Left Brain/Right Brain

Do you see the dancer (shown below) as moving clockwise or counter-clockwise?

The difference may show whether you are right or left brained.

If you see her as moving clockwise, then you are more right brained,
and vice versa. Most people see the figure moving counter-clockwise;
however, some people are capable of focusing and changing the
direction. See if you can.

At first the dancer was moving clockwise, which is no surprise cause
I definitely have inherited artistic tendencies. After focusing on changing
it for a moment, I got the dancer to change direction. This, also, was not
too much of a surprise...I have a good sense of direction, spatial awareness,
and good critical reasoning (most days, at least).

I found it ever so easy to switch her directions with minimal focusing and
she would keep going one direction until I intentionally made her switch.
Pretty sweet.

This pretty much confirms my suspicions that I'm brilliant. Or that I use
both sides of my brain. Woo!

Since you've all been begging for more, here you have it, a post!

These are a few of the shots I took on Eric and Matt's workshop.
I actually learned quite a bit, I have no idea what most of the technical
jargon is, but I learned to do a lot more with my mom's camera!



Yes, this fine young seagull was decapitated on purpose, why?
Cause the shot was terribly boring otherwise.



There was a lot of this happening at the beach. You know, rocks, waves.



I can't believe I got the focus right on this one!
The spastic kid was flailing the whole time... 



Okay, I'm pretty darn proud of this shot, I got the focus just how I wanted it.
Hooray for learning how to change the aperture!



Yeah, I know, awful composition, but lately I've been enthralled with the way
light reacts on silvery metals... Mmmm.

So, there you have it! Sorry the post had a complete lack of wit, I've been doing
homework since 10am and have only had a couple breaks, my mind is toast!
Cheers to that.

It's the moment you've all been waiting for...the bri is making another post.
I know this excites you, try to stay calm.

This post will consist of the photo's taken by me.
Stop hyperventilating, you won't be able to see the photo's if you've passed out on the floor.
Although, if you actually passed out, it would amuse me endlessly.
Anywho, here goes nothing [I've never really understood that phrase, I mean, something's obviously going..].

Mind you, none of these have been edited, 'cause that's how i roll.

 

This is why i was teetering precariously on the previously mentioned wall.
You understand now, don't you.

My composition that kicked eric's in the rear.

This one is infinitely superior in it's original size..this one has lost a significant amount of 'magic'.

I adore this one. Why? Not a clue in the world. Magnifico!

It may look unimpressive, but that baby would be double over head for a moderately sized june beetle...

Yaaaay for red heads
[I find it mildly ironic that the red part of this vessel is the hull, not the head...teehee]

I just happened to snap this one, stoked I received that brilliant stroke of prospective.
[yes, I'm tooting my own horn *toot*]

I'm not sure why, but I like it
[although the composition would be far more pleasing with a slightly greater amount of sky].

Ok, composition isn't brilliant, but I j'adore the way the light is so sharply reflecting off the edges of the rail.
[looks like the light is disobeying, being that it's on the rail, or is it obeying by reflecting off?]
Hooray puns!

Yeah, eric copied me..and I'm sure he'll show his far-superior photos on his site.

Peir 17?

The composition is off, but the focus is perfect!

"geeeeeeeek"

Pretty light!

I pretend that I took this out of focus on purpose, in all actuality...it was pure coincidence.

 

i think my distain of blog posts steams from the fact that there's no possible way i could recount an experience in it's entirety, without composing a novel.
and that frustrates the crap out of me!
there's always so much to tell, and each time i attempt it i end up frustrated and tired of staring at the glowing screen.

not to be a downer..or anything, haha.

this past week has been absolutely wonderful!
my very dear friend eric came for a visit, and became family within the first five minutes of stepping into our home.
there are far too many stories to tell and an obsceine amout of pictures to be shown!

i'll start out with a teaser of sorts.
we went to Balboa Island with my mom for some picture takin'.
all the photo's i took have yet to be downloaded, you'll unfortunately have to wait for that olfactory experience.

"not now, i'm on the phone"


if you could see the amazing turquiose and rust colors in that pipe...you'd understand.


eric likes to copy my brilliant ideas, and usually shows me up big time.
in this case...mine turned out way better.


"heavily armed"


again, MY idea!
however, this time, as per usual...i was the one shown (up that is)


my hair looks like it's on fiya!

i promise to post the pictures i took...and maybe some stories, if you're lucky.

hokay....time for a big post.
  
...resting up for a big weekend.

   
my mom and i met my bff from grade school downtown while we were running errands and she was babysitting (the kid would not let go od my hand!)

later that day i went to brooke's house where we got rid of a TON of her old stuff..it was intense.

that night we went to aj's for a end of semester get together
   
we were in the hot tub for hours...it was wonderful.

then it was back to brooke's house where there was some filming stuff going on.
  
do we look out of it? it was somewhere around 3am.

the next morning i met sara and we went paintballing!

   
we're so hardcore.

the guy was a bit camera happy.

after about 5 hours of paintball sara and i parted ways so that we could shower and get to taylor's party!

 
everyone was super tired...so we talked, played catch phrase, cuddled, and watched "casino royale"

it was late so i spent the night at brooke's and then went to church.

       
yeah.

on tuesday taylor, brooke, and i met melody at disneyland!

because a hummer is definately a necessity for an orange county sherif.

     
we had lot's of fun times.

oh yes.
when the parks closed brooke, taylor, and i headed up to the in-n-out by biola where we met some friends and chowed down.
christina (melody's sister) was heading home that night so i rode with her to keep her company.
we were having a grand ol' time singing along to Mika when her tire blew out.
"oh my gosh, do i have a flat tire!?"
*FLAP FLAP FLAP*
"yes."
we managed to get off the freeway and into a parking lot.
we called taylor and brooke and they turned around but got lost (and eventually found us), so we decided to change the tire ourselves.
we had some embarassing troubles that don't need to be repeated..
getting the nuts off was the worst..chrissy had to jump on the wrench to get them lose.
and i dropped the spare and the rim hit my knee. ouch.
despite all this we replaced the tire all by ourselves! go us!

that was my weekend.

oh! and i got a job at starbucks.