This week I went shopping with Carmen to try and help her find a dress for a fancy doodad she is going to this weekend near Montreal at the Château Vaudreuil where her husband will be picking up an award.
Well, good luck finding something elegant and chic in a small town that doesn't look like you're going to your high-school prom or that you want to look like the grandmother of the bride. It was either too masculine... for my tastes anyways.. stuff like stark shifts with very tailored looking jackets, made me feel like something you would wear to a high-class business meeting, not a fancy soirée. There were also the trashy looking dresses... extremely low cut with long chains and beads and bobbles and whatever all over.. almost made you look like a xmas tree... not "quite" what we were trying to find.
We found one dress that would have been perfect except it didn't fit her. She is petite and wears an 8, but she is less than well endowed so her chest is probably a 6. We did find a black crepe dress with just the tiniest bit of dark plum inlay with tiny beads.. well.. alhtough she's small.. that dress would just not fit over her hips.. well, maybe if we would have attached vice-grips and tugged it down.. haha.
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Last night we had a practice. We really have to get a move on .. need to know all of this by heart. I'm pretty much there.. actually I would know it by heart if I would practice at home, I guess.. but I do other things instead. It will be a joy to get rid of the binder though, 350 pages starts getting heavy after awhile.
This evening we will be singing a few extracts to open the "Salon du Livre", which is a weekend of meeting (mostly regional) authors. We have to be there early and it was decided that they wanted us to wear black and white.. may I say.. boring!!
They think it will make us look unified as a group... oh.. no!. .. do you really believe that if people see us in ordinary clothing singing together.. will truly believe we just randomly and coincidentally all butted up against each other and burst out in song? LOL.
Also, it's a lovely day today.. beautiful sunshine and warm. We will be all dressed up in long formal black skirts and white silk shirts...so stuffy. It's also so darned conservative looking. Dressed like that, I feel we look like nuns, when they went through the stage of no longer wearing their habits, just need to add a small cross on our chests and there you go! Can you tell, I'm slightly annoyed?
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Saturday, May 21, 2005
this last week
I used to update this thing every couple of days and it's been about a week, I guess I'm getting lazy.
Last Sunday, I went to see a concert with a choir that sings pop songs, mostly 80's stuff. I went to see it because Claudette sings in it and she's like a second mom to me. She has 2 daughter's my age but they don't bother to go and see her. I met her about 7-8 years ago and she is so young at heart and has a wonderful spirit about her.
She's the kind of person you want to grow up to be.
Claudette:
Here's a look at their choir:
and the night's Master of Ceremonies: lol
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Since I've started taking photographs, Claudette has always said she loved
my work, but you know how it is.. friends and family often say, "oh! it's wonderful!" just to make you feel good but when she came by expressly to choose some photos to put on her dining room wall, I was very flattered. I went with her and chose 3 frames that would look great together and with the images in them. Later that night, I went to her house and helped her put them on the wall... let me tell you .. putting several of them in a line is not an easy task, well not for me anyways! It took us an hour to put up 3 frames.. how useless do we seem? lol
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Practice this week was fun as usual, getting more intense each week. This week when practicing our parts where we sort of have a bit of a screaming match between the peasants and the citizens of the future, we had to stand up each time it was our part to sing.. so we were bobbing up and down... turns out to be quite an aerobic exercise! :-P
Simon has gone to Sherbrooke with "l'Harmonie" for the weekend.. will only be back Sunday night. I have lent him my camera.. because it's got a pretty good zoom. (10x).
He left me his point and shoot.. (well, it has a few manual controls, but really very limited) in case I want to do a shoot. I think I 'll wait
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In other news, Artalyst is going to have a new home and a new concept. It hasn't gone live yet, so I'm not linking it but just saying that it looks very promising.
