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For whatever reason the good storms have been avoiding the Tucson area this year, depriving me of the opportunity to get good lightning shots!
This is about the best that I've got so far, the storm was about 14-15 miles east of us. Really lighting up but the lightning was pretty much all cloud to cloud. With any luck and a sacrifice to the weather gods I'll hopefully be able to come up with something a bit better!
BTW, the light spots up above the clouds are not hot pixels but stars!
Elisabetta Aurelia Eugenia Wittelsbach, nota anche come Principessa Sissi, è nata a Monaco, nel palazzo dei Duchi di Baviera sulla Ludwigstrasse, la notte di Natale del 1837 dall’arciduca Massimiliano e dalla principessa Ludovica. Come i suoi fratelli, trascorre spensierata la sua infanzia e la sua giovinezza prevalentemente nella residenza estiva della famiglia ducale: il castello di Possenhofen (affettuosamente chiamato “Possi”), sul lago di Starnberg. A 15 anni incontra il cugino Francesco Giuseppe, imperatore d'Austria, il quale se ne innamora a prima vista. Il matrimonio viene celebrato a Vienna il 24 aprile 1854. Sissi entra a palazzo e deve adattarsi alla dura vita di corte. Diventa anoressica, ossessionata dallo sport e dalla cura del corpo. Ha avuto tre figli: Sofia (morta a 2 anni), Gisella e Rodolfo (che si è suicidato a 31 anni). Amatissima dai sudduti, nei primi tempi segue il marito, poi si distacca dalla politica. E' morta il 10 settembre 1898 accoltellata a Ginevra da Luigi Lucheni, un anarchico italiano.
Elizabeth Aurelia Eugenia Bavaria, also known as Princess Sissi, was born in Monaco, the palace of the Dukes of Bavaria on Ludwigstrasse, on Christmas Eve of 1837 by the Archduke Maximilian and Princess Ludovica. Like his brothers, he spent his carefree childhood and youth, mainly in the summer residence of the ducal family: Castle Possenhofen (affectionately called "Posse"), on Lake Starnberg. At 15 she met her cousin Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, who falls in love at first sight. Marriage is celebrated in Vienna April 24, 1854. Sissi enters the Palace and must adapt to the harsh life of the court. Become anorexic, obsessed by sport and body care. He had three children: Sophia (died at 2 years), Gisella and Rudolph (who committed suicide at age 31). Much loved by his subjects, in the early days following her husband, then detaches itself from politics. She died September 10, 1898 by Louis Lucheni stabbed in Geneva, an Italian anarchist.
Highest Position - Explore #5 | 18.11.2008
(Thank u~ Smooch to the gals... Cheers a beer to u guys :D)
Honestly I’ve so many jetty shots in my archive & yet when I go out for photo shoots, I tend to blindly end up at beaches that have jetties haha! In fact my friend recently told me that Adelaide should not be called the city of churches… instead it should be the city of jetties. Almost every beach has its own jetty & “surprisingly” you can find one after another within 10km or less of each other as one drives down the south coast. The only difference is the size & yes size does matter in this case :P This jetty is the slimmest I’ve seen so far.. a bit anorexic I reckon lol! I will post another angle some other time to show u how slim it is…. only if you & I are not yet jetty-phobic :D See..another bad sunset day for me :P
Thank you so much for popping by with your views, comments or faves! Always appreciate them!
View LARGE On Black to feel the shimmering water :P
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The Largs Pier Jetty in Adelaide
The Shot
Standard 3 exposure shot (+2..0..-2 EV) with tripod using Sigma DC HSM 10-20mm lens
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to increase the contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (yellows) to decrease the tone of the sunset
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (blues & magenta) to increase the tone of the sky
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds, magentas & cyans) to remove the ghost artifacts
- Applied slight noise reduction underneath the jetty
- Used 'unsharp mask' (as always) on the background layer
You
All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are (as always) welcome
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this shoot was so much fun. its a great feeling to put all your power and emotion into movement. this was so liberating and i really noticed how much i miss dancing...
to your questions:
- i danced for some years, but never as a ballettdancer.
