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The insanity continues! LOLA couple days after my birthday, BKP and I boarded a plane, landed in Utah, loitered for hours, boarded a second plane, and finally arrived in New Orleans. We cabbed it over to Ryan Keely's place and proceeded to bask in her ever present glory.
It was my first real vacation in some time, so I didn't even pack my point and shoot. We ate deliciousness, took a trip to Avery Island to visit the Tabasco factory, hit strip clubs, took a tour, and relaxed. We also got a sneak peak at Ryan's spread in Penthouse. You should go pick up this month's copy because Ryan is officially a Penthouse Pet!!
We flew back home and I've worked non-stop since we landed. I have a show hanging in San Francisco and my friend, Henry Lewis, is picking up the framed prints while I'm out of town. Yeah, that's right, I'm off again. Chicago this time to shoot a wedding. But don't let that slip because unless you've got a very persuasive bank account, I'm not interested. So, Kink joined me while I edited and printed 29 photographs, and I only finished framing them all last night. (I hate framing.)
Now it's 3:30am and I have a half hour til I leave for LAX. Just wanted to post quickly and let you all know I had a good excuse for my silence.
I'll also mention that I'm currently obsessing about film. I hauled out my Holgas and some other lo-fi cameras, and dug out all the old, expired film I had packed away. I moved it to a big vase, planted it on one of my bookcases, and now I've got it withing reach. All I have to do is grab a roll on my way out the door. If only processing weren't so expensive, I'd shoot every day.
I've packed four little cameras and a buttload of film for the trip and I can't wait to get shooting. I've got some b/w film, some chrome to xpro, and I'm giving redscale a whirl too. Lookout, Chicago, here I come!!
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Today's mail brought some sunshine in the form of the latest issue of Bizarre Magazine. This time, my piece about latex toe socks was featured, as modeled by Xanthia. Thanks, Alix!
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This week's death of Veronica Hoffman marks the third suicide our circle of friends has seen in the last twelve months. It's been surreal, like living in Heathers. Though she and I only shot together once, we'd shared laughter and memories over the years. It's terribly sad, all around. I hesitated to post about it, as with the others, because the true mournings, rememberances, and celebrations occur in the real world, not the internet. However, I wanted to post a link to Tony Mitchell's post about Miss Veronica. She and Tony were great friends, and my most memorable time spent with her was in his company in London.This past year has been so difficult for so many, and I am really looking forward to that good old silver lining. I hope you can all hold on til then. As with all suicides, the deaths are sad, often senseless, but the pain felt by those left in their wake is the enduring tragedy.
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Today's one of very few days off. It seems like I've done nothing but work lately. That's almost completely but not entirely true, since Darenzia and I and some of our friends went to see Jon Lovitz the other night. HILARITY.Tomorrow, I've got another shoot with D-Rock before she heads back to New York. Mosh and Mya should be joining us too. Spoke with my people at House of Bias and it seems there are a bunch of brand spanking new latex designs for us to shoot. Weeee!
In the good news department, earlier in the week, I was commissioned for two more covers for Cleis Press. Cannot wait to see them in person!
Later in the week, my boy and I are going to see Rhys Darby (so excited!), then we're skipping town. We'll be heading up north for a three-day weekend, and I couldn't be more ready. I need some serious R&R!
In addition to the sudden barrage of photo shoots, I've got my Bizarre Magazine deadline, all of my usual photo and video editing, updating and maintaining my own websites, plus wrapping up the design on Mz Berlin's paysite, two MORE paysites for two other models, and one model portfolio site to get done. Daaaaang!
Next month is my birthday, and a few days after that, we're heading out to New Orleans to visit Ryan Keely. She's promising swamp tours, all the oysters I can eat, and a chance to admire her boobs in their natural habitat. Hope I don't just pass out before I hit NOLA. =)
As a side note, I got a wild hair up my butt and decided that I needed to start uploading all of my iPhone photos to my Flickr photostream. The phone's always with me and I love it's camera. The photo posted here was taken with it. If you're interested in checking those out, visit the iPhone gallery on my Flickr page. It includes all my pretentious phone cam "art", plus behind the scenes images of models at shoots, Mosh's 6" heels, and more. Fun, fun, fun!!
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Been working so hard lately, there hasn't been any time for me. Well, tonight I'm saying "eff you" to responsibility and am getting down to some serious play.
I've had a new hood and new shoes for months now, but this is the first chance I've had to take them for a test drive. I'm feeling pretty foxy. =)
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I think that's my new favorite photo of me. Prepare to see it plastered everywhere! LOL
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I've been working really hard, people. I swear!
Friday, I had a full day of shooting Jade Vixen, Emily Marilyn, and Mosh. Jade scored us an amazing house literally ON THE BOARDWALK in Venice Beach. Sadly, I caught a cold and spent the entire day spiraling downward into a sneezing frenzy. I'm still not completely recovered. Thankfully, my super awesome friend, Seth, was on hand to throw me looks of pity and to roll video. I'll be uploading samples shortly!
Yasmin Ling is displaying a dozen of my photos at the opening night soiree of her new club in Portland, Oregon. She just emailed me a photo of one of the walls of framed images.
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The reason I'm up so late is that I spent all day redesigning Mz Berlin's website. It's actually the first of three sites that I'm hoping to complete for her in the next week or so. I'm still waiting for the DNS changes to propagate for MzBerlin.net, so if the site you see doesn't match the photo below, it means the change hasn't completely gone through yet. Berlin and I have been planning the redesign of MzBerlin.net, and her blog, and the initial design of her soon-to-be members site, XXXFemmeFatale.com for months. I am so excited that we're nearly there!
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I found this great video that I hadn't seen before. It's Playboy TV's old show, Sexcetera, doing a feature on my publisher, Goliath. The show was shot years ago, so it's missing a lot of Goliath's great newer titles, but it DOES spend time with Goliath's owner, Miki, and with super photographer, Dave Naz.
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