Month: April 2015

hey guys!

I wanna tell you about my wonderful experience of media fasting! On April 6th, the day after easter I woke up, the first day without the alarm on my phone in awhile! Now I am on Spring Break right now, and on this day I was on spring break. I locked my phone in a drawer in my house and went about my day. It is so interesting to think about how much i really use my phone!

I went out to the market with my mom, and I talked to her in the store, like an actual conversation. I really enjoyed myself out with my mom, and realized that I should spend more time unpluggeded,

I went running, without my ipod and music, now running with no background noise for me, was really hard. But I just thought back to my health teacher, and what she says she feels about running. She always told us to get into our heads, and how its a solemn time of thinking and excercise. I think I enjoyed my run for the first time, I thought of it more as fun then as excercise.

To continue my media fast, I came into my house and made lunch for myself, (a recipe that I need to online instruction!) grilled cheese with carmelized onions. Now just sitting in the quiet of my own home, eating felt really good. I sat and pondered about how I was gonna use the rest of my day, after all it was only 12:30 in the afternoon.

The next thing I did, was I took time to draw and paint. I am taking a design class, and was working on my deisgns for our fashion show on April 23rd. I am making clothing and acessories out of office supplies! Its much cooler than it sounds! I am making a purse out of coffee filters and paper clips. I drew alot, of mandalas and a lot of sketching.

It was only 2:30 in the afternoon when I decided that I was bored. The only thing that is bad about the media fast is that you can get very bored very fast. It is also very bad that I am so dependant on media and my computer, to do things and to have fun.

So next thing I did, I read, like an actual book. Not an ebook. I read some of Paper Towns by John Green. I have read this book many times before, but not stopping to answer to a text. I read so quickly because I enjoy the plot so much!

I then helped my mom make dinner. We made a stir-fry, and I made my recipe for baked cream cheese rangoons, use this recipe, its good! I don’t eat seafood, so I didn’t use the shrimp, but it is still really good! Cooking with my Mom was very fun! We enjoyed making our stir-fry and noodles and we just laughed so much!

After dinner, when we usually watch tv, my mom and I played Monopoly! It was so great! We had so much fun! It was crazy, and she beat me! I learned that my mom is a really good Monopoly player, and I learned that I need more practice in the art of Monopoly!

I then went to sleep early, at 9 ish. Overall looking at the day, it was fun because I spent time with people, not with my screen. Even though sometimes in the day I was really bored, I really enjoyed this day.

xoxo

(aka kate wins!)

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hey guys!

today I am gonna be showing you how to take better iphone photos, because not everyone has enough money to buy a nice dslr to take photos with. Iphone photos are also really nice because then you can upload them straight away to social media! lets get started!

1. One of my favorite things to take iphotos on an iphone is with another lense. I like the ollo-clip.  You clip it onto your phone, and just start snapping! They even have different lenses, like fish eye!
2. Don’t zoom in on the iphone! Zooming in on the iphone just makes the photo blurry, If you can, go closer up to the subject to take a better photo.
3. Take the picture more than once! Imagine, you are taking a photo with your favorite celebrity, (a moment you would wanna post on instagram!) and the one that you take, you are blinking! If you took more than one, chances are that you wouldn’t blink in all of them!
4. If you simply want better quality photos, turn your iphone on the HDR settings on! These photos take a little longer, but really are cute!
5. Use the camera grid. Sometimes using the camera grid is actually really helpful, if you are trying to line things up!
6. The flash on the iphones kinda suck, so photos look better with the flash off. But if you have to use flash, use it!
7. If you want photos to fit on instagram perfectly, without any cropping, take your photos in the square mode on your phone. Taking the group photo in the square mode is the easiest way to make sure you get everyone in the shot.
8. (Optional last step) If you are posting on instagram and want to edit your photo, please use apps to edit the photo. The instagram filters just look tacky and fake. Get VSCO Cam, or Afterlight.

thanks guys! I hope you take these notes to heart if you want to take better iphone photos! Comment if you liked the article or want another “how to.”

just letting you know, no post on the 5th, because easter! i am doing my media fast on the 6th (monday)! wish me luck! see ya on the 7th!

xoxo

(aka kate wins!)

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