Brian Blostica Photography and Videography

09/28/2022

It was a beautiful night for football in Fowlerville. This video highlights the pre game activities, after game jersey presentation, and halftime show. A spe...

08/30/2021

Mychelle and Chino's wedding previews

06/05/2021

This is a test stream

06/17/2020

I know my Fowlerville peeps have been waiting for this..
For those who don't know me as well as others, I grew up in this small town. I felt compelled to create something for the students and parents who had their worlds turned upside down this year. I took to the sky, exploring campus.. while composing a narration in my mind of what will hopefully be encouraging to watch and listen to. Please share. Classes from the past might like this too.
(To those looking for the parade footage, that is next on my list)

A little something I put together for the graduation class from my hometown. And video from a special ceremony on the football field as part of a tribute to ...

03/03/2020

A new year, with the slower part of my year and time on my hands, means giving some old photos a new look.

12/09/2019

I will be venturing to California during the holidays for a little r&r, but also to shoot tons of video and photos for a side project I'm working on. This means it's going to be me in front of the camera, instead of behind it, quite a bit. It's definitely going to be something different than my usual projects and work, and I'm putting a lot of planning into it.. I'm hoping to turn it into something everyone sees and wants to share :)

11/30/2019

Not my usual post, but something I wanted to share..
As an artist/entrepreneur/photographer, I juggle self-care a lot. Business comes before so much, I often forget to manage other important aspects of life. Relationships, being just one. Overall physical and mental health, another..

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
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[Illustration: Yaoyao Ma Van As Art ]

11/21/2019

10/14/2019

Introducing the homecoming court at Fowlerville's homecoming game.

10/11/2019

Game highlight footage from Fowlerville's homecoming game. Video by Brian Blostica Photography Music by Zayde Wolf

10/06/2019

Video that I captured at this year's homecoming in my little hometown of Fowlerville, MI. Thanks, again, to everyone who helped make this happen! I have a lo...

01/20/2019

Fun with green screens :) lightning works great with gymnast poses