow globe in my sisters room with my holga. Don't know if it'll come out.

June 30th. Driveways.

Shot one outside by my driveway with my holga.

June 29th. Oh Mia.

Took a photo of my sister and my father inside today with my holga again. Can't get enough of that funny camera.

June 28th. Bulb Mode.

Tested the bulb mode out on my holga today and tried some weird photo with me in a mirror. It'll come out weird and blurry I'm sure.

June 27th. Bank of America!

I worked on this Bank of America industrial today and we shot all around the city. Took a few action samples of the trans-america building, then a few inside the asian art museum. It was pretty fun.

June 26th. Saw Mill.

This is actually much better than I thought it would be. I got super lucky and shot it just as this lady was riding past in her little cart...Pretty humorous.

June 25th. Adventures.

I went on a little adventure with my new friend Lani. This is actually her holding a ladybug, I actually really like the light leak at the top that says "KODAK"...Pretty cool.

June 24th. Out and About.

Here's one of Tim and my Mom and then part of my sisters room. It says something about life...you know?

By the way, I couldn't figure out if I was supposed to be on 16 pictures per roll, or 12 pictures per roll, so I switched throughout and got all these overlapping pictures. They're pretty cool though, I like em.

June 23. Holga!

I'm sort of disappointed with my holga. A lot of my pictures came out sharp and without light leaks...:/
Super excited. Just bought it today. I took one photo inside my car that will most likely come out terrible, but look awesome. Still need to finish the roll.

June 22nd. ShadowS!

I think this is the picture...shadows!

June 21st. Dongyi.

I apologize in advance.

June 20th. Action Sample!

The only way I could get it on my computer right now is to take a picture of it. So I did.

I just bought an action sampler. It's basically a 35mm camera that has 4 lenses and shoots a 4 frame sequence on one frame of 35mm film over 1 second. It's got light leaks, fixed aperture and shutter speed, and the focus is fixed at infinite. Needless to say, it's awesome.

I'll try and scan them sometime soon. So you can see them in all their glory.

June 19th. Wooden Spoons.

I've started changing how I import my RAW files from my D100 and I'm quite liking it.

Today was my Mother's boyfriends birthday today. We had a delicious dinner and everything. It's all about the orange wall and the orange rice on the spoon and in the pot though. Super sweet!

June 18th. Dirty Mirrors.

It's true. In my room they are quite dirty. My sister also makes funny faces.

I realize taking pictures of yourself taking pictures is slightly...distasteful. But we all gotta do it sometimes.

June 17th. The Dutch Have Troubles.

After attempting to take a picture for every single day, you start to get into this constant mode of "looking" for photos. Sometimes you just shoot and things happen to turn out alright, other times they're more planned out, but the worst of times are when everything you look at is just terrible. It's like I can only take so many pictures inside my house, alright!?

I'm not saying this picture is great, but it's something I totally didn't see until I started taking pictures of my TV. The other photos are just like giant flares, so I stopped down a little bit and was like, oh look a remote control. Plopped it in there, moved it in a few different positions. Click click. Hey, look! Photos! I think that's also what I love about digital. I would have never found this with film, as I'm always so conservative when I'm shooting it. Having to think about the monetary aspects of what you're doing is never a good thing, which is why life is good these days. Film is just too silly sometimes.

Yeah. Sometimes I guess, the pictures, they just find you.

June 16th. Diptych?

Is that what they call these things? I've wanted to do one for a while.

You should probably click on it, it's mighty small right now.

June 15th. Death Cookies.

I cut my finger trying to scrape these things off the cookie sheets. They're deadly.

Unfortunately I left this camera at my dads house. Not being very good with this.

June 14th. Grand Pianos.

Square crop today. This guys was the stunt coordinator on the shoot I was on and I guess he knew a little piano. Another friend of mine played one bach song and then we continued to call him Mozart for the rest of the day.

June 13th. BBQ Salad.

I wanted to put BBQ sauce on my chicken salad. My mom didn't stop me.

<3

June 12th. Woops.

June 11th I was going to take a picture of a clock that said 11:59, it was 11:45 so I decided I could watch a little bit more TV before I got things ready. Sadly, before the clock struck my desired time, I was already asleep.

This means no picture for July 11th. How sad. I could have just lied and put up another picture that I had taken on previous days, but then this whole thing would have been so unsatisfying. With that said, I'm starting over. Now I know to always take some sort of safety picture if I'm going to wait. Something is better than nothing.





I found a book that showed me how to make an album cover into an ipod case yesterday and figured I'd give it a shot. I think it's turning out pretty cool, although this was actually just a test cover, since I knew I was going to screw it up a bit.

See ya.

June 10th. Scales and Calculators.

