My absence.

Hello.

Wow, well, I've been on a long hiatus... My last blog post was posted Friday, January 6, 2012, it's now been over a year. Of course, I never meant to go this long without blogging, & I apologize for that. However, I never wanted to be a frequent blogger... I never wanted to tell the world everything, & I never took enough photos or whatever to have a lot to post here. I'm a very private person.

Now on to the real reason I wrote this. I'm gonna talk about what I've been doing.

I moved to Oslo in 2011 to study 3D computer graphics at an IT school. So far it's been fun. :D

& why did I decide to study 3D, & not, I dunno, photography? Because my dream is to work with video games, & has been since I was 16. I figured it'd be a good idea to know 3D, alongside knowing how to draw. I started school being afraid I wouldn't like 3D modeling, but I ended up loving it a lot. Side note, I'm a total city girl, the bigger the city, the happier I am. Not that I think Oslo is big enough. ;D

So, what I've been doing this whole time is; work on personal 3D projects, draw, work on a video game, joined a video game contest, handle crazy private stuff & study, study, study.

We all know if you wanna become really good at something, you have to practice your ass off. I felt like putting photography on hold for a while was the best approach for me. I don't want to make photography a career, & there are different reasons for that (, but I'll leave that for another blog post). I live for video games, gaming & the work behind it. I take pictures because I love it, & that's it. I don't want to make a name for myself or become famous, or whatever, I do it for me. I can't live without taking pictures.

But game art... I love that, too. I dream of creating (or helping to create) crazy, thought provoking & beautiful video games. I want to shake the world with insane stories.

I'm never gonna stop taking pictures, 'cause that's impossible. It makes me so happy. But I can't keep taking pictures frequently. Taking "serious" pictures takes a lot of time. Planning, shooting, editing... You have no idea how much work we put into it...

& that's all I wanted to say for now.

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...from Flickr.
I decided to put the pictures here instead:
(Btw, happy new year!)

The past & present.

Shyness


I used to be very, very shy when I was younger, & I was uncomfortable everywhere I went,
but it was who I was, so I got used to it. When I grew up and outta my shell, I started
noticing all the shy people in this world...& I didn't like them... Shy people never say what
they truly mean, & they're hard to talk to. I'm an extremely honest person, & I guess that's
why I'm writing this post. I don't like to crack someone's shell, I would never...they should
come out on their own, like I did. But if a shy person is happy being shy, they shouldn't change.

The honest truth is; Shy people usually never get what they want. People who
aren't shy just go for it, sometimes without thinking (which can be a bad thing...).

I do understand why they're shy, I used to be like them, but to tell you the secret of the world;
shy people have it hard. They usually don't get the best jobs. They hurt more, emotionally.
I don't mean to step on anyone's toes, but I hope this post made you think. :)

^ Me, Italy, 1999.

Stone cold face in a crowd.

Colored version of this.