As a protest to the SOPA and PIPA bills that are floating through Congress in the US right now, I will be going dark on here for Wednesday, 18 January 2012. I hope there will be a wave of awareness that the internet needs to remain free of government intervention and control. They need to clean their own acts before they have the audacity to tell the rest of us how to regulate our lives. Please join me and count ell others in going dark on the 18th. Thank you...
Read more...The new year started lamely. I would have thought better of it, since we went to see a friend of ours perform burlesque and then a couple others at a house party perform with their band. It was a lot of activity and a lot of fun swirling around, but I didn't catch any of it. Lame. I wanted to have the same emotional response to the new year of 2012 as everyone else seemed to be having - the last year in the Mayan calendar - the year where the earth crosses the galactic equator - the year of the Dragon in Chinese reckoning... All the signs, portents and cosmos are directing this coming year...
Read more...With a fond adieu we start to bid farewell to 2011. It held such promise, such hope, such potential. Did it live up to those things? That's for each individual to challenge themselves to reflect upon and judge. For me, 2011 was a year of opening opportunities and changes in direction. I think this past year has altered my course for the future and has put me in line with some closed doors that I can definitely open. Doors that I didn't even knew existed before the lights came on. To what extent those doors will lead into greater things? That's for 2012 to develop, and for me to discover. I...
Read more...This Fall Quarter is coming to a close and I must say that I've had some really good experiences within it. I loved my Advanced Fashion class most especially, and I feel that I have found what I would love to do for the next portion of my life. One of the last photo shoots I did for that class was one in an editorial type style that revolved around ties... My model, Corey Wise, is not only an exceptionally handsome fellow on the outside, he's extremely handsome on the inside as well. His charismatic demeanor, positive attitude, accommodating nature and his uncanny ability to be where he says...
Read more...It seems as though I've been 'bitten' by the fashion bug. I'm falling in love with the genre of photography in a bad way. I don't really want to - just because it's so complex and undulating like a writhing monster waiting to devour those who aren't prepared to worship it in its entirety - but I'm becoming more and more compelled to do so.Recently I did a shoot for my Advanced Fashion class for a men's underwear 'campaign' that gave the model I worked with some images for his portfolio (hopefully), and for me as well. I wanted to do a bit of location/editorial images that encompassed...
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