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ions or if you are willing to bring them to an event we re both attending that would be amazing if you are farther away i ll pay your postage thank you in advance for your help please forward this widely the more is definitely the merrier tags accessories art clothes community creativity diy photography pinup retro vintage posted in strategy 2 comments shameless december 1 2009 my new flyer for shameless photography my pinup makeover and portraiture business tags art femme glamour photography pinup work posted in strategy leave a comment 10 ways you found me november 25 2009 a sampling of recent search terms some more curious than others 1 i love my mother 2 skittles bra 3 glittery eyes 4 high maintenance synonym 5 come out come out wherever 6 forced femme 7 assumptions high femmes 8 love my body 9 sugar high glitter city 10 how would plato and socrates answer tags identity posted in identity 2 comments taking the leap november 25 2009 we work to become not to acquire elbert hubbard work and love are the cornerstones of our humanness sigmund freud it is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction pablo picasso when i graduated from college five years ago i wanted a good job i was passionate ambitious and idealistic and i was dedicated to making a difference but how do people actually produce real and lasting change in the world when i accepted my first non profit job i was thrilled i joined a young policy institute with a talented devoted and collaborative staff the organization s leadership was fantastic its projects were important and i was given many opportunities to learn and grow i was promoted from intern to director in three years and was handed increasingly challenging and significant projects so why wasn t i happy before i d worked mind numbing corporate or factory jobs so discontent made sense how could i be chafing against working for good scary question was i just lazy did i lack integrity was i destined to disappoint and flounder to never really contribute the answer i finally arrived at required a leap of faith i needed to trust myself enough to believe that i wasn t the problem i simply hadn t yet found the right work for me when i finally gave notice my co workers were bewildered when people left my organization they usually went on to grander things law school public office leadership positions with other organizations but i was plan less without plan the day after i left work for good i packed my bags and hit the road traveling from brooklyn to asheville to austin to san francisco and back again worrying about exhausting my savings but knowing i needed to move i could live anywhere i thought i could be anyone choice is a powerful thing and my natural frugality was further terrorized when i made the decision to buy a camera not some chintzy point and shoot job mind you a real camera a nikon gleaming and black and fragile and powerful i fell passionately in love my way of seeing began to change almost immediately i would think that s a good shot at least three times a day then ten then thirty it was as if a frame had appeared in my view everywhere i looked i could move the frame up or down from side to side and see things differently i returned to brooklyn with a plan shameless photography this is my mission statement in a culture where we re constantly bombarded by images messages and standards designed to make us feel inadequate and insecure about our faces and our bodies i aim to create a space where women can feel safe beautiful and empowered using makeup lighting and photography i create images that are part fantasy part reality and entirely gorgeous to become a fantasy and to know that you can do so whenever you want is a powerful thing no billboard model no advertising agency can own the realm of fantasy we all do in some small way i hope that my photos can help women feel more empowered and more embodied and to see our f emininity as a space of p lay pleasure and possibility rather than one of sham e it s only been a couple of months since i set up shop and i m still working to spread the word and get my fledgling business off the ground but i can honestly say that i m happier than i ve been in years i think about my work all the time with passion and excitement and drive i ve never felt this way before never has work been such an effortless animal pleasure i find myself staying up till 4 a m with only photoshop to keep me company and loving it money will be tight but i m doing something i believe in something that challenges me feeds me frees me if the supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play i think i m beginning to do just that tags glamour photography pinup quitting starting fresh work posted in strategy 2 comments branding self identity june 11 2009 everything looks different if it s pictured in print on tv or within the frame of a computer screen when i was kid my parents garden was selected to be featured in sunset magazine i had grown up in that garden climbing the plum tree to reach the ripest fruit at the top lying on my back in the moss to find shapes in the passing clouds sprinting down the back steps to fetch my parents bell peppers or spinach or basil for dinner i was familiar with the beauty of the garden but also with the dirt and mud the snails and pill bugs lurking everywhere and the reeking compost heap in the back shed and so when a shiny copy of sunset arrived in the mail and my parents showed me the images of our garden i barely recognized it the lotuses wide open the california poppies without even a hint of wilt every color looked more vibrant than it did in real life the pictures were either very close up or taken at angles that allowed our tiny city garden to seem to extend long into the distance it was our garden but bigger brighter and someone s version of better when it comes to human beings i would argue that media has an even more marked effect flattering lighting photography and airbrushing has been brought to the level of an art these phantasmic images can be used to create allure and social power as my month long advertising purge came to a close i began thinking about how individuals market themselves through facebook myspace and other social networking sites we become our own products nothing is a simple representation of fact we decide what images and information will represent us to the world check out this article on building a personal brand and this posting on facebook fueled self obsession the process is even more evident when it comes to blogs and personal websites authenticity come out come out wherever you are the modern world misses you tags authenticity branding gardens identity personhood self obsession posted in clarification 6 comments protein pastries and plato april 28 2009 under the terms of my month long advertising purge i can no longer drink milk or eat peanuts i have also been forced to break my longstanding subway sandwich habit cold turkey ba dum ching at this point i m tempted to shield my eyes every time i pass a billboard just to preserve a few pleasures over the weekend i was walking in my brooklyn neighborhood with my love when i saw a hand painted sign announcing that there would soon be a flea market ooo let s go said my part fashion queen part shopaholic all butch companion i can t go now that i ve seen that i wailed pointing to the sign but that s not advertising she objected and after a few moments of further