| Just In.... |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|04:36 pm] |
This is the only photo I've seen from my weekend performance (as taken by Anka Dolhun)....
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| Some People Are More Photogenic Than Others |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|02:11 am] |
I had a great time at the Henry Rollins show. Unfortunately, it seems to have mutated me into some sort of subhuman lifeform. I present to you as proof this unfortunate photo of Sara, my mutant twin, Henry Rollins, and ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) schwartzung.
All I can say in my own defense is that I was hunkering down and in to give Sara more room when I was temporarily possessed by some sort of punk rock demon.
I looked in the mirror. My face did not stick that way.
![[Look out for the mutant, Henry!]](http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v203/120/49/511799863/n511799863_386914_1638.jpg "[Look out for the mutant, Henry!]")
Edit: I simply cannot look at this picture and not laugh. It is simply impossible. |
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| Resume Dancing |
[Mar. 3rd, 2008|12:15 pm] |
Yesterday I tried out partner dancing for the first time. Ok, maybe not for the first time, as I had a ten-minute merengue lesson with a Cuban hottie about six years ago. This time, I tried out Argentinian tango and West Coast swing. I found the movement styles very interesting--more like horseback riding or Wing Chun sticky hands than like any other dancing I've done. Both styles relied on pressure cues from my partner, and once I figured out what those cues were, I progressed very quickly. I think I'm more partial to the swing dance than the tango. I didn't get to try lindy hop, but I may get that opportunity yet.
After taking those dance classes (and teaching my own quick and dirty belly dance class), I went for a walk in the park with f00dave with my camera in hand. Unfortunately, although I saw many things I wanted to photograph, the light was very flat, and the shots don't pop the way I want them to. Still, I did get some practice in composition, and got to laugh at ducks sliding around on ice and marvelled at the destroyed computer sitting in a snowbank.
Today I'm working on my dance résumé. I have a couple of potential dance jobs coming up, and if I get them, maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to save up for a better camera.
Links? Sure.
What a Choice! Sex With a Sleaze for $100,000 or Writing for Peanuts: I want a sugar daddy, but not that much.
Racial slur on sofa label stuns family: "When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as 'Nigger-brown'" (thanks, schwartzung).
Russian 'bird-boy' discovered in aviary: "Russian care workers have rescued a seven-year-old 'bird-boy' who can communicate only by 'chirping' after his mother raised him in a virtual aviary." They lie. He also shakes his feathers.
Erotic Falconry: Parts of this are NSFW, so be warned. "Where’s the deviance in wanting to pull feathers rather than blond hair? What’s abnormal about wanting to see your wife take a three-inch beak instead of a 10-inch African American phallus or a silicon, injection-molded forearm? How can a human vagina or anus even compare to hollow bones or a molty egg-hole."
Cougar Page: Kitties! The cutest frigging mountain lions, ever.
Mysteries of Radio: Number stations. What is the purpose of these bizarre broadcasts? I don't know, but I'm looking for my tinfoil hat....
Students exchanged nude cell phone photos: Little kids, actually. It's the high-tech version of playing doctor.
Fit By Jen: Jen was morbidly obese. Then she got control of her eating and exercise habits, and now she's a personal trainer, and pretty darned inspirational!
Alcoholic parents force children to suckle dogs: No mention if any of these kids ever went on to start their own Roman empires.
How creepy do you want it?: "The famously eerie tale of nine dead Russian hikers, with all the bizarre details you can handle." |
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| Red! |
[Mar. 1st, 2008|12:55 pm] |
Last night's photo shoot went swimmingly. My red pants were the star of the night.
Here's a sneak peek!
I made the top and belt. f00dave made the spiked choker. angramainyu set up the lights and snapped the shot.
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| I Haven't Even Been Fighting |
[Feb. 29th, 2008|05:18 pm] |
I look like I've been jabbed all over with sticks. I have many bruises, and can only account for about half of them (last night's breakdancing experiment). Where the other ones came from is a complete mystery to me. But despite my brutish appearance, I'm off to do a photoshoot with angramainyu tonight.
As for the breakdance class, well, let's just say I harbour numerous doubts about my future abilities to throw down and battle. I don't think I have any potential as a breakdancer. Where some movement styles click with me right away, some do not. You can guess which category break dance is in for me. That being said, I do believe I can eventually get the basics for up rock figured out.... Except that I doubt I'll be attending any more breakdance classes. They happen during my regularly scheduled wing chun training slots. Last night's tap class, however, continued happily. Although I got lost during a few of the time signatures, I'm progressing so quickly as to utterly freak out my instructor and the advanced student in the class. So maybe I have a future in tap! I know I'm having a helluva lot of fun with it.
After dancing, I went to Ren with schwartzung, ostensibly for a business meeting, but our contact didn't show. So we hung around for a while and took in the drag show. I feel like an alien at these events. Seeing straight men dressed up like tarty women getting hit on by other straight men confuses my brains. And watching a strip-tease with a drag queen going down to nothing but strategically placed duct tape was certainly amusing. The front looked ok, but the back really looked like an arse taped shut. And I really have to wonder about just how it would feel to yank duct tape off such sensitive skin. Yikes.
Tomorrow, I'm off to London to check out the clubs there. This is just as much for work as it is for pleasure. I've been drafted into DSoL as a promotions assistant, and some of our events will be taking place there, and we want to see the clubs firsthand. Also, I may very well be dancing there this spring.
Today, I received an email from a dancer asking me to photograph her at a show. Unfortunately, I won't be able to go to her show, but it's very flattering to be asked for specifically as a photographer. I'm used to being asked for as a model, but this is my first time being requested as a photographer. I really do enjoy taking pictures, and I'm finding it an excellent creative challenge to photograph live shows, whether they're of dancers or musicians. I'll keep it up, and maybe someday I'll even get the camera that will let me take the kind of shots I want to take.
Links? Why yes!
Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye: This is probably the strangest medical headline I've ever seen.
Somebody Needs Some Pantene: Oh Christ....
Form and Function: A series of amazing photos of some amazing women: professional athletes in a wide array of shapes and sizes.
New theory (and old equations) may explain causes of ship-sinking freak waves: "On a stormy April day in 1995, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was sailing in the North Atlantic when the ocean liner dipped into a 'hole in the sea.' Out of the darkness, a towering 95-foot wave threatened to crash down upon the vessel, which the 70,000-ton ship attempted to surf in order to avoid being pummeled to the bottom of the ocean." This is the sort of thing that makes me question the wisdom of those planned floating cities.
And last, but not least, comes this: Pseudopod 79: Ice: creepy mariner fiction by elanya. Download it now, because I think it's only available for today. |
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| Paparazzi Wannabe |
[Feb. 22nd, 2008|12:45 pm] |
I don't often get the craving to buy an item (aside from boots), but I really would like to get a new digital camera: one with a much larger lens. I've been taking a lot of low-light photos lately (at live club venues, in particular), and a bigger lens would ameliorate the blur problem. I'm also interested in doing figure studies and portraits, in addition to the macro stuff I've always been so fond of.
I hope that new dance teaching job comes through so I can save up....
Do you have recommendations for something that has high value and low cost? |
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gotta pee!
ROFLCOPTER!!!1!one!!
sleepy
hungry