Last Sunday, I went to see a concert with a choir that sings pop songs, mostly 80's stuff. I went to see it because Claudette sings in it and she's like a second mom to me. She has 2 daughter's my age but they don't bother to go and see her. I met her about 7-8 years ago and she is so young at heart and has a wonderful spirit about her.
She's the kind of person you want to grow up to be.
Claudette:
Here's a look at their choir:
and the night's Master of Ceremonies: lol
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Since I've started taking photographs, Claudette has always said she loved
my work, but you know how it is.. friends and family often say, "oh! it's wonderful!" just to make you feel good but when she came by expressly to choose some photos to put on her dining room wall, I was very flattered. I went with her and chose 3 frames that would look great together and with the images in them. Later that night, I went to her house and helped her put them on the wall... let me tell you .. putting several of them in a line is not an easy task, well not for me anyways! It took us an hour to put up 3 frames.. how useless do we seem? lol
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Practice this week was fun as usual, getting more intense each week. This week when practicing our parts where we sort of have a bit of a screaming match between the peasants and the citizens of the future, we had to stand up each time it was our part to sing.. so we were bobbing up and down... turns out to be quite an aerobic exercise! :-P
Simon has gone to Sherbrooke with "l'Harmonie" for the weekend.. will only be back Sunday night. I have lent him my camera.. because it's got a pretty good zoom. (10x).
He left me his point and shoot.. (well, it has a few manual controls, but really very limited) in case I want to do a shoot. I think I 'll wait
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In other news, Artalyst is going to have a new home and a new concept. It hasn't gone live yet, so I'm not linking it but just saying that it looks very promising.
Friday, May 13, 2005
I feel so spoiled
My friend, Dan, known as Tampadan on Worth.. send me 2 of his fabulous photographs.
They are gorgeous.. and I have found them the perfect spots on my walls.
I just have to share them with you!
here is "Red Chair". This image has quite a story to it. Dan found this lounger type chair and dragged it around with him in his truck looking for a place to photograph it.
He put it in the middle of the street.. but it just didn't seem right.. so on a very early Sunday morning in Tampa Florida, he dragged this mightily heavy and dirty old chair unto railway tracks to take this picture. I have found that since this picture was taken.. that Dan's photography has also changed... as if on a road to a new destination.. somewhat like those railways tracks. I believe sometimes we photograph stuff we want to tell the world.. othertimes what we photograph and feel compelled to photograph is our art speaking to us.. telling us something about ourselves.
I have placed "Red Chair" in my office area to look at it and have it inspire me everyday!
The second photograph is called "Blue Wall".
I have always loved the bright orange of the shirt casually draped on a chair against the blue wall. I love photos of chairs without people sitting in them. Van Gogh would paint chairs to represent the people who sat on them.. as symbols.. of the people that owned them, sat on them. Van Gogh represented himself and fellow friend and painter (although they often had bitter differences of opinions) by painting their chairs. I also have a fascination of empty chairs in art. Dan's Blue Wall has always captured my attention.. and now it has found a spot in my bedroom.
Thanks, Dan.. for your kindness and generosity.. you are the best!
They are gorgeous.. and I have found them the perfect spots on my walls.
I just have to share them with you!
here is "Red Chair". This image has quite a story to it. Dan found this lounger type chair and dragged it around with him in his truck looking for a place to photograph it.
He put it in the middle of the street.. but it just didn't seem right.. so on a very early Sunday morning in Tampa Florida, he dragged this mightily heavy and dirty old chair unto railway tracks to take this picture. I have found that since this picture was taken.. that Dan's photography has also changed... as if on a road to a new destination.. somewhat like those railways tracks. I believe sometimes we photograph stuff we want to tell the world.. othertimes what we photograph and feel compelled to photograph is our art speaking to us.. telling us something about ourselves.
I have placed "Red Chair" in my office area to look at it and have it inspire me everyday!
The second photograph is called "Blue Wall".