- there is no texture in this work. the wall really looks like that. and its not the wall of my bedroom but of the corridor in front of my room.
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oh and PLEASE don't use this for your anorexia blog or homepage. i'm not anorexic. the bones are shown because of the pose.
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When examining advertising campaigns throughout history different political, economic, and social issues are very obvious. Advertising always seems to mirror not only what is occurring across mass society, but also the themes unique to a diverse group of sub cultures in society during a particular time period. After closely exploring fashion ads throughout history it was clear how the ideas about body image have changed over time. Gradually it has become acceptable to show more and more skin and advertising in general has become much more sexualized. In the book Adorned in Dreams, Elizabeth Wilson explained how people have used fashion as a way to represent themselves and their reactions to society across the decades. She says, “In all societies the body is ‘dressed’, and everywhere dress and adornment play symbolic, communicative and aesthetic roles. Dress is always ‘unspeakably meaningful’.” Wilson goes on to describe how in the twentieth century the integrity of dress has progressed to disassociate itself from the rigid behavioral codes that once sustained it. Fashion has been freed to become both an aesthetic vehicle for experiments in taste and political means of expression for dissidence, rebellion and social reform. In this book Elizabeth has set up an important foundation for further analysis into current fashion advertising. Many of the issues presented in contemporary advertising convey very similar messages about body images; however more distinctions can be made based on the market a particular ad is targeting.
As illustrated through the movie “Happiness Machines”, an important tool in advertising is the ability to create desire. The “desire”/ Consumer society was born after World War I as a response to the fears of the new industrial society that was a product in America from the war. Based on what Bernays had previously learned from his Uncle, Sigmund Freud, about the human mind and subconscious thinking, he realized this would require him to transform the way society thought about products and turn America from a needs based society into a desire culture. He had to create the new types of customers. Bernays began to create many of the techniques of mass consumer persuasion we still use today. He began to glamorize products by placing advertisements linking products with celebrities who used them. He used product placements in movies and dressed the stars for film premiers with the clothes and jewelry from other firms her represented. He told car companies they could sell cars as symbols of male sexuality. He also employed psychologists to claim a product was good for you and pretended they were independent studies. Finally he paid celebrities to repeat the new and essential message; you bought things not just out of need but to express your inner sense of yourself to others. “Wearing certain clothes will make you more attractive”. This caused a change in society called consumerism.
Today desire is still constructed through political, cultural, and economic conditions, but it is also invested with the power to authorize and normalize those conditions (Helstein, That’s Who I Want to be: The Politics and Production of Desire within Nike Advertising to Women). Susan Bordo described how ads play off of the female fear of food and desire to gain control. In Hunger as Ideology Susan Bordo explains the negative effects advertising has on womens’ body image. Throughout history advertising has played off of womens’ fear of food and desire to gain control and while doing so has embedded the idea that men are superior to women and food should be feared by women, as it is a sign of weakness. Marketers try to sell products by showing it as a tool to gain control over some aspect of their lives. Not only do advertisements play off of females’ struggle for control, they also must be considered as gender ideology- that is, as specifically servicing the cultural reproduction of gender differences and gender inequality, quite independent of marketing concerns. Although it is arguable, these desires seems to be an underlying theme in most advertisements. Different markets have unique desires that take precedence in their lives, thus the major distinctions between modern fashion ads lies in the specific market a brand is targeting.
