You'll notice a lot of my writing is centered around family and friends. This is because I have always considered my friends my family and I have loss a lot of people. My grade 9 year I remember being called out of my french class (which I hated) I was told to get my stuff and head downstairs to wait for someone to pick me up. As soon as our family friends Angie and Colleen got out of a car my heart sank....I knew somethnig was wrong. Turns out my best friend in the entire world, my grandmother had passed away. We had our cousins visitng so it was hard not to cry. But in the end I was like a leaky faucet. Violet Storer passed away April 18th. Just at the start of grieving our whole family got rocked again. June Williams passed away April 20th. My dads closest brother and my favorite uncle. My Uncle June just had his 3rd child too. RJ was a clueless smiling baby on the 20th. Soon my parents realized I was talking it worse then my brothers and Oct. 24th 2007 I was granted with a life. Tobi was my first puppy, we had shared a family dog before, but Tobi was mine and he was something to take care of. Tobi Williams passed away Oct. 14 2009. He was a runt....and we found out he had respiratory issues. The night of the 14th his last breath escaped his little chest and he stopped breathing. I was heart broken, theres so many things I could have done better for him. He was spoiled, but I always go back to that it was really my fault. I'm still heart broken till this die, I cant think about him without crying. He was a dog yes, but as sad as it sounds he was like a child to me. Soon my graduating year rolled around 2010. I went to prom with my then boyfriend had ran across the stage with the biggest grin as my favorite teacher wished me good luck before I entered the stage. Makwala Hall passed away July 9th 2010. The only other first nation kid I had really became close with. He was like my brother and I loved him. I remember at Native Grad we stayed together the entire time. He use to be such a bad kid, and he had just gotten his life right and was on a perfect track to happiness. I was so proud of him at Native Grad. He was our Valedictorian and he sang for everyone like an angel. July 9th is when that hideous bull crushed my Makwala. He started bull riding to turn around his life. It makes me happy that he did turn it all around, but I hate that something he loved took him from the ones he loved. The summer was rough and it got even harder....my family started to die. Coming home from dinner with my parents and finding a message on our answering machine. Johnny Smith a man that knew me since my legs were nimble. He use to sing for me when I danced traditionally for First Nation Dancing. The message was of another relative that was too scared to tell us. Johnny passed away 5 days before that message arrived. We missed his funeral, but sent our love with Johnny as he left into the sky. Just recently we came home again and once again another messaged awaited. My grandfather had died. We never knew the day and my parents didn't think I could take anymore so they listenened to the message and erased it. But I'll always know someone else has left us.

Violet

June

Tobi

Makwala

Johnny

In four years I have lost you all, in four years I have loved you

These are the reasons why so much of my writing is centered around family

Item Ideas

The man on the 25 cent Canadian Tire bill is my love

A rapist who was disqused as a magician, pulled this out of my ear at Jill Sanders birthday

My friends suck and I got a treasure hunt map for christmas and I found a purple bill with an old man on it

In the land of purple everything was dark and gloomy all the purpliens never smiled or laughed anymore

When I fell all I could see was a man resembling my grandfather, and I thought to myself...why isn't the sky purple

I punched someone in the face to steal there money, but only found a purple bill in there wallet. Is this currency of a different world?

As my chem teacher babled on telling the class why he hated change, I wondered. Why not get rid of that useless penny, make 5, 10, 25 cent bills.

still trying to figure out some more ideas

I made my first Stop Motion using my brother and his girlfriend....it's kinda rough but I love this song and I thought it would bring some entertainment to your day :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPKIAJrB_TA

iam

i am living today in yesterday

i am eating like a carnivorous bunny

i am freezing to a boiling point

i am wondering why theres a pole

i am speeding by a cop

i am sleepy

the worst story ever

Hi my names Stacy

I am a bottled blonde and I like to click my heels and sway my hair

I wear skinny jeans that I need to lay down in to get them on

I enjoy scratching other girls eyes out and tear away at the threads of their self-esteem with my perfectly manicured nails

It cost $100 you know...

But down to the point...I know you envy me

You want to be me, because I'm a self-richetous bitch with minions

I take pride in collecting boys

I'm attractive

I've blown multiple guys

My hair is beautiful

I have a nice ass!

and all the boys want to touch it

But in the end...I'm way to good for you to even "try" to be me!

So save yourself some time

and just admire what you cant have

Hi my name is Jonathan

Cough Cough Character X

That cough.

It's on of those throaty and dry ones.

She coughs so hard I can see the vain in her neck.

She's coughing all over the guy beside her. Everyone knew she liked him. From the look on his face, she doesn't have a date in her near future.

That cough.

She has her hands to her mouth now, every breath heaving out of her body. It's a mucus filled cough now, she cant cough that mucus up! Her face reddens and it reminds me of the commercial where a mucus family lives in someones chest. But theres no badass drug to save her body from convulsing from that cough. The boy next to her is now slowly moving into the crowd, hopefully to be unoticed while the girl has her fit. His faced scrunched, he cowers away.

That cough.

Makes me want to cringe, but she's looking at me. Takes a deep swallow and walks....towards me?

She's 5 feet, 3 feet...

Throwing out her hand that had covered her mouth, a smile breaking across her face and the tears from her eyes building in the corner.

And she says

"Hi my name is Exe"

...finish the story

I am the woman

The undertow of man

I am not seen or heard, but I fight with fists against survival

I fill your throat and belly while fighting against my own hunger

I flatten the terrain and change the weather so that you may walk

I am the mother, sister, and daughter that shakes fresh meat in front of the animals face

I'll take this futile stalker away from you and brush you from his mind...only to replace you with myself

I will refuse to fail you

After every hit, burn and shine of laughter

I will be your food, your sun, your green lush field

As you are my Thompson

Shake the world with your voice

And I will keep you, the world and everything living on Me. Alive.

