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Got all dolled up to go to the gallery show.
Clothes:
- My honeymoon Little Black Dress (black linen and cotton!eyelet, two-layered knee-length skirt with a cinchable waist, bought at one of the Medieval boutiques in Old Quebec)
- Black knee socks + black suede quasi-runners (had intended to change into my home-made boots as the ground is quite wet, given the slush and the rain, and I didn't want to wreck them and/or soak my feet in the water, but ended up leaving them off since the gallery is small enough to have no coat-check area).
- Little, black wrist-length fingerless gloves (made out of nylon trouser-socks).[1]
- Leather coat (used to be my Dad's).
Hair:
- Tied it up in my usual messy/falling-down bun thing w/ clear plastic hair sticks.
Makeup:
- Pressed powder + foundation, black eyeliner (w/ minor little swirlies at the corners of my eyes), lilac shadow, purple shadow, black mascara, & black cherry lip-stain. Blood Kiss perfume, O body butter (home-made).
Jewelery:
Onyx ring,
Steel o-ring ring
Steel o-ring bangles (six)
Family ring, engagement ring & wedding ring.
Hematite & black pearl necklace.[2]
I was quite pleasantly surprised to see that he'd actually included two of the me-shots in the collection. One was called "Onion Girl" (hehe, like the Charles de Lint book) and was a picture of me smelling a bouquet of green onions, as if they were a bouquet of tulips. The other is one called "Lock and Key" - which is from the same set of shots as
I confess, I'm having a grand old time playing around with those pictures again. ;-)
Now that I've got a scanner, I may try it out by scanning in some of the shots Diane LaPlante took of me, years and years ago, just to play around with cropping and stuff. That would be nice. :-)
There were a couple of photos that really jumped out at me, including the two featuring another Allison - one featuring her holding a bouquet of asparagus, and another involving her and big glasses and a neck-tie and a sneer. The other, the one that caught my attention right when I walked in, was a gal with a tarantula tattoo'd on her shoulder - in the picture, you couldn't (or I couldn't) quite tell whether it was a tattoo or an actual spider, because the tattoo itself included a shadow. It was *very* well done. :-)
The photographer has this irritating thing about the idea of threat, and women in threatened possitions, as being Really Awesome and Provocative subject matter. Which rather makes me want to give him a smack upside the head and a sharp suggestion that he increase his scope a little.
<*sigh*> But, otherwise, he takes good pictures. (For the most part. ;-)
Anyway, the show got me thinking about a couple of things:
1) Just random musings about beauty and how it's defined (narrowly, usually) and how it's everywhere, if you just bloody look around.
2) The nifty shapes you can find in people's bodies.
3) A story about a vampire photographer (No, not Otto) who works for a lifestyle/pop-culture magazine targeted at The Children of the Night (called "Night Life", it purports to explore the Darker end of the subcultural spectrum - S&M, Goth and Metal and Industrial (maybe or maybe not Punk), Tattoos and general body-mod, and so on - while also talking about being a non-human who can pass for human (most of the time), in a way that is (in theory) subtle enough to go un-noticed by the subscribers who don't *actually* live the Night Life. ;-)
I kind of want to write a story about that. The idea's been floating in my head for years, and it started solidifying again tonight, so maybe I'll get somewhere with it. :-)
<*looks at clock*>
Aaaaaand it's 10:45. Must remove my makeup and get to sleep so that I can actually be functional for Choir tomorrow. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] I really love stuff like that. It looks formal and decaying/aggressive at the same time. Like SteamPunk. :-D (It's times like this that I wouldn't mind being better at drawing. then I could have some Real Fun doodling the stuff that wanders, half formed, through my mind. ;-)
[2] This is one of the ones I made. I'm still thinking of putting a dab from the glue-gun onto the knots, just to be sure. But I'm glad it worked out. :-) I quite like the two different shades of not-exactly black, and how they combine and play off each other. :-) I'm almost done re-stringing the lapis lazuli one - using white/cream pearls this time, as I think they provide a better contrast - and I'm thinking that maybe (maybe) I'll do a turquoise and black pearl one, just to see what it looks like. I may not, though. Who knows. ;-)
Clothes:
- My honeymoon Little Black Dress (black linen and cotton!eyelet, two-layered knee-length skirt with a cinchable waist, bought at one of the Medieval boutiques in Old Quebec)
- Black knee socks + black suede quasi-runners (had intended to change into my home-made boots as the ground is quite wet, given the slush and the rain, and I didn't want to wreck them and/or soak my feet in the water, but ended up leaving them off since the gallery is small enough to have no coat-check area).