I have always loved the bright orange of the shirt casually draped on a chair against the blue wall. I love photos of chairs without people sitting in them. Van Gogh would paint chairs to represent the people who sat on them.. as symbols.. of the people that owned them, sat on them. Van Gogh represented himself and fellow friend and painter (although they often had bitter differences of opinions) by painting their chairs. I also have a fascination of empty chairs in art. Dan's Blue Wall has always captured my attention.. and now it has found a spot in my bedroom.
Thanks, Dan.. for your kindness and generosity.. you are the best!
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
last few days
I've just finished reading the book, 'Digital Fortress' by Dan Brown. He's the same author that wrote the 'DaVinci Code'. The book was alright but too easy. As soon as they fingered a certain person in the beginning 1/3 of the book, I was already sure it wasn't him.. and had by the middle of the book already figured out pretty much who did what.. and the only reason to read was to see if I was right, for one..and also for the small details.
I had the same impression when I read the "DaVinci Code" right from the beginning when the first person dies. It wasn't very hard to figure out they were talking about DaVinci's "Proportions of the Human Figure". Yes, I am aware it was a best seller and everyone thought it was the best book they had every read. Don't get me wrong, it was a good read, but perhaps I was let down by all the hype.
One gets the feeling that his so-called experts are not as brilliant as they should be because the clues are easy and evident. At least in the 'DaVinci code', there were a few more surprises and it was a better read. I'm wondering why Dan Brown has chosen to make his cyrptographers, that are supposedly geniuses.. not as smart as the reader.. or maybe Dan Brown is brilliant.. that he writes in a way that makes the reader feel very smart! lol
If there were a science-fiction book out there that I would absolutely recommend to anyone... it would be a very small but fascinating book by Canadian author 'Robert J. Sawyer' called 'Calculating God'. It is not only a page turner and interesting but truly thought provoking. The book is about an alien that comes to earth and has discussions with an atheist paleontologist about creationism. Let me state, right here. right now..this book is not about religion or anything about what most of us were brought up and been taught about God and how he cares for every living soul etc. Let's just say I could not put this book down.
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Saturday I went with Sylvian to an Exposition by the Club Richelieu. I promised but I must say I was bored. Boats, campers and fishing gear... oh..yes.. everthing I hate!! lol.. afterwards we had supper with a colleague of Sylvain's and his wife. The guy could talk only about one thing: work.. I tried to be seem interested.. but instead.. was thinking about the time.. I had a colorization to work on and the contest would go live at midnight. I had completely forgotten about it and had only remembered that afternoon. You can imagine me, at the restaurant.. pretending not be ansy and trying to sneak quick, not obvious glances at the time.
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Sunday, there was a Mother's Day Brunch that we went to because it was benefitting our prodution. It was at the local golf club. It was a beautiful day and let me tell you a small golf club fills up very quickly when 400 people stop by for breakfast.
We were supposed to sing a few selections..but the place was really not set up for it..and I must say, all the better. We got to sit with friends and just enjoy the mid-morning. Brunch was delicious and we had a couple musicians playing a few feet away.. it was fun.
Here's a picture of my friend, Linda, with her mom (a real sweetheart) and her daughter, Sophie.
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Monday night I went out again for a late-night walk.. this time with my camera and tripod in tow.
Had some fun a small park closeby doing some light painting.
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Today I had something fun happen. A new client came to my home for a logo for an organisation that he is head of that sends medical and educative supplies to Haiti. I'm not so honky dory on doing logo's .. but I told him.. sure I would.. why not! I could use the money.
He looks around and sees my walls are full of paintings and starts asking .. you did these.. blah.. blah.. and I say yes. So he says, how come I've never seen you expose anything.
I sort of laugh and tell him I don't really consider myself a painter because it's just something that I do because I like to create. I am not easily categorized I think.. a little impressionism, a little abstract.. a little water color.. a little sculpture.. a little photography.. whatever strikes my fancy. I don't put myself as one thing, I just have an intense need to create.. it can be making a great supper, making curtains or a painting. He says.. I have someone outside in my car that I would like to introduce to you.
