Two Boys & Two Girls

Hello Lovelies~

I hope you are doing well out there. Things here are busy as usual! To start, as promised, I have finally finished my top secret project that I showed you all candids of last week! As my artist statement below says, this Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal project was near and dear to my heart. I wanted to make some strong visual statements to commemorate the landmark DADT repeal that contained all of the emotion and the passion of Alfred Eisenstaedt's original candid photo. When you compare them all together, I think we pulled it off! Thank you to all of the people and models involved, it was a fantastic time.

Some exciting news! My Sword Swallower print was chosen by Society6 to be sold in their official shop. That's the second photo of mine that they've chosen and given the level of talent on that site, I am again, very flattered!

I am furiously editing some new work for the post next week and I think you will enjoy those. Until then, there is this shot, which I took just for fun and I'm really in love with it. (It's my Sweetie acting like a monkey for some reason... hahaha.)

Oh! I have found a wonderful photographer whose work I want to share with you. Heather Evans Smith is a fine art and conceptual photographer like myself and I absolutely adore her work. The light in her pieces and the unique concepts she executes as well as the vintage twists? Amazing. One of my new idols over here you guys.

And I'd like to wrap up with an amazing project I stumbled across the other day on one of my favorite blogs: She Walks Softly. The images below are of a "Book Tank." Built by Raul Lemesoff (who converted a 1979 Ford Falcon into an open-air tank bookmobile), the book tank drives around Buenos Aires offering books to anyone who's interested. He calls it his "Weapon of Mass Instruction." Amazing. Simply, amazing.

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

Bright colors... dark thoughts.

Hello Lovelies!

I hope you are all well. I have many things to share as usual. First, I am getting ready to put a new collection up in the shop for the new year. It's bright. It's deadly. I'm really excited about it and I think you're going to love it Kiddies. But first, I have added a Soon to be Discontinued section to my shop to clear out the old. Take a peek at that, once those items sell, I won't be re-listing them.

I ship a lot of prints and other flat things out that really shouldn't be bent in half. So, I decided I needed to get a Do Not Bend stamp. But then, I realized that's not how we do things around here. So, I designed one and I named her Bendee. Bendee will greet you with her smiling countenance on all orders from now on!

One last piece of business, I have two 16" x 20" overstock art photos listed: Medusa and Penelope the Sword Swallower. I never keep these on-hand so this is a rare treat. They're beautiful and ship immediately.

I have found a wonderful illustrator via Gallery Nucleus. Lorelay Bove (besides having a great name), did a series for that gallery inspired by Alfred Hitchcock movies (so of course I was sold). But her other work is just as delightful. It has a loose but obviously skilled look to it that makes me love it immensely. Take a look!

If I had one wish, it would be to own the tools necessary to make an ambrotype and the skills of Misha Burlatsky to make it wonderful. Holy smokes. This is a technique that cannot be mimicked by digital and that makes it wonderful. Look at that selective focus you guys... and that clown with the hearts blowing out. Holy. Smokes.

Let's wrap up with a haunting and unsettling movie recommendation, shall we? I watched Moon over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. The acting was great, the plot had several twists and Sam Rockwell, while not movie star gorgeous, has the appeal of a Steve Buscemi in his ability to look different in every scene. I highly recommend it and give it all 5 corncobs!

Plus, the poster design is pretty top-knotch.

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...