Studio 'Staches...

Hello Lovelies~

Hope you are all well! As I mentioned several posts ago, I now have a photography studio and I am shifting the focus of my work and Stapelia in general, to just photography. I am in the studio shooting every weekend now and I've created a new Flickr album for these exploits. Candids, studio and location shots will all be housed here, including my humorous new series that turns a dirty phrase on its ear entitled Mustache Rides. You have to see it to believe it, here's a peek:

In addition to the studio work, next week, I am starting a second blog in collaboration with a writer friend of mine entitled Phantomas, that mixes photography and fictional writing to create weekly forays into the unknown. If all goes according to plan, the first post will go up the 28th. It should be interesting, so set your feeds now!

Speaking of forays into the unknown, have you guys seen the work of Mike Doyle? Well, I say "work", but for him it's play that he just takes really seriously. Mike is a Lego artist who has fashioned 2 life-like abandoned houses out of only Legos, no paint, no glue and these houses are ridiculous. The detail? The amount of time spent? I'm always amazed when people use materials with strict constraints to make something beautiful... and these certainly are that.

Have I got a movie recommendation for you Kiddies. I can't believe I haven't suggested this one before: PIN. Heard of it? It's pretty obscure. My sister and I read the book years ago and it creeped us both out, and then we found a movie version. Uh uh. It's like Flowers in the Attic meets a life-sized anatomical teaching dummy. I won't spoil it for you, check it out and let me know what you think...

Yeah, PIN looks like a skinless Rene Auberjonois... yikes.

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

Golden Stash

Hello Lovelies!

Exciting news! I have now added enough photo and illustration prints to the shop to run a sale. For one week I will take 15% off orders of 2 or more photo or illustration prints. I really think these prints are top knotch and I want to get them into your hands.

The sleaze photos have officially been added to the shop. I showed a few of them off in the last post and here are the other two:

          

The Golden Stash??? I can't make this stuff up. I will continue adding to this series because to be honest, it's fun. These prints are really rich and dark, a computer screen doesn't do the sleaze justice Lovelies.

I am also working feverishly on those childhood fear scratchboard pieces. Here's a preliminary sketch of the first one:

        

I hope to get these listed this weekend.

As I sit here listening to Diana Krall's The Girl in the Other Room (inspiration for the female espionage series), I am pondering a couple of questions that maybe someone can help me answer. First, why are there women out there who still insist on wearing scrunchies, taper-legged pants, shoulder pads and/or suits from the Sears catalog? This bothers me folks because those looks... never coming back. I hope. 

And did you hear about the lady who went into the McDonald's and ordered McNuggets and when she found out they were gone... called 911? Now what? There were seriously injuries on hold out there while she said what? "Hello officer, I'd like to report a crime?" I just don't know people... 

Until next time: unpleasant dreams.