http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Oui-JLAdor&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Oui-JLAdor en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:30:13 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/12975724/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/12975724/ Wed, 16 May 2007 09:42:29 PDT
God was that last semester of school grueling. I did a bit of new stuff in Intermediate Photo, however, only a few of it is on the gallery. Not all of it will probably make it online as I forgot to scan a lot of my pieces before coming home! Maybe I'll put them up next semester.

Anyway, my final project for the class is up now. It called the Kaleidoscope Project. Check it out.

"Hindsight" in its 11x14 print version is on view at the Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College until the end of the month. I think that's pretty cool.

So summer time! Yay! Hopefully lots of photography will ensue. I'm also working on editing a short documentary a shot this past semester.

-Melissa

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Expect some digital photos sometime this month.

Also, Rachel and I are being featured in the next issue of The Goucher Review for last semester's photography exhibit and auction that we organized. The Accordion Man will be displayed in the magazine.

Right now I'm trying to work on my Identity assignment. It's proving to be difficult as I'm not so sure how I'm going to portray my identity through images. I've never had this much trouble trying to complete an assignment. I feel that Intermediate Photography is going to bite me in the ass.

Anyway, expect a few photos from Israel soon. I'm going to try and keep this thing a little more updated.

-Melissa

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All the work I completed this semester is now available for viewing in my gallery. Each piece is 8x10 on Pearl Paper and was developed and printed by me. Hard work, jeeze!

I'm starting to realize I love shooting film more than digital these days.

Let me know what you think of the new stuff. All criticism is welcome, it'll help me improve.

-Melissa

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I'm psyched.

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The work I've done this summer is going to be going up bit-by-bit. Hopefully I'll add a few more each day. Tomorrow through Tuesday I'll be in Montreal shooting some more stuff, but I'll still have internet access.

Let me know what you think of the new batch. The feel of these photos are slightly different than my other works.

_Dez ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/9101134/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/9101134/ Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:58:37 PDT ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/7548437/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/7548437/ Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:55:02 PST Most of them are model-based. Mostly friends and family.
Let me know what you think.

-Melissa ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/6907445/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/6907445/ Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:29:32 PST I've created a new deviantArt page for my modeling. Yes, that's right. Modeling. I've done a little bit of it since I got to school (thanks Rachel!) and I figured I'd start up a page for it.

[link]

Check it out and befriend me! ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/6616149/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/6616149/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:42:03 PDT

And I've been show the light.

Pirates ARE better than Ninjas!!

HA-HA!!!! ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5927487/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5927487/ Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:30:32 PDT But never fear! I've take a few more photo shoots and I'll hopefully be updating within the next week or so.

God... I can't wait to get my new computer. It'll be so much easier to keep this up and going. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5318169/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5318169/ Tue, 10 May 2005 07:12:54 PDT
Funny thing is, I haven't written something worthwhile in AGES.

I'm worried that by the time I finally have a chance to sit down and put my ideas to paper, I'll have completely lost my style. I have enough trouble now as it is writing papers for school. I tried to write a short story last month, and I just couldn't express myself the way I wanted to.

I'm worried. The only reason my parents are pushing me to go to such a good college is because they want me to get the best writing skills I can get. But I'm afraid I've forgotten how to write.

They won't pay the tuition for me to come out of college as a photographer. That's just not acceptable.

I'm worried.
A tad. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5222486/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5222486/ Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:52:36 PDT Is going.
To be.
In.
A MUSEUM.
Along with Rachel's.

HOLY SNIPIT!!!!


Five pieces!!!!!!!!!!!! ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5090692/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5090692/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:30:17 PDT Over the course of the weekend I'll be posting more shots from the adventures at the Historic Mills. v00t v00t. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5084158/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5084158/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 04:39:48 PDT
So Rachel and I are submitting our work to the manager. There's a very good chance our artwork might be accenting the walls of a freaking museum.

suh-weet. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5040438/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/5040438/ Sat, 09 Apr 2005 06:39:22 PDT I haven't listened to Lisa Loeb in ages.
Strange. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4968988/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4968988/ Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:45:54 PST ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4882888/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4882888/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:47:11 PST
John Gulagar is my muse.

Even though he's a 45 year old man.

That likes to shoot moonlight weddings.





Although,

I've recently acquired a new muse as well.

<3

-Melissa ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4779041/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4779041/ Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:19:47 PST
I just posted a new piece of poetry if you so wish to read. Other than that, expect some new pieces up this week. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4501420/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4501420/ Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:00:15 PST
I didn't even bother to read the whole letter. Instead I went to watch a movie with KJD and Sammi.



My parents woke me up this morning at 8:30 to tell me this:

Because I didn't bother to read the second page of the letter....

I find this out....







MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE HAS AWARDED ME A $40,000 SCHOLARSHIP TO ATTEND THEIR SCHOOL.


FOURTY-FUCKING-THOUSAND DOLLARS.

THAT'S TEN THOUSAND A YEAR.

THAT MEANS I GET A YEAR AND A HALF OF SCHOOL FUCKING *FREE* THERE.




