...so... an idle mind... is a devils workshop...

...i have been thinking... which is of course NEVER a good sign... where do i see myself in a year or two??? hmmm well... going to gradschool, i will be pretty much in amherst for the next three years... but... there are these long summers... what happens then... realistically... i work and make enough money to support myself through the next year... but hey... you have loans and credit cards to do that... right???

...ok... so what i am gettin at is... i want to travel around in europe... and africa... and ofcourse the rest of the world... i am "CURIOUS nafis" and i want to see it all... but that is ideally... realistically i will probably end up doing it in pieces... so here is the first... starting in turkey... going through middle east... north africa on to spain and portugal and back to turkey through southern europe... NO IDEA how much it is going to cost... but i guess i have a year or so to figure that out...

just thinking aloud nothing more... but if it does happen... it would mean i will get to see where i was born... oh the funnn...

...so...another early morning alarm...

...it was a good night sleep... oh well... atleast thats how it started off... 5am... the pager went off... some house on a little road off belchertown RD had a fire... off i went... it was freezing cold...

...i hate it when i am behind a cop car... they get out of their car... and whip out their flash lights and point it at you... hate it hate it... but... now its not a problem anymore... he came up... i rolled down the window... "...good morning officer... i have here to photo....." "yes yes... go on..."

haha... the helmet and the jacket works out perfectly... :D

i am glad i got to see the chief though... he informed me that... in the coming weeks... there will be another training fire... and they will be bringing down a house... ohhh the excitement that ran through me... cause last time this happend i got this...

that is it for now...

...so... THAT WAS GREAT...

...GOD... finally got back home... what a weekend...

left friday for NY... it was a pleasant ride... with a great last minute company of course... thanks to Katie... i didnt have to ride down there alone... would have sucked...

got very little sleep... the last night... i was just up with gordan... doing nothing... and the second night... i ended up watching the Aussie GP... yes... the time difference was convinent...

the workshops however was amazing... Ed is a great teacher... and i got some good feedback and ideas about my work... cant wait to start the next project... should be interesting to see how it comes out...

oh yes... so wassup with ferrari??? kimi??? massa??? no win... i was horribly dissapointed... after staying up that late... no WIN???

hopefully next race... i cant belive the Formula 1 season is back on... weeks after spring break should be fun...

...miss Emily is suppose to come up ...so that should be a fun couple of day... i really hope she doesnt cancel... i still feel bad that we couldnt hang out last time she was around... but this time should make up for it....

anyway... i just drove back home... been a LOOOOONGGGG day... and lot of ideas and thoughts going through that little brain of mine... so... gotta call it a night...

....so... new tour dates...

...they just put up the new tour dates for As I lay Daying... looks pretty good... hopefully i will get to hang out a lot more this time around...

possible places i might meet up with them...

2008-05-12 Water Street Music Hall, Rochester, NY

2008-05-18 Higher Ground, Burlington, VT

2008-05-21 The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY

2008-05-22 Webster Theatre, Hartford, CT

2008-05-23 Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ

hartford and poughkeepsie is absolutely going to happen... maybe burlington has a high possibility... i have always wanted to visit RIT... so just might drive up there...

and this time hopefully i can actually go through with my portraits of them... and no freezing rain comes into play... anyways... cannot wait... should be a lot of fun...

for a full schedule check out: http://www.asilaydying.com/shows.php let me know if anyone is going to be at the shows...

...so...spring break it is...

...kinda excited about this one for once...

the weekend is going to be one of three... working with Ed Kashi at ICP on a weekend workshop... i will probably learn much more then what i will be helping out with... but i am sure thats how it goes most of the time... that will always be the way...

so... why the excitement about 6 hour drives and weekend stays in NY... well... its NY... and how often do you get to spend a WHOLE weekend working with a National Geographic photographer...

anyway...the workshop dates are:

March 15-16
May 3-4
June 14-15

so... if you make it out there... i am sure i will see you...

and... since its spring break... i might end up staying in NY for a few days... so... any planned adventures are welcome... :D just let me know...

...for the sake of a photograph on the post...

i have been really excited about doing the series of edward gorey photographs... i cant wait to get this ball rolling... as the ones i have shot has been absolute funn...

...so...the life of an 'artist'...

...its been a while... the only time i will end up watching old seinfeld episodes one after the other late into early mornings... is when something is awefully going wrong... over the past couple of weeks... i have been doing exactly that... but i cannot figure out whats wrong...

ponder

ponder

alas... nothing... i guess i would have to think some more... maybe its just what they call premature midlife crisis... hmmm interesting it would be if it is/was true... but catching up on my seinfelds is rewarding non the less...

enough of that...

last week i got a pretty pleasant phone call actually... i was extremely surprised... it was Jeanette Cole... the first time i met her, i was with Mariah and Liz... and were were wondering around this old building looking for a space to take some photos... we came upong this empty studio... and we were happily taking photographs... as it happens, it was Jeanetts office, and she came in... as we were apologising and heading out... she insisted we stay and finish up...





awefully nice... anyway... i met her a couple of weeks ago and left my number and emial because her students needed photographs taken of their artwork...

...i thought she was calling me about some work to be photographed... but alas... she just offered me a position to come in as a Grad student into the MFA program... if my mom wasnt in the other room... i probably would have freaked out with excitement... so... yes... hush hush if you see my mom... i am still planning out a way to come out of the "engineering closet" and break it to her...be a broke... bankrupt... dumb artist...