He brings in this man that is a part owner of a small gallery. This guy looks around and says.. would I like to have a 2 week showing at the gallery.. give him a bit of notice.. and he would fix it up for me.. everything, invitations for the vernissage.. opening nite. He looks at my photos.. says that would be cool too.
So this is a great opportunity but I don't know.. it implies so many things. It means I would have to frame a bunch of my stuff.. that's going to cost me a lot of money that I just don't have. I have a sort of portfolio with photos. I also have some paintings that I wouldn't mind showing to people but at the same time really are attached to them because (and not all of them, of course) but some of them truly have meaning for me.
This one in particular 'Woman Unfolding' seems to mesmerize everyone that comes to my home. Everyone wants to have it in their homes. It's 3 feet wide by 4 feet high. It's in my dining room.. and I'm very attached to it because it very much about me.. as a woman unfolding .. becoming my true self. This guy kept going back to it .. over and over again. I don't want to sell it. I know that is what artists do.. but this one I would really miss in my home.
Woman Unfolding:
Anyways, I have to think about it.. is this something I want.. or am I just afraid? Do I want glorification and or critique.. how thick is my skin?
If I don't do this, will I regret it later on? If I do this, will I regret it later on?
I have always enjoyed doing art and creating things because there never was a reason it had to be done.. I already see in my work where I create invitations and other projects for people that I need quite a bit of control over what I'm producing. I hate being micro-managed.
I also don't want to have to make paintings when I don't feel like it. I want to create when and how I want to.. does that make any sense?
I had the same impression when I read the "DaVinci Code" right from the beginning when the first person dies. It wasn't very hard to figure out they were talking about DaVinci's "Proportions of the Human Figure". Yes, I am aware it was a best seller and everyone thought it was the best book they had every read. Don't get me wrong, it was a good read, but perhaps I was let down by all the hype.
One gets the feeling that his so-called experts are not as brilliant as they should be because the clues are easy and evident. At least in the 'DaVinci code', there were a few more surprises and it was a better read. I'm wondering why Dan Brown has chosen to make his cyrptographers, that are supposedly geniuses.. not as smart as the reader.. or maybe Dan Brown is brilliant.. that he writes in a way that makes the reader feel very smart! lol
If there were a science-fiction book out there that I would absolutely recommend to anyone... it would be a very small but fascinating book by Canadian author 'Robert J. Sawyer' called 'Calculating God'. It is not only a page turner and interesting but truly thought provoking. The book is about an alien that comes to earth and has discussions with an atheist paleontologist about creationism. Let me state, right here. right now..this book is not about religion or anything about what most of us were brought up and been taught about God and how he cares for every living soul etc. Let's just say I could not put this book down.
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Saturday I went with Sylvian to an Exposition by the Club Richelieu. I promised but I must say I was bored. Boats, campers and fishing gear... oh..yes.. everthing I hate!! lol.. afterwards we had supper with a colleague of Sylvain's and his wife. The guy could talk only about one thing: work.. I tried to be seem interested.. but instead.. was thinking about the time.. I had a colorization to work on and the contest would go live at midnight. I had completely forgotten about it and had only remembered that afternoon. You can imagine me, at the restaurant.. pretending not be ansy and trying to sneak quick, not obvious glances at the time.
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Sunday, there was a Mother's Day Brunch that we went to because it was benefitting our prodution. It was at the local golf club. It was a beautiful day and let me tell you a small golf club fills up very quickly when 400 people stop by for breakfast.
We were supposed to sing a few selections..but the place was really not set up for it..and I must say, all the better. We got to sit with friends and just enjoy the mid-morning. Brunch was delicious and we had a couple musicians playing a few feet away.. it was fun.
Here's a picture of my friend, Linda, with her mom (a real sweetheart) and her daughter, Sophie.
