WHY DO WE PUBLISH EVERYTHING ONLINE? IS IT A STATEMENT OF BEING ALIVE? ARE WE LOOKING FOR RECOGNITION? SEEMS LIKE WE NEED FROM OTHERS TO CONSOLIDATE OUR EXISTENCE; LOOKING FOR APPROVAL OR EVEN CONTESTATION EVERY TIME WE WRITE WHAT WE’VE DONE EVEN WHAT WE FEEL…
MAYBE IS JUST A STATEMENT OF HOW ISOLATE WE ARE AS PEOPLE; WANDERING AROUND DOING OUR EVERYDAY TASK WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO BREAK UP WITH EVERYTHING AND JUST TAKE US AWAY FROM IT.
8:58 am, Monday, 2nd May ’11 link
s the end of term now, we are all anxious of getting everything done and ready before our deadlines. Summer is almost here, and Manchester is getting quiet. Students are going away for holiday… I am 
Really happy to fly home, can t wait to be at the airport and head to back home.
The 6th of may, we r having an exhibition at kraak gallery. It is the opening night, hope you are all coming.
so a bit of poetry :
Maybe it still beats,
maybe my blood boils and my breath hides,
maybe my body shakes when your hands paint,
maybe my eyes shine and my pupil grows when I see you getting close.
But it’s time now to dissolve what we couldn’t solve.
I know I love you, be sure I do,
but is this love what you are looking for?
I am a shadow, I’m a ghost;
Sometimes just a hologram in your screen.
I am Silence, a silhouette carried by the wind.
Murmurs and whispers…
We play hide and seek
But there’s too much rustling between the trees.
(Alejandra Angel Rios)
2:20 pm, Friday, 15th Apr ’11 link
If you are interested in the Arts, this is a good opportunity to meet more people involved and get yourself known.
this is what is happening: A “Manchester Art Crawl.; 2011 festival open submissions.”
-“There will be written, visual and audio research relating to the vision of The Art Crawl. This can be added to by all in attendance. Bring your ideas and work.”
Register for event here
http://manchesterartcrawl.co.uk/OpenSubmission.aspx
or here
http://www.amiando.com/artcrawlsubmissionlaunch.html
and
Follow The Art Crawl: http://www.twitter.com/MCRArtCRawl
If you have a facebook account just follow this link and you will get all the information needed for the event, friday from 7pm at Islington Mill. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192088747499681
9:30 am, Tuesday, 12th Apr ’11 link
Well there is so many things going on in the UK that I feel I bt sad I am living when is all nice and warm .
Today is the deadline for an amazing competition; if u r interested in photography, u should hurry and send some images plus a covering letter.
here’s the link : http://www.nikonfoundation.co.uk/
There was another competition at the link gallery but i missed it, think i’ve been a bit too stressed with all the things we need to have done by the end of next week. this year has been pretty short.
As i haven t been writing many post, I will share a piece of my writings, enjoy it..
“Just imagine that everything was a dream; a beautiful butterfly that couldn’t live for long.She got tired, started to lose the magic powder in her wings and was falling down; weak by the heavy weight she was carrying; a huge bag full of dreams and colorful lilies; the smell of roses and the scent of love. But the rain came; everything got wet and starts getting mold.”
12:57 pm, Wednesday, 30th Mar ’11 link
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1:25 pm, Monday, 14th Mar ’11 link
Is almost the end of term and I am so worried about the exhibition we are meant to do. We already have the place but we haven t done the press release, flyers, invites, webpage…
thinking about the work im going to display, I m not sure if it would be better to display a few photographs or one “strong” one.
