What am I doing?

I finally started to venture into the other categories of the arts as in actual art, modeling and writing. I've alway have been interested in acting and I've been doing that for almost seven years. I decided to try something new so instead of just one thing why not try everything. Photography, singing, and make up are not my strong points from what I clearly discovered but now I am exploring other aspects.
     Ever since 9th grade I have been writing and now I actually feel like I can present more of my work. Why? I have no idea but it just seems like something I should do now that I'm in STAC. I write poetry and I have some short stories that I have presented but they aren't great I feel. I have so much to learn but I don't know if writing is for me. I have to many ideas to just sit there and focus on one project, but if I start to many I will get overwhelmed. Also I have a habit of writing something, hating it, and trowing it out because I feel like it is horrible. Then there is my spelling and grammar which is absolutely horrible but thank the lord for spell check and someone I call a mother who is a lawyer.
     Recently I mean like one month ago I was having a fun day with my friend Vika and we discovered that I can draw. It wasn't a first, when I was younger I would always draw and I took every art class in school so I've always been invested in art. For christmas Vika really being the amazing friend she was got me oil paint. I got some canvases and experimented and I had so much fun. Painting is so relaxing and it really got me to focus. I think I want to try to paint more and experiment with art just a little more. All thanks to my lovely friend that supports me and I support her. Go check out her blog because she is absolutely amazing at art.
    Then there was one more left, modeling. Last year I did this program called Barbazon and when you join you give permission for the company to market you're face. The program sent my pictures out and what do you know I got a letter in the mail from Miss New York Teen USA to join there pageant so I decided why not. This photo company that works with Vogue and Donald Trump came and did a photo shoot for all the kids who needed head shots. My head shots were a year old so I decided to take new photos (best decision ever). The company took my photos and they are sending them out everywhere like Vogue and they want me to come back for a second photo shoot which is amazing and I am so excited for it.
     I feel like I am doing so much at the moment, but at the same time I feel like I am doing nothing. I don't know why but I guess I am just so weird because I am doing so much on top of the Spring Play that my teacher is directing. Now that I'm writing all of this out I change my mind about two things. One I am doing so much and maybe for right now I should narrow it down to two or three things. Second is that I do know what I am doing and it is to discover what I am capable of and what I enjoy. If I am not into something or I am done with a project or an activity it becomes obvious with me. I will either not do it or procrastinate so bad it just doesn't become a priority. I definitely have to work on that because I can't always pick and choose what I want to be done with so I'm working on that but, until next time.

Light Show!

Last weekend I saw the most amazing this in the world, a little exaggerated , but still really good. Out in Jones Beach they brought back the Holiday Light show and I felt like I was 7 again. Basically it is a show that you and your family drive through and get to experience exquisite lights formed into photos. You can also go meet Santa, watch a move, warm up by the fire, or go through the maze at the Holiday Inn. Don't forget to put on the radio to 90.5 to listen to some Christmas jams that go with the lights. I was so amazed at the fact that it was brought back because originally it was taken away for a budget cut but I'm not questioning because I am so happy it's back. The best part to me was the move because it was Frozen and how does someone not live that movie, and just driving with my family. I hope to go again and again with friends, family, and whoever has a czar and wants to take me. Until next time go to the Light Show!

Elevators?

You maybe questioning my title but it all has to do with that we are doing in class. Recently we had to write a 25 or 50 second video about an elevator and nothing else. I was some what confused about the whole topic but I ended up going to a creep love story almost my safe box. I don't really feel confident in my story but practice makes perfect right? I wrote a little screenplay to go with it and it really isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I am questioning my 25 second video at the moment and I think I may of made it to hard for myself. I have never filmed nor written something like this and I feel I'm over my head with this one. No seniors will be directing it and it will be all me doing this. It will also be previewed in front of the whole school which makes me so nervous. I don't like it when the class views my work now the whole school has to see it. I think I'm just going to have to go for it and possibly puke everywhere when it's previewed (not literally I hope). Until next time don't stand in the Herricks elevator.

Discipline?

Today In class we discussed Discipline and I was really intrigued in what was being said. I clearly have not been blogging about this book that I should of been keeping up with. In class my teacher said "Blogging is one of the hardest discipline to learn but it will help your work so much more than you think." I have been thinking about this all day and now I finally think I get what he is trying to say. I may be wrong but this is how I interpreted this. All artist and actors need discipline and need to figure out their own problems and to me blogging is almost a public display of my inner thoughts and what is going through my head. I feel really weird right now because I can hear myself talking in my head as I type this and there is no format. I am almost feel wired not having something to write about or do but I am just so free with the keyboard and I can feel myself just going in circles about so many things I can talk about because I never have had the opportunity to do this. I am making a promise to myself to blog every Thursday for the rest of the year because I do feel this will help me as a writer, actress, and even as a person. I don't exactly know what I can blog about but until I hear restrictions be prepared for topics of what I am doing in class all the way to what is happening in the every day news as long as I blog about something that is on my mind.

This week I had and wanted to read chapter 1 of The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. In chapter 1, I was newly introduced to an artist by the name of Pierre Bonnard.  His art is amazing but compleatly different and has a lot of nude female figues.

I like this photo because it is a lot more conservative than his other photos of nude woman.

 I very much enjoy this photo because it makes me feel very whimsical. The colors in the painting give you almost a seances of warmth

                        This photo I feel expresses the hard and tiring work of a woman.  

Post #1 The Accidental Masterpiece

The Accidental Masterpiece:On the art of life and vise versa
By: Michael Kimmelman
Response by: Emily Sullivan
     
            It has been a pleasure so far to be in the Stac class 14-15. I love to be in the class and Im excited to learn new things. Im ecstatic to learn about the history of art and what art means to me. Being a Stacie my first project was to read The Accidental Masterpiece:On the art of life and vise versa by Michael Kimmelman . I only read the introduction but I'm so excited to read  the rest of the book. It was really intriguing and really grabbed my interest. Michael's  purpose for the book , and his cause for writing it really interested me  to continue reading. He said "This book is, in part about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make living a  daily masterpiece." To me he is basically saying that even if your not 'great' at art, just appreciating it is art. Anyone and everyone can be an artist if they want to be, even if your a dentist like Dr.Hicks. Also another part of the introduction that really stood out to me is when he explained  that beauty and art is so unexpected but the world is full of it . It kind of taught me  to keep my eyes open and to see that the world is full of art. Michael said" that the most important things in the world are never as simple as the seem but that the world is also richer when it declines to abide by comforting  formulas."  I honestly loved the introduction to this book and I cant wait to write more responses on this book. You never know if the person next to you could be a future artist or writer.