"I GANG BANG WHITE CASTLE"

Well, over the weekend I was suppose to go to great america with my boyfriend but my father was being a real McAsshole. So, Sunday I started my new and first job at white castle. So here are some pics to show you how I looked!!!!!!!

Dadaism??

This painting is known as a Dada style painting.

Dadaism was popular in through 1916-1920.

Dadaism was about anti art, rebelling against

the traditional style paintings. Dada is french for

hobby horse. It is also still prominent in today's

culture. One of the most popular Dada paintings

is the one done by Marcel DeChamps 'L.H.O.O.Q',

he mocks the Monal Lisa by putting a mustache on

her. (Seen Above)

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this weekend.

this weekend was a lot of fun. it felt good to reward myself after a rough week of working hard and getting to class on time. on friday night me and a bunch of the kids on my floor took the howard up to clark to try and check out a hookah bar only to get there and find out it was closed while waitying for the cab i ditched everyone for 10 minutes and slammed a beer in a place called the Bong cafe which made me laugh. on saturday wade jeff and i took the redline howard to wilson to check out a skateboarding demo that was put on by Baker skateboards. it was really cool and we got to see professional skateboarders doing some amazing tricks. that night wade and i were "exploring" the backways of the south loop when we ran into some kids from our floor. while i was talking to them wade came up out of my field of vision and said "hey kyle check this out." when i turned to look at him he was holding in his hand a DEAD RAT by the tail. way to break those hillbilly stereotypes wade. sunday i spent a lot of the day sleeping and doing homework. oh and Harold's chicken kills hangovers with a vengance. and i recommend getting the ranch sauce and dumping a little of the hotsauce in and stirring it up its amazing.

MY WEEKEND

my weekend was very relaxing, i did my homework on thursday so that i wouldn't have to do it during the weekend. am spending a lot of time with my boyfriend before he leaves to go to collage. im really nurves about that even though he's only an 1 hour and 15 minutes away from me. but any way we went to one of our friends trunk party and are going min golfing this weekend. wat should i do about me being nurvous?

matter of opinion

i think its intense that lealan's uncle baby lee was atabeed with a broken beer bottle. After an argument , dont anybody platy chess anymore

skaters way

Last Saturday Dan aka "Kick Push" and my self traveled to the illusive Uprise skateshop off Milwaukee Ave. Unfortunatly, we decided to take the blue line train, which if you haven't already found out is a crazy train sent from hell to give you a roller coaster ride through the city. "THIS TRAIN IS COOKIN!!!" Dan yelled at me over the roar of track and wheel. All i could do was laugh and think of how the ride reminded me of the Twister ride at Universal Studios. The train came to a screeching halt at Western and wwe hopped off. Still discruntled from the ride Dan and I made our way to Milwaukee Ave. Not a stones throw away we found the Uprise skateshop. I felt so at home there. The people were nice, the boards were nice, and the people were genuine. A new deck and pair of trucks later we headed out back towards the Train of Nightmares. I was a serious trip.

Weekend

It was a really good weekend. Being home felt so good. I was real homesick. I wish it could have been longer, but i think that this program is really making me appreciate homelife and the people back home.

Rock Creek Lodge, etc.

Since it's Saturday, I finally had time to read all of your great posts. Keep it up, and if you haven't posted in a while, we want to hear from you again (and again). 

It's been fun for me to see if I recognize some of you in all the recently posted photos (nice photos, Michelle, Tierra, and Tiara, but was that you, Jeff?!), and I enjoyed "going along with you" on some of your road trip adventures. Fascinating stories. . . While reading Kyle's detailed post about his southwestern trip, I was also struck by the challenge of describing in words rather than relying on photos. Both are good, but sometimes one doesn't have the photos!

OK, what I started to post here is that I did online research into Rock Creek Lodge and the Testy Fest. It's easy to find; apparently this lodge is known far and wide for that event! Besides the lodge's own website, it is listed on one called Legends of America: A Travel Site for the Nostalgic and Historic Minded, which strikes me as hilarious. However, I also found information on the lodge itself on a Montana state site: halfway between Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, it's used the rest of the year by people who go there to hunt, fish, etc.

Now, going way back with your posts, I wanted to respond to a few:

Dan, I also like Eustace's speech about us living our lives in boxes. It reminds me of the folk song from the 1950s or 1960s, "Little Boxes."

Rob and Jeff, I also especially like Chuck Palahniuk's essays -- including the introduction -- about writing and writers. It strikes a chord for me as a writer and serves a good introduction for non-writers, I think.