--
Monday night I went out again for a late-night walk.. this time with my camera and tripod in tow.
Had some fun a small park closeby doing some light painting.
--
Today I had something fun happen. A new client came to my home for a logo for an organisation that he is head of that sends medical and educative supplies to Haiti. I'm not so honky dory on doing logo's .. but I told him.. sure I would.. why not! I could use the money.
He looks around and sees my walls are full of paintings and starts asking .. you did these.. blah.. blah.. and I say yes. So he says, how come I've never seen you expose anything.
I sort of laugh and tell him I don't really consider myself a painter because it's just something that I do because I like to create. I am not easily categorized I think.. a little impressionism, a little abstract.. a little water color.. a little sculpture.. a little photography.. whatever strikes my fancy. I don't put myself as one thing, I just have an intense need to create.. it can be making a great supper, making curtains or a painting. He says.. I have someone outside in my car that I would like to introduce to you.
He brings in this man that is a part owner of a small gallery. This guy looks around and says.. would I like to have a 2 week showing at the gallery.. give him a bit of notice.. and he would fix it up for me.. everything, invitations for the vernissage.. opening nite. He looks at my photos.. says that would be cool too.
So this is a great opportunity but I don't know.. it implies so many things. It means I would have to frame a bunch of my stuff.. that's going to cost me a lot of money that I just don't have. I have a sort of portfolio with photos. I also have some paintings that I wouldn't mind showing to people but at the same time really are attached to them because (and not all of them, of course) but some of them truly have meaning for me.
This one in particular 'Woman Unfolding' seems to mesmerize everyone that comes to my home. Everyone wants to have it in their homes. It's 3 feet wide by 4 feet high. It's in my dining room.. and I'm very attached to it because it very much about me.. as a woman unfolding .. becoming my true self. This guy kept going back to it .. over and over again. I don't want to sell it. I know that is what artists do.. but this one I would really miss in my home.
Woman Unfolding:
Anyways, I have to think about it.. is this something I want.. or am I just afraid? Do I want glorification and or critique.. how thick is my skin?
If I don't do this, will I regret it later on? If I do this, will I regret it later on?
I have always enjoyed doing art and creating things because there never was a reason it had to be done.. I already see in my work where I create invitations and other projects for people that I need quite a bit of control over what I'm producing. I hate being micro-managed.
I also don't want to have to make paintings when I don't feel like it. I want to create when and how I want to.. does that make any sense?
Thursday, May 05, 2005
2nd attempt at blogging tonight! gah!
2nd attempt at writing this blog tonight..
I wrote the whole thing.. and was just going to preview..and my computer shut down by itself and rebooted too.. this is the second time in less than 2 weeks.. hopefully nothing freaky is going on with my computer.. :-(
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Last night was my night for rehearsals. Anyone that reads this (or should I say if anyone reads this) they know that usually is a great night for me as I get to do something really fun and be with people that are smart and talented and amazing to be around. We always have fun and it's always energizing but last night we were perhaps a little more crazy than usual. Seems everyone was in the mood for laughing. Heck, even Suzanne the pianist.. who usually is so quiet and demure couldn't help herself..she was cracking up. Although we were a little nutty, we did get a lot of work done.
Usually we have all the sopranos to the right, all the altos to the left.. and the tenors and bases in the middle. We are at the point though that we know all our lyrics.. (well most of them.. amazing how quickly you can learn when you don't want to hold up a binder with over 200 pages of music in it for a few hours). So now we split up our groups into the people who will be playing peasants (yay!I'm going to be a peasant.. hopefully that means I can run around on stage bare feet! :-D... if you ever had to stand in one spot in high heels for 2 hours.. you'd understand and wholeheartedly agree with me) and the citizens of the future. This means we don't sit where we normally do.. everyone is mixed up with their own group.. so now all peasants are to the left of the room.. regardless of which voice group they sing.
