Regional Media Art Show!

In a previous post I had mentioned that one of my photographs had won 2nd place in an art show. So last night, I attended the award reception. It was very nicely done, the exhibits were organized, all of the art was steller. I have never been so inspired in my life! In totals, thirteen schools participated, so the work was very diversified.

Haha you're probably sick of this picture by now ^.^

I'm not even gonna bother posting the other one.

But I'm not gonna lie, seeing your work published/displayed/recognized makes for awesome feelings

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING WORK IS NOT MINE AND I TAKE 0 CREDIT FOR IT. These are just snapshots of some of the other work I found highly highly...well...awesome!

This is the picture that won 1st place in my category. It's totally sick.

I really really liked this one a lot

The title of this one was 'Hansel and Gretel' 

So creative!!

It's hard to tell from here, but there are people superimposed on the wall

Some Snapshots of the event:

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That whole long showcase was the color photo category, not just that part ^^

Pretty cool. 

Anyways, I have SAT this SUNDAY and then finally my AP US Exam on Friday, so unfortunately I will not be able to update until then! Wish me luck! I'm gonna need it soooooo bad ;>.>

-Sonnnnnnnnny

Israeli Dance Video

So here's the video of the Israeli Dance that I performed at the fair! This is far from a professional videotape (hahahaha) so please excuse the girl dancing in front of the camera. Right now I have ten billion assignments to do because I missed three days of school, but after tomorrow I'll be on Spring Break so I will finally have time for some commenting and blog reading (that I miss very much)

So, without further ado:



-Sonny!

AHHHHHH! I'm such a horrible blogger!! I feel like I've been MIA, somedays I'm so so busy that I don't even go on Blogger at all. However, it is Friday, and before I snap into work I wanna give some quick updates

So as you guys know I mentioned in passing that I was supposed to present a proposal to the Board of Ed on Tuesday. Um it went pretty well I guess. Unfortunately I was not able to use a podium so I had nothing to brace my shaking body on, so for the first part I was just clutching the mic with fear. I haven't watched it back yet, I'm too scared. My friend also prepared a speech and petition so he presented too. His speech was really really professional sounding and everything.  I did however get into the local paper--although my name was spelled wrong. But hey, I got my own paragraph, tiny as it may be. I don't have a copy at the moment though, I let my teacher borrow it so she could photocopy it.

Last night I took a practice SAT. Ugh it was excruciating. I was there for four hours! I got my scores just now. I am so relieved to be taking this course because I definitely want to raise them! Overall I got a 1990 scratch that, I can't read well, I got a 2020 out of 2400, which is okay, but I'm really aiming for a 2200 or 2250 by the time the course is over. That means more SAT and less blogger, unfortunately :(

I really do have so much more I'm itching to write but I seriously need to put my nose to the grindstone!

Laterrrrrr

-Sonny ///

What are you asking me for? It's not my goddamn history!

*title from a song*

So I am in a rather chipper mood! It might seem weird, since it's the first day back and I'm supposed to be all miserable and depressed.

So erm, yesterday I had to go downstate to visit my grandparents for my Grandpa's birthday. During the car ride I did my AP homework, and studied SAT vocab the coolest way ever. My English teacher had let me borrow this CD called "Rock the SAT" which is a collection of songs incorporating SAT words. Now I will never forget that "Sycophant" means "ass kisser!"

We went to a Kosher Deli, and the food there was amazing! 

I'm talking turkey sandwiches, pickles, potato salad, cole slaw, french fries and Matzah Ball Soup. Did I just make you hungry?

And then we went to my grandparents apartment for dessert!

Anyways, my internal clock was totally screwed up from vacation, so I got about roughly four hours of sleep, and while I did sleep I had this horrible nightmare that freaked me out completely. I was so tired that keeping my eyes open in any sort of light made them tear x[  Nevertheless school was good.

Public Speaking is awesome! I love the class, it's so much fun. It's mainly seniors though, but I swear, some of the funniest things come out of their mouth. My teacher's pretty cool too. He used to be an actor on "All of My Children." He told us that today---cool teacher much?

But the main reason I'm in a good mood is that I had to give an oral presentation/speech for APUSH on "The Jazz Singer" (I know, the day after break. Sucks. And ICUW it was the first "talkie" film released in the 1920's) I've been having nightmares and dread all during break about it. Usually, when I give a speech, I shake so so hard and uncontrollably that I can't even read what I write.

 I was shaking before my speech, but even when I delivered it, for some reason, this time I did not shake at all. I did go completely red in the face, but at least I didn't look like an earthquake! My presentation was good too. In the beginning I had a few lines on paper, sort of like subtitles, and I held it up for the class to read like a silent picture, which I thought would make my presentation more interesting!

Lots of comments on the Lourdes picture. The picture I took didn't quite capture how similar we look. It actually scares me to the core how much she looks like me, and her facial expression etc...I never even heard of her since a couple of days ago!

Feel free to Form Spring Me if you want to get to know me better!

-Sonny




Wait! Wait! I have a fantastical idea! If You Like My Blog You Should Follow It! :D

Old photos, New photos!

