how would i know, why should i care...

So a lot of cool things have happened lately...

Well first, this is my last week at work and that's pretty freakin' awesome if I do say so myself.

Second, Elliott Davis stopped by Memphis and while he was in town Elliott, his cousin Sarah, and I hung out downtown. I had a lot more fun downtown then i normally do, I actually did a lot of touristy things though... But first, Elliott and Sarah quickly figured out that I have a problem with direction... haha.. i got lost so many times... whoops...

So anyways, we rode a horse carriage and it was a lot more interesting than i thought it would be, I had a lot of fun. We also were able to go on Beale Street which was surprising considering the police were already carding... (we asked if we could go, and they just let us through without question...) We stayed on Beale for a long time, we walked and looked into bars (because they were carding at the doors) and we watched people go by, and listened to a few bands and watched someone paint. It was a lot of fun... I have some pictures but they're not developed yet so hopefully i can get them printed soon.

Lastly, Monday night I was able to hang out with Austin Grisham, first we went to Sakura, this awesome amazing sushi place in germantown (it def. has the best sushi i've had). We then were unsure what to do but since we both like photography we started talking about it, so we came to the conclusion that we were going to take some pictures. We went to go buy some B/W film and we ran into Mrs. Cotten, which was really random but really cool. Austin showed me this really cool place that's above an interstate (i guess) and we started taking pictures of the traffic below us trying to get the result where you get a streaked light effect... but i figured out how to get my camera to keep it's shutter open which was cool. I'm glad we went cause he's really helping me improve and experiment in my photography. I can't wait to get this roll printed, but i have to finish the B/W.

so my most recent work of art is what i've been working on for my laptop cover. I already submitted it to http://www.schtickers.com - I should hopefully get it in by the end of the week. Here is what I sent in:

(click for full view)

I really like this piece, it's probably one of my favorites... i'm currently working on a different version of this. The Japanese on the left is read (from top to bottom, right column first) like,

"miageta yozora no hoshi-tachi no hikari

hikari-tsuzuke yo ano hoshi no you ni"

and it roughly means,

"look up at the light of the stars in the night sky
shine on, like that star"

So I think it's cool anyways...

well I' m on my way to bed and I'll come back in fix this post up tomorrow... goooooooooood night