these two girls are gonna get big

sooooo
if found (or i guess heard of) these two artists that i listened too and got some music from them!
they're heeeelllllaaa good!!
(well, i already knew of M.I.A.) but her friend Santogold is also quite nice lol
you should definitely check them out
kinda electro-indie-hiphop-misc. stuff


very nice.

Flashback to Forbidden Love

random yet sucessful shoot

i was called upon a friend of whitney's sister to arrive at whitney's house to do a shoot today (i was asked about 11.30p the night before)
but he never showed up...i'm still not sure what went on...some miscommunication

anyways!
whitney and i decided to do a shoot by ourselves anyways
so we cooked up Flashback to Forbidden Love

a story of forbidden love in the 1930's
it's cute and pretty proud of it

the beginning

so last saturday
i went to Sac to an open house for the Academy of Art in SanFrancisco (yes i was in Sac for a school in SF)
but i think it went really well
it's a great program and seems like it's very challenging and rigerous but definitely rewarding in the end. i brought my portfolio for some review by alumni and other staff and it was recieved quite nicely. they said that i had skills that many people don't even have when they go to the school and skills that people really struggle with throughout the year(s).
the only thing that's kinda a killer is that it's pretty expensive
but they have scholorships and grant opprotunities as well as Financial Aid
so that's really good!
this may be it
but i'll keep looking too!

someone!

ahhhh
someone needs to pull the reins back on this crazy horse!

summer is going by waaaaaaayyy to quickly. waaaaaaayy.
i'm all excited for senior year, have no doubt

but in like 3 more months.


i guess i can look forward to back-to-school shopping? yes?

like the

new look?


yeah you do

let's do this #3: Chanel Shoot

so the next day after my Rock shoot
i was summoned by another good friend of mine Britt[any] to do a shoot for her portfolio that she'll be sending off to Vogue!
she wanted to show ranger in her work, so for this shoot she decided to do an ad campaign. for Chanel. YESSSS

so i wake up early [again] and meet her downtown where we elegantly (cause we where both dressed extreamly nicely) strolled through Davis downtown in search of a good allyway. we first went to the ally behind Peet's and FiveFigs, but the lighting at 8:30 wasn't to good. i suggested that we'd try the ally behind Woodstock and we went to check it out. see for yourself:







all photos belong and copywrited to Britt Soltanzadeh

let's do this#2: Ode to Classic Rock

the first photoshoot that i did was with one of my besties Whitney. she's prettymuch amazing and had a very intriguing idea for this shoot. she's very into the old Rock&Roll songs of yore and decided to set up a backdrop where her, myself, her sister and her sister's friend would all pose and hold up signs with lyrics of songs painted on them. i had a lot of fun doing these and they look amazing! (there's much much more, but i'm going to put on the ones i like best lol)

let's do this #1

i feel quite guilty for not doing this for almost a month. it's not that i've been busy, i've just been preoccupied. mostly with nothing other than friends, but also a few other things!
my parents opened a store downtown very recently
Nina and Tom
it's over at the Orange Court between HotDogger and YogurtShack! so y'all should definitely check it out. especially sence we're carrying AMERICAN APPAREL! wooo!

other than that, just busy with photoshoots oddly enough...i did about 2 in the span to 2 days, and they both turned out great!

(this pic is of me and all my EuroGals, which, unfortunately, are all gone and have returned to their homeland as of yesterday :( )