I wasn't planning on updating today but today was a win in all sorts of ways :D

Firstly.....

1.) YAY 20 Followers!!! I Love You Guys!! ^_^
2.) My mom drove me in late today, 30 extra minutes of sleep!
3.) I finally got to take home my project (the library collage), 

(Remember this one?)

lots of positive feedback on it, and I'm going to put it up on my wall. Also, my Photo teacher is submitting three of my works for our schools "Graffiti" Magazine:

4.) I didn't have to speak in Public Speaking ^_^
5.) At lunch today I bought a snack from the machine, and someone else had apparently bought something and left it in the machine, so yay for free food!
6.) Video in APUSH
7.) My friend gave me this kick-A Chinese Calender! I think I'll put it on top of my Moon Cake Box ahaha
8.)  I went to Chess Club (Since I'm the President), and I won my match!
9.) Larry's backpack. I can't explain it....
10.) I went to Zumba tonight and now I feel like less of a fat-ass.
11.) After tomorrow I'm on break for a week
12.) My brother's coming home for the weekend :]]




So yeah, I'm in a pretty freaking awesome mood right now!


Some other old Self-Portrait Project shots that I've been too lazy to post >.<

Collage made of all original pictures by me!

Enjoy!

-Sonny

I Wonder What Happened to the Boy in the Lighthouse.....

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Photo credits to Whosle on DeviantART

^^What I Inspire to be Like ^.^

It just makes me feel so freeee

Whoooooo (my version of a sigh of relief)....

Three exams down, one to go! On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon I had to take an English regents test which is required by NY State (I hate this state!!!). Two days spent in a gym for 2-3 hours each day. Torture!! For the test you have to write two essays each day. Tuesday we had to listen to a speech and write an essay on the benefits of public parks, and then read an essay and chart on ORGANIC FARMING and write an essay on why it's a viable career option. Yes, I am killing myself with AP and honors classes so I can grow up to become an organic farmer and work at Wal-Mart! Wheee! I think it was more of a brainwashing session than an actual test of our abilities.

Then yesterday we had to do a literature comparison and write a unified essay on life changes using both texts.... One was a poem about a boy turning ten (I have to admit I sort of liked it):

The whole idea of it makes me feel

like I'm coming down with something,

something worse than any stomach ache

or the headaches I get from reading in bad light--

a kind of measles of the spirit,

a mumps of the psyche,

a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.

You tell me it is too early to be looking back,

but that is because you have forgotten

the perfect simplicity of being one

and the beautiful complexity introduced by two.

But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit.

At four I was an Arabian wizard.

I could make myself invisible

by drinking a glass of milk a certain way.

At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince.

But now I am mostly at the window

watching the late afternoon light.

Back then it never fell so solemnly

against the side of my tree house,

and my bicycle never leaned against the garage

as it does today,

all the dark blue speed drained out of it.

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This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself,

as I walk through the universe in my sneakers.

It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends,

time to turn the first big number.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe

there was nothing under my skin but light.

If you cut me I could shine.

But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,

I skin my knees. I bleed.

Billy Collins

And the other passage was a short story about a boy from Italy befriending a lighthouse keeper in Wales, and then returning the next summer to not be recognized by him....it was weird. The funniest part was that that evening when I went on Facebook there were all these groups about the regents stories the same day we took the test. Internet makes information travel fast. Anyways the groups are hilarious: Organic Farming is MY career choice! -_-, your life doesn't change at 10 & what is that boy doing in a lighthouse !?, The Light House Keeper Got Alzheimer's to name a few, and there are more constantly springing up....each with wall posts on what the boy and the lighthouse keeper "did" together xD

And finally, the final essay I had to write was a critical lens (evaluate a quote using two works of literature). The quote was pretty easy---whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself. I used the Crucible and the Kite Runner, but *facepalm* I forgot who the author was and we were supposed to include that. I talked to my ex-English teacher today in the library and she said she read my essay and it was "good" but other people messed up and wrote about karma, instead of characterization like they were supposed to....rant rant rant, I know, I'm sorry x_x

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SO I had math and AP....math was mainly guessing for me since I switched into the class half-way through the semester....After math we had two hours before our second test and so both of the entire AP blocks were in the library....we were at every table group pow-wow studying and outlining last-minute essays (she ended up giving us the easy DBG, TG). 3/4 in I just gave up and sat with my friends. The test itself went....okay...... :/

Oh God, isn't that true?

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Let's do it!!

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Time for Chem?
Peace Out....
~Sonny ///

College Stress

First of I'd like to thank E V E R Y O N E that voted for my sister in her art contest. We don't know the winner yet but if she wins I'll let you guys know

So I KNOW I have not updated well recently but my exams start tomorrow and I have been studying like a madwoman. Unfortunately I haven't started chem or math, but those are easily crammable. So erm, my APUSH grade is a 97.3?? Wtf how did that even happen? Apparently I beasted my project and test (well beasted it for me), and I didn't even do any extra credit cos I'm too lazy. So now I have to study-udy-udy till my brains fall out for the midterm because if I do bad on that *poof* there goes all of my hard work for the entire semester.  In other news my photo teacher said he submitted some of my works for our school's literary "graffiti" magazine, so that should be exciting. I also have to dig up an amazing piece of literature that I wrote from the files on my computer (if one exists) and submit that to a literary contest for a scholarship.