Guess what guys.

I might be going to that school.

Only downside, it's 3 hours from home, so I won't be home for frequent Sholanga practices, and mine and Timmy's constant drunken party nights will be limited to whenever someone wants to hitch a train.


HOWEVER, the school is 30 minutes from NEW YORK CITY. And everyone knows how much I love it there. I'll be able to see my aunt and her soon-to-be-husband all the time! And Manhattanville Students get reduced prices on Broadway shows, as well as a semester LIVING in Brooklyn!

Rae, you may now squeal. For you are visiting me every fucking day. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4297670/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4297670/ Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:24:41 PST
The poem was put on deviant a while ago, but I feel that it's my best work and I finally want to put it up there. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4289706/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4289706/ Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:18:55 PST "Who would you be in the War of Armageddon?"


Hell's Forces
You'd be best suited to fight as a demon in hell's army or a human in the earthly forces of The Antichrist. You're just plain destructive and bad-natured. You like to destroy and you have no remorse for doing so. You're partly psychotic and that usually gets you into trouble. You defend evil whenever possible and you cannot stand those who fight for a noble cause. You are controlled by a greater and more powerful leader but you make a good pawn, a tool. Be wary, for you will soon meet your match.

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I hope this year is as good as the last. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4074997/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/4074997/ Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:36:49 PST Ugh the procrastination.

The waiting is killing me. I'm thinking of a certain person much too much and it's so hard to wait. Maybe February. I wish sooner. All I want is to see him and hug him and play Ash while I kiss him.

The past four months have gone by so fast and so slow at the same. I just hope the next few will go by as fast. I just want to see him. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3983233/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3983233/ Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:01:14 PST
And it's NOT one of those "I'm thinking of you because I want you." It's a very different kind.

I realized that a kid I've known for a while has become special to me. He's become like a little brother to me. And if you've ever really known how I am with Jeffrey, you'd know how protective I am of my little brother. And I feel as protective of this kid as my own brother.

I think he's going to get hurt. I think something is going on that no one can explain and it's really bringing my blood to a boil.

I can be a bitch. Some of you know that. I hate letting that part of me out, so I try not to.

But I don't want to see this kid get hurt. I don't want to see him used or whatever is going on.

I'm just... fucking p.i.s.s.e.d

There you go. That's my rant for now.
-Desdemona ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3901637/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3901637/ Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:20:44 PST
I'm tired of being strong and independent.
If I'm too strong, I repel them all away.
If I'm too independent, I'm always alone.
I'm sick of being alone.
I don't "want a boyfriend" just to have a boyfriend. I haven't had a mindset like that since the eighth grade.

But I do want someone there for me when I fall down. Someone who will help me back up. I don't want to push them all away anymore.

Again. It's too late.

Go figure. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3561258/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3561258/ Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:36:58 PDT I am.

But it doesn't mean I don't miss the way things used to be.

Do you ever wish you could cut and paste your own life?

Take emotions from this time.

Take an event from here.

Replace a bad friend now with the good friend they once were.

I don't know.

I wish I could do that.

But I can't cut up my life like I do a magazine and just rearrange it. I can't make my life a collage.

My life is a chronological semi-disaster.


So why am I happy, still? ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3112493/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3112493/ Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:46:18 PDT
Leaving for cruise in: 3 days.

Getting my wisdom teeth taken out in two weeks. Oh joy.

Had some weird dream...

fsck. I have two online journals. Why do I bother updating this thing? I have nothing to say.

Check out my gallery. That's all I have to say to you. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3077981/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/3077981/ Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:44:30 PDT Who knows.

I got a job at a local super-chain drug store. I have succumbed to the Man. But no, I have gone undercover so I can destroy him from the inside. Yes.

So I'm in a band now with my friends Rachel and Kristina. It's a blast.

I'm starting to miss school again. Not the learning, but the hanging out. It'll be weird without Breigh and Tristan and Nata and Dylan and...well everyone.

Jackie comes home from Penn. in a few days. I can't wait.

Anyway. Tomorrow I'm going to the beach and, oh did I mention I'm driving now? Licensed. It rocks. Yeah.

Check me out. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2566344/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2566344/ Wed, 02 Jun 2004 12:53:07 PDT I decided no guy is worth losing sleep over, especially when he's... y'know. Taken.

I just decided that I don't want anyone right now.

I was sitting in the car outside of CVS while my dad ran in to fill out a prescription, and I started thinking. But I didn't have anything really to think about. Nothing's really stressing me out right now. I guess that's cool. A few years--maybe even months--ago I would just sit there and daydream about a guy. Whichever one I was infautuated over at the time. I think I'm finally over the whole "Boy Crazy" thing. I just don't need, or really even want one. If you've never felt that before, believe me, it's a good feeling.

Cause there really is more to life than guys.
This summer I'll be able to get a lot more reading done. I want to get "A Brief History of Time" by Stephan Hawking. Everyone on the Donnie Darko forums are saying how much it explains everything. I figure I'll give it a shot.

