i feel that this blog has arrived at it's natural conclusion. just over 7 months, not too bad a run :) this isn't a teary goodbye... this is just one of those things - a relationship that has run it's course between me and this little nook i've created.
to all of you who have read and followed and commented - a massive thank you!
my blogging life is in no way over - i'm quite sure i'll be back at some point with a new blog, new perspectives, new experiences, and good new things to put out into the blogosphere.
until then, i will no doubt be lurking in the background, continuing to visit your wonderful blogs, commenting here and there and generally just staying plugged in but a little under the radar until my next blogging adventure emerges.
i will likely leave chapped lips and all... up for a little while, i see no reason to delete it at the moment.
happy blogging to all! i'll see you when i see you... :)
xox Shelley.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
in the moment.
it is june.
i am working at the tea room today.
it's going to thunderstorm.
here are some pretty pictures.
away i go...
i am working at the tea room today.
it's going to thunderstorm.
here are some pretty pictures.
1. vacuum, 2. En su corazón llueve a todas horas, 3. Eiffel Tower -manipulation, 4. Infinite recreation, 5. memory, 6. Untitled, 7. Rainy, 8. Untitled, 9. :)
i could watch my cat drink from the tap all day.away i go...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
still breathing... :)
hi! yes! i am here, lurking in the shadows... because it's too effin' hot in the sun these days. seriously... it had to be a record-breaking May in terms of scorching temperatures. now here we are on the first day of June and it seems there is no sign of cooling off in the near future. the weatherman is predicting thunderstorms today, but said event has been in the forecast for several days now.
as if i'm blogging about the weather... do i really have nothing more interesting to say?
on the visual inspiration front, the answer is kind of no... but it isn't due to a mood or anything like that. i'm focusing on some other stuff at the moment. like getting ready to go back to school.
i decided to stop talking about it and actually do it - and last week i received my admission package to Seneca College! of course now they want money, and i'm in the process of applying for student loans... sigh... again... here's hoping i didn't reach some sort of cap back in my career-student days!
and while it sounds like i'm moaning about becoming a student again, it couldn't be further from the truth. i went to visit the campus for the first time yesterday, and i felt like i was home. just walking around the grounds made me not only nostalgic for my old university and college days, but it made me feel connected to something much greater than myself, and filled me with hope and the buzz of anticipation.
isn't it sort of funny where you find yourself? i mean... think back to yourself 10-15 years ago. are you now where you thought you would be? were you standing at a fork in a gravelly road, pondering outcomes? did you have an idea about doing something, pursuing some path, only to abandon it in favour of another direction, only to find yourself having converged back on that same old path... only this time the way is paved?
i think i have mentioned before about having been accepted to (a different) college in the same program i'm going into now, but having to withdraw due to financial restrictions. but even before that, when i was considering going back to school the first time, i had seriously considered doing the Media and Communications program at York University here in Toronto.
and yesterday, there i was on the York U campus, feeling this wonderful excitement. okay... confused? yes, i'm going to Seneca, not York. Seneca has a number of campuses across the city, and the one that houses the department of Communications and my particular program, just happens to be the Seneca@York campus - the two schools have a number of collaborative degree programs. the Technical Writing program is not collaborative with York, it just resides on the York campus. it just seems sort of... i don't know... significant. you know... not going to York to study Communications in 1998 and then not studying Technical Writing at Fanshawe in 2001, and now all these years later finding myself preparing to study Technical Writing at Seneca@York.
of course, it could all just be a coincidence.
as if i'm blogging about the weather... do i really have nothing more interesting to say?
on the visual inspiration front, the answer is kind of no... but it isn't due to a mood or anything like that. i'm focusing on some other stuff at the moment. like getting ready to go back to school.
i decided to stop talking about it and actually do it - and last week i received my admission package to Seneca College! of course now they want money, and i'm in the process of applying for student loans... sigh... again... here's hoping i didn't reach some sort of cap back in my career-student days!
and while it sounds like i'm moaning about becoming a student again, it couldn't be further from the truth. i went to visit the campus for the first time yesterday, and i felt like i was home. just walking around the grounds made me not only nostalgic for my old university and college days, but it made me feel connected to something much greater than myself, and filled me with hope and the buzz of anticipation.
isn't it sort of funny where you find yourself? i mean... think back to yourself 10-15 years ago. are you now where you thought you would be? were you standing at a fork in a gravelly road, pondering outcomes? did you have an idea about doing something, pursuing some path, only to abandon it in favour of another direction, only to find yourself having converged back on that same old path... only this time the way is paved?
i think i have mentioned before about having been accepted to (a different) college in the same program i'm going into now, but having to withdraw due to financial restrictions. but even before that, when i was considering going back to school the first time, i had seriously considered doing the Media and Communications program at York University here in Toronto.
and yesterday, there i was on the York U campus, feeling this wonderful excitement. okay... confused? yes, i'm going to Seneca, not York. Seneca has a number of campuses across the city, and the one that houses the department of Communications and my particular program, just happens to be the Seneca@York campus - the two schools have a number of collaborative degree programs. the Technical Writing program is not collaborative with York, it just resides on the York campus. it just seems sort of... i don't know... significant. you know... not going to York to study Communications in 1998 and then not studying Technical Writing at Fanshawe in 2001, and now all these years later finding myself preparing to study Technical Writing at Seneca@York.
