Once upon a time I used to take photos regularly. Then grad school happened. It turns out grad school is not terribly conducive to free time for side careers. Whodathunk, right? Anyway, I was contacted by the lovely and talented Chelsey to shoot some promo photos for her hula hooping performance art business. And like if you’re…
Day 1278 of 365 4 lyf. I really wish I had gotten around to getting gas logs for my main fireplace. But I haven’t. So after a long day of shoveling show, I warm up on the electric one Steph and I bought a while back. Quite toasty. 365 days
Day 1155 of 365 4 lyf. You know I kind of wish I’d taken this picture with my real camera. I’ve done stuff like this before, but this one just really works for me. Actually part of me even kinda likes the grain. But still, it could have been more. 365 days
Day 1148 of 365 4 lyf. What can brown do for you? Not a whole hell of a lot apparently. So I ordered some clothes for a shoot last week. They were supposed to arrive on Thursday or Friday and since the shoot was Saturday, that seemed fine. Thursday night the UPS computer called me…
Day 1117 of 365 Again. Tired and burned out and didn’t feel like taking a picture. I really need to get back on the inspiration kick. What do other people do when they’re burnt out. I used to be able to pull myself out after a few days, but I feel like I’ve been in…
Day 973 of 365 Again. Didn’t really have a good idea for today, but since my mother loved it so much the last time I was playing with fire I thought I’d do some more. So yeah, only can I blow fire, I can also throw it. Pretty exciting huh? No photoshopping here other than…
Day 931 of 365 Again. I give up! I’ve spent the last several hours hacking the database and code for the Cosmic Hellcats website. Somehow character encoding or translation on my movable type installation or my mysql db got screwed up, and for the life of me I can’t figure out how, but several of…
Day 770 of 365 Again. See, this is what happens on those rare ocassions when I don’t take my camera with me everywhere I go. I was forced to take this with my iPhone. Steph and I went to the mall after work. I had to get some stuff for some upcoming photoshoots and we…
Day 750 of 365 Again. Huh… check it out. Day 750. I really have to pay more attention to the big milestones. I didn’t even think about it until I was editing the pic. Oh well. Not much up today. Tried to catch up on a lot of photo editing. Had full intents of getting…
Day 709 of 365 More.
Another day, another fire.
Yesterday it was pyrotechnics, today it’s just a good old fashioned modern day barbecue.
Steph asked me to grill some chicken for dinner today, but I was working on Hellcats most of the day, so i didn’t get to it til late. I also decided to use the opportunity to show her how to build a proper barbecue fire. I don’t believe in gas grills. Proper BBQ involves charcoal, lighter fluid, and some good old fashioned flame. It also helps if you have a tasty homemade BBQ sauce to put on the meat. My sauce is famous, as is my flame. When it burns hot enough to light a self-portrait you know its a good temperature to cook some meat.
Wonder what I should burn tomorrow?
With a name like Morganna, I figured I had to use her for a sword card (my gothic look). I think this turned out fairly well. A lot of my more recent tarot cards have been fairly prop heavy. It’s nice to just get one that goes back to basics.
I love her stare in this. I thin its absolutely piercing.
Day 354 of 365 days. I hurt myself today, just to see if I could feel I was supposed to have a photoshoot today, but that ended up getting cancelled because I could never get in touch with the model. Instead that gave me some time to work on getting caught up with previous photoshoots…
Day 346 of 365 days. I can’t believe I have less than 20 days left in this project. It was a easy going day. I finished reading Harry Potter without hearing a single spoiler from anyone. This is a good thing, non one has to die now. Then I made some Jammy Jam plans. Things…
It’s been a while since I posted a new Tarot card. I actually had to take a break from it when my computer was in the shop. While it was down D and Adam were in town to pose for their cards. I finished editing D’s tonight. Adam’s will be up soon though, and I’m probably shooting two more this week as well. I need to get some more of the guy cards done. Never thought I’d say that.
Anyway, I was concerned about this one. I was worried that D’s green hair would come across as too punk and not preppy enough to be a staff card, but upon completion I think the hair color combined with the thong and the fire just make the card a little edgier witout moving her into goth per se. She’s certainly not A&F here, but I’d still think she was kind of trendy. Opinions?
Schwei was a friend of Brae’s (the model I picked to be the Death card in my Tarot deck) and was accompanying her on her shoot with me. He didn’t have any modeling experience but he had a good look for my concept of the Devil card. I especially love the beard and the tattoo on his hand.
Initially I had envisioned the devil having traditional horns, and I probably could have created some pretty realistic ones in photoshop or maybe with theater makeup, but in retrospect, I’m kind of glad I didn’t. I really like the look of the single model bathed in red light except for the flaming hand. I think more would have been distracting.
This also shows that there are indeed men in the Tarot deck. It’s only the second male card I’ve done. Its actually a little harder to find male models for this kind of thing than I thought it would be. I also need to get some more of the less gothic cards done. Just so that there’s a little more variety. The cards with Steph and Theresa show a little more playfulness, but its still on the dark side right now.