One of the most dominant types of fashion advertising is that of high-end brands. The pages of fashion magazines are filled with ads for brands such as Gucci, Dolce and Gabbana, Fendi, Christian Dior, and Prada just to name a few. Although all the brands have unique ads with their distinct trademark on them, there is an eerie similarity between them all. Slender, blonde, Caucasian females seem to dominate the script for high-end fashion advertising. Although in the 21st century advertising seems to becoming more culturally diverse, even the “ethnic” models have very westernized features. The typical ad depicts this female adorned in the latest fashions by the designer and is preposterously posed in a glamorous setting. Often times sex appeal is created either from the way the model is posed or the ‘lack’ of clothing covering her body. Occasionally males are used in these ads as an accessory to the women. Although society in general has become immune to these imagines since they have become so common, the messages they enforce about body images are not acceptable.
According to The Beauty Myth, as found in the Naomi Wolf readings, a thin, white, blonde woman is considered the 'perfect woman' and the most beautiful woman to feature. The typical high-end fashion ad plays to that stereotype. In The Beauty Myth, Wolf argues that it is men that create this idea of what or whom is "beautiful". It is the men in society that deem white, thin, blonde woman as beautiful, not women. Men create these "beauties" so that culture can remain male and male dominated, as argued by Wolf. The idea of male dominance is very clear in the advertising industry. The readings from Fresh Lipstick by Scott support this idea of the male dominated gaze. Scott mentioned that a male point-of-view shot is just another way for men to continue to dominate society.
This first set of ads comes from the Fall/Winter 2007 fashion ad campaigns of some of the top high-end designers in the industry. Many of the models are either well known super models of famous celebrities. Ads like these are extremely common today in the fashion industry. They are neither innovative nor distinct and they only help to reinforce the body image crisis currently plaguing the general public.
The role the fashion industry plays on society is haunting. The westernized ideals and images of beauty are rapidly scattering through humanity. As discussed in Making the Body Beautiful by Gilman, aesthetic surgery is a growing industry. More and more people want to have western features and the age of the patients undergoing these surgeries keeps getting younger. Gilman said, “Patients seeking rhinoplasty…frequently show signs of guilt-tinged, second-generation rejection of their ethnic background masked by excuses, such as not photographing well.” When people are constantly bombarded with images of Caucasian females modeling the latest fashions and depicted as the “ideal beauty” it creates a desire to have those same features. “Happiness in our modern world is in part defined by the desire to vanish into the world beyond ourselves where there is no difference. We want to become happy like everyone else and thus be absolutely unique in our happiness. This contradiction is at the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter in aesthetic surgery is the common human desire to ‘pass’ (Gilman, 330).” By filling the fashion magazines with models that all share similar features it creates the idea that through plastic surgery one can achieve those same features and in doing so fit into society.
Another popular type of high-end fashion advertising is shock value. Certain brands choose to fulfill their consumer’s need for desire by use of shock value. These ads typically depict a fantasy world in which they illustrate deep desires that might not be considered proper to openly discuss. An example of this type of advertising is the Fall/Winter 2007 ad campaign by Dolce and Gabbana. According to Domenico Dolce the image is artistic and was meant to “recall an erotic dream, a sexual game.” Protesters complained that the ad depicted rape and was demeaning to women. Spain’s Labor and Social Affairs Ministry said in a statement, “One could infer from the advertisement that it is acceptable to use force as a way of imposing oneself on a woman, reinforced by the passive and complicit manner of the men looking on.”
This ad continues to be filled with Caucasian individuals all scantily clad and exposing extremely cut bodies. Naomi Wolf, in The Beauty Myth, explains how images such as this can have negative consequences on men as well as women. “So powerful is pornography, and so smoothly does it blend in with the advertising of products…that many women find their own fantasies and self-images distorted too…So rare is it to see sexual explicitness in the context of love and intimacy on screen that it seems our culture treats tender sexuality as if it were deviant or deprived, while embracing violent or degrading sex as right and healthy (Wolf, 140).” Men also face the stereotypic ideal of how they are supposed to look and act; men must be in shape, toned, tall, with good hair, teeth and eyes. Today, men make up one-third of all cosmetic surgeries. Images are damaging and may lead to inferiority and inadequacy, and can lead to cosmetic surgery. Men are finally understanding and feeling the affects that advertising and unrealistic expectations of beauty. However, women have been dealing with these issues throughout history.
