Jounetsu/Passion

I’m hoping to attract myself to this website more so that I don’t neglect in anymore. So I change the layout again. Hopefully it works.

Anyway, to my life: something I’ve been noticing lately is that the general arts community in Sudbury has been pretty much dead for the past couple of years. Sure, there are artists, and yes, they show off their stuff, but it feels like a lot of the time these “artists” are either rich kids with nice cameras and no artistic talent whatsoever or old ladies making artisan crafts (so quilts and stuff). Which is nice, but very, very boring. However, it seems that in the past year the artists in Sudbury have really been coming together in order to save the artistic community here–the other day in fact, I went to visit my friend Chelsea at her summer job (an arts-related one) and discovered “Le Crac.” For those who don’t live here and/or don’t know, Le Crac is this beautiful little oasis next to the YMCA in downtown Sudbury that a beautiful woman named Dineen made. It used to be just a fenced off alleyway where the inhabitants of 122 Durham could smoke, but after three years of tenacity and green-thumbs, Dineen has turned it into a leafy paradise for those who want to create (or at least that’s where she’s hoping to take it). And this concept of an artist’s oasis (where she’s hoping to eventually hold shows and such) is a wonderful idea, I think. Mainly because it’s something made by an artist for artists, and most of what Sudbury’s had recently has all been things that are put on for the rich who want to pretend they appreciate art, but don’t really care either way.

In any case, I’d just like to say that my discovery of Le Crac and the awesome people who live in that building (all also artists themselves) has really restored my faith in the fact that Sudbury may actually have a vibrant, talented arts community once again.

Thanks, Dineen.

So, while I’m not participating in Project 365 this year (because I’ve been way too busy with work to even think of taking a picture a day), I just wanted to let everybody here know that I’m still going to be actively doing photography-related things. For one, I’m preparing to release a photography website/portfolio (with prices) some time this week or the next.

Anyone who knows me will know that this fact is super-exciting for me, mainly because I LOVE taking photographs of people and I honestly do think that I can at least make a little bit of money on the side doing something like photography professionally. And since I also love designing websites, I figured it would work out quite nicely for me. Don’t you?

So yeah. Photography website, yay!

I’ve already bought the domain and everything. The name of my photography business/me-ness is going to be Envy Photography (because I thought it was clever–NV being my initials). The website will be found at: http://www.envyphotos.net/ .

I can’t wait until it’s up and running!!! I’ve always loved owning a domain, so I also think this will just be generally very fun for me. ^_^

Wish me luck with the design!

So I realized a little while ago that while I actually completed Project 365, not only did I not post any of the photos I took during those days, I also haven’t posted anything to this website in over a month. In ten days, it’ll be two months since I’ve posted here. Which is ridiculous, I know, given that this is borrowed space I’m using, which makes me very, very silly.

In any case, I figured I’d let everybody know that I’m converting this website back into the blog I had before I turned it into a photography site. Which means I’m going to be typing my thoughts a lot more now. Especially since a lot fewer people know that this website exists, and so I’ll get my real-life privacy while still being able to spill the beans about the oh-so-gorey details of my existence on the Internet. Exciting, no?

So, while I’m no longer participating in Project 365, we can still expect many more posts out of me in the future.