The Cheater

I don't remember if I told you that I have a new house... 

This is my second week from my new bedroom, a huge bedroom with an amazing victorian style window, tons of natural lights and a nice view on the hills of SF.

I love my new place. It's a pretty good size apt in the heart of Russian Hill (yes I'm back to my old neighborhood), I'm lucky enough to live with a gorgeous person also. My roommate is fantastic, too bad we have such a different schedule and it's kinda hard to spend time together because I really like her. A modern bohemian girl, kinda hippie, kinda vintage, she is pretty, and most important thing, she is super into photography like me! should I ask more?

So now I have a new house, a new great roomie, my new camera, a new tripod (fuck yeah!!), and I'm planning a few new things that I'm gonna tell you later.

The only thing I should do to be kinda happy is to find a new job... I'm so done with that place, I can't waist my time anymore. I can stand it anymore, I'm sorry only for the guys who I work with, but for all the rest I really gotta find a new place... I hate restaurants but here it seems to be the easiest place to make money... 

Now let's talk about photos.

The photo I put on my blog today it's a photo I needed to do to remind myself how I love photography, to remind myself who I am and why I'm here. I'm cheating my Canon with this vintage Nikon but only for this photo :P ... Canon is a true, deep love!

Now I have also to remind myself that I'm a photography student and I have finals exams to prepare.

Crossed fingers.

E.

new semester here we go!

..and yes i'm back to school!!! last Friday I officially started my second semester at AAU and I'm really happy and satisfied. I had 2 classes the first day: Visualization and Composition for the artist. Visualization is pretty amazing, I'm gonna study what is behind a photo, the concept behind, the idea a photographer wants to show people with his picture and I'm gonna do every week a different project with a different theme, first assignment is about FEAR! pretty awesome, and today i'm going to shoot something around, i already have some ideas.
Composition for the artist is a little pain in the ass. Basically is english. How to be a good writer. Nothing related to photography but i have to take that class for my bachelor..
Other classes I'm going to take are Color Photography and Photoshop and I'm very happy about my schedule this semester they all look interesting and I'm so excited!!!

This week was super extremely busy, but i like a busy life better than stay home and doing nothing. My two jobs are ok, and i hope i can handle them both otherwise I have to choose.. but now I'm doing fine, i still really dislike my girly dressing for Perbacco but I have to live with them.

Last week and was pretty amazing! Adriano, a friend of mine from high school, came here in SF!!! you don't even know how happy i was... it was like going back in time, i met him when i was 14, we grew up together basically, he is one of my closest friend and now he lives in UK so it's not easy to see each other. Being here together was awesome! I'm just sad i have to wait at least 1 year to see him again :( damn distance! I miss my friends sometimes, I'm a selective person, I don't have tons of friends, but few really good ones and yes i do miss 'em a lot, we are all over the world and Skype is the only way to see each other and talk.. not enough though..

By the way, I'm off today, no work! just relaxing and taking pics, and tomorrow the same :)
thank god i need some rest :)

peace.

News.... MUSE...

Hello everyone! how's life going? mine is getting busier...

have a couple of things to talk about today, so let's get started...

I got a new job!!!!

today was my first day at PERBACCO, an italian restaurant in the financial district, a fine dining restaurant were i have to host, wearing like a woman (and that's the real bet for me!!!) and follows tones of rules... it's gonna be hard, I already know but it's a challenge and i'm gonna try.. today i started my training and i hope i did it well, now i have 2 books to study, books about employees rules and it sounds crazy to me....

...but we will see, the most hard thing i have to do is being careful about tattoos and piercings... i have to hide all of them and i hate it because it's like hiding part of me, part of what i am.. but i have to, it's a good place to work, and yes i need money..

I have to do 4 more days of training and then i'm going to start my regular shifts, I'll have 3 days lunch time to start, so i can still work at Amarena, I won't leave my restaurant, i love it and i'll try to do some double shift, then I have to see how everything can works together with my school...

beeeecause I'm going to start the fall semester september 1st!!!! I'm super excited and happy, it's the fist time in my life i'm happy to go back to school :) i'm going to take 4 classes: photoshop, visualization, color photography and composition, they sounds awesome and i can't wait.. seriously!

Last things i want to talk about is what i did last saturday..........and i'll say only one word... MUSE!!!!!!!!!

I saw them at the Outside Lands Festival here in San Francisco, and i swear to God i've never seen a show like that in my entire life.. it was more than amazing, more than great... it was just perfect! They are unbelievable on stage, Matt is fantastic, I'm totally in love with him! I lost my voice singing all the songs, I was almost crying more than one time, I don't even know how to explain what their music makes me feel, the only thing i know it's that i love 'em!

This is a little video I took when they were performing my favorite song, it' s a crappy video but that moment will be in my heart forever...

Well.. now i have to study my paper work and get ready for dinner with my friends...

wish me some luck because it's going to start a super busy and stressful time of my life!!!

Peace.

I love my room!

Finally it's ready!!! I have everything I need in my room... and I love it!!!

After one year and 7 months I could see my room perfect :) Yesterday i went to Ikea and i got a new desk (a m a z i n g) and some other stuff, now I have my work station, damn I spent the entire semester studying on my bed and my poor back is still insulting me, but now I have what I always wanted, a white milky desk!

To be an Ikea desk it's kinda expensive, but whatever, it's more than cute, it's perfect in my room and i feel really proud to have the room i wanted, made it buying everything by myself, the satisfaction is too high :) i feel proud of me when i can do stuff like that...

Now I'm working a lot, my boss is in Italy and i'm working every day (almost without day off) so I saved some money to get my milky desk... now my new goal is a new lens, of course.. damn life why are you so expensive and we have to work as hell to have what we need?

I was thinking that for the first time I miss school... it's weird, I feel weird! I never EVER had these kind of thoughts in my whole life, and now that I'm in summer break I miss having class... I mean, I love doing nothing and rolling my body on my bed, but I feel my life incomplete without the Academy and that's AWESOME!!! I've never been so happy to study and yes it's great!! Of course I didn't stop shooting, I had a great photoshoot last week during a tattoo session, it was so much fun, I can't believe the Blackheart crew let me shoot in their studio, the first thing you read on their wall is NO PHOTO!!! so i felt pretty lucky (you can see some pics on my flickr if you want). Now I'm already thinking about a new photoset, maybe I'll do some self portrait soon, I need to work on new stuff with photoshop and I always prefer to use myself to experiment new stuff ...

Now I can enjoy the rest of my day off (and of course the weather sucks!!! fml) don't know how yet, but I'm glad I can relax a bit..

later people

xoxo

E.