pandavega

i just wanted to do something weird today... i wonder what would happen if i changed the channel?

 


schools been alot of work lately. i decided to take a picture of myself when i saw my camera peeking at me looking sad on my desk. i had to take it out for some exercise.

 i've been working on this for a while..



I'm not sure if i like it or not... but it looks pretty nice.

i just dont know if it's the best i could of done.. 

 It started a few weeks ago, when a friend of my girlfriend asked me if i wanted to go to a concert with her and her boyfriend. i denied... a lot, i wasn't in the mood to go see a band i didn't know. i had no clue who My American Heart was, but my girlfriend dragged me to the show playing the guilt card. in other words " if you dont go then you dont love me" 

the day of the show came and i had some things to do before hand. my friend was having a party and i wanted to go with them for a while. i strapped my camera to my back and biked to national city to spend time with them. i didn't take a single picture over there...

so then 6:00 pm came, and my girlfriend a friend and i headed to the Epicenter. the show was packed! sold out, the tickets i got for 12 dollars were now selling for 200 dollars on craigslist. i felt like selling mine, but that would have been a big mistake.

*cutting to the point* the last 3 bands or so have been pretty amazing. big congrats to Misdelphia for kicking ass. 

My American Heart got on stage.. and i was just in awe the entire time at how amazingly talented they were. i expected some pop-emo type music but the energy coming from them was exhilarating. at this point i realized i should be taking pictures because this is just way too good.
i didn't feel like taking any pictures that day but i just had to capture this moment, it was their last show ever..














i took them while standing front row in the crowd, with my hand high up in the air, meaning that my ribs took a beating against the rail because of the hundreds of fans screaming and pushing behind me.

overall, im pretty proud this pictures came out the way they did.. 




For more pictures of the show go and click here 

http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac137/Pandamanstw/My%20American%20Heart/

December 26th, my brother birthday. we headed to mexico late at night at about 9 pm. but not before getting some supplies first..




PBR, because at the end of the night.. we all want to smell like homeless people. 


after filling up the entire fridge we were ready to go, i was pretty amazed at the ammount of beer in the fridge and even more amazed at how at the end of the night there was nothing left..



we set up a small makeshift photo studio for people to take portraits with.. apperently i was assigned to take pictures
of every single person at the party without even knowing it...thanks wichi...

so there were Alot of shots.. and the light was not good on most of them but you can see them on my photobucket..

BY CLICKING HERE

anyways.. here are a few of the photoshoot shots... 








Happy 21st Birthday wichi...

i woke up with a fever over 100, but since i did not want to dissapoint anybody i had to suck it up, bike to my girlfriends house and go ice skating with them.

ice skating is a hell of a lot harder than i thought it was gonna be. i was so confident that i even skated with my camera over my shoulder. i probably shouldnt have done that.

anyways... here's my favorite snapshots from that night.




 










finally, a picture of me with my girlfriend...its good not to be behind the camera for once (thanks arely)



this is my second favorite...



thats my favorite..haha



some things never change


for more pictures click here

I got caught up with all the pictures i had to re-edit and do. it was too much work. i had to edit over 300 pictures from shows , like emery and enter shikari. but then i realised they were mediocre and not worth editing.

i erased most of my memory card, kept only the truly important pictures. i'll go to more shows and take more shots when i have a more advanced lense better suited for the situation. there is, and will always be time for improvement.

i've stopped taking pictures for a while. Physics class is alot harder than i thought. so most of my time is spent worrying about that class and how it completely disturbed my school cycle, now i'm failing most of my other classes.

i'll keep trying.

i made this cover page for a notebook assignment. i thought it turned out pretty nice.


now it's time to re-start and blog


BOLAS TATTOO.

Bolas got a KgLb (Kilolibra) tattood on his wrist. thats how you know you really love something..

well i haven't posted anything in this blog for a few months. and that's pretty depressing.
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since my laptop broke i gave up anything related to photography because i lost so many pictures. but i'm starting over and i'm posting some more pictures.

so in the next few hours i'll post everything that has happened in the last 4 months

 my dv9000 hp pavillion is breaking down on me. the screen goes distorted every once in a while which means now it's very difficult to edit the hundreds of images i have to edit, i haven't shot anything in a while and i sincerely miss doing photomanipulations on myself. when i was shooting with the Canon Rebel Xt i remember i used to think, "as soon as i get a better SLR" but now i have the 40D and we're back to the same thing.

now i want strobe lights, a better lens and some lighting equipment. 

photography is a pricey hobbie.

a few updates in what's going on personally with me, 

my brother has an obsession with Macaframa which is pretty understandable since that film has the best visuals i have EVER seen on a fixed gear movie.... 

i broke up with my girlfriend. and i'm not a total emotional wreck.. she was a good model goddamnit. but i really hate to whine and say things like "I MISS HER SO MUCH" because i usually roll my eyes to people that say things like that. am i a hipocrite? maybe..

me and holmes are going to start working on a short film to submit at the Best Films Fest in San Diego we have no plot or no ideas, but it will happen because me and holmes together will be like batman and robin of imaginative creative forces.

and lastly, im writing this at 3 in the morning. i have school at 6, im doing my physics, art history, english, math, and us history homework.

no sleep tonight.