Decisions…
Im missing my country so much, I need my family and friends, has beeing a while since i saw them. now im starting questionning myself if i still want to be too far. we grow up and start our own lives but i guess i have a lot more time for having my own. thinking about going back but then what about my dreams :/
you can never have all you want. hard :(
1:10 pm, Monday, 14th Mar ’11 link
Hi,
First of all, Sorry for not being posting in the last Few weeks; it s being a bit mental…
Im Even posting from my itouch Now cuz my computer Is not working and i wont have one till mid march. Is a bit Annoying cuz u knw How Much we became a bit depending on them machines, awful to say But true. Lol
Well i ve being a bit lost But done some shoots for one of the hairdresser at frennet and B.. It Was Cool , aabsolutely enjoy it
They are very nice, Ill get my next cut there, hehe
Should post one of the photos But as i said im not in a computer right now but if u are curios u can go to http://www.crashfoto.com/angelhair
I ve got two albums in my friend s website, they r named as Angel antwerp, Angel hair… More fashion Kind of Photography which i think Is the direction
I want to take.
One of the things i realise this week which i found pretty bad for me, Is that u Have yo register with a GP from the área ur living. Im use to choose my own doctor , the one i feel Safe and comfortable with But well….
I also enter a competition for an internship; fingers cross :D !!
10:04 am, Friday, 25th Feb ’11 link
Its being 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
I go to bed and close my eyes,
there’s nothing in my insides.
No dream can make me fall asleep
no pill can even bring me back my sleep.
Pull down my computer
and move to the other side,
I see shadows but there’s no light
no peace just fright …
I hold my breath trying to make my heart beat keep t’s slow;
but there’s a weird feeling underneath my skin,
I can’t even stop shaken and there’s sweat all around my face…
it takes me down every single night,
when there’s no one and all my thought come in front (of) my sight.
copyright Alejandra Angel
3:03 pm, Friday, 28th Jan ’11 link
That was a short holliday :(, two weeks in Colombia were not enough but thought It will be freezing here ...yet is not . I had a really good weekeng by the way, enjoyed seing my friends and having a laugh with them. Is better than staying at mine,
Dorah’s at work and really don t want to spend time on my own.
I gave my work on friday, can’t wait to have one to one and see what they have to tell me about it.
If you want to see any of my work you could go to http://www.wix.com/alejandraangelrios/alepangel
Now; I have to makea decision , I am not sure if staying in the UK now…
I know once you start going places you can t never stop moving elsewhere… just like to run away and see new things, i get bored pretty easy :(
I could finish uni in my country but i definitely want a diploma from the uk, sounds better -.... yet with the money i have to pay , i could start building a studio. sounds better to me. anyway ,where are we going? again ... those questions growing inside my mind, with no clue what to do ... take it easy that s what they say ...
mayb a coffee and look into space…..
3:53 pm, Monday, 17th Jan ’11 link
im so tired of running around… i was supposed to fly on monday but the flight was canceled. They sent me to a hotel , the mint hotel near the train station., I must say that is amazing, everyone was so attentive and nice, had a good time there. So I went to the airport on wednesday again to try my luck . Nothing… waiting from 2 until 9 pm . They sent me to the holliday inn but i got desperate, my flight was postpone for the 26 and i definitely dont want to spend all this week on my own, beeing in the middle of nowhere.
I decided to take the train and come to my friend s flat , sleep in the living room, tomorrw I will go to kat’s celebrate till is 1 am on the 26, yeah that s what I ll do and I will complain for all the hassle…. I just can t afford it yet they ve beeing really attentive because is not even their fault but the weather. However.. u know the feeling.
11:59 pm, Thursday, 23rd Dec ’10 link
im not able to sleep…
I ve done my essay , uploaded it to Jisc… and now I will have to print it off ,
This week there’s not much to do, I guess I will go to some lectures, I’m not sure if we have a tutorial on tuesday. People are starting to leave for holliday. I can t wait to go back to colombia for a while.
I ll miss manchester so much because of my friends ,m but i ain t not missing the cold lol
1:23 am, Monday, 13th Dec ’10 link
I haven’t forget the blog, Is beeing hard to find the moment to write; I usually like to do it as I’m sitting on my bed; feeling warm and cozy in my house..