Anyway. That's all for now. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2507409/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2507409/ Tue, 25 May 2004 16:53:27 PDT ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2478203/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2478203/ Fri, 21 May 2004 16:13:59 PDT Andy's such a sport for putting up for us.
Kudos to Andy. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2416202/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2416202/ Wed, 12 May 2004 19:02:54 PDT ..but it all goes back to that ONE thing that. The ONE thing that I'm striving for. It's so hard.
I was so close to deciding to give up, to just say it was hopeless.
Well, it still is hopeless.
But I can't give up.
That's all I want in my life right now. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2402313/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2402313/ Mon, 10 May 2004 19:51:50 PDT 1) single or taken: single
2) sex:y
3) birthday: december 23, 1987
4) sign: sagitarrius/capricorn cuspul
5) siblings: jeff.
6) hair color: light brown, dirty blonde in the summer
7) eye color: Blue.
shoe size : 8.
9) height: 5'1 and 3/4

[ fashion stuff ]
1) where is your favorite place to shop: music shops. who needs clothes when you have vinyls?
2) any tattoos or piercings: 2 in each ear, soon to be three and one and hopefully my bellybutton.
3) favorite outfit: jeans, my fairy skirt over it, black long-sleeved shirt an "Keep Our Oceans Clean" tee shirt. And my black chucks.

[ the extra stuff ]
1) do you do drugs: just caffine!
2) what are you most scared of: knives. ironic, huh?
3) what car do you wish to have: anyone that I can get my hands on. Like... the car with my own license plate parked out front.
4) where do you want to get married: I don't.
5) how many messenger buddies do you have on right now: 34
6) if you could change anything about yourself, what would it be: My body.

[ favourite ]
1) subjects in school: Shakespear/Chorus/Chem 1.
2) animals: Polar Bears

[ have you ever ]
1) given anyone a bath: When I was 5 I had to help give my baby brother a bath.
3) bungee jumped: I WISH.
4) broken the law: Tchyeah.
5) made yourself throw-up: I've tried, alas, I have a very strong stomache.
6) gone skinny-dipping?: no, but I plan to.

[ first thing that comes to mind ]
1) red: ruby.
2) cow: SUPER MOO!!!! and Penguin Girl.
3) socks: never matching.
4) holland: Marijke?

[ have you ever (again) ]
1) ever been so drunk you blacked out: No
2) put a body part on fire for amusement: Well, I've waved my hand in and out of a candle countless times, does that count?
3) been in a car accident: Almost (drag racing).
4) been hurt emotionally: Yes, but who hasn't?
5) kept a secret from everyone: Yeah
6) had an imaginary friend: How about an imaginary boyfriend?
7) wanted to hook up with a friend: 1..4...667...
cried during a movie?: Cold Mountain.
9) had a crush on a teacher: Yeah..
10) ever thought an animated character was hot?: All the time, man.
11) had a new kids on the block tape: No, that was befor my time, alas.

[ more favourites ]
1) shampoo: The kind that taste better. Hehe.
2) hair colour: Dirty blonde and daaaark brown.
4) summer/winter: Spring, fool.
6) cartoon characters: BATMAN.
7) fave advertisment: OH! That Pepsi commerical where the cute emo girl is trying to give out flyers dressed up as a huge hot dog but everyone is just ignoring her. Then she dumps the flyers and starts to walk away real sad until, across the street, she spots a gorgeous guy dressed up as a huge pepsi can. <3 They fall in love and walk into the sunset. I love it.
fave films: Ferris Bueller, National Lampoon's Vacation, Kill Bill, Donnie Darko.
9) fave ice cream: Black Raspberry.

[ right now, what are you ]
1) wearing: Jeans and my black tee inside-out.
2) drinking: Nothing
3) thinking about: My contacts are making my eyes squinty..
4) listening to: "Don't Dream It's Over" cover by Six Pence None the Richer.

[ in the last 24 hours, have you ]
1) cried: TWICE. WTF.
2) ate: yeah! twice!
3) cleaned your room: Uhm...sorta.
5) driven a car: no.

[ do you believe in ]
1) yourself: I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!
2) friends: sure, it was a good sitcom.
3) God: FUCK NO.
4) destiny/fate: yeah.
5) angels: Uhm...
6) ghosts: Yeah, there are way too many in my house to not believe.

(last)
9 bands/singers you have seen:
1. Ataraxis
2. Brian & Allan Project
3. Livewire
4. 4th Point of Contact
5. Lemon Lime Tennis Shoes
7. Drunk with an Accent
8. Shades
9. Jimitre

Movies you'd watch over and over:
1. Aladdin
2. Matilda
3. Harry Potter <3
4. Donnie Darko
5. The Butterfly Effect
6. Kill Bill
7. 2gether
8. The Little Mermaid

7 things you hate:
1. divas.
2. being to gullible
3. That sound keys make w... ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2312322/ http://Oui-JLAdor.deviantart.com/journal/2312322/ Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:11:16 PDT


the end. ]]> ~Oui-JLAdor