To be honest I'm happy and surprised at myself that I've intuitively taken on some of this methods beforehand, and I get to improve them thanks to this class.

A) I've had this notebook for about 2 years and I've used it for a little bit of everything: Self reflecting on things I've talked about with my therapist, writing my thoughts when I listen to new music for the first time from artists that I love, small self portraits and tons of side notes in a lot of regular journal entries etc. This is just a sneak peek of it.

Nath 2018-2023 - image 1 - student project

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Nath 2018-2023 - image 2 - student project

B) I've taken an absurdly amount of pictures since 2018, but the ones that stand out to me are my collection of sunsets. I definetely cherish how different the pics are from one another and remembering what those colors and lights made me feel when I captured them. Here's one of my all time favs:

Sunset colors within a thunderstorm coming up

Nath 2018-2023 - image 3 - student project

C) I have used apps that help emulating the film camera look before. I know, not the same feel than with true film (I will try to buy a cheap one in the near future), but to me it was something special because I did find 2 apps that allowed me to take some aMAZING pictures that I absolutely love. (FIMO and 1998 Cam respectively)

The first had default filters that emulated existing films or original variations, some of my faves to use were the GOLD 200, EK 80 and LM Color 100. Here's an example with the PAN 100:

Nath 2018-2023 - image 4 - student project

Second app actually allowed you to edit and play around with the grain, light leaking and intensity of the colors. Here's this pic I took in a forest that looks incredible with the edition to look like taken with film (The light leak here aligned perfectly with where the sunlight was coming from, looks so dreamy and beautiful).

Nath 2018-2023 - image 5 - student project

Last but not least, I do have a separate notebook to keep track of weird or really vivid dreams I've had. If for some reason I don't have the notebook besides my bed or if I want to be quick I use the voice recorder of my phone to spit out everything as soon as I wake up, and then I can listen to it again to pass it to the notebook more calmly and adding details. Doing this over the course of 3 years has helped me with lucid dreaming and it's kinda surreal, and it's also a source of inspiration to draw sometimes.

I've also used the voice recorder when I'm on public transport and if I hear someone singing/rapping or playing guitar and I like it I record it so I can search for the song later (or keep it and listen to it if it was an original song).

Seriously can't thank you enough for making this class, I will definetely keep in mind some of the tips in the future next time I want to snap a pic or write about something in my notebook, I love being able to look back at these things and re-live beautiful memories.

Nath Zamora

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