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I’ve recently been looking up really interesting pictures created in photoshop. These pictures kind of disorient the viewer which makes them unique from just normal photography. In this picture your brain wants to think her dress is turning into water… however that wouldn’t make sense. This picture makes you wonder why she’s in the middle of the ocean in the dark, what she’s looking at, why she is in a dress in the ocean, etc. Another picture which is one of my favorites is…

http://www.wallpaperhi.com/Nature/Beaches/

This picture is an astronaut about to go surfing as he looks up at the sky made of a giant nebulae. Who wouldn’t want to surf in space… just look at that view! This picture toys with reality. Your brain tries to comprehend how space is visible from the beach, this makes you come to the conclusion that it’s a different planet, but doesn’t make sense! how is the astronaut going surfing in a place that looks like hawaii on a different planter but no other planets have conditions exactly like earth. This makes you wonder how he is on a beach on a different planet.

Random things I’ve always wanted to do.

1. Go to a paint festival. (like the one in India) or throw one!

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It looks amazing!

2. Travel with little to no items and no sense of where you are going. Just see where the adventure takes you. Material items hold us back and I’d love to see what it’s like to leave everything behind and just live.

3.  Bike from Santa Barbara to Ventura. I always said I was going to… and I used to do bike trips with my school where we biked distances way longer and more uphill, but I always was to lazy when I got back from the trips to do so.  I wanted to do it when I was still in shape.

4.  Go to a country where I don’t know anyone, where I don’t speak the language, and where very few people know English. That’d definitely be an adventure. I’m tired of going to places trying to learn the language and they just get annoyed of me trying to speak in a different language.. and respond ” I speak English too”.

5. Go on a road trip with my friends to this music festival in Washington this summer, although I don’t know if her friend driving is sketchy or not. She said she met him at a rave in L.A. so I don’t think I’d be down for doing a road trip with some random. 😛 But I would love to do a road trip with my friends next year to EDC.

 

 

 

Matador music festival (Porter Robinson almost got arrested)

This weekend we finally had our music festival in Santa Barbara. There were carnival rides, music, dancing, people in costumes, flags, feather headdresses, face paint, sober people, drunk people, people on drugs, people on shoulders, people hopping the rail to back stage, people laying on the grass. It was definitely a day I will never forget.

We made EDM history when the concert was shut down at 11:00pm for numerous noise violations. There were a few companies that put together this event, and the poor communication between the two companies was the reason it was shut down early. One of the contracts said the event would be over at 11:00 and the other said it would be over at 11:30. Porter Robinson was having an amazing time and even went on the mic.. which he seldom does. He announced the cops were shutting the show down in 5 mins…he announced his last song and started to play. The cops cut the power during Porter Robinson’s favorite and last song “Language” right before the drop. The crowd went silent… left confused and wanting more. After a long discussion with the cops, he explained to the crowd that the festival was being shut down a half an hour early. The crowd went crazy yelling “F*** THE POLICE!” The cops were then trying to arrest Porter for inciting a riot. The cops tried to arrest him and seize all of his equipment as “evidence”. He was already having a bad day when his flight to sb landed an hour before he went on (because of delays) I’m just glad he wasn’t arrested.

People were sad and angry screaming “one more song, f*** the police, porter!porter!, and I.V!” In 2011 he made a surprise visit to the college town Isla Vista by UCSB. It was crazy, and the crowd went hard! He said how much he loved our town and loved I.V. which was probably why he didn’t hesitate to play again. I just hope he doesn’t avoid our town in the future. To be honest I think we go the hardest out of all the places on the west coast. There is no place like Santa Barbara and even though the festival was cut a little over half an hour short… it was definitely worth it to be shut down knowing it was because we were having too much fun and being to loud and crazy.

http://westboundndown.com/porter-robinson%e2%80%99s-the-college-invasion-tour-mini-documentary

Street art

I’m going to journey back to my creative days… lets actually talk about art!

