The Fall of Troy

RIP The Fall of Troy 2002-2010.

It was a lot of good times. Going to high school with them, to seeing them get signed to Lujo, then to Equal Vision, seeing my point-and-shoot promo of them land in AP Magazine a couple times, taking thousands of photos at tons of shows, seeing them perform in several states, different festivals, being stuck on the freeway in a snow storm, Tim peeing on my tripod, Thomas hitting himself in the face with the mic, seeing all the guys play in their briefs on Halloween, the forums, all the t-shirt designs, Livejournal community posts, last-minute shows, "Thomas, why am I not on the guest list" calls standing in front of El Corazon, "Let's bet on how many songs it takes for Andrew to take off his shirt", "Timmmayyy", numerous close calls on getting trampled by a guitar or bass... it was all good times.

CameraLuv

I woke up dreading the day because I had to go get my blood drawn for work on my day off. I was scared of having my blood taken, since it was my first time. Kind of funny because my of my legs are covered in tattoos. It wasn't too bad. My job has this preventative medicine program where they take a blood sample and it tells us where our health is at and what we can do to be healthy, etc. The program is free but if we don't enroll, we have to pay an extra $60 a month on our health insurance, so of course I did it.

OH. To get to the point of my post: I woke up and checked my email and saw that I was featured on cameraluv.com! I love getting emails and I also love when people enjoy my photography. So it brightened up my day. Also, it was an exceptionally beautiful day.

http://www.cameraluv.com/aya-sato-photography/

Winter always makes me go stir crazy. I can only stay in Seattle for so long before I need to go somewhere, anywhere. Usually, I end up in Portland. I have Japan to look forward to in April!

I've been beginning to think about travel plans lately. I would really like to go to Europe soon. Soon, like within the next 2 years. Spain, Italy, Scotland & England are at the top of my list.

If only someone would hire me for a destination wedding...

Nicholas Hance McElroy

Originally uploaded by Nich Hance

Nicholas Hance captures beautiful, beautiful photographs. I've just been going back and forth through his Flickr stream and cannot get enough.

2010, Whatcha got?

Martha
Originally uploaded by ayatsato

News!

April 22nd-26th I am going to Japan for my cousin's wedding. I haven't seen Toshiya for over... 7 years? I have three cousins. He is a little bit older than younger brother, but when I was in Japan in 2007, I didn't get to see him because he was working. As far as I am aware, he still works at a bread factory. I saw my two other cousins when I went back to visit back in 07. But I'm really excited to see my family again.

June 23rd-28th I will be going to NYC. For two very important things. One is for my best friend's birthday. Secondly, I am pretty sure I will be looking at Pratt Institute for my Masters in Art History & Library Science. It's something that I've been tossing around in my brain. I will be hitting the books soon to study for the GRE this summer. I hope to take the test this summer, apply in the winter and wait to see if I can get into their 2011 program. It's all really up in the air, because I am not confident I will score well enough on my GREs to get into Pratt. I haven't done any algebra since 2003... And I never took my SATs because I went to art school and got in with my portfolio. And who knows what other requirements I maybe missing.

Booking for weddings this year has begun and it's time to get a computer. I can't edit fast enough on my 6 year old PC! I'm looking into getting the 27" iMac. Should be a terrific upgrade.

Yosigo

Originally uploaded by Yosigo

I've been following this guy's Flickr for a while. He has some beautiful landscape work. Absolutely love it. Really wonderful sense for space and a really nice palette of colors.

Soon...

Shannon & I went to Portland over the weekend. I will report back soon with photos of our meals.