Along with enforcing very negative messages about body images through the use of male positioning and facial expressions the ad creates a very negative message about male superiority. The men is this ad are holding the female down and forcing themselves upon her. She looks on with a very blank expression, implying that she is dazed and not enjoying herself. The men in the background are just looking on and not doing anything to help her or interfere with the act. In Fresh Lipstick Scott mentions the arguments Beauvior makes that women have an inbreed fear of being raped and becoming the sexual prey of men. Women learn to see themselves as an object viewed from the outside, thus she begins to dress in a way to attract a lover. This involves imagining how one might appear to the desired male (226). This ad perpetuates this fear and seems to allocate rape.
Although the ad campaigns for high-end fashion brands may seem innocent at first glance, upon further investigation it is obvious that they are enforcing negative messages about body image. If these brands clutter society with so many negative messages surrounding body images, how can they continue to remain so popular? It seems as though the designers of these ads knows that their main audience viewing their actual campaigns are not their actual clients purchasing the products. The majority of the people who wear these clothes have personal shoppers or stylists who buy their clothes for them. Rather, the images in these ads are designed to create a desire among a lower class of society to achieve this rich and luxurious lifestyle; however, the consequences resulting from the message of how to achieve this particular lifestyle is devastating.
In Self-Help, Inc. McGee describes how there is a growing interest in the self-help society. The movement can be traced all the way back to the Bible as the first example of a self-help book. Today there is a book to teach people how to help themselves succeed in just about every aspect of life. Advertising seems to foster self-anxieties and endless imperfections. It is important to acknowledge the growth of this trend in society since it seems to parallel a slow shift toward more conscious advertising. In the early 1990s sales of self help books went up 6% following the trends in society of unemployment and a bad economy. In the past ten years there has been a noticeable amount of ads produced in effort to portray positive messages about the body.
The ad campaign by the French brand Nolita is an attempt to create a more positive message about the body image. The author of the campaign is famous Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani. The campaign is designed toward young women who keep up with fashion and is called to draw public attention to such awful disease as anorexia. The ad billboards feature a 27 years old French woman named Isabella Caro who weighs a mere 68 pounds. She says that she has decided to show her body for people to know and to see how the disease impacts the body. It is common knowledge that there is a major problem with eating disorders in the fashion industry. As previously mentioned the typical model has an abnormally tall slender frame. Maintaining this body image is generally unnatural, but models will go to any length to ensure that they stay at a dangerously low body weight.
Women are continually bombarded with advertisements and commercials for weight-loss products and programs. This type of advertising has been around for a long time and continues to enforce negative views of food for women. The media starts targeting girls from a young age and over time the idea is cemented in girl’s heads that food is bad. Many of the advertisements show the power that food has over women. They illustrate how the female psyche is in a constant state of starvation through their efforts to sell products that can create a “cool” or casual relationship with food for women. The issues surrounding food are a lot deeper and more serious than advertisements are willing to admit. Most often women feel upset and depressed and unhappy when they discuss compulsive eating or over indulgence. Since the Victorian era it has been considered taboo to show women eating, particularly in sensuous surrender to rich, exciting food (Hunger as Ideology, Susan Bordo).
Naomi Wolf made a lot of important points about the gravity of eating disorders. She illustrated how it is a vicious cycle that can often lead to death. When people diet the body often feels as if it is starving and chemicals in the head get messed up. It is really hard to control and basically anyone who diets is at equal risk for becoming anorexic or bulimic. Female fat is a sign of sexuality and reproductive ability. There have never been any studies on females that indicate being over weight can lead to other health concerns or put them at higher risk for death. Every study that has been done on obesity has involved male subjects; yet, females are the ones put under constant pressure from society and the media to be thin. It is acceptable for men to be fat, and men should have hardy appetites. It is age old and universal that if there is ever a shortage of food the women are the first to do without. In reality women really need just about as many calories as men and women suffer more serious problems if they are malnourished. Eating disorders effect a significant population in society. It is really scary because it is such a psychological problem that is seems there is no real way to prevent any one person from getting it unless the entire mind set of basically the world is transformed (The Beauty Myth, 179-116).
