like:
The shadow on his cheek, lips, and nose. (How they define his face)
The clarity of the eye, and that it has such a narrow depth of field.
The background around his head not being just grey or white (it having a changing background.
dislike:
How his face is coming out of a black silhouette (his head), sort of looks odd?
The crop of his chin, (to high) I should have left it in.
The expression, it’s an alright one, but it doesn’t really say “Bruce” to me.

Tomorrow I have to turn in my photo entries to see if I’ll be selected for the Skills USA comp.
It’s like this: me (Senior) and other kid (Sophomore) both want to go to the Skills USA photography competition, since each school can only send one student to the photo teacher is having us turn in two 16X20 prints. Those prints will then be judged and whoever wins will go to the comp.
I think that I should be able to go because I have seniority, this kid can go next year and the year after whereas I cannot. (I’m not really sure if I’m being rational as I am so involved in the situation).
The reasons I want to go so badly are:
1. It would be nice for me to meet other photographers my age, meet the instructors and people running the comp.
2. The prizes are nice. If you win the Utah division you receive a one year full-ride. If you win the country it’s a four year full-ride.
Anyway, this isn’t one of the pictures that I’m submitting for to be judged, but my mom likes it, so I though I’d post it.

When I went to San Francisco there was this guy doing art on the sidewalk. He had a boombox with techno playing and two other guys, just chillin’ and talking on cell’s. He’d put a sheet of heavy-ish paper on a crate and start painting it with spray paint. It was really amazing to watch. He had about 40 – 50 finished pieces laying around facing the audience and kept saying “One for five or three for ten! Ladies and Gentlemen this is how I feed my family, please donate! One for five or three for Ten!”

He had a hollowed out, different sized cans laying around him as well as tools for making lines and shading. He could complete a piece in about eight or nine minutes and they looked like they had taken hours.

The process was amazing to watch, he’d deftly drop little flecks of white paint to create stars, create very realistic planets and moons with speed and ease, the best part was when he would dry out the canvas with a home-made torch (lighter and spray). But the reason why people only observed and didn’t buy was the art itself. It just wasn’t good. It was unbelievable to watch him carve out the detail that he did with dollar spray paint and a spatula. But the art was lame.

He would put Simpsons characters in movie poster poses. Or make Bart, Millhouse, Auto and Nelson look like the Beatles. He had collages filled with different rappers and Disney scenes. He didn’t have anything that people would want to own, to put on there wall. All he had was a captivated audience interested in the process, not the product. (Not to mentions the obvious copyright infringements he was committing right and left).

The subject he painted the most of was Sci-Fi scapes. With bridges, and planets, and starts, and cities, and monuments to society, and multiple moons, and only the colors blue-black, red-black and yellow-black. Paintings you’d see on an ill-conceived Sci Fi novel. Not high art, not low art. Not art.

If your going to try to sell something on the street, you need to make sure people want it. Instead he was selling a show, with shit-art as a byproduct. His art wasn’t something that the general public would want to hang on their walls. It wasn’t something the general public would want to place in there bird cages. There just was not any depth to his pictures. They were the stuff of DeviantArt teenagers and manga addicted whores. Bart and Lisa dressed as Micky and Mini.

People here and there would take a close look at one of the pictures, examine it, become amazed at how he could do that with just spray paint and techno. Sometimes they’d stay and watch him perform a piece or two.

Then they would leave.

5.

Fit 4/5
Style 4/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 5/5

Long story short: I’ve been into the Morton Salt girl for a while and finally decided to make a shirt with her on the front. Halfway through I decided it wasn’t worth it, and just ironed it right on the spot. I like how it turned out though, sort of a moody take on a popular logo.

4.

Fit 5/5
Style 3/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 5/5

Shortys. Nothing great, really worn, but really comfortable. And it fits killer.

3.

Fit 4/5
Style 4/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 4/5

The most I ever spend on a shirt is $3 at Gen-X, $4 at the C.T.R. and $5 for a really good soccer jersey at D.I. so when I seen a shirt new that’s say $10-15 I rarely do more then think longingly about how great it would be to own that shirt. This Enjoi shirt is different though, it spoke to my soul in a way that only a multicolored panda that proclaims Enjoi can. Night and day this shirt was somewhere in the back of my mind, always telling me “You’d Enjoi life more if you owned me, this red, yellow and greed panda on black just shouts I am the pinnacle of style and chill. You need me Trevor.” And it was true. I did need it.
Flash forward to some time killing at D.I. when right before I leave I decide to check out the t-shirts. After almost completing a full rack, I spot it. There right in front of me.
The Enjoi Rasta Panda t-shirt.
I snach it off the rack and turn to Bruce in excitement. “Hu-hah!” is the only thing I can say with happiness pouring out my eyes. “Look-hah!”
Of course Bruce in his cold Icelandic ways doesn’t understand it. But that is no deterrent. I get in line and buy it as soon as possible.
After wearing it for I while I come to see why it was there, as the cotton is not good quality hair sticks to it, but it takes more then that to stop me from sporting this kind of chill, I simply sport masking tape as well.

2. 

Fit 5/5
Style 4/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 5/5

My Skateboarder Magazine shirt. Just a plain white shirt that says Skateboarder on the front. Nothing fancy, doesn’t need to be. It’s comfortable, soft and (after I took it in) fits just right. Nothing more, nothing less.

1.

Fit 5/5
Style 5/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 5/5

I bought this shirt at D.I. while sluffing photo class. After ½ hour of fruitless results I was almost ready to leave when I started looking at shirts. Bam! There it was, the most amazing graphic I had ever seen: a crudely drawn balding man with an elephant gun and a monkey in its sights. On one sleeve was a rat with a suitcase and the other a banana with a meat cleaver. The lower right back had a pile of fruit cut if half with another meat cleaver.
Never before had I seen such genius artistry with a shirt involved. Only one problem, it was way too big. But I bought it anyway just because it was such a fantastic shirt and I knew that I had to have it.
The next school year I took sewing and was able to fit the shirt.
And now I have the greatest shirt that’s ever been produced.
The tag only states that it was assembled in Mexico and that it’s a medium. No logo or brand or any signifying marks. The fact that I know nothing about this shirt makes it all the more intriguing.

Honorable mention: Fit 5/5
Style 5/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 4/5Really good fitting polo. Softest thing you will ever touch, it’s like the people at St. Johns Bay took a thousand babys and spun their bottoms into a cotton-like substance. Also I’ve got some shoes that match the color.Fit 3/5
Style 4/5
Just makes me feel good to wear it 5/5