dreams & reality

i made a la jetee inspired stop motion using photographs and audio for my final project for one of my studio classes. i started panicking at first because i had nothing done and my final was due in three days, but after sitting down with my professor with a handful of random photographs i took the night before - i was able to hash out/pull some kind of wayward narrative together. i would have ideally spent at least a month on this, but due to my incredible procrastination skills and other school work - i ended up shooting all the photos on one evening and collecting all the audio with my iphone right after and then spent two consecutive nights hastily patching it together.


illusioned from julia wang on Vimeo.

it's not supposed to make sense and pan out logically - i wanted to make something quick, cyclical, disorienting, and open for many interpretations. i actually do like what i did in the time given but i'm not satisfied. i got a lot of great feedback from people that i intend on utilizing when i remake this, but here it is in it's draft form. also i accidentally imported the images 720x480 so the video is super small lol.

staring at rainy days, the hunger games, and FREEDOM

that's right, i took my last finals today. (something odd, i saw my spanish teacher at the pizza store and she said: HULIA, YOU DID GREAT ON THE FINALS. i think i looked at her with the "wtf" face because i was almost sure i failed. well i don't remember much about it anyway.)

and damn it feels so good to be free. even though i quite haven't gotten used to the concept of "you can do w/e you want without stressing" idea. going to kidnap some friends and get shooting right awayyyyy. and hopefully get a job so i can get some new lenses. si?

ANYWAY i spent the afternoon reading the second book of the hunger games (catching fire) and i loved it :) i personally love suzanne collins and loved the gregor and the overlander series. the hunger games are even better. looking for a good summer read? read this. you're bound to anyway, they're making the movie :B the last book of the trilogy is coming out in august so i won't have to wait too long. don't you hate it when you read a book, then realize the next one came out a couple months ago? that's what i did with children of the lamp, maximum ride, septimus heap, peter and the starcatchers, etc more. stupid school. (i like fantasy kid books okay.) then, i don't bother to read it unless i'm rabid about it.

ps - if you guys don't follow her already, steph su has an awesome book blog, and i will be nomming on her books allll summer. i haven't read like nuts since eigth grade *deprived* victoria borrowed bags of books from steph and i kidnapped them from victoria. yey. next book to read: the book thief.

my head kind of hurts so i'm going to sleep until noon and then you'll all get swamped with photos.

until then, here is a random stop motion of a rainy day. :) i just like to sit and watch the rain drop. <-- normal. song is by coldplay (clocks). i wish i could've slowed it down a teeny bit but sadly window's movie maker isn't that customizable.