Portfolio day.

We recently had the Humber Portfolio Show for the Creative Photography program. It was pretty neat and everyone had giant blown up photos to look at. My friend Rennaldo used a photo of me as his mural photo, so I had to take a picture with it! Oh and wasn't my dress so cute? For my portfolio, I made a book from Photobook Canada! It's pretty neat and made really well although the photo quality isn't the greatest so I probably wouldn't recommend it for photographers who need really sharp and high quality prints. I named my book A Series of Series. I also made matching business cards for the portfolio show! Although now that I have a different website, I'll probably make some new ones really soon. All of my business cards were unique since my website was stamped on. I carved out my website link from an eraser. All you need is a utility knife and some patience! Stamps are great though, you can use them over and over and over... Cheers,

Hairdresser.

I made a hair dresser. It's about 8cm x 8cm x 3 cm and I used cardboard, hair, and glue. It would have been more hairy if I were willing to sacrifice more of my hair. P.S. My mom is a hairdresser.

Dead Gender Mag.

Hey everyone. I decided to make this blog entry before brushing my hair. This lovely girl Lindsay Cahill runs (dg) magazine, an independently run art & literature magazine from Niagara. I was lucky enough to have my art featured in it! All of the artwork and writing in it is great, and kind of makes me wish I could be a better writer! Check out Dead Gender's blog or facebook page, they're always promoting new art and going to have another issue coming out this fall.

Site change.

So I got rid of Camerahands.com, and I made a website for my stuff - www.dorotapankowska.com - not limiting myself to just photography. Any input or bug reports would be nice. Now to job hunt....

Zombies.

My friend Cass likes to do scary make-up so we had a fun spontaneous zombie shoot. Prettiest zombies I've seen.

Cut the grass.

My friend gave me some grass seeds, so I wanted to plant them in my little ceramic shoe to see if the grass would grow from the little shoelace holes. It did. Awesome room accessory!

Peanuts? Pea nuts.

I made some pea nuts. They're peas that are wannabe peanuts. Pea peanuts!

Ubiquity / Photo Series: Outerface

This photo series, Outerface, is simply about a girl who dares to be different and accessorize her appearance in eccentric ways. It's about the little ways you can think outside the box, when it comes to anything really! Three of these photos are displayed at Twist Gallery right now as part of our Humber exhibit entitled Ubiquity. The opening reception was last night, here are some pics! Me in heels for pretty much the first time? Me and the lovely Nicole! I also created tiny little framed prints of the ones hanging up and put a small thank-you note on the back to give out to a few friends. I think they're so cute! I had a great night and I'm so happy that a lot of people showed up (over 300 guests in total!). You can still go check out the gallery until April 27th in Toronto!

Photo Series: Still Life Roadkill

This photo series, Still Life Roadkill, puts emphasis on the flatness and destruction of various objects left to their death on the streets. They are before and after shots to show you what the objects most-likely looked like before they were run over by lots of cars.