Notes about Maggie

This is my roommate, Maggie. She is an American Dingo, otherwise known as a Carolina Dog. I found her out a country road headed to Pedernales Falls State Park nursing 7 puppies. They all came back to Austin with me, and the puppies all have new homes. When I am not at TSU, doing homework, or waiting tables, you can find Maggie and I tormenting the local squirrel population at Town Lake in Austin.

Notes about spicing up my Blog

Just thought I would add a presidential poll to my blog. It's totally anonymous, I don't know who votes. I feel like I know very little about the people I share space with for 2 1/2 hours a week and with the elections being a hot topic right now, I thought I would run a poll for 2 weeks. I'm interested to see the dynamic of the class.

Notes about my MBTI, relating to Sundance

I guess I should add to the before posted and relate it to class. Having written on my MBTI, which is INFP (introverted intuition feeling perceiving), and concluded Myers-Brigg was quite dead on, I do have to admit, events such as taking off for a photo trip that I know nothing about during a semester is rather unlike my personality profile. My intuition always tells me to stay at home and continue my semester. Take care of the important things like school and rent. I'm not a huge risk taker. I like things to run even keel and steady. So to take off like that, I have to admit, I had some intense anxiety while I was there and I came back a little discombobulated. All of this was to be expected. I also don't like to be away from the comfort zone of my apartment for an extended amount of time, unless I'm home in Maine with my folks. But needless to say, it was a great experience and an even better resume builder. All in all, I made the correct decision.

Notes about Sundance

If, in case, you were all wondering what on earth I was talking about in class on Tuesday, I am a photographer. I had the opportunity to go to the Sundance film festival last week with a friend of mine. He jumped into a film as an Executive Producer (this just means he funded it, and he really has no creative say in making the film) that obviously made it into the festival and wanted a photographer to come and chronicle his premier and parties. It was quite an event, if I do say so myself. I knew nothing about the film before I left and I had no idea where I was going. All I did know, is I was flying into Salt Lake City, Utah, it was going to be cold, and there would be a car service looking for me when I landed to take me to the house. I packed my camera gear, my laptop, and lots of sweaters, and headed to ABIA. Needless to say, when I landed, it was cold, yet amazingly beautiful. I got to the shuttle and headed through the mountains a half hour until I reached gorgeous Park City. (This also was the place that hosted many 2002 Winter Olympic events.) The festival was crazy. There were way more people in little ski town Park City then the town could hold. Celebrities were everywhere, whether it was noticeable actress Sarah Jessica Parker or faceless directors and producers. I spent the first day there meeting people and getting to know the area, and went to the cast and crew party. The second say, the film world premiered, we had a premier party, and tried to squeeze a little shopping in between. The third day we went to another screening of the film with an intense Q&A session with the director and producers, when to a Sundance Channel exclusive party, and went out for sushi with the producers. Finally, the fourth day was the last and I was on my way back to Austin. It was a whirlwind of a trip. As I sit here at my computer, I am processing over 200 images that I shot. I will post more in the blog of celebrities as they process. If you are interested in the film I went to support, it is called "Downloading Nancy." It stars Maria Bello and Jason Patric. I will post a link to the trailer, but I will warn you, it is a graphic, contravercial film, that exploits some scary topics. If you are sensitive to contraversy, you might not want to check it out.