This ad from Nolita is defiantly a step in the right direction; however it does not do enough. Rather than say how to help someone with an eating disorder it almost seems to criticize the individual with the problem. People with eating disorders already have very flawed and negative self-images. Although this image is not seen as sexualized at all, it is merely because of the condition the model is in. She is still naked and being shot from a male gaze. It seems like a more effective approach would be to illustrate ways to prevent the problem or find a path to recovery; however, it is nice to see the problem is finally being recognized in the fashion industry.
Although the fashion industry is filled with images that perpetuate negative body images in society there seems to be some hope for improvement in the new century. It is very difficult to find ads that do a really good job of portraying positive body images, but they do exist. Some brands do a really good job of producing campaigns that portray a positive body image. United Colors of Benetton has a really unique campaign. It is interesting to note that the photographer for this campaign is also Oliviero Toscani, who shot the pictures of Isabella Caro for the Nolita campaign. Benetton Group's advertising campaigns are not only a means of communication but an expression of our time. Through their universal impact, they have succeeded in attracting the attention of the public and in standing out amid the current clutter of images.
The latest campaign by the United Colors of Benetton depicts the faces of four different species of apes. The print reads, “If we don’t do anything to save them, in ten to 15 years the great apes could disappear from the majority of the areas where they now live.” There were about two million chimps in Africa one hundred years ago, now there are little more than 150,000. They are dying out as a result of the expanding human population, deforestation, the destruction of their habitat, hunting and traps. The situation of mountain gorillas and orang-utans is even worse. The number of wild apes is falling while the number of orphans in sanctuaries is rising. This campaign does a great job of bringing awareness to important social issues. Some of the other ads depict the problems with starvation, AIDS and heart disease to name a few. Several of the communication projects created by Fabrica, Benetton’s research center have also been developed in cooperation with prestigious associations (including FAO, UNV, WFP) obtaining important acknowledgements at an international level.
Although these ads do not show the clothes, it creates the desire to help fight these problems. Through the campaign people realize that United Colors of Benetton does a lot of work with different organizations and that through buying this brand they are helping to support a very good cause. In that sense it is effective in creating a desire and does not perpetuate the negative body images that the fashion industry has been continually associated with.
Another genre of fashion advertising that seems to do a good job of portraying positive body images is in campaigns for athletic apparel. Currently both Adidas and Nike are attempting to produce campaigns that generate positive body images and messages. Nike’s campaign is a good effort to demonstrate more positive messages about body image, but it has been causing a lot of controversy. Nike’s new ad campaign, “Big Butts, Thunder Thighs, and Tomboy Knees” has been criticized because they highlight the butt, thighs, and knees of women athletes who could hardly by any means be considered out of shape. The campaign seems to have back fired and while those butts, thighs and knees should be praised, the manner that the ad presents the body parts almost condemns them. As explained in The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, in modern society women are expected to have split personalities and lifestyles. Women feel pulled in different directions, such as housewife, working women, athletic social, etc. It seemed that this would have been a great opportunity for Nike to reach the diverse desires of all women, but this campaign does not seem to be there quite yet.
While the campaign seems to have stayed away from the typical genre of fashion advertising, it is not very effective in creating a more positive body image. The images are black and white and shot in a way to eliminate the male gaze or cultural inequalities. However, the depiction of these well-oiled, muscle crunching body parts has sparked some questions. If the message is supposed to be about authenticity, hard work, and in-your-face reality, how about showing a little more sweat and a little less creatine? Furthermore, this ad seems to be appealing to current Nike customers while the whole point of advertising is to try and attract new consumers. Finally, the ad is a copy of the dove campaign which totally strips it of any creative or unique credit the campaign could have been given.