of course, it could all just be a coincidence.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
lost without LOST?
i was wiffle-waffling about whether or not i was going to blog about the LOST finale. anyone who reads this must think i'm an absolute TV-aholic. and i suppose that yes, i have been known to become infatuated (read: completely obsessed) with a tv show or two. but i'm being honest when i say that i'm not the kind of person who sits in front of the tube all day, channel surfing or catching up on the latest episode of every tv show that ever existed. okay maybe there was a time when i did that, but those days are gone.
having said that, every now and then a show comes a long that i plug into and end up falling for its characters, thus following it to its conclusion.
and you know what? to begin with, LOST wasn't one of them.
i remember watching the pilot episode... a lot of buzz was building up about it, that it was going to be a monumental event that would change the face of TV-Land. i was actually in Sydney, Australia at the time, and i was going to be flying home in a few months. and that pilot episode of LOST did nothing for me. i didn't like any of the characters, and the whole thing seemed really preposterous. i'm pretty good at willingly suspending my disbelief for a good story or amazing characters, and it didn't happen with LOST's first episode, so i abandoned ship pretty much immediately.
but then, just about everyone else i knew stuck with it, and for the next 5 years, i had to continually defend my opinion of LOST being a ridiculous piece of television drivel. problem was, that people i think are smart LOVED it. so my exposure to LOST continued, much to my chagrin.
i would never call anyone i respect "dumb" for liking a show or a band or movie just because i don't like it (it has happened to me!). when i met my boyfriend and discovered that in fact, he was another one of these smart and awesome people who liked LOST, i was cool with it as long as he didn't overexpose me to it.
LOL.
i moved in with him, and the LOST marathon began. see, we don't have cable, so we download whatever tv shows we're into. and The Boy had 5 seasons of LOST to catch me up on, if it was ever going to work out between us (i kid, i kid! but he was unrelenting in his insistence upon explaining his LOST theories to me and extolling the wonders of the manipulative character Benjamin Linus). in response, i liked to remind him that the writers had admitted to having difficulty telling the story's uber-complicated plot, a sign of poor writing.
in the course of my reluctant exposure to the show, something happened... i started to care about the characters. not all of them, of course. i had to admit there was something compelling about Ben Linus. and i was sympathetic to Charlie, and to Claire, and of course Hurley. and even though Sawyer bugged the shit out of me, i was drawn to that character as well (although it might just be that his dimples have a gravity of their own). i loved it whenever the crazy French lady Rousseau intervened, and seeing Locke's life unfold. and then Desmond... and then later on, the science team - Daniel, Charlotte and Myles. by the end of season 5, i even started to like Jack and Kate (i know, right?!?!) i could go on...
having arrived so late to the party, i'm feeling a little lost myself, now that it's over. the finale wasn't awesome. making the excuse that it was supposed to ask questions rather than answer them is still a sign of misguided storytelling and poor plot construction, in my opinion. but i can't argue with the fact that the writers' success was in creating compelling characters, and i am sad to see them go.
thus, in honour of a show that did get me thinking and asking questions about life, fate, relationships and coincidence, here are some really cool LOST posters. admittedly, this is reposted from Ms. Arscott - sometimes things are too good not to repost :)
there are tons more of these... click here for a selection which include some of the above, or you can do what i did afterwards and google "lost posters" - there are some really fantastic ones out there and i couldn't post them all!
what were your thoughts on the show and it's finale?
having said that, every now and then a show comes a long that i plug into and end up falling for its characters, thus following it to its conclusion.
and you know what? to begin with, LOST wasn't one of them.
i remember watching the pilot episode... a lot of buzz was building up about it, that it was going to be a monumental event that would change the face of TV-Land. i was actually in Sydney, Australia at the time, and i was going to be flying home in a few months. and that pilot episode of LOST did nothing for me. i didn't like any of the characters, and the whole thing seemed really preposterous. i'm pretty good at willingly suspending my disbelief for a good story or amazing characters, and it didn't happen with LOST's first episode, so i abandoned ship pretty much immediately.
but then, just about everyone else i knew stuck with it, and for the next 5 years, i had to continually defend my opinion of LOST being a ridiculous piece of television drivel. problem was, that people i think are smart LOVED it. so my exposure to LOST continued, much to my chagrin.
i would never call anyone i respect "dumb" for liking a show or a band or movie just because i don't like it (it has happened to me!). when i met my boyfriend and discovered that in fact, he was another one of these smart and awesome people who liked LOST, i was cool with it as long as he didn't overexpose me to it.