A little while ago there was a bunch of painted pianos downtown… I found this really creative and I know it added to a lot of peoples joy. My friend got a huge smile on her face when she saw them and ran over and started to play 🙂

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Next we have 3D art! I have never personally seen this type of art but I looooove it! It is the illusion that the art is coming to life that I really love. I also like the way It convinces your brain that it’s real.

http://www.theswedishbed.com/2010/09/13/3d-art-animal-pet-cat-zoo-park

http://www.cleancutmedia.com/art-design/creativity-amazing-3d-building-art

I really want to make 3D art I think that’d be sooo fun! ok now we have random street art (graffiti, works of art,murals):

http://www.blog.thednalife.net/2011/12/random-street-art.html

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collage your life

So I’ve come to realize that I’ve kind of strayed from creativity and directed my posts towards pure randomness and my life. I feel like I should get back to creativity. It really is hard to be purposefully creative. Normally I just try and do creative things that are out of the ordinary because I tend to get bored easily… but today I”m going to focus this post towards art. I recently decided I have so many pictures and I never look through them, so I should make a collage. A physical collage seems kind of boring and most of my pictures are on my computer and I’m to lazy to print all of them out. So I just used photoshop. I made a collage of my spring break and new friends that I’ve made and I really like it! It turned out pretty well for only a few minutes working on it…. I don’t have that much patience.

Summertime sadness

I’m kinda obsessed with Lana del Ray right now hence the title of this post… anyway WHO’S READY FOR SUMMER????!!!! Only 2 1/2 more months OH. MY. GOD! Summer seriously can’t get here fast enough. I’m going to state the reasons why I’m this psyched for summer….

Main reason: After my last day of school this year, I never EVER have to take another 8am class….. EVER!!!!! 😀 I mean unless there’s a class I reeeeallly want to take. So this is my last year of high school. It was alright but I don’t really think I’ll miss much. Besides my mom blabbing on about prom…. ALL the time. I have no interest in school dances or school functions or even spirit despite the fact that I’m a cheerleader.  If I happen to go to prom to shut her up it will probably be next year when all my other friends go. But I mean seriously people make way to big of a deal about it. She should just be glad I’m skipping two years of school.

Second Reason: I will finally get to see my guy friend because he goes to college up in Oregon and we barely ever get to see each other.

third reason: I’m going to EUROPE! I’m meeting all of my friends there. My friend Anne lives in france and she wants to take me to all the clubs there, my friend Eleonora is going to come visit me in Rome because she only lives 2 hours away in Naples. Izzie is going to come visit too! I might go to Germany to visit Manuel but that’s probably not going to happen because I’d rather spend that money to go to Ibiza with Anne 🙂 we are going to all split the cost of an apartment and go there.

fourth reason: I’ve barely been sleeping and I can’t wait to catch up on that.

fifth reason: even though I have about 290 hours of community service I really want to volunteer this summer. My friends work at this really cool foreign exchange program where you  get a bunch of community service hours for hanging out with foreigners and showing them around southern California.

fifth reason: I need relaxing time and Sunny weather

sixth reason: Summer solstice, Identity Festival in San Diego with all my friends, Lightning in a Bottle, Burning Man, Concerts in La, electric forest maybe, (Tommorowland and EDC! probably not even though i really want to go )

seventh reason: IT’S FREAKIN SUMMMMMMMMMERRRRRRR! PARTYYYYYY!!!

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OH CONVERSE MY CONVERSE!

An ode to my converse (english assignment.. don’t look at me like i’m crazy :P)

Just by looking at you my feet feel like they’re walking on clouds. So cozy and snug, like majestic polar bears hugging my feet. You’re NOT the prettiest, but you make me smile! you’re perfectly imperfect and worth all the while. With scuff marks and footprints… and caked in mud, you’re a work of art. You’re drawn all over in sharpies and pens, people call you two’s and three’s, but you’ll find your perfect match ‘cus I call you ten’s. That’s not very funny, I know you get my humor though, oh did I mention your shoelaces glow? only in the dark that is… the rest of the time they’re black and covered in dirt. You’ve been walked all over and trampled, you have experienced it all. Just PLEEEEEEESE don’t let me fall. You know I’m clumsy… that’s for sure. I wore you as I tripped up the stairs, yes up! and landed on my face thanks a bunch! 😦 You’ve been with me through all my memories, through thick and thin…. my feet would like to thank you for being a second skin.  From skipping in the rain to biking in the blazing sun, you’re just like my friends (insanely fun)! You’ve been there all night, as I danced my cares away…..and been there all day, as I walk home after missing the bus. Now, it’s not just me anymore, converse. it’s us!!!! ❤

