May 2012
5 posts
please support me in this contest!
i would so appreciate it if you took five seconds and press “collect” on the upper right hand corner. I would so appreciate it, and sharing the link on facebook or with friends would be even more awesome!!
http://susannahbenjamin.artistswanted.org/atts2012
Summer
I am depending a lot on this summer. I NEED to make art and to be artistically productive to make up for a year of being virtually away from it altogether. I’m taking a small roadtrip to visit my best friend Bridget tomorrow, and I have a photoshoot planned (surprise) that will hopefully yield fruitful results. Then, I get back, drive up to Yale and get my other friend (who will stay with me...
a great video
here is a great “it gets better video” for anyone who is gay OR simply feeling bullied and worthless:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJa3GVzdZyA
Kira's going to MIT!
Soooo this made me really realize how fast time flies—Kira (the girl who is in soooo many of my photographs (and has been since she was 11) has finally decided on where she’s going next year. Besides being an AMAZING model and one of my best friends/muses, she is also a genius. She decided MIT was her best fit, after being totally indecisive between Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, and MIT...
April 2012
3 posts
FML
so i think i may have to pull my first all nighter…ever
Am sitting in the library trying to slap myself…
it’s even harder when apparently the doctor is 90 percent sure i have narcolepsy…I have to spend all of Sunday (from 7AM to 5PM) being observed by the sleep doctors, because it’s gotten to the point where I’m barely awake more than a few hours a day (which...
March 2012
3 posts
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Congratulations new bulldogs!
Welcome class of 2016, you’re going to have the best 4 years of your life. Hopefully I’ll see you all at bulldog days :)
Update
it’s been forever since i posted here, this semester has been a nightmare of homework. i’m always tired to the extent that, no matter how much sleep i get, i will fall asleep while doing work, while in class, etc. I’m being tested for narcolepsy and other sleep disorders right now, etc. Hopefully it’s something not serious but something they can also cure, because i feel...
February 2012
1 post
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January 2012
3 posts
gahhhh
have no idea what this professor is talking about. i just never understand his lectures. fml
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Can't wait for school to start again!
Gahhh i’m such a nerd but I just love school. There is nothing better than the stacks in Sterling Library. I’m looking forward to shopping a million interesting classes—unfortunately, the majority of the ones I like are literature, and I can’t feasibly take more than one or two of those out of my five. So stoked—epics, neuroscience, french, fairy tales,...
"You are in love with the impossible."
Ismene, Antigone.
December 2011
4 posts
Reflections
I feel like there’s not enough time. I need to use my time more effectively. I haven’t done enough, nearly enough. I need to make more, do more, challenge myself. Because right now, I am not doing enough. I just need to push myself more. I’m disappointed by how I’ve let myself down, how I’ve not made enough art, succeeded enough. I’m 18 and I need more to show I...
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shot the back cover of Beyoncé's newest DVD!!
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awesomeness
so happy to be home but miss college already! Chilling, photoshoots, reading reading reading all the books I didn’t have time to read, tea, amazing christmas trees, and then Ireland! On top of it, my best friend Kira (muse in many of my photos) just got into MIT!!!! BEAUTIFUL AND A GENIUS!!! I’m so proud of her :)
PS: our dorm room is adorable, we decorate for every holiday!!! <3
FINALS WEEK
11 CONSECUTIVE HOURS IN THE BERKLEY LIBRARY AND STILL COUNTING. 0_0
so fuckedddddd
November 2011
3 posts
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YALE HARVARD GAME
Yale Harvard football game weekend. It’s tomorrow and the school spirit is getting intense here. This is probably the most spirited weekend of the year. BOOLAH BOOLAH BOOLAH YALE FOREVER
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October 2011
1 post
YEAHHH
on sunday i had one of THE best photoshoots of my life…let’s just say it involved sneaking into an empty lecture room at 7:30 AM on a sunday, metallic paint, and nudity…
September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
1 post
6 Days!
Omg everything is so exciting right now—all these opportunities seem to be opening up for my photography and Yale in six days!!! WOW!
July 2011
6 posts
Had a skype chat with one of my best friends (Josy, she lives in France) which was so great as I haven’t talked to her in ages. Legitimately just sat here all day and read my book—i love getting lost in novels. The book was “The Observations” by Jane Harris—I always end up finding more interesting books in Ireland. So yes, I feel guilty that I’ve sat on my butt...
getting more and more excited for Yale!!!
awesomeness <3 <3 <3
Literary progress has been made
I now know the course of my novel from beginning to end. WOOT!
Ireland
Prologue
I am going to describe to you a town. It is mostly silent except when you’re walking outside and you hear the woosh of a car passing far out down the road (accompanied by the gleam of its headlights, which flash and then fade out of the corners of your eye, tinging the streetsides pink). Then, when you’re inside, all you hear at night is the soft howl of wind against the walls, and,...
June 2011
15 posts
update
I find out my roommates for next year today—ahhh college is becoming more and more real! In other news, I leave for Ireland tonight and am blissfully awaiting 3 and a half weeks of inspiration and happiness. I am never more content than when I am sitting in the family bar (occasionally pulling a pint for the regulars) and watching people filter in and out as the day passes. I’m usually...
just finished rereading one of my all time...
Rebecca. I barely ever reread books but this is one of my top 5 favs. It’s sooo fantastic and it was just as exciting reading the second time. Now I’m off to read some Du Maurier biographies, a collection of her short stories, and then maybe Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None,” because my best friend is an Agatha Christie buff and keeps pushing me to read it....
wow cool someone plagiarized me
awesome
My friend Margaret visited
She’s from San Francisco, CA, and stayed a week. She just left today, but in a week we were very productive: the Cloisters, shopping, the Met, the MoMA, the Frick, a picnic on the beach, baking cakes/pies/cookies, met some of my close friends, went for the best Indian food ever, the zoo (where we saw Gus the polar bear, who was the only worthwhile thing to see there we discovered), built a...
fun day planned for tomorrow
huge shoot that my friend from California and I prepared for. We’re planning to go to the Met and then have the shoot, fun day :)
I have three big shoots up my sleeve
they just might take a while because they are more elaborate than usual…
UGH
I spent forever setting up my set for my photoshoot and then the wind came, which caused my backdrop to fall down over all of it and knock it down. Now i have to rebuild for another few hours GAHHH
PS: my friend Margaret from California is coming tomorrow yayy! Staying with me for a week.
May 2011
3 posts
have a new photoshoot planned
it will be taking place in the next couple of weeks hopefully :)