LOL.
i moved in with him, and the LOST marathon began. see, we don't have cable, so we download whatever tv shows we're into. and The Boy had 5 seasons of LOST to catch me up on, if it was ever going to work out between us (i kid, i kid! but he was unrelenting in his insistence upon explaining his LOST theories to me and extolling the wonders of the manipulative character Benjamin Linus). in response, i liked to remind him that the writers had admitted to having difficulty telling the story's uber-complicated plot, a sign of poor writing.
in the course of my reluctant exposure to the show, something happened... i started to care about the characters. not all of them, of course. i had to admit there was something compelling about Ben Linus. and i was sympathetic to Charlie, and to Claire, and of course Hurley. and even though Sawyer bugged the shit out of me, i was drawn to that character as well (although it might just be that his dimples have a gravity of their own). i loved it whenever the crazy French lady Rousseau intervened, and seeing Locke's life unfold. and then Desmond... and then later on, the science team - Daniel, Charlotte and Myles. by the end of season 5, i even started to like Jack and Kate (i know, right?!?!) i could go on...
having arrived so late to the party, i'm feeling a little lost myself, now that it's over. the finale wasn't awesome. making the excuse that it was supposed to ask questions rather than answer them is still a sign of misguided storytelling and poor plot construction, in my opinion. but i can't argue with the fact that the writers' success was in creating compelling characters, and i am sad to see them go.
thus, in honour of a show that did get me thinking and asking questions about life, fate, relationships and coincidence, here are some really cool LOST posters. admittedly, this is reposted from Ms. Arscott - sometimes things are too good not to repost :)
there are tons more of these... click here for a selection which include some of the above, or you can do what i did afterwards and google "lost posters" - there are some really fantastic ones out there and i couldn't post them all!
what were your thoughts on the show and it's finale?
Sunday, May 23, 2010
saturday sketch: selfie
so colour week sort of got away from me, unfortunately. i ended up getting called into work to cover for my coworker, whose daughter had her baby! i'm not complaining, really - i'll take whatever shifts come my way. it did mean that by the time i got home i was too exhausted get shooting... and the thought of browsing through folders on my computer in search of pre-existing colour shots made my head spin.
thankfully, i was allowed to leave work early today due to a slow day in the tea room, which left me time enough to do a sunday sketch! here is the sketch in progress:
i've been thinking a lot about the trip that my boy and i will be taking to Montreal in July - and trying to plan outfits. so the sketch is kind of a self-portrait, in a sense... that is my favourite denim skirt, and my favourite turquoise suede mary-janes... and a top that doesn't actually exist in my current wardrobe (i have a similar one in green and white, but for some reason i've decided i love red and burgundy together at the moment :))
to all the Canadians out there - happy May-Long/Two-Four/Victoria Day weekend! hope you are enjoying time with family and friends!
thankfully, i was allowed to leave work early today due to a slow day in the tea room, which left me time enough to do a sunday sketch! here is the sketch in progress:
i've been thinking a lot about the trip that my boy and i will be taking to Montreal in July - and trying to plan outfits. so the sketch is kind of a self-portrait, in a sense... that is my favourite denim skirt, and my favourite turquoise suede mary-janes... and a top that doesn't actually exist in my current wardrobe (i have a similar one in green and white, but for some reason i've decided i love red and burgundy together at the moment :))
to all the Canadians out there - happy May-Long/Two-Four/Victoria Day weekend! hope you are enjoying time with family and friends!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
colour week: poyple thoysday
so of course, because i love purple and because i was so looking forward to going out and getting loads of new purple shots, i get called into work.
i only have a couple of hours to kill before i head out to aikido, so i have breezed through my photo folders for purple and found these:
here's hoping i get an opportunity to shoot some GREEN for tomorrow's post!
i only have a couple of hours to kill before i head out to aikido, so i have breezed through my photo folders for purple and found these:
here's hoping i get an opportunity to shoot some GREEN for tomorrow's post!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
colour week: yellorange wednesday
haha, see what i did there? yellorange. i would like to believe i'm the first person whoever came up with this but i'm sure that someone, somewhere has thought of it. whoever you are, i salute you!
today's theme of yellows and oranges was sort of a tough one for me. i tend to associate these colours with the commercial sphere, and there is not much about either colour that grabs me. in fact, i think i've sort of brainwashed myself to ignore yellow and orange, because of the association with advertising.
i really had to take my blinders off and LOOK for yellows and oranges that captured my attention in a lovely way.
flying saucer!
retro decor mashup
my boyfriend has a thing for Mexican hats...
we both have a thing for Guinness
(also... look! its advertising, but i'm okay with this one for obvious reasons :))
fleur jaune
a less than inspiring shot of some OJ
this little tyke hangs out in the neighbour's front yard
today's theme of yellows and oranges was sort of a tough one for me. i tend to associate these colours with the commercial sphere, and there is not much about either colour that grabs me. in fact, i think i've sort of brainwashed myself to ignore yellow and orange, because of the association with advertising.
i really had to take my blinders off and LOOK for yellows and oranges that captured my attention in a lovely way.
flying saucer!
retro decor mashup
my boyfriend has a thing for Mexican hats...
we both have a thing for Guinness(also... look! its advertising, but i'm okay with this one for obvious reasons :))
fleur jaune
a less than inspiring shot of some OJ
this little tyke hangs out in the neighbour's front yardtomorrow will be much easier for me: PURPLES! i live for purple. my very existence depends on the presence of multitudes of purple in my life, i swear to whatever deity gets you through the day.
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