![]() experience to start actualizing my goals. Fully committed to film, I moved to Los Angeles in September 2016 with enough D.I.Y. My senior year I shot six short films, six music videos, and a web series. That summer I shot a documentary in Guatemala about the Mayan tradition of weaving. The next semester I studied abroad in Costa Rica, where I shot my first video project, a documentary about the host family experience. Without Tarrah’s guidance, I wouldn’t be where I am today, making a living as a creative. I realized image-making could be a profession, not just a hobby or a device to crystallize memory. Sophomore year, I took a photography class with Tarrah Kranjak, a professor and fine art photographer. I wanted a degree that would set me up for job security. I started at Pitzer College as an economics major. From Italy to Germany, France, and Spain, the color palettes and landscapes I saw made me appreciate the beauty of the world through a lens. It was a point-and-shoot, but I experimented with the different shooting modes and developed an eye for composition. The summer after senior year, I set off on a backpacking trip around Europe with my first camera. From my thespian days in elementary school to AP Ceramics and English in high school, I found solace in self-expression. I approach new skills with a voracious desire to learn, and always with due preparation. I wanted to be seen as an equal and for my thoughts and opinions to be respected. Suddenly, I shocked the party-goers into silence when I pointed to our back porch, where we kept art supplies, and abruptly stated, “Our paints are over there.” I’d been listening to the way adults spoke–in complete sentences–and waiting until I understood how to have a proper conversation before I made my voice heard. One day we were at our neighbors’ party in the backyard, where they’d set up easels and paints for the kids. By the time I was two and a half, my parents were considering speech therapy because I was still saying “ba-ba” for bottle and other such reductions instead of words. A shy kid, I was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. Nicholas, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far. For Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts users who have a love of GIFs, it offers a quick and easy way to get them into their chats – for everyone else it still needs some work.Today we’d like to introduce you to Nicholas Popkey. PopKey is a fine GIFf keyboard, but still early days. This is not a huge struggle, and tying it to an account rather than your device does mean that your GIF will always be to hand on any device, but security fans may not want to sign in just for a keyboard. The other element is that to make use of PopKey’s more personalized features you have to create an account or login with Facebook. That means that all of you Whatsapp, Telegram, Twitter, and other messaging people will just have to wait for an update if you hope to use PopKey on your app of choice. Firstly, currently it only works with Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts. So far, so simple, but it’s far from perfect. True, this is one more stage in the process than is ideal, but its a good start. Selecting the image you want, you can then copy it from the app and paste it into your chat to be enjoyed by the recipient. There is also search function planned for future updates. Creating an account will also let you keep track of your favorite GIF and upload your own. ![]() ![]() Clicking on any of these opens up its library of GIF for your perusal, with any new ones indicated by a blue dot. It defaults to pages of categories such as LOL, OMG, and other less MEME like options. Recognizing you are on the GIF keyboard is simple thanks to its clean black interface. ![]()
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