The Adidas campaign launches a new global basketball movement featuring NBA All-Stars Tracy McGrady, Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan, Chauncey Billups and Gilbert Arenas. The movement of the “It Takes 5IVE” campaign is based on the idea of believing in something bigger than the individual-believing in five, believing in team. Adidas wanted to tap into the idea that there is more to the game then just individual achievement and focus on the value of being part of a team. That is the true spirit of the game of basketball. By bringing together five of the game’s most successful athletes and having them deliver the message that real success can only come from being part of a team, and that any individual achievements cannot measure to the success that five players on the court can achieve together shows that teamwork is the most essential aspect to a team sport.
This campaign seems to do a much better job of creating a positive message; however the message creates a desire for team work to help you succeed. While this is a good message, it is not a positive message about body image. Since this campaign stays away from assisting the fashion industry in creating negative body images and more importantly negative overall messages, it is a pretty good campaign.
Finally there are a few campaigns from popular designers that do a rather good job of staying away from continuing the negative body images being produced by the fashion industry. Both Tommy Hilfigure and Old Navy have ads that completely stay away from the body and in that sense they are not effective at creating a positive body image either, rather they are neutral. In the Tommy Hilfigure ad a herd of sheep are standing in front of an American Flag and the tag line reads “follow the flock.” This ad is cute and creates the desire to fit in and then eludes to the idea that through buying Tommy Hilfigure clothing you will be like everyone else; however, as previously stated, people in society today desire control over their destination and the idea of being like everyone else seems to distract from the notion of controlling one’s destiny. The Old Navy ad also uses animals by creating ads depicting images of their icon dog. These ads are effective at getting the name of the brand to the public, but it creates no desire and is therefore not as effective as the Tommy Hilfigure ad.
Overall, fashion advertising is dominated by ads that encourage negative body image through highly sexualized poses, a majority of male gazes, and unrealistic body types. There is not enough cultural diversity in today’s fashion advertising. The ads are effective at creating desire; however, the desire is to achieve unrealistic and unhealthy goals. In the past few years some very significant changes have been made, but it isn’t enough right now. It is a gradual process so it will probably take some time before any major noticeable differences appear on the pages of the top fashion magazines. Hopefully the steps that are taking place now will have a lasting positive impact on the body images created through future fashion advertising.
fashion dolls have been blamed for promoting unrealistic image for girls i used to not believe it, until i see this anorexic looking doll, its one of those barbie clones. Just look at her arms and legs so skinny!
I could think of no better model that My Scene's Kennedy for the "Broadcast Yourself" series. She has the distinctive Barbie face, with the unsettling addition of bedroom eyes, and cherry red slightly parted lips. Combined with her girlish ponytails, she channels a myriad of forbidden fantasies and desires. I decided to use a different doll's body, which I couse for its suggestive pose and sheer red nightie.
She is using the built-in webcam on her little laptop to share images of herself with the world. She makes a digital slide show for her social networking pages using a song by The Pussycat Dolls. The lyrics of the song are about wanting fame and attention, and being called sexy by boys. She knows no better way to express herself that to take photos that expose her breasts. She is not thinking of the consequences of her actions, especially what kind of influence this could have on her little sister Ana.
read more at tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/11/yasmin-kennedy-and-lol...
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
tiffanygholar.blogspot.com/2008/08/doll-project.html
Purchase prints here:
I can't hear my shutter when I have the timer going and music. This is what I look like trying to figure out if it went off or not.
After further consideration, I think this will be my 365.
Here's what I wrote on the original:
Yeah. I keep my bookmark in my mouth so I don't lose it.
