Follow Your Bliss..

I love this quote, "follow your bliss." It's simple and to the point. Do what makes you happy and you will reap the benefits. I don't know that I have witnessed anything incredible yet, but I hope to and I hope that my major will allow me this pleasure. I want to capture it, share it, show it to the world. Somehow use my visual storytelling abilities to change the world, or at least someone's life. I hope to never lose my sense of wonder, always ask myself if I am doing what I am passionate about. So far, I am. And I'd say thats a damn good thing compared to most adults. I also think I have a lot more of the little things in life figured out, more than most people my age that is. Here is a cool photo and quote from another blog I look at...

Weekend Posting

Sorry this is late.

I am going to react to bullet four, on whether or not writing can be generated online. Coming from a journalistic stand point, I say yes. This is the new generation, non-print media. What are we doing in this class? Writing online. Blogging our thoughts, feelings, opinions. Instead of picking up a paper to read, people get online to read quick headlines, and flip through photos in just a couple seconds. I don't know if I like this new online writing, but it's what is to come. This is like when photography made the transition from film to the digital era. It all takes some getting used to and time to work out how it will reach an audience. Here's a great example: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/ Here you can get photos of the day, long term photo stories, and get different links instantly.

Now onto why blogs are way cool as opposed to a normal journal... did ya click the link above? That allows the reader to visually explore and understand what I am talking about in my post. a-w-e-s-o-m-e.

Women and Writing 1st post

This is my first post in over a year, and I will be updating my blog regularly now, with thanks to my women and writing class. We are required to keep a blog and put up new post weekly. So I am hoping I can incorporate some of my photos from this quarter in the posts as well. Our first post for class is just an intro of ourselves. So here it goes..

My name is Kristen Norman and I am a junior at OU majoring in photojournalism. I live in house with five other girls on Palmer street, which so far has lived up to its 'party street' reputation. My sister is a freshman this year here and I am so excited to be able to spend part of my college experience with her here. I love to capture moments and the way I am feeling through a still image. I can't begin t express how awesome I think photography is and I can't wait to be able to share some of it with the class.

I am in this class because it is a required junior comp class. I had no idea what to really expect for this course, and after the first day and couple of weeks, I am thrilled that I signed up for this one. I think that this class will be a ton of fun and get me back into writing, which I adore. The first two years of my major were pretty grueling and I haven't done much extensive writing since high school, so I'm very excited for that.

I love the title of this course and of our text books. I honestly didn't play with Barbies much as a child, dolls, any and all, have always freaked me out. I do feel that Barbie gives society a false perception of what beauty and a woman should be. Which when you really think about it, it's repulsive. I think that many girls and women of my generation can say the same thing about their opinions of Barbie. It will be interesting to see other's opinions on the topic.

So now that I have rambled on long enough ( I believe this is my longest post ever) I will end this here.