February, 2010

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Feb 10

good morning

Grapefruit juice in a giant wine glass. When you lack a dishwasher and work more than 40 hours a week, the dishes tend to pile up a little.

Brian has pulled many late-nights for his job (Turner Duckworth) this week, which makes me glad that I am a freelancer with an hourly rate instead of salary, where long days get unaccounted for in your paycheck. But he gets free dinners and alcohol and taxi rides across the city, which certainly doesn’t compensate for pulling an all-nighter for work (what is this, DAAP?), but is still nice.

Pobrecito.

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Feb 10

danger danger danger

This made my day in so many ways. My favorite part is the slow-motion dancing while Arnold searches in the crowd. It’s so eerie and BAMF at the same time.

Tomorrow I am going to a surf competition in Half Moon Bay and I will be imagining my own soundtrack for it the entire time. Danger just makes everything much more epic..

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Feb 10

blue blue blue

Every fashion blog & community I read has posted on this today, and I keep getting more down about it. McQueen, a visionary of fashion and pulling it into new boundaries, has died. I’m not even heavily involved in fashion (outside of personal style), and yet his style has affected the subjects I photograph. A depressing day for fashion and art all around.

ps I wish Gemma would come back to modeling. She has the face of an alien crossed with an angel, in the best way possible.

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Feb 10

body experiments

Is it better to burn out or just fade away?

flame

almost

Hmm. So I have had bad body image for a while and it needs to change, that’s for sure. I also have bad portion control habits and that needs to change, too. I once was thinner and athletic, and now I am very soft. I like having curves, a lot. I just like my smaller curvier self better, and not wobbling when walking. So, I have been changing my habits. Lots of vegetables, and using late buses as an excuse to walk a mile or two. But it’s a lot harder to change the first part, to be able to look at myself in the mirror and accept what is there as something beautiful. It’s happening, slowly, mostly in part to self portraits. Even if my vision of myself is distorted in the mirror, the truth is in the instant photograph in my hand.

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Feb 10

like moss, but lasts longer

I saw one of these rugs on Design*Sponge today and fell in love. I followed the link to Angela Adams’ website and fell more in love with all of these nature-inspired rugs. They cost thousands and so I am unable to afford them, but, at least due to the internet I can bask in their beauty. Rugs can’t get dirty and require daily Roomba-ing from cat hair over the internet, right?

Oh, this one is by far my favorite and the most fantastic rug I’ve ever seen. It’s from the “Birds and the Bees” Collection, which is a fancy way of saying that the prices are too expensive to list on the website. Oh, to be rich and have an amazing rug that looks like a floor of moss.

This is also from the Birds and the Bees collection, except it is a cross-section of some underground plant activity.

My second favorite is Ocean/Seaglass, chock-full-of-shades of my favorite color, pale aqua. Although the top view looks a little like camo (blegh), I didn’t get discouraged and seeing the bas-relief makes up for it.

This one is called Spike/Pool and named after a maine coone cat. If you don’t know them already, they are the cats that grow to be kinda giant, and therefore kinda more awesome. I often feel like (my) Radar has a little maine coone in him since he is giant, but being shorthaired and having a raccoon tail, I doubt it.

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Feb 10

the darkest months

I miss snow

Winter on opposite coasts, so different.

It’s been mostly mild here – San Francisco winters are in the 50′s with a lot of rain. To combat this I required an umbrella, but Brian broke mine last year with a piece of ice on the day the first photo was taken. (I started the snow fight. He retaliated with ice on accident!) As of last week, I now have an umbrella that is tricksy, looks like a parasol but has umbrella underneath. Black lace covers the top, and it has a big point coming out like umbrellas of olden days. I can’t wait to use it in some photoshoot.

It does crack me up seeing people dressing like snow weather here when it’s in the 50′s. Heavy layers, fur hoods, thick scarves wrapped around faces…then again, I am about to go turn on my radiator, I don’t have much room to talk. We have such large windows that it’s almost as cold inside as it is out…