Also, I wear reading glasses. Actually, I should wear glasses all the time but I left my old pair at Value Village when trying on bad Christmas sweaters a couple years back. When I came back a day later, they were trying to sell them. And some how, within twenty-four hours, they got all kinds of scratched to hell. Gouges missing style. I was pissed. Now, I just squint at things instead of shelling out the money for a new pair. Wouldn't want to look like the nerd I really am now would I? (The answer is yes. I miss glasses. And I have pretty bad astigmatisms, so I don't care to buy the fancy kinds of contacts. Plus, I would forget about them.)
Finally getting to the end of 'The Crossing.' Fifty pages more and I can start on the third and last book in the trilogy. It will be interesting to see how they tie together since 'All the Pretty Horses' and 'The Crossing' are set in separate years, with separate characters. Hopefully I am not let down.
Most of you don't really know this, but I have a little Moleskine (anorexic edition) that I carry around with me everywhere. Most of the time I use it as my registrar for debit purchase and keeping track of my hours at work, but I also use it to keep lists. (Lists = <3) Today, I started a list/table thing to keep track of the number of pages and books I will read this year starting with 'The Crossing.' Really, like three other books should be in the list but I can't remember. I guess I could check my Facebook since I use the virtual bookshelf thing. I bet it tells me. (It says two.) But it will be interesting to see how many books I will read this year.
I also added a list for beers I have drank. What i can remember stands at forty. Spent the last half hour at work double checking names for accuracy. Looks like I have pretty much drank everything New Belgium has to offer and Big Sky.
And...
I'm too tired to carry on. I was supposed to do this right when I got home at nine and be in before now. Oops.
Oh. The song. Yeah. I was working on one of my other lists (Songs I Love) when I remember how much I love this song. Song: Xiu Xiu's "Dr. Troll." Probably not a song for everybody due to feedback, but I really like Xiu Xiu even if the can get a little noise heavy and sing about really heavy subject matter (AIDS, his sister being sexually exploited, there's a line in my absolute favorite song by them about rape, but I find such emotional nakedness beautiful). Be prepared to see their name in here a lot.
G'night y'all.
Ela é moderna, é vaidosa, tá na moda, modelo internacional e claro, anorexica!!
melhor amiga: Betty Bulimia!
After Boucher, Nude on a sofa. Oil on canvas, 73/59cm.
Anti Anorexia Campaign “Contemporary Beauty Ideals”
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
~Rebecca Miller
Please view on black
Note: I'm not anorexic. Get that out of your head right now.
[About a minute earlier, I dropped my camera remote in the pool. It sank, if you care to know.]
This is very Ian O'Hara -inspired.
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Some anorexic showroom dummies during the night in Strasbourg.
The photo was inspired by an old song from Kraftwerk.
Europe, Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Den Haag, Energiekwartier, Electriciteitsfebriek, Chistiaaan Zwanikken exhibition, People (uncut)
Christiaan Zwanikken is all about forced hybridization, mythical story telling and interaction. In his kinetic sculptures and installations he combines high tech electronic technology and lo-tech mechanical parts (often salvaged from scrapyards) with plants and body elements of animals (skulls, wings etc). Of course vapour and steam are used too.
The stories he tells are about spooking an innocent drumming Duracell rabbit, head banging anorexic cyborgs with goat’s skulls, a mechanical donkey on a tread mill and motorized, internally lit, racing skulls on dangerously bending thin metal tracks ('Who let the dogs out" the installation is shown bottom-right in this frame).
For work like Zwanikken’s, context is very important. Luckily it isn’t exhibited within the sterile white walls of a museum but in a delightfully gritty cathedral like multi level industrial building: the Electriciteitsfabriek (EF) (the Electricity factory). Some of the works were even crafted here. It’s the giant former storage facility (1928) of the The Hague municipal power station, from the time when it was still coal fired. The power station itself is still in operation, nowadays it’s gas-turbine based.
The Zwanikken exhibition is really an engaging must visit. The exhibition closes on April 30, so hurry. Check it out: here.
