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Needed a photoshoot to show the quality of work I use while creating animal skin headdresses. So here's a photo that my boyfriend Jake took (edited by me). That's me wearing my Halloween costume - a headdress made from a coywolf skin. Poor animal was eating sheep, so the Fish and Game Department gave authorization to cull it. They later confirmed that it was the product of a wolf-coyote interbreeding, hence the enormous size and unusual coloration. While a normal coyote is only about 45" from nose to tip of the tail, this sucker was 68". And his fur is an appropriate shade of pumpkin orange!
I can create headdresses such as this from just about any tanned fur you hand me. Bobcat, wolf, African black-backed jackal....you name it, I'll do it (so long as it's legal, of course!).
Using basic taxidermy techniques, I can re-mold the face of the skin to make it look more realistic, as it sometimes becomes deformed or distorted in the tanning process. If needed, I open up the eye holes a bit so that a person can see through them. I then sew on a felt backing to protect the leather from ripping while the wearer is dancing or walking about. Charms, feathers, and beads are optional, of course, but can add a lot of character. This one has recycled glass beads and found feathers added to it.
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Hotel Green Pasadena, Ca. about 1899
The Hotel is still there.
www.kcet.org/history-society/the-hotel-of-mirth-pasadenas...
I came by these wonderful old B & W photos by way of my aunt. She was at a Scrap Booking convention/ retreat in the Red Woods of northern Calif. This woman sitting at the same table as my aunt, threw out three old photo albums full of family photos & post cards from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The lady said the albums once belonged to her mother in law and since she didn't know the people in the photos she tossed the albums in the trash. My aunt later went dumpster diving and initially gave me one album and she kept the other two, then had a change of mind and gave me the other two albums.
You don't have to know the people to enjoy the photos. Well just like the old sayings go, "A picture is worth a 1000 words", or "One man's trash is another man's treasure"
Hey I could use a little help. If you recognize people or places or vehicles please speak up, add your comments please.
M, the late 1970s-early 1980s New Wave/Synthpop band, was the brainchild of British singer Robin Scott, whose musical career has spanned four decades. (And he was friends with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, to boot!)
"Pop Muzik", as most of us may know, was the big single for M, reaching #1 on the US Billboard charts in November 1979, and #2 on the UK singles charts in May 1979.
This was one of the first songs I really wanted to own as a 45 single. Mom bought me mine, and I damn near played the crap out of it every single night, sometimes several times a night, even the B side, "M Factor".
I've been searching used record stores around Northern California for this, and I finally have it! I have the full-length "New York • London • Paris • Munich" album (2002 re-release) in iTunes digital format, and it has a different mix of "M Factor" than what was on the original US single here.
You bet your bottom I'm going to rip it to digital format, clean it up, and archive it into my music collection! This is a jump back into my youth, about 30 years worth of memories...
Be nice, and I won't serenade you with the full lyrics of the song. ^_^; (Though "Woman Make Man" is an interesting song, as well as "Moderne Man/Satisfy Your Lust" ^_^;)
This was taken during our photo visit in one of our office project, Capital club, @ level 52 East tower, Bahrain Financial Harbor Building.........
Just like the effects made by his wall lighting, so im posting it here.
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Take a look at some cools stuff from some of my contacts. Check them out, and let them know how good they are.
Have a great weekend!
1. Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls by Kim.Kozlowski
2. Abandoned Manor House ‘’Wc’’ by rustysphotography
3. The Winds of Fire by TxPilot
4. I-5 by Wade Bryant
5. Me and the Nomada Bee by Oliver C. Wright
6. New York City on May 15, 2012 by mudpig
7. Invaders Must Die by WILL★REFUSE
8. Life Is Beautiful by xwhiteboy777x
9. Touching the sky… by Lou Peoples
10. Coast Through the Mist by Chris Luckhardt
11. 126/366 – walkie’s by posessed2fisheye
12. Untitled by vetbonkie
Two part series I recall seeing at a Comics and Comix store in Citrus Heights, CA back in the mid/late 1980s, before I knew what the hell it was about, only that the character designs looked like something out of Robotech. ^_^;
Boy meets girl. Boy meets friend who has a super-cool futuristic bike. Friend gets killed because he showed his friend what he wasn't supposed to see. Boy gets caught up in this, and is fleeing for his life, and wants the truth known. Fun, though quite sad.
Harmony Gold bought the film, screwed it up by adding meaningless crap scenes from Robotech, and commissioned a studio in Japan to shoot a "happy ending" to it, in order to turn it into the "Robotech: The Untold Story" movie Gah....)
See the original, though it's probably long out of print with the "demise" of ADV Films - Find those DVDs if you can, and perhaps Megazone 23 Part 2 as well!
These two books comprise a photo-novel version of the first OAV film.
The book on the left features our "hero", Shogo Yahagi, and the book on the right features the girl he picks up at the beginning, Yui Takenaka
Good old 1980s sci-fi mecha with a twist goodness... ^_^;
"Level 7-G Operator, please respond..."
Now THIS was what made winning the drawing worthwhile. (I swear, I had a feeling of "What if I did win the drawing?", but I dismissed it - When I heard my name called (and mispronounced) over the PA system, I totally freaked out - "Oh, My GOD!!!", and freaked out a few people near me. ^_^;
Anyway, this set comprises the entire first series figure release, Columbia (A Groupie), portrayed by "Little Nell" Campbell, Dr. Frank N. Furter (A Scientist - "He's the hero -- That's right, the hero!" ^_^;), portrayed by the one-and-only, Tim Curry (It kind of broke my heart somewhat when I saw him on some Poirot show on public TV where he looked really old and overweight. ~_~;), and of course, Riff Raff (A "faithful" handyman), portrayed by the one who brought us this cult classic, the incomparable Richard O'Brien.
Oh, they had a bigger figure of Dr. Frank N. Furter, in his surgical smock from the Rocky Horror birth scene ("Tonight, my unconventional conventionalists...") - Oh, I wanted that one too... Maybe they'll still have it in December... Oh, man...
I'm happy for what I have, in any case.
A good day out, indeed. It could have been better in some aspects, but I won't complain - At least I was once again, in the right place, at the right time. I seem to have a knack for that lately. ^_^;
I came by these wonderful old B & W photos by way of my aunt. She was at a Scrap Booking convention/ retreat in the Red Woods of northern Calif. This woman sitting at the same table as my aunt, threw out three old photo albums full of family photos & post cards from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. The lady said the albums once belonged to her mother in law and since she didn't know the people in the photos she tossed the albums in the trash. My aunt later went dumpster diving and initially gave me one album and she kept the other two, then had a change of mind and gave me the other two albums.
You don't have to know the people to enjoy the photos. Well just like the old sayings go, "A picture is worth a 1000 words", or "One man's trash is another man's treasure"
Hey I could use a little help. If you recognize people or places or vehicles please speak up, add your comments please.
This very cool model of an Asian-style eatery - complete with cushions, mats, and flagstones - was on display in a backalley shop in Seoul's Insa-dong arts district. The DPRK may have the best dioramas, but the ROK is no slouch when it comes to models. (Of the artistic variety, eh, not governments...heh heh) ;-)
Had a blast at the Naples Zoo Wedding Photo Shootout. It was like a candy store and I could have whatever I wanted!
Check out more photos and all the amazing vendors I met Sunday on the blog
PLUS!! We've been featured on Island Weddings Today!!!
Amazing stuff is happening and I love it!
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Out on my long morning walk of the first 'free' day I had. GOD I love New York. I walked and walked all the way down to and through my old 'hood. HOME.