I wrote a loving poem to my shoes…I have come to the conclusion you can literally write about anything. This is a sketch of converse since I didn’t want to get my camera out at 11:11 at night…. 11:11 yay! make a wish!

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1990’s?

I think I was born in the wrong era… I think I was suppose to be a teenager in like 1992. To start things off… I think they had more fun, everything was kind of new. The internet, people actually met face to face instead of texting all the time, and the club scene was more alive. There are some places where it still is… but for the most part nowadays it’s just a bunch of people in skanky outfits and heals being drunk and loud. Now i know i can’t generalize but it’s pretty spot on… and guys go to pick up said drunk women. What happened to dressing up like this….

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I mean the style for the most part was pretty boring back then. I could have lived with that though. There seemed to be this big thing for underground stuff then too. Underground music and punk rock like at CBGB, Raves were underground (and real not just a bunch of girls in bikinis doing drugs or people looking like they’re having seizures while dancing to dub step) no matter how fun that it 😛 haha  Ravers looked like this…

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even though most people dressed like thisss….

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I would most definitely be the one standing out and dressing like this….

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or this

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although I pretty much dress like this on the weekends anyway —>

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But then again I guess our era has some nice stuff too, our technology has improved a loooooot over the past ten years, but as much as I love technology I prefer physical interaction way better.

National Champions

Ok, so we won our cheer spirit nationals! 🙂 I was literally so nervous that during the first competition on Friday (to get to finals): My mind went blank. I couldn’t think or remember anything or what I was doing. That was one of my biggest fears and I guess I faced it because I just smiled and clapped as I walked backwards. I didn’t get yelled at because most people didn’t notice, but I’m guessing my coach did. Nice thing about being tall is I didn’t have a counter part, so I could’ve done just about anything and no one would know if I was suppose to or not. The second day of the competition was Finals. I wanted to make sure I didn’t psych myself out again. The only reason I think I blanked was because I kept thinking about how hard we all worked and thought I was going to ruin it or how sad everyone would be if we lost. The only thing I should’ve thought was that it’s just like at practice, we are there to have fun and prove how bad we wanted the trophy and medals. So I just decided to have fun with it. I didn’t blank at all and I remembered everything as well as making the stupid peppy faces that I’d usually make fun of other cheerleaders for doing. Funtimes 🙂 First season ever that we went undefeated by winning first at every competition! This was my first and last year doing cheer because I’m graduating early, so I’m glad I had this wonderful experience.

Photo cred: my dad 😛

CHEERMARE?

So, It’s only one more day until the end of the week and all I can think about is the weekend. Normally I’m ok with that because of the random chance I’d actually have time to hangout with my friends. But this weekend we have Cheer Nationals in Anaheim which basically means Eat Sleep Cheer. So basically we are only aloud to think about winning from tonight until saturday night… funnnn.
I am driving up to L.A. right now. Typing my post in the car.. but by the time you are reading this I will be at my hotel since theres no internet in here to publish it. I am really excited, nervous, and scared all at the same time. I get to room with my cheer friends so that’ll be fun since I’m bringing a ton of movies and we all are friends. Theres four of us in one room though.. don’t know where we are sleeping. Might have to Ke$ha it and sleep in the bathtub.. jk that’s nasty haha. Anyway wish us luck, I just wanna get to Finals and then Hopefully we win but i’m just stressing to at least make it to finals. We have all worked so hard and I know for some of the people on the team Cheer is their life. I would feel so horrible if we didn’t at least get to finals for them. Well I gotta go “Bring it on” is on… God cheers made me way to girly. Oh well I only got one more week of it at least I’m not wearing pink ;P

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