Closed a big chapter of my life this past week/month.
Goodbye to the old. I’m anxious for whatever the new will be.
This image wasn’t exactly thoroughly planned out, as I’m in comfy clothes for moving and am a sweatball. Ha!
Inspired by this photo: 
The photographer’s name is slipping my mind wahhhh
June 1st with 8 notes | reblogAlec Soth makes the most beautiful photographs. That’s probably an understatement.
The only explanation I can fathom up is that his fingers must generate magic pixie dust that make his photos just that much more beautiful.
A fellow photo student, Jennifer Haggerty, wrote a blog about my work that’s currently up at McMaster and that will be up in Tapp’s in February. And to say the least, it made my day. Or week. Or some span of time. I’m so flattered!!! I’m starting to think that maybe I shouldn’t start something new for my thesis work.
(click the photo to read the blog!)
January 20th with 10 notes | reblog
So, I switched Art History classes into a Modern American Art History class. With my favorite ARTH professor. Super stoked on it.
And I think I’ve fallen in love with Edward Hopper’s work. Not that I hadn’t seen it. Everyone’s seen it (Nighthawks.) But I love the loneliness in them. And the city life.
Especially with this painting. I can already relate to it. While I’m excited about my future and moving, this will be the other side. Timid and lonely.
PS: I applied for graduation today. Whaaaat?!
January 19th with 16 notes | reblog
Sorry for the crappy phone pan, but it’s up!!
Opens tomorrow and will be up for two weeks in the Student Gallery at McMaster. Showing along with me is Lisa Stubbs, Julie Johns, and Lane Shull.
If you miss it, it’ll be up for the month of February at Tapp’s Art Center on Main St. Along with that of two of my wonderful professors, Kathleen Robbins and Eliot Dudick. And some other talented students! So, be sure to come to First Thursday next month to see what USC’s photo department is all about!
January 8th with 9 notes | reblog
Let’s talk about how my professor, Kathleen Robbins, won 1st place at the PhotoNOLA Review Prize.
I’m so lucky to study under such great photographers.
January 5th with 9 notes | reblog
JUST GONNA SAY SORRY FOR GROSSIN’ YOU OUT
We watched this in one of my art history classes. The professor wasn’t there that day and the T.A. FORGOT TO WARN US ABOUT THIS and I hadn’t seen it, so I had no idea. And obviously at first it didn’t hit me that it was just a dead pig’s eye. The whole class just gasped.
It’s on Netflix if you want to watch it. A silent film called Un Chien Andalou by Salvador Dali and Luis Brunel.
Those surrealists were some metaphorical, weird ass folks.
(Source: necrop0lis)
December 21st with 6,822 notes | reblogIn the art world, it’s unspokenly all about stealing. You see something you like and you make it your own. You see something you like and you use that for inspiration. Nothing is ever completely 100% original. We all feed off eachother’s creativity.
That being said, I really shouldn’t be frustrated when I see people taking my ideas and my work and… making it their own, per say. Right?
November 5th with 3 notes | reblog
I haven’t posted much original content lately. Or, at least not much of the work I’ve been up to. That’s only because most of my time has been spent on getting G&B ready for print.
So, here’s a cyanotype I made the other day! I’ve been having so much fun in my alt process photo class that I had to share something. There will be more to come. I experimented some with bleaching and toning on others.
Side note: shooting people for my project tomorrow! Hopefully I don’t run out of film/the film I ordered comes in the mail.
September 21st with 3 notes | reblog
Production week at G&B has begun.
-Malia
YUP. Editing photos in the office after an 11 hour shoot. This week is gonna be cray cray.
September 11th with 7 notes | reblog
