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Sur les traces de Frida Kahlo
L`officiel feb 1998
Laura Ponte by Iris Brosch

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Current Music: sis - hmm

kate orne

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Platinium by Paolo Roversi

Magazine: Vogue IT - Mars 1997
Editorial: Platinium
Photographer: Paolo Roversi

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Larry King special on UFOs

Parts 2, 3, & 4 are here at the user's page.

What do you guys think?

Current Mood: contemplative

Gates of Horn and Ivory
So, like, I keep having these dreams.

I hardly ever have actually good dreams, but lately I've been having all these weird nightmares. I don't know if 'nightmares' is even the right word, since there's a certain amount of horror-movie coolness implied by the term. These dreams are not so much terrifying as really unpleasant.

Two nights ago I dreamed I submitted a piece of ceramic pottery to some kind of competition. I caught a glimpse of my work and was completely shocked at how SHITTY it was despite the fact that I had apparently made this thing. It looked like a five year old had made it, honestly. This was somehow really upsetting to me and I spent the rest of the dream freaking out about it. I've had a couple of dreams like this recently.

Last night I dreamed I was just sort of hanging out with friends -- walking around, chatting -- and someone stabbed me in the arm with a pencil. I don't remember if it was on purpose or an accident or what, but it didn't really hurt all that much, which made it all the more surprising when I started bleeding profusely. For some reason in the dream I specifically remember that I was wearing a particular white button-down shirt that I own and it was just totally soaked in blood. So I was walking around downtown, dripping blood everywhere and being generally pissed off at the state of things.

If I'm going to have consistently bad dreams, is it too much to ask that they're at least, well, interesting? I mean, I guess the bleeding thing is all right, but the only reason it was interesting at all is because it DIDN'T cause the kind of reaction that it should have. The rest of it is totally mundane, like getting upset because I produced some bad artwork.

What gives?

Buffalo Wild Wings: score - 7.5/10

WEEABOOOO.
So I was going through the pictures from Meredith's honeymoon to Japan pics that she gave me so I could use them for my Photoshop project, and she took SO MANY PICTURES OF THE DELICIOUS FOOD. After looking at these pictures for some time, I actually wound up going down to the kitchen and making myself some ramen and tea, the most asian-like foods in the house. XD

But yeah, I somehow need to shit out this project by next week. I sorted all the possible pictures into files, but I need to brainstorm some more before I get any definite ideas. But yeah, it's due on Monday, so I guess I better shit it out quickly... D:

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: After in the Dark- Macross Plus OST

Metrocon! (The short version)
I had a pretty good time!

Somehow I did indeed make two new costumes! This despite school drama and Mina getting really sick, scaring the shit out of me. I was the emergency person who ended up running many errands in a hurry! And I also wore heels all weekend, which is noteworthy since I survived without too much pain.

Special thanks to:

-Alina for not even being on staff but doing a ton of work and taking photos of me!
-Brian (Boling) for well, being Tony Stark and hilarious pool shenanigans
-Brian/Laina for bringing me a lab coat, thank you so much!
-Carol Ann for beating me up, and Brooke for finishing the job (also Brooke took photos of me, I owe you a shoot)!
-Daryl for getting us IMAX tickets, even if it wasn't at the Tampa theater @_@
-Henry for being a gentleman all weekend <3
-Kamanda/Laina or whoever made my terrifying caterpillar mask
-Rob for taking photos of us Friday night
-Sara for the lovely Sunday evening, and the terrifying Sheikra experience! Eeek!
-Yaya for being my general voice of reason and big sister type <3

Really so many people helped me out big time this weekend that I hope I didn't forget anyone! If I did I'll make an even BIGGER deal about you in the next post!

Some photos after the cut. Just one of each so you have an idea what I made! Hopefully better pics coming soon. =)

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incorrect results
The July 4th TDAA results were finally put online, and I see why Misha and Foomin both placed so low in Chutes and Ladders. They were each given a 20 point fault. This is bull because I know I did not make them do a wrong course. They wouldn't have qualified anyway because both were too slow in getting to the finish line, but the scribe and/or judge didn't have to insult us too. Bah.

Daily Twitter Digest
My day in Tweets:

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I heard there was a mishap at the fire show and some kid got her hair set on fire, did anyone by chance catch this on film?