Oh and that reminds me. Last night I had a college epiphany. For my entire high school career I've been slated to go to Binghamton U, why? Because my brother went there. And although it never really appealed to me, I was like sure, okay, it's a good school and it's a state school. Recently I've been reconsidering--first MIT, but then I realized I was not a genius and probably have like a 5% chance of getting in, maybe less. Then I switched to Cornell--it's ivy league, in the middle of nowhere, and has a room just like the one in Harry Potter (and other reasons that are not so shallow). If you're wondering I want to be a doctor (neurology specialist), so I figure I can get into a good med school from there. Only issue--WHERE DO I GET THE $$$$$$$$$$$?? Oh lordy. Oh yeah, and I have to do well on the SATs.

I apologize for this RANT but that was kinda the reason I made this, to "get out" what I'm thinking.....

&& Now for some inspirational Icanread pics....and then I'm back to studying

~Sonny ///

Grrr frustration

So today was the wrap-up of a six-class long survivor activity. In AP US, my teacher made challenges based off of the information we were learning and kept a tally for points. The challenges were so much fun, and I ended up coming in second. I'm sort of frustrated though because the winners from the two classes (because there are two APUSH classes) compete for Ultimate and Runner up for actual bonus points. I was so close. If I had won I would've been guaranteed 10 points on my next test (which would help me out a lot). Anyways, all grade-frustration aside, I am kinda proud for coming in 2nd. I'm really not that good at history, and there are people in my class so much smarter, so I take it as a personal victory. :] Oh yes, the positive spin. I'm trying to keep my life "Sonny" lol

I'm also frustrated in my photo class. I swear for like the entire month of December we didn't do ANYTHING, and 4 classes before the end of the semester, my teacher gives us two huge projects--including a research paper AND powerpoint as well as the photos. And what pisses me off even more is that he keeps changing the criterea--first we need 3 collages,ten images, then 5 need natural lighting. So I did that. THEN he tells me that 5 MUST be done with "stage lighting" so now all the ones that I spent my precious time doing at home (like HE suggested we do) were pointless. I want to punch a wall.....

And now for the fun stuff!!

More "Portrait Project" images:

Studio lighting:

&& Apparently there are 4 kids at my school who also have Panda Hats? I've had mine since September...I guess that makes me a trend-setter!

Non-Studio Lighting?

I have a LOT more, but these are just the highlights.

I also have natural lighting ones, but I guess I'll post those later!

Other Stuff

A portrait of my sister

Picture of some icicles I took....when I was locked outside of my house for 45 minutes. I forgot my key. Fail on my part....

I freakin love my cats.

Speaking of cats, Nemo (not the one in the picture) fell asleep on me last night while I was (attempting to) study for my chem test :) And his official name has been changed to Captain Nemo, from 20,000 leagues Under the Sea. I have never read it, but my Grandpa suggested it. I think it's adorable.

&& fun weekend! NAWT.  I will be spending the next three days: Outlining four essays, writing 3 papers, making a photo collage, studying for my APUSH test, Math lab, APUSH, math, and chem midterms, AND my English regents. So in short my life will suck for the next two weeks >.<

Keep your lives Sonny guys!

Peace out.

~Sarah

I'm on fire and now I think I'm ready to bust a move

Firstly I'd like to say thanks to my lovely followers! And second I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas. I'm Jewish so I really don't have much to report on for the past few days. I'm on vacation now (as I've previously mentioned) so I've devised a list of things to do in case I get stuck watching TV endlessly.

List of things to do over break:
1. Reading--The Crucible (which I've been assigned) and Wuthering Heights (Which I am reading for myself)
2. Clean out my closet and desk (done)
 3. Get more music (and enjoy it!)

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 4. Tetris--just a few games ^_^
5. Online shopping--I feel the urge to buy stuff online

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6. I want to work on my novel,
7. Do some more art for my DA page
My DA Page
8. I also have several old metallicky bottle caps that I want to make a necklace or bracelet out of at some point.
9. Math and Chem Homeworks
10. Silly old APUSH reading
11. Memorize all the elements of the periodic table using Tom Lehrer's song

12. Re-memorize US presidents for APUSH
13. SAT studying?
14. Blogging of course ^_^
15. Paint my nails (I'm so shallow, I know)

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16. Get a haircut? (I badly need one).
17. Watch some more Pokemon episodes online!

Too many students took out the SLR cameras over break so there wasn't one left for me.  Well, what can you do, so I guess I'm not gonna get a lot of photography in over break.

Also, I have not gotten my kitten yet, but my parents are attempting to schedule appointments at shelters, so hopefully I'll have one soon :)

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I hope you all continue to have a happy holiday!
~Sonny ///