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MsRad

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    thin lizzy

    I love this!
  2. i love that panther with the rose in its mouth!
  3. D, i wasn't talking about Lynch either. i haven't seen too many of his films.
  4. Alanna, i did! i practiced for a whole day before (mainly because i needed an excuse to watch stuff on netflix for a day), but i couldn't get my bangs to do what i originally planned. so instead, i let them just hang and it worked out perfectly! i found instructions on vintage hairdos on youtube, i can send you the link to the one that inspired me if you're curious.
  5. i sincerely apologize for my spelling in my last post in this forum. the wonders of stress made themselves apparent there. here's my thoughts on the next meet up: January 13th Encuentro Cafe or Papalotes (we could do Flaco's but we'd have to sit outside and they don't offer omni options) 7:30 pm any other opinions/suggestions?
  6. awww schucks Hawk, thanks!
  7. i have to admit, i sort of agree with Wedge on Inception (and i did see the movie, at the drive-in no less). now, i love my metaphors and complications just as the next person in this forum, but Inception did feel overdone. and at the end, I kept thinking to myself "well that was nice looking, but really, what's the point?" if the point is to question our reality, then that's fine, but it feels redundant. but maybe i'm missing something? i'm willing to give it a second shot, i'm not against the film in any way, i guess i just don't understand the hype behind it either.
  8. i'm totally craving citrus and need to find some good pomelos asap. anyone else have a seasonal fav they're craving?
  9. Loch, your workout makes me miss living in oakland. i hate living out here :(
  10. thanks Dari! yea it all turned out great.
  11. i think i may take you up on that advice Dari! i've been craving weight training lately. i'm trying to convince myself to take 4 days of classes at Laney, which is held on my lunch break and since Laney is right across the street from work, it's obviously not a far distance. i just don't know if it'll make me more stressed out at work or not, since i don't tend to give myself a proper lunch break. plus, i'll be sweaty for the second half of the day :/ but i'm really bad on relying on myself, and like the structure of a class that will push me. god, i miss weights. :(
  12. the guy standing in the doorway of the cat room looks like a kid i went to high school with.
  13. and i'm back! took a break from the internet for 10 days. went to Gather for NYE, here's their menu: Vegan “Charcuterie” -Winter citrus carpaccio, shaved beets, olives, dill -King Trumpet mushroom crudo, parsnip-pine nut-sea palm risotto, crispy parsnips -Pan di Zucchero cotechino sausage, roasted roots, mustard, tarragon -Braised endive, avocado, yuba, smoked aioli, toasted bread (this tasted like a blt, no joke!) -Roasted Carnival squash, cashew-bayleaf-sunchoke sauce, smoked maple Winter kales Jerusalem artichokes, Brussels sprouts, sunchoke tahini, grapefruit charmoula, almond “parmesan” Tofu skin-Chanterelle Braciole Hopi orange pumpkin, Porcini-braised Beluga lentils, cabernet, chestnut-Black Trumpet-truffle sauce and then a cardamon chocolate ice cream sandwich with blood orang sorbet in the center. this was the best meal of my life.
  14. here are pictures of THE dress and my outfit that i wore to celebrate 2 years with Jackson. here's the dress alone: here's the outfit: and here's me with a ridiculous grin on my face: Gather's prix fixe menu was AMAZING! i'll post more about it in the forums.
  15. awww schucks Dari! if it weren't for you and the fam, we wouldn't have this outlet or these amazing conversations. much love to you too! sure! i always love talking about photography. what i meant by what i said, is that photography is considered, by most, to be this objective process, meaning that whatever is placed in front of a camera is truly what is presented in the photograph it has taken. recording light is photography's intrinsic value to a degree. but there's something more that exist and distinguishes a good photograph from just an ok or mundane photograph. while this is subjective (and really, all photography is when you take into account the process by which we actually create a photograph) to a degree, it's also, somewhat, a mystery. what makes a good photographer? is it technical skills? sure. is it a good eye? again, sure. but there's something more that has to exist for an image to be intriguing, and i'm not convinced that this simply occurs because of training or skill. there is a similar mystery that exists. last week i wrote a final paper on William Christenberry (he's the artist that shot the image of the Bar-B-Q Inn that i posted in the finer things thread, and which is just one of a series of images all of the same building) who came to photography through painting. although he had a fine arts background, at the same time he had no real knowledge of photography, and began shooting using a Kodak brownie camera he had received as a child from santa while growing up in rural Alabama. he was just creating images to be used as references for paintings, and he didn't consider them to really mean anything to anyone else other than himself until Walker Evans discovered him (he also ended up inspiring William Eggleston to take color photographs, if anyone else knows who that is, just a little tidbit of photo history nerdyness). granted, Christenberry was inspired by Evans, since Evans had photographed in Hale County, where Christenberry's grandparents had lived and who he had visited often as a child, Christenberry, however, previous to 1960, had never considered creating photographs, and certainly did not consider his own to be "art". he shot using consumer grade equipment and color film, a format that laughable in the fine art world until 1976. so Christenberry lacked the technical skills (really though, with a brownie, you just point, shoot, and roll) of other fine art photographers, and while he did know about composition and form, really had no experience with taking pictures, and yet, he created photographs that help to start the color photo revolution and changed the course of fine art photography for the last 50 years. how do you explain that? you could say "but he was an artists so of course he's going to make good work" but that's a copout excuse in my book. there was something in him, something about the work that came through those images, and it's more than just emotion. but it's hard to place your finger on what it exactly is, and even Christenberry himself (who i've seen speak before) can't quite name it. anyways, what i'm getting at is this: you can have a tattoo artist that is technically skilled, and you can also have a tattoo artist with artistic vision who may be lacking technical skill, but that does not mean you will receive a good tattoo. in order for it to really work, to me at least (and it seems like you may feel the same way Petri), there's something more than just the creativity or the skills (and obviously, technical skills weigh more heavily within tattooing, because of tattooing's own intrinsic value of permanence). again, i think this is that mystery you're talking about. i hope this makes sense.
  16. i just realized this is Madame Chinchilla's book. just yesterday, i was thinking "why isn't Madame Chinchilla on Last Sparrow?". i suppose i should send the link her way...
  17. thanks Petri. it's almost the intrinsic value of the art/medium that holds that mystery. to me at least. it's really similar to photography in a way.
  18. sorry for the second post. some of the pictures aren't showing up.
  19. by mystery, you mean the mystery revolving around the creativity of the tattoo? sorry if this seems obvious, but i'm interested in reading more of what you have to say on this "mystery" aspect. i think your response, in general, was very articulate, and i completely agree and empathize with it.
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