too much to do, so little time...

Hello world,

I have always wanted to do something like this, but I have never had the time. Well, I still don't really have the time, however, one of my film classes is requiring that we keep a journal throughout the semester to document "the everyday." I thought using a blog would be the best way for me to keep my journal. So, here it goes I guess...The everyday is extremely hard for me to define. To me, it is the little things that occur on a daily basis that seem so insignificant that we don't even realize them. Little things such as what goes through a persons mind when they wake up in the morning and can't decide what cereal to eat for breakfast: Should they reach for the Lucky Charms or the Frosted Cheerios? Or when a person hears their phone ring and prepares to answer it, only to realize that it is their mother. Are they going to be eager to talk to their her, or will they ignore the call? Little things like this are something I would deem insignificant, but to the film world, these are all things that could be possible subject for a project. Through my semester long analyzation of "the everyday," I will find a project I will construct to represent "the everyday" in my eyes. As of right now, I am pretty clueless as to what that is going to be...but I am thinking something to do with photography. I am in a darkroom photography class right now and I am LOVING it! In my photo class the other day we looked at some artists work. Some of them represented different ideas of the everyday. One of the artists, Alina Szapcznikow, had a collection of photographs of chewed bubblegum that had been thrown on the ground. An example of one of the pictures is above. This was really interesting to me because of how insignificant and little this subject seems. I think it is one good representation of "the everyday."

*Throughout this blog/journal, I won't just use it for my film class. The idea of keeping a daily log of the events that occur in my life, and a place to keep my thoughts seems fun to me. I look forward to venting to the world.

Stephanie Kaye