New shiz

So I registered for my classes today. Here they are. :) I'm really stoked to be doing a fashion photography class. I hope that this teaches me new things. <3

Monday:
8:30am-9:50am: First Year Writing Level 2 102
4:00pm-9:50pm: Fashion Photography 323

Tuesday:
8:30am-3:50pm: Intro to Film 201
11:30am-12:50pm: Art History Survey 2 112 <-- this is during the lunch break hour

Wednesday:
No classes

Thursday:
8:30am-9:50am: First Year Writing Level 2 102
4:00pm-9:50pm: Intro to Photography 201

Friday:
11:30am-12:50pm: Art History Survey 2 112

Moving + Work

Woo, long time no post! I'll be moving on the 16th of August to Philly!! :) I can't wait. Until then I'll be suuuuuper busy packing things. I halted photoshoots till then but I might squeeze in 1 or 2 with Katie and Andrea. I'll post more the extras from my shoot with Andrea when I get home.

My mom's birthday is the 12th and I want to print her out some new prints for her office. Or something nifty. She's turning 48! <3 I love her too much haha. If you haven't seen the pictures from my tattoo about her, you're late. I'll post them later too.

:)

Decided on UARTS. I'm also going on a cruise soon with my mommy. Should be a lot of fun. YES MOMMY. :P I'll also be turning 20 in 5 days. Wow. 20. And then in June I'll be in Louisiana for a while helping my mawmaw (grandmother for you yankees) which should be hilarious and fun. She's the best. <3

I'm going to miss my friends a lot. =\ James Bond with Stephen, the mall with Alex. Sigh. :< Love you kids.

I'll still be on MN@ just leaving for a while since she has no internet. So I'll upload things on dA then. <3

Philly!

We're in Philly visiting UARTS which is where I think I'm going to go. It seems like a really great place! I'm going to be getting a studio apartment in Center City which is around where the school is. Exciteddddddd. :D

I haven't been doing too many photoshoots lately but I plan on getting back into them and doing more photo manips as well. I still have some images I've been editing from my shoot with Rebecca. http://rlmiller.deviantart.com

We're heading to dinner now so I'll update in a little while. I'm doing commissions for $30 if anyone's interested. There's more on my journal on dA.

Ciao!

2 more acceptances!! :D

So today I got accepted into California College of the Arts as a transfer with 12 classes accepted and ALSO University of the Arts (Philly) and UARTS offered me their Promising Artists Scholarship which is $9,000!!! I'm very excited. :) That's all the college news I have for the moment!

OTIS: $7,000 in scholarship
SFAI: financial aid still in processing
CCA: financial aid still in processing
UARTS: $9,000 in scholarship

Nice eh? 3 to go. Pasadena, RISD, and SMFA. :)

Some WIP tidbits!

Hey y'all. :] Well I said I'd update with some WIP screenies and tutorials so I am! I've started a tutorial on my current WIP for Amber's contest. (read more at her account) I'm also doing a tutorial on piece Jazz which you can see in my gallery. Then after those I plan on doing a basics tutorial to help get people started on their manips! :3

Here's my current progress on the vampire manip, let me know what you think or your critiques.
What do y'all think so far? :) Hope you likes it.

I have a few others that are WIPS and I can't seem to finish. I'll update later with them when I've made more progress.

I gotta go shave my legs! :D

Update on Things!

Hey y'all. :) Just updating on what's up.

I've gotten acceptance letters from 2 of my schools (OTIS and SFAI) and I'm planning a trip to San Fransisco so that should be fun. Another trip I'm doing is I plan on having my mawmaw (grandmother) up here during the summer and if she can't make it I'll be going there! And I'm also planning a cruise with my mother that should be a BLAST. ANNNND. I'll be going on vacation to the Caribbean with my best friend and her dad and brother. Packed summer huh?

What are your plans, if any for the summer? :)

Also I did a new manip that you can see in my gallery on dA. How do you guys feel about walkthroughs on how I work? Interested or no?

Ripping from deviantART + college apps

So I've been ripped from my dA account on flikr and even on here! =\ I never really thought my images would be wanted enough to download and display elsewhere. Now that it's happened I feel like I've been jiffed. I try so hard to make my images top notch and I just hate to see people take them and without a second thought download them. Sometimes I wish I'd never stumbled across deviantART and the internet. :(

College applications are super stressful. I found out yesterday that a letter of recommendation didn't arrive for one of my schools so I'm not eligible for scholarship from them. So it's like my entire 65 dollar application doesn't matter because I can't go to a school that doesn't offer me SOMETHING. I'm so mad I can't even think. I get all my stuff in on time and someone else doesn't so I get punished for it. I just feel like everything I do doesn't matter. There's so much against me. I wonder if I should have just stayed in Alabama and became another lawyer instead of pursuing this. I love photography so much I can't imagine my life without it but it's so hard. I have nobody to talk to sometimes. Christian doesn't want a relationship but when we talk it's like we're still together and it confuses me and depresses me. I feel as if I'm destined to just sit here in love and alone.

I promise I'll update next time with less depressing details of my life. Lol.

Cakecones sup

Haha my friend Alex made cake cones and gave me some. :3 I've just had TWO! Surprisingly enough chocolate cake doesn't go as well as I thought with grapefruit. =(

How was everyone's Christmas and New Years? Mine was pretty kickass but I'm completely spoiled by my parents. They love me awwwww. At least someone has gotta right? :D

I got a lensbaby so I'm going to try playing around with that this weekend at my new fav place Scott's Run. Woo!!

Alright so I wanted to know if anyone else did yoga and if you DO yoga, have you tried the podcasts from iTunes "Yogamazing"? They're really awesome AND FREE. And the guy is perky and fun. You download them and you can watch them as many times as you want, they're free. Just thought I'd share since I'm about to do a couple. :) Also, if you know Greer Childers you know the 7 shapely secrets? I have the exercises and I'll put them below so you guys can try them out. Motionless exercise! 7 minutes a day. Works too!

WORK OUT EXERCISES:

1. Your arms: hold your arms out to the side at a 90 degree angle..elbows bent and hands making a fist, facing upwards..now squeeze your arms like crazy for 25 secs and hold in your tummy..Release after 25 secs..Then move your arms 2 inches up..tighten and release..move them again, repeat, and one more time moving them like you were flexing your biceps..

2. Your triceps: bring your arms in back of you, make a fist..tighten your arms and squeeze your shoulders together..25 secs..hold..release..raise your
arms 2 inches higher, squeeze and release..On this one, you can lean your torso a bit forward..Repeat raising the arms until they are as high as they will go in back of you..Squeeze those shoulders/arms..

3. Your fanny: Stand on the floor..on the balls of your feet..have a chair a foot in front of you and use the back of the chair for balance..thrust out
your pelvis and squeeze your fanny for 25 secs..release and repeat 3 more times..You will feel it all down your leg..and as you thrust your pelvis forward you will feel it more..

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Anyways I'm going to go drink some tea and try these. Also, green tea and oolong tea drank together helps you lose weight very quickly. :)
I just wanted to share some of my tricks because I know a lot of people are trying to get in shape and it's hard sometimes to get motivated. Drinking hot tea is very relaxing and we drink it cold too with some sugar. It's just like sweet tea! (for all you other southerners. :3)

Much love,
Alicia