Phantomas...

Hello Lovelies~

I hope you are all doing well. So much to share this week as usual. To start, I have completed my Mustache Ride Series and it ended on a strong note for sure. As you can tell from the shots below, there were many laughs. My sides actually hurt when it was all said and done. So much fun.

Remember Lovelies, I'm always taking new clients... :)

Some exciting news! I mentioned my new collaborative blog project entitled Phantomas in my last post. A good writer friend and I are doing weekly posts that combine photography and short fiction stories. The first post is up to give you a taste, follow along if you want to take the journey with us... it should be interesting.

Oh! My photography was just featured on the Sasquatch Magazine site out of Australia. It's a great magazine and I was flattered to be featured. Stop by and support the site, or better yet, subscribe and keep the cool art coming!

And speaking of cool art, have you seen Liz Wolfe's work yet? Holy smokes. I found her via StumbleUpon and uhm... I was blown away. She combines candy and bright colors and just a little bit of darkness to create a look I've never seen before... I know I'll never look at chicken feet the same way again. Or candy canes for that matter.

Strange news time. Did you Kiddies read about the frozen pig knuckle that flew off the back of a truck on the German autobahn and damaged a man's car? At those speeds, I imagine a fly would damage someone's car. Thankfully he was fine, but talk about when pigs fly...

It was kinda like this, only more knuckle.

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...

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...

Candy Brite Collection

Hello Lovelies~

I hope you are all doing well this week. I have a ton of things to share, as usual here. The biggest news of the week, is I have just listed my new Candy Brite Collection! What is the Candy Brite Collection? you ask? I'll tell you; it's a series of 11 art prints inspired by Roy Orbison's song Candy Colored Clown. (Which is to say, on the surface, they're fun and colorful, underneath, they're worn and unsettling...) In addition, with the prints, I have listed Gun Clown Garland. Yep, you read it right, bright garland with guns and clowns on it. Take a peek you guys, it's kind of awesome:

And more good news! The Stapelia Company now has a professional photo studio space. So, as I've said to my Facebook followers; if you're local (or like to travel), bring me your ideas, your dreams and your paying clients and I'll make them fly higher, sing better and live longer. (Or at least look pretty neat... like this for example, or this.) I always love new collaborations, so give me a shout and let's do something together. (I will of course also be using the studio to create great things for you folks, never fear.)

It will be a lot like this, only, I'm not a man who looks like Buzz Aldrin...

Bright, colorful and retro is the theme for the day, so in that vein, let me introduce you to the work of Ragnar. Heard of him? No? Then, feast your eyes on his prolific body of work, including toys, books, commercial design. It's insane. And all impeccably done. See some examples below... I want all of his books. ALL of them.

So, as you faithful followers know, I got a brand new record player for Christmas, and I'm going to marry it. It's wonderful. One album I am particularly hooked on lately, is the James Bond Goldfinger soundtrack by John Barry. The title track features Shirley Bassey and the album cover features the famous "woman painted gold" and I can listen to it all day long! If you own a turntable, do yourself a favor and skip over to Ebay and get one. Stat. That's an order!

Until next time: unpleasant dreams...