My Summner ^_^

My Summer ^_^


• I was in summer school for 14 days.
• I went to the beach with friends too many times.
• I had fun getting lost around the city.
• I got a job as an Artist.
• I got a new camera.
• I moved down two floors.
• I learned a lot more about Photoshop, by experimenting.
• I got myself into a very interestingly odd relationship xD
• I filled out college applications :o
• I’ve taken 2,844 pictures since June 14th
• Oh and I cracked my iPhone

Spring Break

Good Bye Chicago! Hello Vacation.
I am going to mexico for spring break. Plane leaves tomorrow. I'm very excited. See ya next week:D

Lets get it started.

I wonder what they were looking at ...we barely practiced when we were supposed to be practicing for a sweet 16, we had fun though. (L-R; Megan, Marcus, Roger)

The open road; Andrew Jesus Vega

The car ride home was 3 hours long, mostly because we were driving really slow. It was so peaceful & beautiful.

Happy Birthday Jasmine!

There is my cousin jasmine biting into her cake. It was her sixteenth birthday. Off to the side of the photo is my little brother Michael(3yrs old) . It was a Tres Leches Cake, (3 Milks Cake). We had so much fun that weekend.

Entrance Way; Andrew Jesus Vega

I REALLY love this photo, I took this on Sunday at my cousin's house. This is the view from the stair case looking towards the living room and my uncle's office, this is also what you see when you first walk into the house.
I remember back in 2002 I think, when they first moved there. It was just so amazing because I had never been out to the country, I had never been in a corn field. It still is so much fun & peace when we go to visit. I think this doorway to the house really resembles a lot of history. Like whoa this house has been here for a long time, and has been passed from generation to generation and finally sold to a hopeful family. Well that a lot to say about a photo, but it defiantly resembles the history of the place. The stains along the edge of the frame to the doorway really add to the idea.

Dirty Beauty; Andrew Jesus Vega

I thought this was super cool. I was walking up the stairs in my cousin's 100+ yr old house this weekend and I saw this little dirty window, it looked like it hadn't been dusted in decades. I saw it as something of a memory of people who had lived there before. There was even dead insects, mostly lady bugs. :) I named it Dirty Beauty, it just is right.

This is a photo I took on the highway this weekend. My family & I went out of town to visit my cousin jasmine for her birthday. And if you didn't already guess, the beautiful blury string of lights towards the top, is from a truck. Sometimes I wish I could live a more 'peaceful' rural life, but when I really think about it; my heart is in the city. The country side of illinois is very beautiful though, it's most crops & open fields and some small forest. I really enjoyed our little trip down to Claytonville, IL (My cousin's house). That town is literally SO small. The population is about like 70 or less. 70 People. =p

Photo Shoot

Well today was fun. I spent most of the day with my friends Latrice & Tiger. Tiger wanted some photos taken of him for his modeling portfolio so I said sure why not. So we went to the loop & got some great shots of him I think that I am getting more into Fashion photography as I progress, but maybe that's just me. It was a great day we got plenty of good shots & I am sure Tiger will be satisfied.

Sunset with Nat

Today my good friend Natalie came over for a visit. It was fun, we played monopoly, we danced, we sang, and we just had a great time. I hadn't seen Nat since about November so it was great to see one of my best friends again. Now about the photo; Nat and I went for a walk and we decided to go to the top of the Pulaski street bridge (above the Stevenson expressway) to take some photos. The sunset was so beautiful up there. We greeted a couple of homeless people up there too. They were friendly and they let me take photos of them. What a great day, -happy sigh-.

Busy Body

Today is a busy day, I think I'm just saying that because I have a lot of homework, but I get time to relax finally. Tomorrow is no school, that's a relief. Well I honestly have nothing more to say, weird me. Its only 12pm so the day isn't even close to over. I think I'll write again later tonight.

Ealry in the morning ehhhh. I hate school. I could learn more from a emotionless computer than thee stupid trying to teach at my public high school. The only things I look foward to a bit in my day is Gallery or The Art Institute. Wow, depressing; haha. Anyway I bear some awesome news. I am going to Paris, France for Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My parets finally agreed. I am going to be a french exchange student for 3 days in a french school, then for the last 7 days I am touring france & staying in a hotel in Paris. I am beyond excited, but these keys can only express so much happiness.

Pulaski Road

So this is an extremely famliar place for me, basically my whole life. I live on a street called Pulaski. It is a busy commercial street and it has shown me many adventures & has shown me the way home. Now that I explore my every day environments with my camera, I just now realized how beautiful it is to me.

Project 365

I’m Starting a new Project on January 1st. Basically I plan on taking a simple photo of my little 3 year old brother Michael for the next year, then playing it back at the end of the year in a video but at about 15 frames per second, so it should be pretty cool to watch Michael grow up in a 3 minute video :) I can’t wait for this to really evolve. I got the inspiration watching a world famous YouTube video .You must watch it, it is amazing! The artist – Noah Kalina

I miss going outside and taking pictures

      For the last week & a half or so I’ve been in & out of family’s homes visiting & being in the holiday spirit. Of coarse I bring my camera everywhere with me so by now I have at least a thousand pictures of family members, but I am longing to go outside far from home or just down the block to spend time with the world and my  camera. Tomorrow I am going out with my friends Latrice, Gary, & Sophia. I need some environmental portraits for school so I will use them as my models :) I’m assuming that we are going to a nice park or the beach, to get some shots. Even though it’s so cold outside.