Jeff, I like the way you combined Roosevelt's and Columbia's slogans into "Just watch me. . . create change." It works.

Finally, in responding to Jeff's question about why so many Asians and so few Hispanics in downtown Chicago, I want to remind you to look for questions at the end of your classmates' posts and to respond to as many of these topics as we can (although I know that Joe has discussed some of them with you during your afternoon sessions). So anyway, Jeff, this is my theory about so many Asians: I wonder if you notice them more around the South Loop, where we have so many colleges. For example, Columbia has specific summer courses for ESL (English as a Second Language) students, so I've noticed quite a few Asians, too. As far as Hispanics, I've heard Hispanic students lament the fact that they sometimes feel isolated, at least here at Columbia. What do the rest of you think?

what happened to tyrone after he killed eric?

Jesse Rankins aka tyrone one of the killers [ he is 18 in this picture]

he committed a sexual assault three years after killing Eric Morse

but in 2001 when he was 18 yrs old he was set free

this is Eric the 5 year old killed

So I was reading chapter 10 in Our America and i actually got a little mad. Thinking about how two boys set up a 5 year old who was doing the right thing telling his mother that people were pressuring him to steal. Its a shame that a 5 year old knew right from wrong but two older boys didn't. The sad part is this was no freak accident this was set up and done on purpose. I started looking at the pictures and the one that stood out the most was the picture of the apartment. I sat there looking at the picture of 10 minutes visualizing how Tyrone and Johnny basically dangled eric him out the window. I know for a fact that no one would sit and let some people dangle there brother out of a window without screaming and crying and trying to help him back up and know if you were being hung out of a window you would be crying, I just got a deep dark feeling from the picture, sadness and regret. and i wondered what went through Erics and his brothers head, the messed up part about this whole situation. Derrick ( Eric's bro) ran Fourteen flights to catch his brother before he hit the ground; i wondered what he thought when he got down to the bottom and realized he missed him.

i also wondered when derrick realized the first time they weren't playing and dangled his brother out the window why didn't he leave after he saved him the first time. was it because they were scared or was it because they were forced to stay in there? i know its probably more to the story that derrick probably hates to deal with everyday of his life. but i just wondered.

anyway.. i couldn't find Johnny the other dude who was involved or a picture of Derrick

So I went to the post office and decided to take picture with my cell phone. I think this picture is way better than anything Kyles stupid iphone could do. haha

But then I decided to look at my old photobucket from when I did graphic designs in high school to pass time while listening to some lame lecture. Tell me what you guys think.

So I layered two pictures and cut out the can on the top layer and colored the picture black and white. You can see the lighting of the room all tan by looking at the can.
This one, I think I layered it and cut out the bottle then took a picture of an Iron Giant happy meal toy and cut that out and placed it in this picture. Also done on a simply "paint" program that comes with the computer.
This picture I was really proud of until I noticed that on the left I am faded. I placed my camera on my back porch and put it on timer. I took 6 pictures and layered is 6 times. Then I cut myself out 5 times. So I really was standing and sitting in all those places. Also done in the basic paint program.

This is a picture that a friend took. I really like how the rose looked and how the camera kind of messed up and you see a sort of blotted pixelation. So naturally I cut out the rose and painted the rest black and white. But I used a more advanced program so I could increase the color in this and really bring out the yellow color.
This is a picture at my highschool where I kind of fiddled around with photoshop until I came to a sci fi look. It kind of looks like a 3D movie after you take off your glasses to me. I layered this picture about 17 times and it took 3 hours to do. But I loved it. Looks alot better in full size.
This is a picture I took of my best friend and worked with it in a photo processor. I flipped it to the side and changed the color to red and increased the contrast and added a wind effect about 80% until I came up with this. I like it because it fits one of his bands songs about the end of the world and fire comes crashing down. It sort of looks like fire crashing down.
This is the markethouse downtown in my city. I wanted it to look like someone drew it on a brown paper with pastels. I entered this into a dogwood fest we have.

This last one is just about my absolute loath with all things red robin. I've had some pretty bad jobs in my life but this was the absolute worst job ever. The only reason is because the managers are absolute garbage. So I made this into a tshirt that I will be wearing when I visit during christmas...
I kept the job for a year because where I am from, there's soooo many people my age looking for a job and you have to fight for any job you can get. Thats why I've had some pretty odd jobs... carpenter assistant, janitor, mover, bussboy, delivery driver, and cook all while still in high school.

I hope you guys liked these, I have some art work from my sister I might post tomorrow. She was a graphic design major but switched to photography in NJ.
-jeff