A Step Into E.Rod's Photo Exhibit

CURATE AND SEE — UC ART GALLERY HOME TO BOBCAT ART SHOW

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:00:00 -0700

CURATE AND SEE — UC ART GALLERY HOME TO BOBCAT ART SHOW:

Everyone, you must check out this wonderfully written article about our art gallery.

btw…3 fellow curators and I are in this picture taken of the gallery. ^________^

My Inspiring Quote Of The Night! Getting philosophical with...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:19:33 -0700

My Inspiring Quote Of The Night!

Getting philosophical with life. That’s my thing! :]

Student Art in Focus: Participatory Arts Projects Displayed in SSM Gallery | The Prodigy

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:02:00 -0700

Student Art in Focus: Participatory Arts Projects Displayed in SSM Gallery | The Prodigy:

Just stumbled across this newspaper article in the UCM ‘The Prodigy.’
It has a small section where it talks about the first participatory art project my colleagues and I worked on called Dreams.

Thank you to those who participated. There are many more projects to come in the future. :)

arzepoetic: Comme Une Rosée De Larmes - Ludovic Bource One of...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:15:00 -0800

arzepoetic:

Comme Une Rosée De Larmes - Ludovic Bource

One of my favorite songs from The Artist. So gentle, so innocent and yet it always touches my heart so strongly.

Photo 257 This might look surreal, but this is exactly how the...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:08:48 -0800

Photo 257

This might look surreal, but this is exactly how the sunrise looked this morning. It was very bright yellow with a picturesque looking aura to it. This is most likely one of the only reasons why I like waking up early to go to class. Just to glance at the most gorgeous star of the day. The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze with ever living glory.

Photo 256 Sometimes in life, I just love to sit and feel time in...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:59:00 -0800

Photo 256

Sometimes in life, I just love to sit and feel time in slow motion as I look around and observe what others do. Everything starts looking clear and nothing seems out of place. I connect things like how fast birds flap their wings and how far in time they stop themselves before running into a tree. How one isolates themselves. How constant the wind likes to push hair to the side. How people interact with others or the direction their shoes face. What makes individuals tick. What gets them going and what makes people stop. Above it all, the gray sky seems to control what goes on below. I wonder if the feelings of the sky inject into our being and gets us through the day. My mind constructs its own puzzles and solves it on its own. I’m not sure of all the answers, I’m just a dreamer and perhaps not the only one.

Photo 255 Why hello there cutie! It was an afternoon of playing...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:43:54 -0800

Photo 255

Why hello there cutie! It was an afternoon of playing around with animals at the pet shop. I saw the most cutest animals including a chinchilla which I wanted to take home with me. It would of never worked because I can’t have pets both here and home if it’s not bigger than a fish, and moreover the price tag on a chinchilla was out of the question. However, it was still pleasant to just watch little hamsters move around as I sang to them or play around with a white beta fish with black circular eyes which I named Lady Gaga. Sad part is, Gaga later got bought by someone else. O’well, at least it’s not alone.

Photo 254 Sat by to watch the new Chancellor’s welcome...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:57:00 -0800

Photo 254

Sat by to watch the new Chancellor’s welcome speech as I watched how people’s eyes praised her. I don’t know what to expect from her as everyone at school loves and misses our former chancellor, but it’s never bad to give change a chance. Change is great and only helps us grow and learn more. It can be black or white, who knows?

Photo 253 It’s such a beautiful morning. The sun is out...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:53:51 -0800

Photo 253

It’s such a beautiful morning. The sun is out and lighting the way. The trees are drawing dreams on neutral walls, and the wind is taking me in the direction I need to go. Up hill!

Photo 252 It’s a start of a sweet and fresh month with...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:49:38 -0800

Photo 252

It’s a start of a sweet and fresh month with many things to look forward to. One of them being Halloween and the many projects to arise [and perhaps my birthday]. In my fashion class, I always like starting it by knowing what my mood is at the moment. It said sweet. It made sense because I was feeling the delight of a fresh shinning month with many unattainable things under construction.

erigagarhapsody: Created this flyer myself. Not soo bad after...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:57:01 -0800

erigagarhapsody:

Created this flyer myself.