I am the infant, the child...

I am the girl

Site-Specific Text

This is my brother David. Not a lot of people know I have a second brother, and when people meet him they think he's weird, odd, and "not popluar". It hurts to hear things like this because he his my brother and I do want to protect him. There's nothing wrong with him, he just has a different view of the world...a better view. He's 21 years old and the most quiet kid to any stranger, but to his family and friends he breaks out. Like literally breaks out, the boy loves to dance and make up his own dance moves and make the funniest voices I have ever heard. My other brother James is the one I'm most close to, we are only a year apart while David and I are four years apart. But the reason I took this photo for my Site-specific is because I want to let people know that I have another older brother and that I love him to death and that he does exist. He goes through dark times, but he's still an amazing brother, people just need to give him a chance. He's different and weird, but who isn't?

I've never been amazing at poetry, but I feel a few lines can describe how I feel.

My name's Kayla and this is my big brother David.

My name is Kayla and this is my laughter

My name is Kayla and this is my enemy

My name is Kayla and this is my protector

My name is Kayla and this is my rolling on the floor holding my stomach giggling

My name is Kayla and this is my dancer

My name is Kayla and this is my friend

My name is Kayla and this is my diary

My name is Kayla and this is my down fall

My name is Kayla and this is my anger

My name is Kayla and this is my 1/3 of a pie

My name is Kayla and this is my David

When I had loss both my Uncle and Grandma I gave them a poem to share.

Will the memories stay?

so many have gone

a better place most say

but I miss them

I want them

those are my memories

will I remember when I'm older

memory decay

gone too fast

too fast to realize

I love you

how I miss them

too close to my heart

now gone

pulling at the seams of me

never let me go

I'll never let you go

Throughout middle school I was part of the Concert and Jazz Band. I loved playing the saxophone it was a new kind of release. But as I went into high school many people discouraged me from going back into band. I still regret till this day that I didn't. I was told academics would bring me success. I finished Chemistry, Math and Biology, but my mind kept wandering back to the time were I played my solos.

Cheers

Fear grows inside me

it rises up like I'm a monster

the lights blind me

I can't see the crowd

I hear the music begin to dim

begin to silence

for me

I'm screaming on the inside

it's hot everywhere

I feel like I'm inside a candle

the music drops to a whisper

I panic as I stand

I enter quick

nervous

Playing

the notes flow

Realize

this is the feeling

the feeling I love

but too soon

too soon it's over

Done

squinting through the crowd

the lights

I see faces

my parents

the lights blind me again

but I saw grins

Proud

Back in 2007 my Grandma had passed away and she was the most inspirational woman. She was my best friend and the nicest person. She passed away on April 18, and soon another disaster occurred... my Uncle June died in a motorcycle accident in the Philippines on April 20. Within the same week two very important people died and left my life. I did write one poem for my Grandma Violet during this time and the feelings for losing both of these people went into this poem. I'll never forget how amazing these two were.

Violets are Sweet

Grandma your my violet

we're together

our names connect us

and so do our hearts

I miss you

and I always will

I still celebrate October 1st

that day you graced the earth

it was a beautiful sunny day

the birds sang for you

You were my best

Best friend..

Best Grandma

My Violets are sweet

English 116

So I remember in Grade 11 our teacher made us write poems everyday before class, so I decided to write my on the movie "Into The Wild" cause I watched it the night before and really enjoyed it. I didn't think it was the best poem, but by the next class the teacher had approached me and said she loved it. She also thought it was a poem about my brother and how he went on an adventure, but lets just keep to the fact that she liked it. So here's my poem from my Grade 11 mind..... Wild Christopher

Wild Christopher

You leave everything

love, family and anything familiar

You leave to find yourself

surviving

living

for months at a time

the ones you love believe you missing

closing yourself in

You need to discover

sleeping in the dirt

You smile

So happy to be close to the earth

name changes

meeting new smiling faces

who strangers could be so kind

But soon

You find your lonely

the familiar leaves that hugged you

are now black walls isolating

time passes

a year grows

You finally discover

the concept of happiness

that you need to share

now you will be happy

but time passed

Your too late

a great adventure was your life

but you've poisoned your body

a mistake to your mind

But you leave crying

Happy tears

good life Christopher

good life.

Poster

Pamphlet for MBSS

Composition

Static

Tyte Lids Brochure

Front

Letter Open












Back

Sunlit and Shadow Portraits

Shadow

Sunlit and Shadow Landscapes

Sunlit

Shadow

Wide Angle and Closeup

Zoom

Wide Angle

Michelle

Girl Class Assignment

Correction

Made four Layers, Normal/Darken/Lighten/Bakground, Used curves to darken the picture and used levels to edit the light and darkenss further. Burned the branches on the small tree and changed the color of the yellow and the picture with selective color by editing, yellows/neutrals/blues/ and black. The Darken and Normal Layer were then collapsed and i used hue and saturation to make the picture more vibrant. Then unsharp mask to make the rocks and branches more sharp. The first Layer collapsed is then collapsed with the Lighten Layer. Quick mask mode used on the strong light exposure and branches of the yellow shrub to change the color balance. The Layers collapsed, then replace color is used on the rocks to make them less blue, smart sharpen, dodge and burn to edit the details of the rocks and the branches. Replace color used again on the yellow shrub. Then use the magic wand tool to select the light exposures and drag and copy another piece of rock and clone stamp around the piece to make it blend.

Original

Seams

Dream Landscape

Landscape Edit