I can’t tell how much I love to have a flat with one of my friends, no more strange houses with people I don’t know; It is quite cool when you meet different persons but can also be very annoying and unbearable. If you are living in halls, is all crazy I guess, parties every weekend almost every night, the kitchen is a mess, you can’t really sit in the living room…. I am not saying they are all like this but usually… I ve never lived in halls myself, because of the space but I was always going to visit some friends, now they also live in houses or flats outside uni.
If you are thinking about moving out, you have to start looking in advance, go for different viewings and get to know a bit of the company you’re looking from , ask friends who are renting by private landlords and all that because as soon as you get outside the “uni territory” well is you own responsability where you put your feets. ..if you have any problems, when u live in halls is quite easy to get things sorted because uni will work on it but when you are with another company or landlord, sometimes they ve never deal with students, sometimes they don t care and can be funy about it
, but u may also find the best place ever… just look aroud and don t leave things for last minute..
in my house, the electricity it s been a problem , every week it goes off… yesterday from 9pm to 9 am this morning , well ,.. imagine the cold! hahah
it s ok now , i hope so
8:18 am, Saturday, 4th Dec ’10 link
This has been a long week, I was really tired; haven t really had a good rest as my insomnia was worst than ever.
Last weekend I fall and hit my head, the pain last untill tuesday and my back was killing me. Monday and Thursday I was helping uni with the space utilisation survey; easy job but pretty tirying as you have to go through every rooms you are told in the buildings designate to you and count heads every hour ...
I haven t started my essay yet, I had to do a photoshoot yesterday which I m not really happy with but I hope It will do as I can t make the night happen again. Today I am going to a photography collaboration , im excited… I look really bad, baggy eyes but well ... what can we do, I ain t going to miss it 
Oh forgot to ask, did you go to the protest last wednesday, well I did and I am really happy how many students get together, It was epic and peaceful which is always good.
7:48 am, Sunday, 28th Nov ’10 link
Ok , now it s time to make a good start.
This weekend , wasn t too bad. And we have a sunny day on this monday morning , whish it was like that every day.
My photoshoot was cancelled so ffffffffffffff ok , don t really have to go to uni now, yet i must return the video- camera, ill b there in a bit.
Now Im just looking at the photographs I did this saturday with a friend modelling for me, it was quite an unusual photoshoot… but it went really well the pics are ace for just being the first stage of the project. so im planning to do more shoots this week , Have to bring some good work tomorrow for my tutorial as I think I have im not worrying much .
Now I need to start thnking green and make a good flyer for a competition before the deadline. guess im not going horseriding on wednesday.i guess i need to arrange my time properly and ill b able. need help with that , llol .. too many things just come without notice and is difficult to set a definite timetable .
thats what u get when ur a freelance aswell .
well speak to u soon , hope u had a great weekend.
11:58 am, Monday, 15th Nov ’10 link
Definitely it hasn t been the best week of the year, my halloween was a total dissapointment when I realised something bad happen; nothing could make it better…
I lost one of my best friends in my country; ......well I guess is to soon to talk , i don t feel ok taking this subject up now… ive been writting but some words are just stuck under my troath
Went to uni on tuesday for the review of our first project; When everyone was in the room, one of the tutors came and said something ... then that Jamie was dead , I was thinking of my best friend and couldn t hold the tears .. went out of the room , didn t care who was speaking i just couldn t handle it , then i realise jamie was gone and my heart sunk, too much in just a few days..
everyone was pretty bad, i decided to go home , didn t go to uni till friday to give something we had to do for an exhibition ... missed my tutorial on wednesday , didnt really know it was replaced to that day .. but well what can i do now.. i don t really care
i do , but not now
yesterday was the 5th, mmm i didn t go out , sucks , i should have i guess , would have take me out of my mind for some hours .. but yeah ..
ill go to my friends today , at least i wont b alone in the house , I just want to get things done , but i get too ... i don t know how to say ... im pretty messy in my head at the moment and wants to solve everything at the same time ... seriously not good method , well not for me ..
anyway , hope ur all ok , it seems to be a nice day today , xxx
12:17 pm, Saturday, 6th Nov ’10 link
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