Not soo bad after abandoning photoshop for awhile.

My team members love it.

Come participate at UCM’s 1st participatory art project where you can create a wall of DREAMS. Show us your dreams through photography, drawing, painting, and poems let your imagination go wild on our walls.

SSM 106 on Feb 3rd-27th at the Art Gallery.

The Interdisciplinary Inspiration of Erica Rodriguez | The Prodigy

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:11:01 -0800

The Interdisciplinary Inspiration of Erica Rodriguez | The Prodigy:

For anyone who wants to read the article in The Prodigy written by Karen Palm of my aspirations. Here you go!
:)))

Photo 251 After a night of getting desified [Indianized], it was...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:44:15 -0800

Photo 251

After a night of getting desified [Indianized], it was time to dance with La Raza. It was a delayed Dia De La Independencia dance, but it’s better late than never. I had a great night of mingling food and dancing with friends. It was wonderful to embrace the culture to the closing of the month with good Banda. The night just kept getting interesting with a tint of awkwardness. However, I would never take this day back. I was closer to home, and I knew it was a long time till home was going to get any closer.

Photo 250 Time to get my Punjabiness on with my girls. The...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:34:23 -0800

Photo 250

Time to get my Punjabiness on with my girls. The annual Bhangra Bash has come again with a bang towards the end of the month. Brings back old memories with my Indian buddies who would dance the whole night with sparkling suits and clinking bangles that moved to the beat of the drum. Those were the days with my old friends who are [some] no longer here. Balle Balle!

Photo 249 Taking the kids for a tour around my campus. Although...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:17:58 -0800

Photo 249

Taking the kids for a tour around my campus. Although many of them don’t know me yet, I’m pretty sure that as time goes by, we will be very well acquainted. Just seeing them takes me back in time when I use to hold hands with my best friend and wear my Gold Gym muscle shirts. It brings a smile to face. :)

Photo 248 Remembering the days when life was an abstract...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:13:00 -0800

Photo 248

Remembering the days when life was an abstract assignment. I want to go back to wanting to find the patterns that an enigmatic question hid behind its striped blinds. Nowadays, it just finding the solution to life’s hurdles, no more artistic puzzles. You see those colors, it was yesterday’s blues and yellows.

Photo 247 Days look bluer by the hour. The library is the most...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:07:35 -0800

Photo 247

Days look bluer by the hour. The library is the most crowdest it has ever been in the Fall. With many new faces and less familiar ones to gaze at. Study mode is now the new black.

Photo 246 It’s that time of the month when high schoolers...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:10:53 -0800

Photo 246

It’s that time of the month when high schoolers start creeping in for tours around school while starring as you walk past by them to class. Walking close by them, I wonder if only I took sometime to actually tell them what school is actually all about but well that’s not my job and I’m pretty sure tour guides are honest right?!

Photo 245 The Leadership Conference. This day was full of...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:57:00 -0800

Photo 245

The Leadership Conference. This day was full of inspiration, and the best part of it was meeting Chad Crittenden from the show Survivor. A true inspiration with lots of motivation behind his life’s story. I know that many times we take life for granted and we start thinking that we can’t get places because we fear rejection and failure. But, no one has gotten anywhere without trying, without learning from falling, without making their own circumstances. Start making a timeline of the things you want to get done. Don’t just wait for them to come, create them and shape them the way you want them to be. Chad, as well as many survivors out there, have motivated me to reach the stars no matter how many barriers come my way. Here I leave you with a quote he shared and gave me which is currently pinned to my wall and reminder that Nothing is Impossible.

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”

Photo 244 The first day of walking through the elementary doors...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:57:00 -0800

Photo 244

The first day of walking through the elementary doors of my lovely children from the mentor program. I was very ready to change a child’s life and make many smiles along the way. It was my relief. The genuine feeling I’ve been needing from hugging kids who liked me without judgment. I was retracing my steps from childhood. Freeze tag, red-light green light, tetherball, basketball, running, talking, helping a hurt child and hug attacks from a big group of kids. Nothing compared to this refreshing feeling.