I'm sitting in the last row and behind us are a few guys that have no chairs..they are all standing up. One guy comes up to me from behind and asks to borrow my pen.. no problem.. a while later, he comes back again and asks me again for my pen..again no problem. Then he comes up to me and sticks a piece of tape on my shoulder. Everyone is having fun..so I think this is funny and just laugh and take it off.. and then he comes back again to look at my music .. the alto sitting two down from me .. does a motion with her eyes.. to show me he's taking a peek at my cleavage. D'uh.. It never dawned on me that from his vantage point he could get a pretty good view. I wasn't sure if I was to be insulted..or proud that he thought they were worth peeking at! Anyways.. I lifted my book over my breasts so he could get a good look at the lyrics, and the book covered my chest completely.. I gave him a smirk..and I'm pretty sure he got the message!
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Every spring, after the snow melts, the town flushes out the water through hydrants in town to get rid of all the sand and grime that gets into the system through melted snow.
Last night, around midnight.. I saw the trucks pull up and as they did , I grabbed my jacket and camera and was right there with them.. I'm sure they were saying.. who is this loony lady and why is she taking pictures of us in the dark for.
Here is one where a worker is just starting to release the water.
This one is up the street at the same time. As you can see the water is shooting right over that van.. guess he got a free car wash huh? lol
I wrote the whole thing.. and was just going to preview..and my computer shut down by itself and rebooted too.. this is the second time in less than 2 weeks.. hopefully nothing freaky is going on with my computer.. :-(
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Last night was my night for rehearsals. Anyone that reads this (or should I say if anyone reads this) they know that usually is a great night for me as I get to do something really fun and be with people that are smart and talented and amazing to be around. We always have fun and it's always energizing but last night we were perhaps a little more crazy than usual. Seems everyone was in the mood for laughing. Heck, even Suzanne the pianist.. who usually is so quiet and demure couldn't help herself..she was cracking up. Although we were a little nutty, we did get a lot of work done.
Usually we have all the sopranos to the right, all the altos to the left.. and the tenors and bases in the middle. We are at the point though that we know all our lyrics.. (well most of them.. amazing how quickly you can learn when you don't want to hold up a binder with over 200 pages of music in it for a few hours). So now we split up our groups into the people who will be playing peasants (yay!I'm going to be a peasant.. hopefully that means I can run around on stage bare feet! :-D... if you ever had to stand in one spot in high heels for 2 hours.. you'd understand and wholeheartedly agree with me) and the citizens of the future. This means we don't sit where we normally do.. everyone is mixed up with their own group.. so now all peasants are to the left of the room.. regardless of which voice group they sing.
I'm sitting in the last row and behind us are a few guys that have no chairs..they are all standing up. One guy comes up to me from behind and asks to borrow my pen.. no problem.. a while later, he comes back again and asks me again for my pen..again no problem. Then he comes up to me and sticks a piece of tape on my shoulder. Everyone is having fun..so I think this is funny and just laugh and take it off.. and then he comes back again to look at my music .. the alto sitting two down from me .. does a motion with her eyes.. to show me he's taking a peek at my cleavage. D'uh.. It never dawned on me that from his vantage point he could get a pretty good view. I wasn't sure if I was to be insulted..or proud that he thought they were worth peeking at! Anyways.. I lifted my book over my breasts so he could get a good look at the lyrics, and the book covered my chest completely.. I gave him a smirk..and I'm pretty sure he got the message!
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Every spring, after the snow melts, the town flushes out the water through hydrants in town to get rid of all the sand and grime that gets into the system through melted snow.
Last night, around midnight.. I saw the trucks pull up and as they did , I grabbed my jacket and camera and was right there with them.. I'm sure they were saying.. who is this loony lady and why is she taking pictures of us in the dark for.
Here is one where a worker is just starting to release the water.