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas! I got, you won't believe it from my mom. She actually got socks & underwear, and my jaw just dropped when I opened it. I automatically said thank you, but with a smirk. The real joy was watching my little brother Michael who is three years old open his gifts, he smiled & screamed when he ripped open a box filled with toys & all his favorite characters like Woody the Cowboy, I just always liked that Toy because on the bottom of the Woody doll it says Andy on the boot & you can pull the string to hear it say, Yee Haw! Good times ....That's pretty much it, whoopee. Great Christmas, I guess. I feel so old now a days like, oh hear comes another year of holidays & the same old same old, but eh. Who am I to complain?


Now playing: 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill

Merry Christmas!

 

Merry Christmas everyone! If anyone even reads this. Today has been ok, not the best Christmas I've ever had. Thanks to family conflicts. ugh. Well today at just my house with my Mom, Dad and my two brothers. My cousins Amanda & Tony came over, they brought Jay(Amanda's Boyfriend) and Riche Jay's little Brother. It was a joy to see them all. I missed them.

Food: -CHILE, PIÑA & QUESO; Tamales.- Lasagna, Ricotta Cheese - Pumpkin, Pecan, Apple; Pie  - Champurao(like hot chocolate but thicker)- Jello(layered, its good) - Salad - CupCakes - Cookies - Eggnog -  && that's pretty much it. Besides all the little basic necessities like Milk, Water, etc. 

So it's not a to wildly cherish-able event for me but, its nice to have a break from everything & relax for a day. The little ones are Playing x-box, My Mom is watching a movie By herself, she went wild buying new movies for Christmas, my dad is at the store purchasing carpet. I am sitting here enduring the annoying noises that video game makes while blogging :) We Hope to open presents at Midnight. I already know what I'm getting, my parents are upgrading my iPhone plan to unlimited everything. I'm am soon to edit this & add more to this post since it is only 4:30 PM, Christmas Eve.

- Andrew Jesus Vega

Getting Ready For Christmas

So today we (me & my mom) are making Tamales(A Mexican Treat, omffggg they are good). So far we have made about 30 Pineapple Tamales, 30 Cheese Tamales, and Now we are going to Make Chile Tamales, We are expecting to Give most of this food away actually. My Christmas is going to be like this, I think. My Dad is working all night, my mom has a doctors appointment that she just can't reschedule. So that Means it's just me, My Brother Daniel(13yrs), and my brother Michael(3yrs). So ... yea that should be Boring. I'm super Excited to get my present though ..... (my parents are upgrading my iPhone plan to unlimited everything) so that is what I wanted, yay. My brother is very likely to get a new phone & Michael is probably going to get a toy from toysRus like a 3 year old should, Ahh, good times.

It's Kinda weird now that my mom is a little more open now then she was when I was a kid. Apparently my little brother Michael believes in Santa Claus. I was never even told who Santa was(other then in school), I just thought Christmas was a day for partying and giving each other presents, which it pretty much is. As I got older I understood the meaning of the Holiday. It is a Christian Holiday, about the Birth of Christ as a gift to man kind from god, what a sweet story. Anyway, I've been searching youtube & watching some really nerd videos trying to find out how to run Linux Ubuntu On my iPhone. I am already running it from a live disk on which ever PC of mine I choose(I have two), but It would be super cool to use it on a touch screen phone. 

Random Note: I was playing truth or dare with some people yesterday and someone asked me if I like somebody right now, I said "yes, yes I do." and I was just so dumbfounded that people still ask stupid childish stuff like that, I mean maybe I'm a bit Psycho or mature of my age, but I was just like seriously, why would someone have trouble answering that. I mean I'm just saying this because It was with my peers & I don't even remember why we were playing. It's like suddenly I'm to old to do anything. Maybe I just feel old. I don't know. I don't see what we are scared of when we play things like that or when we speak. What are we hiding? Why can't we just be free in a world without offense.  BLAH. subscribe.

My History is Being Written

So friday was a bit historic for me. It symbolizes the start of my career as a professional photographer. OMG I SOLD MY FIRST PHOTOGRAPH It was an extremely flattering moment when Caryn Myers (I will always remember) loved my piece so much that she wanted to buy it.
Friday at Gallery 37 we had our Winter Show Case Exhibit & my work along with other aaep students was up on display in the 5th floor gallery. It went very well everyone who came enjoyed them selves and the artwork. I'm so ecstatic that I'm starting to sell work! I don't feel very different of 'professional'. but you know ... its like a birthday. like ' wow I made it'. So I wasn't going to share how much I'm selling it for, but since I'm so super excited ... The Picture is Being sold for $150. I think Im going to Frame it 16x20. That's a fairly Huge picture that can go beautifully in somebody's living room or bedroom.

Here is a Thumbnail of the Photo I'm Selling.
If you are interested in Purchasing, Please contact me at andrewjesusvega@gmail.com