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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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mimle
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9:54a
Handmade things:
current music: Kari Bremnes
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mimle
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9:53a
Precious things:
current music: Kari Bremnes
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mimle
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9:50a
Life in limbo
current music: Kari Bremnes
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foto_decadent
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11:04a
Chloe Fall 2007
Campaign: Chloe
Season: Fall 2007
Models: Freja Beha, Shalom Harlow, Anja Rubik
Photographers: Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
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illustrators
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12:34a
KENNEDY!
A little somethin' sweet for all you wrestling nerds on here...
Clicky to make it bigger!
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(5 comments | comment on this) Thursday, May 15th, 2008
visioluxus
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10:33p
Oh my aching head
I learned today that my boss and all around awesome person has given her notice. This alone is cause for mourning but I have another dilemma.
It all started 2 years ago when my photography was getting noticed and sought out. I pledged that if I could bring in a regular income every month for a year I would devote myself to photography full time. Well, I did it. Nothing you could live on, but something every month.
Wait, I said, what I really meant was if I could bring home $xxxx.xx every month I would devote myself to photography full time. Last year I did it which didn't really occur to me until I realized how much I owed in taxes.
Wait, I said, I really like the people I work with and even though it's just accounting it's a nice job and a reliable income so really there's no reason to quit just yet, even though I am overwhelmed and under rested and feel like crap a large amount of the time and in effect am neglecting my already tenuous health. If my boss ever leaves I would give it serious consideration but she'll be there a loooooooong time...
And now she's leaving in two weeks.
I realize it looks like the universe is sending me REALLY clear messages but I'm worried. We are a two income household and we need them both. We have scraped by as starving artists for most of the last decade and are finally in a place of moving forward.
And yet...to have the time to really produce art and explore photography, to renovate my house, to sleep, to live healthy, to cook well (I really miss that), to read, to see my friends...
current mood:  anxious
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(5 comments | comment on this) Friday, May 16th, 2008
kore
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12:44a
oddly, yesterday we watched 'atonement' and
tonight 'the kite runner' - & braxton
asked if i picked them on purpose
to play back to back, but i didn't.
an odd coincidence tho, or retribution
is popular.
from nytimes review:
Like the recent film version of Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” another story ignited by the destructive behavior of a pubescent child, “The Kite Runner” presents a world informed by a variant of original sin. In both, a child’s damaging words and deeds give way to — and seem to foreshadow and somehow even to incite — the larger violence of war. The two stories register very differently, both on the page and on screen, yet what’s curious is how each presents childhood as an already corrupted state that is redeemed only by adult grace. In these stories war becomes a kind of cleansing agent for the destructive child, who, after enduring hardships, matures into a properly contrite adult (and a fiction writer to boot).
from salon.com review:
I must not be the first person to notice that "The Kite Runner" and
Joe Wright's film version of "Atonement" have exactly the same plot:
Rich kid destroys life of privileged underling, becomes writer due to
ensuing deep thinking, does literary penance too little and too late.
I think "Atonement" is a mixed bag too, but it was made by someone who
thinks cinematically, who knows when to move the camera (and when not
to). There is scarcely a shot in "The Kite Runner" longer than five
seconds; two people will be holding a quiet conversation, and Forster
and cinematographer Roberto Schaefer jump around the room on pogo
sticks, pointlessly changing angles on every comma, every pause.
Moments that should provoke quiet contemplation are needlessly
exhausting.
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(comment on this) Thursday, May 15th, 2008
thestuntkid
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11:27p
Stuntkid.com through the ages.... This should prove inspiring to anyone new to web design, it IS something you can learn no matter how awful you are when you get started.
Version 8
My unicorn website, I loved this one, I'm leaning toward incorporation some of these stylings back in should i redesign stuntkid any time soon. This one was all flash as well and was up for a good year before i retired it. It WAS really difficult to update however so i wasn't entirely saddened to see it go.
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thestuntkid
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9:42p
Painted Lady
Just fresh out of the chrysalis tonight, my 5 butterflies just hatched. These painted lady butterflies apparently love clover so they'll do well in my neighborhood as we have plenty.
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(8 comments | comment on this) Friday, May 16th, 2008
pacina
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2:00a
dimenticanze
mia madre sabato ha dimenticato le scarpe davanti all'uscio di casa
current music: portishead-third
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(2 comments | comment on this) Thursday, May 15th, 2008
mordicai
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7:37p
odin's beard!
 visionaries: thor by walter simonson.
so, this is...pretty awesome. right from page one it starts kicking ass, with the story of beta ray bill! okay, so thor is thor, right? the real son of odin, etc. asgard is half other dimension, half space age, half viking nostalgia. beta ray bill? is a genetically engineered alien cyborg with the soul of the alien's greatest warrior grafted on...plus, he gets thor's powers. uh, sweet? so simonson not only writes this, but draws it, & both? are freaking great. the art has this ridiculous sense of scale-- the giant banging at his anvil his planets about his feet! the sound effects were pointed out to me, & are pretty great. all around, this ruled. also: there is an issue that is the weirdest? just cops trying to make people eat cookies, a psychologist force feeding his secretary a mcdonald's hamburger, then saved in the end by a loose fry, then getting mesmerized by pop music...just all so, so good.