This one is up the street at the same time. As you can see the water is shooting right over that van.. guess he got a free car wash huh? lol
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Sometimes I just screw up!
Preparing for the h2h photo tournament this time was really weird.. to start off with I could not for the life of me come up with a great idea.
The theme sounded so easy... color. the more the merrier, NO GREEN.
It was deceptive in it's simplicity. Usually when the theme is narrow and ordinary, I usually don't find it too difficult to come up with something a little out of the box.. not so out there that everone is lost.. but just enough to make an impact. The problem with the theme was there was no box to think out of.
I decided to try several different things.... wine glasses with water .. in a sort of
tower arrangement. I didn't want a pyramid.. so moved them all to one side. Let's just say that didn't quite work out and 6 out of the 7 glasses I was working with fell to their fragile death in my livingroom, unfortunately, nobody is expected to come to the funeral.
I then tried with glass vases..I wanted to replicate the idea of the wine glasses with each having a swirl of coloring that would look like thick smoke dancing their way through the glass. The swirls of color were either not enough or they looked all the same. I tried with different backgrounds and that just made matters worse as the background color was mixing with the foreground colors of the dye.. and as the liquid and vases were transparent, left me with either "blah- muddy colors" or the dreaded .. GREEN!!
so I abandoned that idea too.
I had earlier in the week borrowed a pink wig from Carmen. Kevin wore it for Halloween dressed up as a girl and I thought I could perhaps use it. My idea was to put it on a balloon head.. and paint on eyes and a mouth.. open as in surprise. Then blowing up a pair of blue latex gloves, I would have the gloves holding her (the balloon lady)'s head. She would look up in surprise and awe as many colored balloons were escaping to freedome. Well, the darned wig would not stay on the balloon head, no matter what. I tried weighing it down with pretty blue hair curlers, but then the head was much too heavy and I couldn't prop it up.
Did I mention this is late Saturday night.. Sunday morning? .. oh.yes!
anyways.. I abandon that project also..
Now I'm desperate.. I'm at the point I'm using colored hair elastics, you know the type with material on so they don't hurt. Well, now I had color..but it was just a jumbled mess!
I finally come up with something that I don't think it's the most original thing since sin.. but I at least I like it ... It is now 4AM in the morning.. I have 2 - 1000WATT lights aimed at my white living room ceiling .. creating bright but soft lighting without any harsh shadows on my new subject. If any of my neighbors were up.. they were probably thinking .. what's Maggie up to this time :-D Try and envision the hydro meter spinning like crazy behind my house.
I can't show it here right now.. because voting is not finished but I can tell you that I went through several shots that I liked and eliminated until I came down to the shot I would upload. I had one I really liked but it had fewer colors and probably would be more of my style if it were on my wall..but I really wanted more colors.. (the more the merrier thingee). I cropped the image, resized it .. sharpened it
Monday, I'm still mulling over if I should upload a different image to the tourney. I'm feeling angst at this moment. I usually take photos.. and when I have the right one.. I just know it.. I stop and I just know it's right. I didn't get that this time, I got many good shots.. but not that .. this is it!! shot! So I finally make my decision quite late Monday night.. I upload and cross my fingers.
Monday afternoon.. I'm looking at my image.. and something is not right..I don't like it was much as I did on my comp.. now why is that? very simple .. I uploaded the wrong image to the contest. I uploaded my uncropped version. Was the uncropped version really bad.. no.. but the cropped one obviously had better flow and the composition really was much more balanced. Would it have changed who the winner is.. maybe not.. but I would rather have the better image left behind in my stats.
anyways, yesterday I was pretty depressed about it.. mad at myself and sad too..
but today, I have decided to leave it behind. This is sort of my way to get rid of it.. to tell everyone how I screwed up. It 's not the first time and probably won't be the last so I better stop beating myself up about it.
