Two Miracles

Not much to report lately since I've just been working diligently to get this dress finally d-o-n-e.

Very exiting to report that last night the dress is complete. We shall cross our finger that the final fitting did the trick. Now I can move forward with other projects like my EL wire corset, more photos, and a sprinkle of silk screening.

The other miracle is the photo that I shot at work turned out. This was in direct sunlight out a window for 33 minutes exactly. Im planning to do another run at work on a day that I will have more time to develope. Next time I am going to shorten the time to 25 minutes.

Interesting

Through my various pinhole attempts (its all about experimenting), I have not got much to show for it except a sink full of white and black pieces of paper.

However, I at least every once and awhile get something that at least looks interesting. Ill post those too when they arise.

Camera Obscura

My latest project was building a pinhole camera out of shit in my house and take some awesome photos. I bought all the supplies a couple of months ago (chemicals and RC paper) then never got around to it until the thieves stole my camera. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get in touch with the roots of photography while I wait for my new camera to arrive like a well behaved squirrel.

I built my first camera out of a bread crumb container and a beer can.

Go learn for a moment...

I set up a mini dark room in the basement.
My first two attempts were blank. Alas, the paper hinting for the need of a longer exposure time.

Today for Pinhole Test Run #3, I placed the camera outside for one hour.

Self high five because this shit worked finally.

I also took the opportunity while this photo was brewing to construct two more cameras for tomorrows pre-Melvins photo experiment time.

The larger one on the left is from coffee can and the one on the right is an Altoid tin. I plan to use the tin as a portable means of capturing one specific moment. Maybe if I am close to the stage tomorrow night, We'll see what happens.

Artist formerly known as Plusiotis

Special delivery in the mail today.
The PLUSIOTIS/CHRYSINA BEYERI

Papilio protenor euprotenor

It was pointed out that I receive a lot of odd things in the mail. I dabble in a lot of stuff. Thus resulting in some interesting packages awaiting me after work. This week alone I got a Crystal Gayle t-shirt, cookie cutters shaped like a rocket and panties, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, and this....
From China,

All snuggled up tight,

The Papilio protenor euprotenor.

If you would like to reconstitute your butterflies you snip the corners off of the velum. Place them in a airtight container with a moist paper towel. Let them be there for a day or so. This will make them pliable enough to work with for any of your random bug projects.
Beetles are on the way.
Rope is one of my favorite movies ever. Its almost one entire shot through the entire film. I have found two.

Now, its time to go check the pinhole test run #2.
Fingers crossed.

Titter

This weekend was all a titter of busy work while I battled a haunting headache. I am working simultaneously on two projects. Both with detailed posts to come. One is a dress for a friend. Ive never really made a dress before. Theoretically, it should be much easier than corests. I will not be doing this again soon. She is worth it but, I'm too much of a perfectionist.

To ease the pain of silky fabrics AND since the burglers took away my future camera, i'm going old school with the homemade pin hole camera. This is crazy fun witchcraft. I am so far enjoying it tremendously.
I learned that I am more adept at working in complete darkness than one would have thought.
Test run #1 tonight was not exposed enough.
We shall see what tomorrows attempts bring.

For now, and ode to the busy work of this weekend.

I couldn't believe it myself. A "Get R Done" airbrush cowboy truck tailgate montage.
Even worse that this was on Hawethorne.
I guess if your going to be an asshole, you might as well do it right.

Things we learned this weekend:
Touching developer is irritating.
Blueberry PopTarts are superior above all other flavors.
Watch parts are more expensive that I had thought.
How to iron something properly,
and that Native American-ly speaking, the dragonfly totem symbolizes the fruition of works after a cycle of two years in change.
(I found one perfectly dead next to my car)

Dear Asshole, Thanks for fucking me

My birthday week was pretty good. I went to dinner, had some quite time, and then had the greatest evening seeing Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr. play at the Ballroom.

The cherry on the top was A: having to get up from the warm snuggles after only sleeping for 3 hours and B: getting to my car to find out that burglers totally fucked me.

Behold the glory of thievery. They made off with my 1300$ Dell laptop (damn close to new), my web cam, my ipod, my contact lenses, my grass, my checkbook, my entire bag with my medication (including birth control you evil mother fuckers), and worst of all my camera. For being a chic, Im not overly possessed by my posessions however; they happen to take the things that link me to more creative things. Taking my camera is really the equivilent of stealing my child. P.S. breaking the window into thousands of peices is total crap.

All my photos are gone forever. No pictures of Italy, none of my artwork, no movies that were in progress for ya'lls entertainment.

Alors~ Damage contol is well underway. Checking account cancelled, med's being refilled, computers being shopped around for, window is being fixed on Monday.

All will come full circle in the end.

So this years birthday lesson is:
A: dont hide your laptop so well in your car even you forget that it is there.

B: backup all your electronic creative projects.

C: people are evil.

Ca Plane Pour Moi

This weekend kicked off the Horror Movie Halloween Countdown Spectacular.
My roomies and I enjoy nothing more than craptastic blood filled flics. We logged so many over the years that its hard to keep track. My horror movie collection is approximately 1/4 of my entire DVD library. I love them with a passion.
This weekend I saw the new Halloween Rob Zombie Remix. It was pretty good actually. Not so "Rob Zombie" as his other films however, this new Jamie Lee Curtis impersonator is not nearly as cunning and lacks the sense of control portrayed by the original Laurie. There were also a few small changes. Nothing that spurs a freakout.
After the new Halloween we immediately watched the original Halloween. You, I, and everyone else- All love P.J. Soles.

Its the house favorite and a classic that launches us every season. This year I will keep a list- Just for S's & G's.
Horror Log #666:
Halloween 2007
Halloween - original
Dolls
Sweeney Todd- The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Eerie Midnight Horror Show
It's pretty much porn. I did not know that. The Universe is good to me.
Currently viewing Phantasm.
Not a bad starting line up this season.
What to be for Halloween this year though?
Hummmm....I'll have to sleep on that.
Here, You sleep on this...

Kyra likes the outdoors.

This weekend I work possibly harder than I did if I would have been at work. Period.
I'm in the process of making a dress for a friend. I was hell bent on getting this done this weekend so I could move on to other brewing projects. Instead, my utter lack of desire to be working on this right now caused a rift in time. Every moment never ending. This is where I cue the list of things that will be accomplished this week.

Dress will be completed.
Pocket watch will be returned to an ex-boyfriend in Texas from 10 years ago via the mail box.
Send Liza pictures.
Start up the horror movie festivities (its a mere 52 days until Halloween).
Order bugs for an art project.
Turn another year older.
Finish my little show about my trip to San Francisco.

I rustle up some other fun things probably.
But, for now....Something slightly fucked up.

Please click my face to purchase.

There we go.

Now im purged proper.

Not quite yet...

Almost there...

Making In

Out and about tonight after a frustrating work filled weekend.
Clearly i must purge it out with the mad tone.

Decisions...

Blank Stare

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I have nothing positive to report. Ok, thats not true. Lots of things are going super rad. I got a little job as a french tutor, been hired to do costuming for a play, went to San Fransico to visit some friends, and had some enlightening conversations with my friend Cortney. Even with those good things (and maybe they were in part a catalist), I feel a combination of wanting to round house kick people in the face AND/OR curling up in a ball and crying until the year 2033. The two extremes have balance out to some unfamiliar apathy for me. I too am starting not to care so much.

I spent all last night staring out the window blankly. That about sums it all up.

Ill post more about my fun times in SF when im feeling a bit more....a bit more....
a bit more something.