Friday: May 9 - It has been almost a year since I have updated this blog. A lot has changed but at my essence, I remain quite the same. There is nothing in particular
that compelled me to write but perhaps a culmination of many recent events. I am a very nostalgic person that believes everything worth exploring exists in the
past so that is where my mind lives a lot of the time. I think about the people that have been in my life and how each of them have meant different things to me.
The future feels uncertain but I have to remind myself to live in the present. There is beauty in every moment. I should no longer run away from what scares me.
In terms of art, I have continued to make work. Although it took me almost two years, I finally finished Sometimes In The Morning. I submited it to a local film
festival and it was rejected. Recently, my friend Amelia predicted that I would have a defeat of some sorts. This rejection does not feel like a fulfillment of
her prophecy. That came in the form of a combination of so many things. The rejection was a small but painful part. However, I feel as if my period of tribulations
has passed and I have come out the other side feeling luckier than ever. I will write this next part for myself, as a reminder of what I have learned. Every moment
exists etternally, that is when you are most alive. Sometimes In The Morning will be out soon. I am so happy to have completed it and am forever grateful to those
who helped make the work a reality.
This is the first film I officially dedicate and it is to the lovely person who showed me what anchovies in pasta could do.
Thursday: May 16 - Turned 24 recently. Had a party to celebrate and in true only child fashion, held trivia about myself as one of the party activities.
I cannot remeber much since then but my life does feel different. After a hiatus, I am returning to work on Sometimes In The Morning. The editing phase of the
project is over, now I move on to work on sound. I watched a movie called Columbus (2017) and felt heavily inpsired by its sound design. The minimal approached
to how quiet and beautiful life becomes is something I need to capture in my journey into sound. I have also returned to the dark room to make prints.
This was something I promised myself I would do this year. I drive to Santa Cruz to work at the darkroom on campus. Having a dedicated time to work on my art has
given me a newfound appreciation for photography. If a bricklayer works to build churches, I would like to think that I am working on building a chapel for my memories.
I am eager to share the work I have done but there is still a lot to be done if I want to achieve technical and artistic mastery. Discipline is something
I believe I lack. The feeling of starting on a new project always beckons to me but as I get older, there is a sadness that comes from not finishing what I started.
Perhaps others feel the same. As always, I continue to do photography. My recent big accomplishment was designing a publication for the store. Seems like graphic
design has found me. Luckily I do enjoy physical publications. In my dream world, I travel the world and make photobooks. Every step hopefully leads me in that direction.
Jonah's Favorite Pizza Slice: Special Pizza
Kai's Favorite Pizza Slice: Mozarella w/ Eggs & green onion on the egg.
My Favorite Pizza Slice: Nobody cares
Monday: Feb 12 - A lot has happened since I last updated this blog. I am doing so now at Kai's request. The website launch part happened on 1/31/2024 and was a success. For a moment it was nice to be surrounded by friends who have accompanied me throughout my life at different points. Photography in a sense has always been about memories for me. Mia saw the image of 5 people walking through a field and immediately remembered that was the day Charlie and Natalie moved into our home. Luis was surprised to find himself not only in many pictures but he also learned he was present for the making of a lot of these images. We drank, we talked, and we listened to a playlist of hits from 2000-2010. There is much work to be done on this project. For example: I need to link this website to the url I purchased. I want to update the design of the individual film page. This will take time but I hope to see progress slowly compound on this project. I asked Kai what to write about. From inside the kitchen he told me to talk about what I do for fun in my free time. Here's your answer Kai: I enjoy exploring my feelings in my free time. Opening myself up to the world to see what it has to tell me. My thoughts are usually about myself. Learning what I enjoy and what I don't. I like taking the bus to go watch a movie at the theather in Japantown. The people that work there are nice but I feel bad that I am supporting a larger corporation like AMC rather than a local theater. However the films I am interested in watching are sometimes only shown there. I like coming home to a warm home, a place where I can rest my tired everything.
Friday: Oct 20 - "to pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." -Mary Oliver. "consider gain and loss but never be greedy. everything will come" -A fortune cookie taped onto the side of a printer at work. These two quotes have been my mantras in recent days.
Wednesday: Jan 24 - I am one week away from launching this website. Set a goal for myself to have it up and running by the end of the month. As an incentive I am organinzing a website launch party. I wonder what people will think of the website. Looking at all the images layed out on our living room walls makes me feel very humbled. My life's work so far.
Monday: Jan 8 - Working on this again. Things I need: more digital photos. There are currently none. Sequence and currate existing galeries. There is no sense of rhythm between the images. Really love the one image of Luis though. That guy gets me.
Wednesday: Oct 18 - Parker told me I said the only way this website was going to get built was if I used square space. Only time will tell Parker. Let Jonah be my witness, I am building this website. "We are all one hot potato away."-Jonah
Monday: Oct 9 - Started a new job this week. Haven't had a chance to work on website in a bit but that's just me being a bit lazy. Was listening to "In Rainbows" yesterday and I swear its faster than I remember. Maybe I am just getting old. Free Palestine.
Friday: Sep 29 - Switched to using href and am now able to access pages with more ease. Still working on editing for "Sometimes in the Morning". Hopefully this website will be ready to launch for its premiere. Still not sure what I am doing with my life :/
Friday: September 22 - This is the start of the blog. There is an issue with the webpage. I cannot use the back function because it doesn't load the header. Might be a mistake using hx-get instead of hx-target