Would it still be considered petty to ask for hugs though.. if anyone is giving them out today!! ;-)
Oh.. and a huge congratulations to Kirby and his wife Jen on their new baby girl, Rachel, born today! :-)
The theme sounded so easy... color. the more the merrier, NO GREEN.
It was deceptive in it's simplicity. Usually when the theme is narrow and ordinary, I usually don't find it too difficult to come up with something a little out of the box.. not so out there that everone is lost.. but just enough to make an impact. The problem with the theme was there was no box to think out of.
I decided to try several different things.... wine glasses with water .. in a sort of
tower arrangement. I didn't want a pyramid.. so moved them all to one side. Let's just say that didn't quite work out and 6 out of the 7 glasses I was working with fell to their fragile death in my livingroom, unfortunately, nobody is expected to come to the funeral.
I then tried with glass vases..I wanted to replicate the idea of the wine glasses with each having a swirl of coloring that would look like thick smoke dancing their way through the glass. The swirls of color were either not enough or they looked all the same. I tried with different backgrounds and that just made matters worse as the background color was mixing with the foreground colors of the dye.. and as the liquid and vases were transparent, left me with either "blah- muddy colors" or the dreaded .. GREEN!!
so I abandoned that idea too.
I had earlier in the week borrowed a pink wig from Carmen. Kevin wore it for Halloween dressed up as a girl and I thought I could perhaps use it. My idea was to put it on a balloon head.. and paint on eyes and a mouth.. open as in surprise. Then blowing up a pair of blue latex gloves, I would have the gloves holding her (the balloon lady)'s head. She would look up in surprise and awe as many colored balloons were escaping to freedome. Well, the darned wig would not stay on the balloon head, no matter what. I tried weighing it down with pretty blue hair curlers, but then the head was much too heavy and I couldn't prop it up.
Did I mention this is late Saturday night.. Sunday morning? .. oh.yes!
anyways.. I abandon that project also..
Now I'm desperate.. I'm at the point I'm using colored hair elastics, you know the type with material on so they don't hurt. Well, now I had color..but it was just a jumbled mess!
I finally come up with something that I don't think it's the most original thing since sin.. but I at least I like it ... It is now 4AM in the morning.. I have 2 - 1000WATT lights aimed at my white living room ceiling .. creating bright but soft lighting without any harsh shadows on my new subject. If any of my neighbors were up.. they were probably thinking .. what's Maggie up to this time :-D Try and envision the hydro meter spinning like crazy behind my house.
I can't show it here right now.. because voting is not finished but I can tell you that I went through several shots that I liked and eliminated until I came down to the shot I would upload. I had one I really liked but it had fewer colors and probably would be more of my style if it were on my wall..but I really wanted more colors.. (the more the merrier thingee). I cropped the image, resized it .. sharpened it
Monday, I'm still mulling over if I should upload a different image to the tourney. I'm feeling angst at this moment. I usually take photos.. and when I have the right one.. I just know it.. I stop and I just know it's right. I didn't get that this time, I got many good shots.. but not that .. this is it!! shot! So I finally make my decision quite late Monday night.. I upload and cross my fingers.
Monday afternoon.. I'm looking at my image.. and something is not right..I don't like it was much as I did on my comp.. now why is that? very simple .. I uploaded the wrong image to the contest. I uploaded my uncropped version. Was the uncropped version really bad.. no.. but the cropped one obviously had better flow and the composition really was much more balanced. Would it have changed who the winner is.. maybe not.. but I would rather have the better image left behind in my stats.
anyways, yesterday I was pretty depressed about it.. mad at myself and sad too..
but today, I have decided to leave it behind. This is sort of my way to get rid of it.. to tell everyone how I screwed up. It 's not the first time and probably won't be the last so I better stop beating myself up about it.
Would it still be considered petty to ask for hugs though.. if anyone is giving them out today!! ;-)
Oh.. and a huge congratulations to Kirby and his wife Jen on their new baby girl, Rachel, born today! :-)
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