- Little, black wrist-length fingerless gloves (made out of nylon trouser-socks).[1]
- Leather coat (used to be my Dad's).
Hair:
- Tied it up in my usual messy/falling-down bun thing w/ clear plastic hair sticks.
Makeup:
- Pressed powder + foundation, black eyeliner (w/ minor little swirlies at the corners of my eyes), lilac shadow, purple shadow, black mascara, & black cherry lip-stain. Blood Kiss perfume, O body butter (home-made).
Jewelery:
Onyx ring,
Steel o-ring ring
Steel o-ring bangles (six)
Family ring, engagement ring & wedding ring.
Hematite & black pearl necklace.[2]
I was quite pleasantly surprised to see that he'd actually included two of the me-shots in the collection. One was called "Onion Girl" (hehe, like the Charles de Lint book) and was a picture of me smelling a bouquet of green onions, as if they were a bouquet of tulips. The other is one called "Lock and Key" - which is from the same set of shots as
I confess, I'm having a grand old time playing around with those pictures again. ;-)
Now that I've got a scanner, I may try it out by scanning in some of the shots Diane LaPlante took of me, years and years ago, just to play around with cropping and stuff. That would be nice. :-)
There were a couple of photos that really jumped out at me, including the two featuring another Allison - one featuring her holding a bouquet of asparagus, and another involving her and big glasses and a neck-tie and a sneer. The other, the one that caught my attention right when I walked in, was a gal with a tarantula tattoo'd on her shoulder - in the picture, you couldn't (or I couldn't) quite tell whether it was a tattoo or an actual spider, because the tattoo itself included a shadow. It was *very* well done. :-)
The photographer has this irritating thing about the idea of threat, and women in threatened possitions, as being Really Awesome and Provocative subject matter. Which rather makes me want to give him a smack upside the head and a sharp suggestion that he increase his scope a little.
<*sigh*> But, otherwise, he takes good pictures. (For the most part. ;-)
Anyway, the show got me thinking about a couple of things:
1) Just random musings about beauty and how it's defined (narrowly, usually) and how it's everywhere, if you just bloody look around.
2) The nifty shapes you can find in people's bodies.
3) A story about a vampire photographer (No, not Otto) who works for a lifestyle/pop-culture magazine targeted at The Children of the Night (called "Night Life", it purports to explore the Darker end of the subcultural spectrum - S&M, Goth and Metal and Industrial (maybe or maybe not Punk), Tattoos and general body-mod, and so on - while also talking about being a non-human who can pass for human (most of the time), in a way that is (in theory) subtle enough to go un-noticed by the subscribers who don't *actually* live the Night Life. ;-)
I kind of want to write a story about that. The idea's been floating in my head for years, and it started solidifying again tonight, so maybe I'll get somewhere with it. :-)
<*looks at clock*>
Aaaaaand it's 10:45. Must remove my makeup and get to sleep so that I can actually be functional for Choir tomorrow. :-)
- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)
[1] I really love stuff like that. It looks formal and decaying/aggressive at the same time. Like SteamPunk. :-D (It's times like this that I wouldn't mind being better at drawing. then I could have some Real Fun doodling the stuff that wanders, half formed, through my mind. ;-)
[2] This is one of the ones I made. I'm still thinking of putting a dab from the glue-gun onto the knots, just to be sure. But I'm glad it worked out. :-) I quite like the two different shades of not-exactly black, and how they combine and play off each other. :-) I'm almost done re-stringing the lapis lazuli one - using white/cream pearls this time, as I think they provide a better contrast - and I'm thinking that maybe (maybe) I'll do a turquoise and black pearl one, just to see what it looks like. I may not, though. Who knows. ;-)
