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[Jul. 17th, 2008|04:09 pm] |
The invitations have been mailed out for the Masquerade Ball and the Classical quartet has been hired. My husband's outfit is ready and mine will be soon. There is some debate over what my mask should be, it's harder when you have a resident mask maker and can ask for anything in the world! I am a quiver with anticipation and counting off the minutes left at work...2280...2279...2278 |
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[Jul. 11th, 2008|04:54 pm] |
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[Jul. 10th, 2008|08:51 pm] |
I am very pleased to announce I have booked the Collage Trio (in my case it will be a quartet) for the Masquerade Ball. If any one who has not yet responded wishes to attend please let me know, the invites will be mailed this weekend!
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[Jul. 1st, 2008|09:18 pm] |
Thankfully the unbearable heat has subsided and now it's just normal heat. My digital photo studio (ie computer) is in the attic and it has been impossibly hot up there so no work has been done on any of my recent shoots and I am getting that panicky falling behind feeling. Self imposed deadlines will be the death of me. Add to that an out of town visit from my mother-in-law starting tomorrow coupled with an out of town trip for the 4th - ugh, time thine art mine enemy.
I find myself working on another nude series, the gist of which will become apparent to you the viewer after a couple of posts. Perhaps distracting myself with artistic nude projects is not the best idea when launching into a photography career meant to support my family but eh, I go with what flows. I keep looking longingly at all the fruits and veggies I have been cutting up and thinking what pretty pictures they would make. Soon, soon...
How is it already July? My husband is obsessively working away in his art cave building things to blow up for the 4th in what we have decided must now be a yearly tradition. One of the pieces is amazing, it pains me to see it blown up, but at the same time it will be a spectacular burn.
Happy 4th, see you in a week. |
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[Jun. 30th, 2008|10:08 am] |
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespearenot ALL of them, but a fair amount
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
I've read other book by some of the author's listed (like Salman Rushdie's "The Moor's Last Sigh" loved it.) that aren't here, I'm really more of a short story person. |
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[Jun. 27th, 2008|11:25 pm] |
Delicious cheeses and fruits provided for consumption, it is BYOB however. Guests may arrive earlier to have their photo taken. Masks and/or appropriately lavish costumes are required to enter as well as a secret token that will be mailed out. Baroque music (hopefully live) and a special version of the midnight unmasking as well as a costume contest. My husband will also have his masks on display for the first time ever.
Please comment with your mailing address if you would like to attend. Details will be mailed by post to those interested. Comments screened. Some of you will be receiving emails with this information as well.
Thank you! |
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| Old people say the darndest things |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|05:27 pm] |
Having arrived home from a weekend of working on the beach house, I was unloading tools and such while my mother looked on. I sat down for a second holding a large tube of Liquid Nails in a dispensing gun. Converastion is as follows. Funnier if read out loud.
Mom: What's that?
Me: (click trigger a couple of times to indicate function)
Mom: Is that caulking?
Me: No, it's Liquid Nails
Mom: Oh! I wondered. I was thinking "Wow, that's a really big caulk."
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[Jun. 19th, 2008|03:50 pm] |
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[Jun. 16th, 2008|04:30 pm] |
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I just wanted to take this moment to say thank you to all the people who comment on my work and provide the feedback, support and all around good juju that keeps me going. I am not able to reply to all comments but I read and acknowledge every one and think kind thoughts about you all. |
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[Jun. 14th, 2008|06:55 pm] |
Arose at 5:30 for an early shoot, had another this afternoon and another tomorrow...I am so tired and falling behind fast on several conceptual and fashion edits as well as a wedding. I don't know if I will survive working my day job until the end of July. Half of my weekends this month are committed to working on my parent's beach house so no photo time - that's 40 hours I lose that could be used for editing and such. I have no shoots set up for July as I haven't had time yet to schedule them. School is out which adds a new element to scheduling the day's activities. I need to submit a load of new work to my stock editors as well. My husband is being a darling and looking after my needs when he can but he himself devotes 10 hours of his day to his job.
I probably wouldn't be feeling so harangued if I weren't sleep deprived. On the plus side, great images today and tomorrow will be good, I can tell. Definitely early bed time.
Rachelle being adorable from a shoot over a month ago. |
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[Jun. 5th, 2008|10:09 pm] |
This reminds me of "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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[Jun. 5th, 2008|07:47 pm] |
An egg found in the studio |
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[Jun. 5th, 2008|07:44 pm] |
 
This is at the new studio, mask by my husband of course. I will be posting alot of these so be prepared. |
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[Jun. 5th, 2008|07:22 pm] |
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I forgot to mention while in Seattle we also saw "Dario Robleto : Alloy of Love" at the Frye which was amazing. The profile on the web page isn't very intriguing but the show is beautiful and magical, real alchemy. If you are in Seattle I highly recommend it. |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2008|04:06 pm] |
I would like to host a
Masquerade Ball
at the studio space to celebrate my leap of faith into full time photographer and to thank all the amazing models that have helped me realize my creative vision. Please let me know if you would be able to attend, most likely the party would be on Aug 1st or 2nd, if you have a preference let me know. I would like to hire a string quartet to play Venetian music and would have platters of fruit and cheese, you get the idea. Most likely BYOB.
I am trying to give people plenty of time to plan, it is a couple thousand square feet, if only 10 people show up it will feel empty and sad. Inform your friends, anyone you know who might want to model for me, or anyone who would be willing to dress up for a masquerade ball.
I would also like to mail out actual paper invitations as well. If enough people are interested I will set up a mailing list post.
So what do you think? |
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| 41 Candles - What a Week Part 3 |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|02:25 pm] |
Sunday, June 1st was my birthday. Turning 40 was not a big deal, turning 41 has me on the downhill side now and it feels weird. I have an overwhelming urge to act my age and start wearing bathing suits with the little skirts on them. As I had spent the previous weekend living it up in Seattle my birthday was low key. Spent the first half of the day at the Portland Gift Show spending my money on all sorts of beautiful jewelry, most for photo shoots, not all. Highlights included a serpent head beaded wrap bracelet and this amazing Victorian magnifying glass pendant set in sterling silver that is to die for. Unfortunately my mother drove off with everything in her car so I will have to collect them later this week.
The second half of the day was spent at the studio shooting with a tried and true model. I did learn that late afternoon light is not so bright and morning is better but still the shots promise to be lovely.
The evening was spent bossing my husband around as he played the role of man slave and indulged my whims. That was delicious fun and fully deserved now that I am a woman of a certain age and entitled to such things.
Are my wrinkles starting to show?
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