BRAIN FACTS

This one's just for fun.
My boyfriend James decided to create a twitter account called @brainfactz, where he posts various questionable but hilarious facts about brains. I surprised him with this wonderful brain hat not too long ago:

All photos taken by me

I actually created the brain graphic with nothing more than pink acrylic paint that I had mixed and a black paint pen. It was a fun little project. I took these photos as well.

Astronauts

My good friend Valerie took these photos of me in a stairwell at her school just a few days ago. 

 

Jacket: Goodwill

Back patch: cut from an old t-shirt

Top: American Apparel

Skirts: Urban Outfitters 

Shoes: Salvation Army

Pins: Garage sale / Etsy

Necklace: So Good Jewelry in SoHo

Lipstick: Sephora Brown Illusion

I've been so into that skirt combo for the fall, I'm upset that it will be too cold to wear it soon. The first skirt is a short black high waisted tulip skirt that I bought from Urban Outfitters years ago, and I put a long sheer skirt, also from Urban Outfitters over it. I actually ended up getting both skirts on sale, now that I think about it! I think that in total, the whole skirt combo cost me $30. Awesome!

I got that cameo pin from a rummage sale about a year ago. The other pin I bought from Etsy, and actually has this illustration by Kurt Vonnegut on it: 

Unfortunately, I bought this pin probably about a year or two ago, so I can't remember the name of the Etsy store from which I bought it for the life of me. 

The evil eye key necklace was purchased recently from a jewelry store in SoHo called So Good. It's a bit of an unusual store, visually speaking, at least. The floors are zebra print, and the hot pink walls are completely covered in jewelry. They have an enormous variety, and are very inexpensive. If want to go to Canal Street to find cheap jewelry, I'd recommend checking this place out instead. The prices are about the same as the street vendors, sometimes even less. I think I paid about $7 for this necklace. 

Anyway! I took these photos of Val right afterwards:

First set of photos taken by Valerie Kamen

Illustration by Kurt Vonnegut

Second set of photos taken by me

Product Shots

I recently had an assignment for photography class to photograph a product in an environment with controlled lighting. I chose to photograph the accessories I was wearing that day, being my favorite pair of shoes and my favorite necklace.

All photographs taken by me

I'm definitely happy with the results! Perhaps one thing I could have been more careful about was the cleanliness of the shoes. I feel like those could have been cleaned up a little bit more before being photographed. In general though, I am happy with the shoot. I must say, I'm learning quite a lot about photography since being in this class for only a few months. It's helped big time. Photography has been an interest of mine for a very long time, but I am finally really learning how to properly use manual settings and control my lighting. 

Employed!

I worked as a temporary sales associate at the American Apparel flagship store in NoHo for the Halloween season, and last Sunday was supposed to be my last day. Luckily, my manager asked me to stay as a regular sales associate! I'm pretty excited, because not all of the temps were asked to stay. I have some previous experience working as a sales associate for the company last year, which I definitely think helped me. I hope to apply to internships with American Apparel in the near future, I like working for the company and I like the general aesthetic of the company as a whole (store design, clothing, etc).

Here's a photo I took of the store's current window display:

Photograph taken by me

I actually had to shoot this for my photography class, the assignment was to go out and shoot store windows. I particularly like this display because it is most definitely inspired by both art history and fashion history. The backdrop and color scheme is Mondrian, of course! And the whole display, clothes styling and everything are inspired by the 1960s, specifically the famous Yves Saint Laurent Autumn 1965 Mondrian Day Dress.

Photograph from metmuseum.org

Anyway, totally excited to continue working! Hopefully I'll continue to make connections and advance my career!

FIT- A Work in Progress!

Photograph taken by me

Currently finishing up my first window display project in my studio design class at FIT. Here's a sample of the work in progress! I wasn't too happy about the fact that I had to cut the legs off of the tights, because when I spent almost $20 on them that thought hadn't occurred to me. I also had to cut the legs off of an old mannequin using power tools (eeeeek!), and I've spent countless hours putting those vinyl stripes all over the backdrop. I guess this is my first real taste at building displays, I had no concept of how long it can take. And to think, this is a small display! Only about 30" by 10". I'm excited to finish this, updates to come!