deliberation i was sure she was right whew now i can continue my hunt for the perfect sailor dress under 10 what i wasn t sure about was precisely why this wasn t advertising today i referred to the trusty oxford english dictionary where advertise is defined as to give public notice of to make publicly known or call attention to by a published announcement in a journal by a circular etc as to advertise the resolutions of a meeting and with various elliptical constructions as to advertise goods for sale a child or ring as lost etc highly unsatisfying advertising is much more than a public announcement and journals and circulars aren t the half of it and the phrase various elliptical constructions while humorous does little to convey the power of slogans not to mention images music etc routinely used to sell products i found this somewhat more thorough definition in the answers com marketing dictionary to appeal to a mass audience through the communications media for the purpose of calling attention to a product service idea or organization so as to arouse a desire to purchase or patronize to give information or to modify the thinking about to promote the concept of to motivate behavior toward or otherwise to persuade the general public to buy approve or support the product service idea or organization yes advertising seeks to modify our thinking and our behavior it is not an educational announcement like the flea market sign because it s aim is not merely to inform it s aim is to persuade to create a new understanding a new reality one in which the product is irresistible to get a little philosophical on your proverbial asses advertising is rhetoric did anyone else love plato s gorgias as much as i did in these dialogues plato explores the difference between philosophers who seek truth and rhetoricians who seek to persuade irrespective of truth plato likens rhetoricians to pastry bakers both produce something that is compelling to the senses but which has no real substance or value no truth plato or socrates the real life character in whose voice plato writes felt that rhetoric was a destructive force one which was chipping away at the foundations of democracy in athens and he committed himself to maintaining purity of mind and soul it was socrates s insistence on truth that led to his eventual execution you read it here first folks no pastries death on that note i m off to lunch to find food i can still eat from a restaurant or grocery i can still eat from wish me luck tags food gorgias milk oxford english dictionary pastry bakers peanuts persuasion plato subway posted in clarification 5 comments how my mother made me love my body april 23 2009 my mother s mother was anorexic as my mom grew her body became a site for my grandma s own disgust and self hatred my mom could never eat little enough or wear girdles tight enough to please her my grandma s stinging criticisms and insults diminished my mom s ability to enjoy food made her worry more enjoy her body less my mom pledged to break the cycle with her own daughter though she dieted constantly and continued to revile her own body my mother told me i was beautiful throughout my childhood and not just that i was bea utiful now at a certain moment at a particular size and shape but that i had always been and would always be beautiful i didn t believe it of course our culture scrutinizes women s bodies and i scrutinized my own i hated my thighs i hated the shape of my hips i hated my small breasts i became transfixed by the images of women i found in magazines i wanted to unlock the secrets of their beauty at one point i literally measured the dimensions of these models both their bodies and their faces after careful calculation i concluded i wasn t beautiful no matter what my mother told me over the years i have slowly slowly become comfortable with myself being femme and performing femininity has allowed me to see my body a site of creativity and social commentary sex has played a complicated but ultimately essential role in establishing my body as my home and my sense of my own worth and my own beauty has increasingly come to rest on my internal values rather than on external sources of validation ultimately this is what my mother taught me bodies are beautiful because they are human because everyone scars differently because there are twenty six bones in a foot because you sing using muscle because of the mystery of an itch and the relief of scratching it because round and flat and light and dark and large and small can all be gorgeous because they re even more gorgeous if you use your hands because contractions are shapeshifters that bring pain laughter and ecstasy because we live here because we love here thank you mom for this gift you have given me i take care of my body tend to it as carefully as you do your garden i give it air good food water touch light you once carried my body in your own body gave me life it is with joy that i am in your debt tags anorexia beauty body image childhood family feminism food mother posted in identity 4 comments on skittles and consumer consciousness april 20 2009 it was the day after tax day and i was in need of a good sugar high i was just about to tear into a package of the new crazy core skittles when i remembered taste the rainbow my experiment this month to not purchase anything i ve ever seen advertised is proving to be rather galling a large proportion of the products i routinely buy everything from toothpaste to facial cleanser to toilet paper i have seen advertised seriously try to find a single brand of deodorant you haven t seen promoted pushed and propagandized in resisting the siren song of victoria s secret sales 30 off any item why now i debated whether my experiment covered only the specific items i d seen advertised i e the perfect one bra or the entire brand ultimately though i knew that every advertisement creates an image of both the particular product and the company as a whole so i decided that if want to do this thing right i will to have to avoid the whole shebang or shebrand sadly this eliminates many of my clothing shopping options perhaps i should look into some creative alternatives such as the one shown here tags consumerism skittles victoria s secret posted in strategy leave a comment an experiment april 15 2009 dentyne doing its part to fuck with the minds of millennials i was sitting on the subway this morning once again trying to ignore the advertisements for beer you ll be sexy if you drink this candy you ll have more fun if you eat this and gum you ll be less lonely if you chew this when i decided my project for the month i will attempt to not purchase anything i have ever seen advertised one tricky part will be trying to remember what i ve seen advertisements for and what i haven t after all advertising is everywhere ads on television ads on the radio ads flooding your mailbox ads in magazines and journals and newspapers ads on billboards above roads and factories and empty fields ads painted onto the sides of skyscrapers ads dancing and blinking and popping up and invading every corner of the internet but even if i don t succeed at the task i think the process will help me gain awareness of what i purchase and what goes into each decision i don t really believe that pure freedom exists in consumer societies but i do think that we can create room for awareness and defiance that is the goal of my little experiment tags beer candy consumerism gum posted in strateg...