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Ignore the demo hair, as I caught this one at the big TRUTH hair sale and everyone was wearing them :)
So what do we have here:
Overambitious shape fug - CHECK
Inappropriate clothing for the situation fug - CHECK
Everyone favorite AO fug - CHECK
Creepy alien woman with arms coming out of her tits fug - DOUBLE CHECK
PRIM NIPPLES - D8
Life can be a pretty amazing journey. Spending time today with my 92 year-old grandmother is the perfect example of just that. She shared memories of her childhood, when she earned a nickle for a full day of babysitting, and when she went to a fair with my grandfather at the age of 16 and he gave her one of the rings she still wears to this day. Even though her hands reflect her 92 years, it brings a smile to my face knowing that she has those memories.
I know the world is a different place than it was when my grandmother was my age, but I hope I also have amazing stories to share with my grandkids someday. The past year has been full of big changes and happy memories for me, and it is only the beginning!
I'm back to life from my two week battle with the H1N1 or H3N2 or whatever you want to call the nasty little bug that got me.
I want to thank all of you friends for your kind words and well wishes. It meant a lot. When one is as miserable as I was during the apogee of one's illness, any sort of positive sentiment counts and heals.
Special thanks to:
Steve 16:9
sniderscion
camden olive
Eduardo Amorim
Image Hunter
Bob Small
Ju!
Donna Cleveland
DeSouzaLima
David Blackwell
Flying Apricot
jeff the (amateur) photographer
and, Omar Martinez
I'm back! :O)
This is my most favourite portrait!!! I love it so much because the subject was so colourful! She is expecting a baby! (God bless her and her child)
Merry christmas and happy holidays to all! May god bless everyone's families! :)
Well, "Life" is a pretty hard topic to talk about. It starts very simple as a swing in the rocking cradle & it gets complicated day by day, hour by hour...
The more you grow up, The more you learn;
The more you learn, the more you think;
The more you think, the more complicated things look like...
-Jadeed Khan
Don't grow up, It's a trap...
Was practicing Blurring and Selective B&W in Photoshop, and this is what I came up with. Seems like I've attached two different images in a single one!
By the light of the silvery moon...
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I have been collaborating recently with the multitalented, ethically conscious, conceptual artist Elana Langer who’s brand What I Live By or WILBy creates consciousness raising ethical sweatshops to educate us on our buying habits and a plethora of other interesting goodies that promote living a better life, embracing ourselves and treating the world better.
The project that we have been working on is about the Tools of Life, a concept inspired by her grandmother. Elana writes:
My grandmother was a real lady. I don’t remember a time when her hair and nails weren’t done and she wasn’t dressed impeccably. In the last year of her life she, like many others in her condition, lost the ability to walk without support. And although she had a strong will to live, the idea of using a walker in public seemed unbearable to her. The force of her vanity had come up against the limit of the body. Life compromised didn’t seem as worthwhile living.
My cousins and I were in her kitchen about to have lunch while I suggested going out to her favorite restaurant right across from her home. She refused. We all looked at the walker.
"We can bedazzle it!" I exclaimed. "We can make you the most beautiful walker in the whole city."
My cousins laughed. My grandmother didn’t. In fact this brought on the first and only fight I ever had with her.
"You are making fun." She stared at me coldly.
"True, I am trying to make this situation more fun. What’s the big deal with a walker? And think of how many other people are like you. We could make a whole business. This would make it something to be proud of like jewelry. We can make walkers for weddings, special occasions, one to match each outfit…you can be our model."
My grandmother didn’t laugh. She didn’t see the condition of necessity as something to be played with.
I never made the bedazzled walker for her and I never stopped thinking it was a good idea. We need to have fun within these places that cause social discomfort. To be able to embrace and play with our desire to adorn and enhance ourselves in both actual necessity (like a walker) and chosen necessity (like make-up, nails, hair, clothing…).
These items and pictures are the result of that. One tool of enhancement, like clothing or jewelry, doesn’t have to compromise another tool of enhancement like the ability to hear or walk with greater ease. Both are enriching our experiences in the world and both are admitting that we need and want help with the conditions that exist within us at any given moment. When used to enhance joy and enjoyment, these are all equally and differently tools of life and living well.
I loved my grandmother deeply and I miss her in this world and I hope these pictures would make her smile.
This little man is crawling about and making new discoveries. His most favourite things are wires and cd from my dads collection.
He looks so proud of himself.
My happy moment xxx
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I was fascinated at how quickly new life emerges out of the burnt, devastated, still smoking lava flows of the Kilauea Crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It is so amazing on this planet that no matter how harsh and nasty of an environment may exist, there's something that lives there. Take New Jersey for example.
Some days, you walk inside the bar looking amazing only to discover that whats happening is not the fun and games one generally expects.
But at the end of the day, you still look amazing.