Ad hominem
As some of you may or may not know, I do tech support for Napster to pay the bills. I usually deal with what we call 1st level issues - problems with an easily identifiable symptom and set solution (delete file X, run utility Y, etc).
Today I had one of my supervisors call a customer back. Now, we keep case notes of every call we receive, and this customer has a history of, in short, being a bitch and calling us liars. Nothing too out of the ordinary though.
My task was to explain to this customer yet again that the errors she was getting on her MP3 player were the fault of the MP3 player and not Napster. She didn't believe us. I was given authority to effectively argue (because that is what it would inevitably come to) with this customer in polite way and emphasize that this was not our problem, she needs to call the device's manufacturer.
Of course, she didn't believe us yet again but by the end of the call she had resorted to personal attacks. Not yelling, just being upset and passive-aggressively rude. No resolution was reached, but then I didn't expect there to be one.
What is not entirely unusual but somewhat unexpected is how energized and and upbeat I felt after gaining the argumentative and moral high ground. How messed am I that I had fun arguing with a customer?

Current Mood: energetic

The Batman
From an article about evolution from NYTimes: (I was mostly skimming until I came to this part)

The fruit fly Drosophila subobscura has been evolving bigger wings in higher latitudes in North and South America; mosquitoes that live in pitcher plants hunker down for the winter later in the year than they used to; in a forest in southern England, great tits have been shrinking (great tits are songbirds).

I love that she had to clarify what she means there!

So anyway, I watched both Batman Begins and The Dark Knight yesterday. I got to watch The Dark Knight at one of the IMAX showings. It's odd to be watching a screen so large that I have to swivel my head to see different parts of it. But it was worth it! Heath Ledger as the Joker was amazing, just like everyone says.

There was one thing that disturbed me, though, and that is how grotesquely violent this movie was despite its rating. ( Read more... )

BigDog Robot & Water-Powered Car
[The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth]

Current Mood: impressed

I wanna run into you
So Metrocon was a huge success. As far as selling goes that is, I have no idea how the rest of the con was, since I was at my table all weekend. The Red Bull Flutag took place the same weekend right outside, and they drunk folks kept coming in and harassing all the artists, so that sucked. I made quite a bit, seems my plushes and art went over very well. Hurray! ...now all of it is going to pay bills. I will be going to AFO now (ugh...) to sell again. I'm also going to see if I can hook up with someone and share a table at AWA. If this pans out I will be definitely be selling at near every con I go to (then hang out with friends at night. It's win/win!).

Here's a picture of me and Laurie at our table.

I got "invited" to two cons this weekend. One girl invited me to be an artist at JANICON, for the LOW LOW PRICE OF $100 A TABLE. I was like...seriously? $100 for a table at a shitty small Jacksonville con? Yeah. No thanks. The second was a dude from Screamfest. I think it's a pretty professional con since alot of big names will be there, but the table is reaaaaaaaaallllly expensive (over $200) annnd I REALLLLLY doubt my sci-fi anime-ish art would sell at a horror/gore con. I told that to the guy and he was like "well just draw some zombie/ horror art." OH YEAH CAUSE IT'S SO EASY I JUST CRAP IT OUT. So yeah, I think I'll be skipping both those cons.

I'm feeling pretty good about my art right now. It's the first time I realize how little I know, and how much I need to learn, but I'm happy about that. Usually I just get depressed, but now I am eager to get to work on some studies and crack out tons more concept art. I want to practice with new poses, environments, and even some (gulp) vehicles.

Darryl also showed me hot action sexy trailer for Bayonetta. This game looks freakin' sweet. ( Must resist gay cosplay urges )

Lol

atomx, I think Darryl has something funny to show you about RoS.

Current Mood: working
Current Music: Sigur Ros

So... so cold
Here's a quick run-down on where I've been in the past week and a half:

Kyoto
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Kobe
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Hiroshima
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Miyajima Island
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Fukuoka
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Nagasaki
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Beppu

Tomorrow, I'll be in Himeji (to see the castle) in the afternoon, and then Osaka for 2 days. After that, it's finally back to Tokyo. I miss it already. ;__; Unfortunately, it also means it's nearing the end of my vacation. How terrible! I'm not ready to go back home yet!

