Mehlicky, The Raccoon-Gargoyle-Leprechaun-Dog-Bear

Hurrs some more phoh-tohs (I love using unnecessary h’s!) from the Fooji camera (and alternate spellings with double letters!). Please excuse the fact that they’re scans, it’s really the only option for putting these online. I also editedidedd with Photoshop – just cropping and resizing, no retouching or anything.

We saw this GINORMOUS dog while we were walkin’ around the neighborhood yesterday. I think it was part-bear. Like raccoons?

So if raccoons and dogs are both related to bears, does that mean raccoons are part-dog? Maybe they’re just cousins.. brothers-in-law? (btw how cute are Sam and Joey?)

I love these shots, especially the one on the right (the wood pattern + slouching gargoyle = WHAT? awesome).

All of this picture-taking (especially with film.. so fun with film) has really been making me feel creative/inspired lately. That, along with summer and the ~natural course of feelingz~, I think. And music.

It also got me thinking a lot about how you can use photography to express feelings/emotion, a story, a sculpture, yourself, anything – and how that makes it a form of art. I’m not really sure how I look at my photos.. Sometimes they can tell a story, but that’s up for the audience – and me, I guess – to interpret. How do you interpret some of my/these photos?

That said, I don’t take photography very seriously. For now, it’s more just a hobby of mine, not quite like music and writing. I don’t want to take any photography classes or anything. Of course, there’s always more I can learn about it and more skillz to be had, but I think I’d rather enjoy the slow course of self-teaching and experimentation than begin to learn it all quickly/from a teacher. I think this way it’s easier to develop your own style of whatever you’re doing “more fluently,” and you can learn more about yourself in the process. I only started taking drum lessons a few years ago, when 1. it was required by school band to take lessons, and 2. I wanted to expand my technique and diversity of playing.. And even then (and now), my drum lessons were/are more of a “show-and-tell” with my teacher – he’ll play some Latin grooves or give me some jazz drumming material to listen to, and I’ll show him some of the grooves I’ve been playing, and so forth. You know, I’m not just saying “SELF-TAUGHT IS BETTER!” Well, I kind of am, essentially. But I have nothing against classes/teachers! (innocent, I swear!) I just prefer to learn on my own, most of the time, that’s all.

Interpret that.

Sammy and I watched this episode of Spongebob today. Pretty interesting, no? A little bit disturbing, too. We also made cards and watched part of School Of Rock. That movie is filled to the brim with stereotypes. But I love it.

Yaayyy hanging out with Tavi tomorrow. Adios!