I spent the day at my dad's today, which is something I don't do too often. One of the many things that I love about being here though is all of the nice places to work with plenty of office supplies at your disposal. For some reason, that just makes everything all that much easier.

Anyways, I still can't seem to give up the verticals. I don't know what it is about them, but I feel like they're very mechanical in a way. Maybe it's because I shoot so much motion and I'm always confined to this horizontal frame that whenever I get a chance to break out of that, I'm there.

I'm thinking about doing polaroids for a little while. First I'll have to find a polaroid camera though....I'll also be getting all of my photos back on friday. Fun fun.

June 9th. Ceiling Couples.

Apparently all you need to do sometimes to find your photo is look up.

June 8th. New Dishes!

At my mother's house we've always had a mismatch collection of plates and dishes, sometimes only having 2 or 3 plates on hand at one time. We just got an entirely new set of fiesta-ware type dishes. Needless to say, I'm excited.

I can't get the saturation right on this...It's too much now, but I'd rather it be too much than too little. The colors are important, you know?

June 7th. Spracky.

Went skateboarding today with my friend Andrew, or Spracky as some call him. I basically met him online before I met him in person. Slightly weird.



He knows how to handle his camera. I like him.

June 6th. Computers.

At the end of my life, I will have most likely have spent years in this chair.

That's a terrible thought.

June 5th. Prickly Pears.

So I lied slightly. They aren't pears. Just a cactus.

I'm not quite sure why I didn't think of taking pictures of my cacti before, as I'm beginning to amass quite the collection. It first began when a friend of mine, Rachel Simkover, took me to the ashby flea market to buy a cactus of my own. She already had one and had named it, so apparently it was the cool thing to do.

I don't believe this was the first I've bought, and sadly enough, I don't even know the little guys name. What I do know though is that I think I got him from my birthday. He's from longs and really enjoys it in my window. Lots of sun, you know?

That's my installment for today. Until tommorrow.

P.S. Are you noticing a trend? Apparently I am a big fan of verticals. Strange.

June 4th. A New Place to Call Home.

We just moved into our new place a little while ago and for once I actually have my own room. Of course I like it, but I think there was something strangely special about being forced to constantly be with my family. That being said, we actually now have a dinner table we can all sit at and use, whether or not that happens is a different story, but it's the principle of the thing...right?

Have a nice day. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow and I just got a new pocket digital camera. I think I may start taking all my pictures on that...I'm trying my best to embrace digitals shortcomings.

June 3rd. Ross.

I really hate Ross. If I had a list of the top 10 things I hate, on it would be ross, followed by home depot, followed by a few other things.

Everything is so disorganized, but for some reason people try and make sense of it. I don't think I'll ever know why. I ended up falling asleep in a nearby chair while my family went and rummaged through all the clothes. It turned out to be a nice nap.

June 2nd. Benches.

I ride my bike by this place everyday. I think it's UCSF and their campus. I really like how the benches go on forever, but I've never really worked up the nerve to take a photo. Until now of course...

June 1st. Computers

Riding on BART is always such a lonely experience. I don't know what it is exactly, but the fact that everyone goes out of their way to sit as far away from you as possible might have something to do with it.

I do enjoy the ride to Pleasant Hill though, there's something about it that's...nice.

May 31st. Naan N' Curry

Worked on this Bollywood film today and I couldn't help but laugh to find out that we were shooting at Naan N' Curry. Great location.

May 30th. Stern

My sister looks so stern sometimes. It reminds me of an old friend of mine, James.

May 29th. The King

I've had this Elvis clock since I was a little kid. He's followed us from house to house and has rightfully taken his place in our bathroom, where he creepily watches over us all. Oh Elvis, where would we all be without you.

I am also using my digital camera for the first time in a while...it looks off...I will have to work on that.

May 28th. Why?

Why would anyone ever do this? I don't know. It's sort of like why anyone would ever try and write a novel. It just seems like a bad idea, too long, too unruly, why not just take a few good photos and call it a day?

We could ask questions all day long, but would it be fun? Definitely not. There are of course going to be times when I will not be able to reach a computer, but rest assured, I will have taken my picture for that day and it will be blogged.

I will also try and keep my writing to a minimum and my photos to a maximum here, but I think a small story with each photo is necessary for nostalgic reasons. I really don't like the idea of posting on here without posting a picture along with it, so here's one to start it off.



Colonial Donuts is one of my favorite places to go at night. I often times go into my sisters room around 11:30 or midnight and ask "mia, are you down for colonial." This is almost always answered with an enthusiastic yes. As a note, those donuts are not all my sisters, but there were to be shared amongst ourselves.

Tomorrow I'm working on a hindi feature. I'll get something interesting from that for you guys.