First let me say this: I DO NOT HAVE AN EATING DISORDER.
But I feel this way every day.
And I'm pretty sure I use that dress way too often. :P
This didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted but I posted anyway.
Oh and I'm finally getting to the point where I haven't had to add all of my photos to groups. They get comments on their own. :D But I'll probably still add some of them because then they get more views and such.
But yeah. Exciting!
Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric illness that describes an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia nervosa are known to control body weight commonly through the means of voluntary starvation, excessive exercise, or other weight control measures such as diet pills or diuretic drugs. While the condition primarily affects adolescent females approximately 10% of people with the diagnosis are male. Anorexia nervosa, involving neurobiological, psychological, and sociological components, is a complex condition that can lead to death in the most severe cases. Statistics on anorexia show that between 1 – 5% of all female adolescents and young women are anorexic. The average age of onset is 17. It is rare, but not unheard of, for children under the age of 10 to have the condition. Anorexia statistics show that with treatment, only 60% make a full recovery. About 20% make a partial recovery, meaning that they may be able to hold a job and maintain some superficial relationships but remain very focused on food and weight. They remain underweight. The final 20% stay dangerously underweight. They are seen frequently in emergency rooms, mental health clinics, inpatient hospital units, and eating disorder treatment programs.
no, i am not Anorexic. that is that.
i know people who put themselves through this, and it is horrible to watch.
so if you have a problem with this, or you know someone that has a problem with this,
get help.
please.
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whoot whoot! first in mental illness series! :D
explored #1!!!!!!! thank you all!
day 121
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this is who I have to be,
who I don't want to be.
[february 23, 2010]
107/365
p.s. - whoever figures this out, you're wonderful.
On this gloriously fresh and crisp morning l thought l'd take in the atmosphere of my wonderful surroundings...So dressed only in my Boxer shorts, Down hooded jacket (Done up.) and Hiking Boots (untied of coarse.) and complete with a mug of coffee and legs that looked like an anorexic flamingo l ventured forth to the front lawn.....forgetting it was a Public Footpath.....l wasn't expecting anyone to be around at that time of day.....How wrong could have l been...Seconds later l was greeted with a cheery "Good morning...it is a wonderful view and day isn't it?." from a beaming local...with a smile from ear to ear.....I must have looked like a walking poster for "Wage war on Want." but it was funny.
Second portrait of friend and model using stuffed animals and window light. Gradient filter used to transition from color to b&w.
Hey lovelies! I know this is my 3rd upload in 3 days, but I was tagged twice, so I figured I would do it, since I have way to much time on my hands anyway:P
10 random facts about me
#1 - I love being outdoors, I feel like I'm closer to God when I'm out in the woods where the only sounds are birds singing and the breeze whistling through the trees.
#2 - I am super sarcastic. Like, not joking.
#3 - people ask me all the time if I'm anorexic (RUDE) and I respond, "as long as there is mac n' cheese on this earth, I will always be a fatty at heart.
#4 - I can't be anyone but myself. It's physically impossible for me to act like someone I'm not.
#5 - I am a huge dork. For evidence, this is my desktop background;D
#6 - I am a feminist. If I hear one more "make me a sammich" joke, I am going to scream D:
#7 - I LOVE FOOOOD (see #3). ESPECIALLY JUNK FOOD OMG:D
#8 - I want to be a biologist when I'm older, and I'm already super stressed about getting into college of choice (I'm a freshman, guys:P)
#9 - I've never been in a relationship before. But honestly, I'm happy that way, because I think having a boyfriend at my age is pointless. Your time should be spent with your family and friends, not on some guy that will eventually break your heart:)
#10 - Flickr has changed my life. I can't wait to see what's in store <33
Some of my lovely Flickr friends are tagged. They are absolutely amazing:D
3 testimonials today?! Sam, Meg, and Ann, you are absolutely too kind <33