( This hostel is stupid )

Oh, and before I forget, I'm terribly sorry,

ad_exia, but I lied to you. I went to a Starbucks in Nagasaki, but they did not have any of your mugs there. Neither did the Starbucks in Beppu. You may just get the two I already have - but it's better than nothing! m(_'_)m

I don't know what I was watching on TV tonight, but after my surprisingly engaging period drama ended, I found some random "ikemen" show with a ton of guests I knew! There was I Tegan (the Korean kid who was in Samurai Mode), Ohkuchi Kengo, Juri, Shirota Yuu, and some guy from TeniMyu who I think plays Yukimura. No clue what the show was actually about, though. It was just interesting seeing people I knew on TV. Japan is great like that. XD

Current Mood: cold
Current Music: Orange Range - Ikenai Taiyou

Maddi W.
I've been wanting to shoot with Madeleine for several months now and finally the stars have aligned. We got together on Monday evening with the lovely and talented makeup artist, Jennifer West. Pretty sure that these are some of my strongest images to date.

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I live for your comments. What!?

Birthday Blast!!!
Hey guys- my birthday's coming up- and in response I'm planning a water gun fight.
The deal is it would be either after work (after 7pm) on friday, or both that day and sometime saturday. I just want to see who could make what. This is all pertaining to the August 1st - 2nd days, not this weekend ;)

Come prepared- bring your own watergun of course.
I'm open to suggestions on location. I figure we could probably do it in some park.

Games at Intercon!
hi all!

I know that you have wanted to run (or re-run) your games at Intercon I. You have just been waiting to bid the games. Well, wait no more.

go to bid a game and do it!

:)

Lowell MA this weekend
From a mailing list I am on:

Greetings Brothers,

We need your help this Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday is the CHIP program at the Lowell Masonic Center. We can use everyone's help with this event. Many brothers have summer plans for this weekend and having a full CHIP crew is going to be tough. PLEASE help if you can. No experience needed.
Also if you have an Easy-up style shelter tent, please bring it. We hope to be able to do the CHIP program outside to give the program more exposure. If you have a few cinder blocks, we could use them for the day to secure the tents in the parking lot.

Sunday, we are having the 4th Sunday of the month breakfast. We need you to come down and eat.
I know you can do that. 8:00 till 11:00AM is the time, $5.00 is the price.

Come on down. There will be all sorts of music and food. This is a great time in Lowell.

link to Lodge

Current Mood: hopeful

Children don't live here anymore

( This tale is not for children )

The Ghostly Story

This story happened to me nearly a month ago. I was at my friend’s party, and it was late, and my friend Anna asked me to stay at her place. I didn’t want to return home in the darkness, so I was glad to stay for the whole night at her flat. She brought me to one of her room, and made a bed for me, and left alone. I was very tired and soon fell asleep. But my dream was so strange… I had been awaken several times during the night, because of some strange noises. I heard a baby crying, I heard some people talking in the room (but I couldn’t catch the topic of their conversation)… There were a lot of other strange voices and screams. In the morning I told Anna this story, but she just smiled. She said that was OK, she knows about things happening in her flat and suggested not to pay too much attention to this. “These are my ghosts” she said in such a tone as if she said “these are my relatives”. I was shocked. Then Anna explained that since the time her family moved to this flat, it has been constantly happening. The blocks of flat house was new, nobody had lived there before Anna came to this flat. There was no cemetery on the place where the house is now… No signs of crime, nothing special…Once she called for a priest from the local church and the priest said several prayers to get the ghosts away, but there was no result. Then Anna decided that she can live with such “neighbors” as with friends or pets, or something of this kind. “If you don’t pay any attention to them they are quite harmless” she said.

Current Mood: curious

hey guys!
just joined this community, i dont actually have any photos at the moment, but im hoping you guys can help me with that!
i live in NSW in Australia and there arent exactly many abandoned warehouses/hospitals around here and i cant travel to find some, so im wondering if you guys could give me some ideas about things that are local that i could take the urban decay approach to? im already thinking about visiting the cemetary because im pretty sure theres a few broken headstones and such there, but im a little bit stuck for ideas! im doing my minor photography assignment on this and Rob Dobis work so any help would be appreciated :)

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