9.9.11

black and white

mary kate olsen or ashley olsen, sometimes i have a hard time telling them apart and i think black and white makes it even more difficult.




karlie kloss



michael donovan for vision china

rosie huntington-whiteley [*i think*]

martha streck by anthony maule

months ago i bought 4 rolls of c41 process black and white film and a roll of revolog tesla 1 film. i haven't used any of them yet! i have a lot of anxiety about messing up "special" film and i want to pre-plan out every single exposure to make sure i get the best use of it. stupid idea, i'm well aware, i think i had thought out one specific shot for the tesla film and then never wrote it down, now that's forgotten and i'm back to square one. i need to just load it up and shoot it already before the weather gets glum and there are less interesting things to shoot [plus i hate going out in the cold].

7.9.11

7 things

[ballet feet by jules falk hunter]

this was completely stolen from secia... i need to unwind for a minute before i lose my mind and this seems like a good way.

7 places i would like to visit
  1. france
  2. italy
  3. iceland
  4. japan
  5. hawaii
  6. california
  7. vegas
and many many more places... i don't have much traveling under my belt yet unfortunately

7 things i would like to make
  1. iconic photography
  2. pretty paintings
  3. a fiction book
  4. a book of photos
  5. a clean, well designed, well organized home
  6. an epic garden with tons of fruits, veggies, and herbs on hand at all times
  7. lots and lots of money doing what i love [taking pictures]
7 people [dead or alive] i would like to meet
  1. jude law
  2. jose villa
  3. linda mccartney
  4. leighton meester
7 things i would like to own
  1. my house outright [pay it off]
  2. a french bulldog puppy
  3. an old vw bus [working condition and fully furnished]
  4. an in ground pool
  5. an unlimited amount of 35mm film and free developing vouchers
  6. a negative scanner
  7. a canon 5d mark ii w/ a set of high end prime lenses
7 things that annoy me
  1. my day job
  2. paying for insurance, i'm running away to canada or some place in europe
  3. 90% of the people i went to school with
  4. facebook
  5. when my boyfriend puts away the dishes, but not the silverware and then puts dirty silverware in with the clean so i have no forks or spoons to eat with
  6. my apparent a.d.d.
  7. how long it has been since i've had a paying photo gig
  8. people riding their bikes on the sidewalk
7 films i love
  1. marie antoinette [just to play in the background, the story is too slow for me, but visually it's the most beautiful thing ever]
  2. harry potter [all of them, i'm newly converted]
  3. dirty dancing
  4. i love you man
  5. forgetting sarah marshall
  6. american psycho
  7. across the universe


7 funny words

i'm stumped, because i think all words are funny after you say them about 5 times in a row they seem to stop making sense... so i'm going to do my 7 FAVORITE words instead
  1. lovely [all time favorite]
  2. ethereal
  3. patina
  4. veranda
ok i didn't make it to 7 for most of these things, but it was supposed to be relaxing and i don't want to stress myself out trying to come up with more so there! :]

6.9.11

marie antoinette

long story short... in a couple of weeks i am hosting a thirty-one party. my friend that is the consultant keeps telling me i need to have a theme. all i knew was i wanted french macaroons and champagne popsicles [see pic below] and maybe some pizza too since it's around dinner time.


AND i have some cake mix that i need to use up so i thought hey "let them eat cake", marie antoinette themed party. and now it has gotten out of control in my head and i need to tone it down a bit. i have this urge to go all out and do a marie antoinette themed photo booth and blah blah blah, then i know nobody who goes will really "get it" or be dressed up or anything so, i should have just made it a pizza party theme ha.








get a little marie antoinette wig action going on for the photo booth and some masks... maybe play sofia coppola's marie antoinette on low volume in the background.