current mood: gandalf grey wand
current music: crown me king- cask
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(2 comments | comment on this) Friday, May 16th, 2008
nomi
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12:00a
Camille live @ Koko
Last night's performance by Camille was nothing short of extraordinary, even non-Camille fans would have found it difficult to not be seduced by her spirit and energy. The concert took place at Koko in Camden which is a lovely small venue I had never been to before. She first appeared wearing an orange floaty dress with matching orange socks and danced around on the stage, when she finally made it to the mic she explained that she was buying time until her friend arrived in the audience, who was late. There were many French people in the audience and some of them began yelling, "Allez, Camille, allez!" Either her friend arrived or she decided she couldn't stall any longer so she kicked off with Canards Sauvages from her new album, Music Hole. Immediately her a cappella vocal skills were obvious and she sounded even more gorgeous in person, especially when she sang in French as she did for La Jeune Fille aux Cheveux Blancs. Her fellow French and Brazilian performers, including collaborator MaJiKer, were also incredibly skilled in their backing vocals and beatboxing; they were all clearly very close and enjoyed what they were doing, she often stepped away from the mic in order to let them solo. The body percussions really came into its own on the stomping and chest beating to represent a heartbeat on Home is Where it Hurts, which was one of the best songs of the evening. She sang a slightly altered version of one of my favourite songs of hers, Baby Carni Bird, which was incredible. As the show progressed Camille lost her socks and then stripped out of her floaty dress to reveal another short orange dress, like the one she wears on the cover of Music Hole. She interacted with the audience a lot throughout the evening and getting everyone to participate which really upped the energy of the room; at one point she picked up a newspaper and began walking in circles while reading out headlines and one of her French backing singers said, "Camille, I have a much more interesting question to ask than what is in that newspaper -- why did London people vote for Boris Johnston as mayor?" to which everyone cheered and some began shouting, "Boris out, Camille for mayor!" Camille looked puzzled and said, "Camille for mère? You want me for your mother!?" After dancing herself into a frenzy she sang a Camillified version of Too Drunk to Fuck by the Dead Kennedys while pretending to piss off the stage onto a steward's head, then a few more songs from her new album and Au Port which received a positive response. The encore came all too fast and I was concerned that she hadn't played the one song I really wanted to hear that night, Pâle Septembre. That was put right as she came back out for the encore and headed straight for the piano and performed an astounding version of Pâle Septembre which slowly transformed into Winter's Child, complete with thunder. She bowed and went off stage which everyone thought was the end, but the audience kept cheering hopeful for more. Camille returned wearing a long black satin dress and with the group sang Ta Douleur which everyone went crazy for and Money Note in which she took the piss out of Mariah Carey where she whispers "rich bitch" and (‘’If Dolly Parton wrote it / And Whitney Houston stole it / If Celine Dion could reach it / I’ll hit the money note.”) She then turned her back to the audience to reveal that the dress had a cut-out down the back revealing half of her ass which made everyone laugh and cry out in appreciation.
Each of her group did amusing solo bits during Money Note and then then bowed with Camille to the loud cheering and applause from the crowd and left the stage, but the crowd wouldn't die down and began stomping and cheering for more. They all returned for a third encore and sang Sanges Sweet and then they all huddled together around the mic to have a sing-along of Paris, complete with an a capella trumpet. Then people started shouting requests, one of them being for Les Ex which is well known in France. Camille obliged and said, "Only the French are asking for Les Ex so the rest of you English can leave!" This was the first major concert Camille had performed since the release of her new album and her and the group all seemed amazed by the responsive crowd and overwhelmingly positive response Londoners gave them which shows how popular her music is becoming here. She seemed reluctant to leave the stage and I got the impression that she wanted to keep singing for us and would have continued through the night if she had been allowed to. I was on a high from the performance myself, she was everything that I had hoped for and more.. engaging, energetic, passionate, funny, and talented. The group gave the final bows and goodbyes and left the stage to deafening cheers, Camille exiting last with her half-moon disappearing into the haze. How French.
Camille's entrance and segments of Canards Sauvages and Home is Where it Hurts,
the only video I managed to get.
Janine I
"No Boris Johnston, Camille for mayor!" (biaaaatch.)
Money Note with the "half-moon" dress. ;) "I just wanna beat Mariaahhhhhh!"
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(2 comments | comment on this) Thursday, May 15th, 2008
uvaspina
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11:39p
We're back!
we're back!
We didn't get to see half the places or half the people we wanted to see on our honeymoon (USA is bigger than it looks on a map).
Still, it's been the best trip ever.
Photos will come, but i'll have to catch up with 3 weeks of work. That's what you get when you are self-employed.
In the meantime, enjoy a litle slideshow with photos taken by our guest with the photoboot we set up at the wedding.
It was fun. To whoever was there: thankyou for making it perfect.
To those who weren't: A-HA!
Photobooth Galore from bruko on Vimeo.
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visioluxus
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2:05p
In the Woods
 
For the curious, this is my daughter - she's 8 and always asking when WE can do a shoot together. As my scheduled model for Sat was taken ill we took advantage of the time and lighting. She was most thrilled to be barefoot in the dirt!
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