Great work, Angie. The Haunted House exhibit was the perfect place for it to be displayed. Thanks for submitting it.
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She wants to know if anyone has bought anything from heavy red and whats the quality of their stuff?
I told her you do get what you pay for in most cases with corsets.
any testimonials or warnings?
any help would be appreciated.
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matociquala's was lovely. I have pictures of the overloaded oven and of the deep-dish apple pie that did NOT fall apart as we were afraid it might. I contend that it didn't fall apart because I had my phone camera out hoping to document the collapse. :-) The Traditional Holiday Brandy Alexanders were much appreciated, and the Giant Ridiculous Dog was very well-behaved.Failed slightly at Buy Nothing Day, although I only bought groceries.
eternaleponine had Borders Bucks that were going to expire, so we've got a copy of Sweeney Todd now. It was as visually pleasing as I remembered, but when a teenage fashion model has the best voice in the production? Yeah. I need to rip the Broadway OCR from vinyl.Tomorrow, helping
shadowflyer move. Anyone who's available and willing would be useful, as his chronic knee injury is flaring badly. Yeah, great timing.If anyone is having better luck in the Dragon Cave catching the new ones than I am, let me know? I got two thunder eggs, but so far no luck with the ice or the magma. I've had good luck breeding all the stripe colors, if you want to trade.
Here's some more stuff from the smaller store. Follow the trashy looking DivaStar.
( Such a tiny little shop... )
Hopefully I've vaguely amused you for five to ten minutes. <3
- Location:United States, New York, Staten Island
- Mood:
amused - Music:Carlin at Carnegie. I'm up to meatcake! ^__^
Yesterday I took one of my favorite pornographers (and Mrs. Pornographer) who were visiting the city to Toronto's huge artisan and crafts fair, where I made substantial headway on my holiday shopping with things I bought from the people who made them.
(And also had a weird exchange with a woman at a jam stand who was all about bonding with me about making my own chutney - until she found out I was a homo. I shrug my shoulders. Really, Jamstress?)
I spent the day doing outreach to some of the brilliant artists and authors I know about a project, which mostly meant sending emails full of well-deserved compliments to nice people. Not a hardship duty. Many of them have already written back, with great warmth.
And now I have a mug of ice cream and am in my sweats on the couch, reading (or I will be, momentarily). Dog at the end of the couch. Husband in the bath, laughing at whatever he's reading. Chickpeas soaking, ready to be tomorrow's project.
Though admittedly a bit strange, my life is very, very nice.
I just found out that a friend of mine decided to do an at home sex change despite being halfway through the "normal" process for such things. He carved his turkey and his cock with the same knife on Thanksgiving while his family was in the next room and is in the hospital getting some form of mangina installed as we speak. I'm going to go visit him/her tomorrow afternoon and think some kind of gift will ease the emotional trauma of me laughing at him and and asking if i can have his former footlong for my basement franken-fiance that i'm building.. But i digress
What do you bring to a man who just cut everything off?
I know it's named for someone at Tufts, but can't think of anything aside from that...
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You can call me… JB, which stands for “Jen” and “Ben” — and the gender limbo I live in. According to my wife, it also stands for “her sweet Jenny Bear.” ACK!!!
I identify as… a transgender butch, an FtNF (female to not female).
As far as third-person pronouns go, … about half of my friends use male pronouns for me. Most of my family uses female pronouns. Tongue-tied cashiers usually hit it about 50/50. I cringe when I hear anything feminine in relation to myself.
I’m attracted to… my decidedly NOT butch wife, who nevertheless has an inner butch screaming to get out. That said, transguys and butches make us both hot.
When people talk about me, I want them to… give me a little shit about who I think I am — so I can tell them.
I want people to understand… that not everyone with gender dysphoria has to transition 100 percent. I’ve been able to stop short of using T and surgery (for now at least) to quell my dysphoria because my family, friends and colleagues actually SEE me for who I am, and treat me the way I want to be treated — which is NOT like a woman.
About JB
JB is a 46-year-old journalist/writer/editor living in a 73-year-old house in the DC metro area with his wife, two teen daughters, two big dogs and five cats. Over the past decade, he’s covered youth issues for a national publication, and taught journalists how to cover socio-political issues affecting children, youth and families — particularly the disadvantaged.
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This corset was showcased in the undercover exhibition at the fashion textile museum, made to perfection by the talented Miss Katie, an honour for me to model and photograph this beautiful piece :) I hope you like it, I think its rather special!
for more of Miss Katie's work, visit her website:http://www.misskatie.com
photography, styling and modeling by me :)
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it's me again with a question about plus-sized, big busted corsets. The memories and looking at hundreds of back posts didn't bring anything up, so I'm asking here. (If there's something already written about it, please link me back.)
I draped and drafted the front part of the corset for my friend and I had to set the bustline higher over the bust. It's now about 2cm higher than at the center front and side seam.
As I'm not sure about this, I wanted to know if this happens in big patterns or if this shouldn't be.
I'm afraid that with a higher bustline the push to the bust will be too big and the cleavage will look weird. (My friend doesn't want much push, just a good support for her big F/small G Cup.)
When I thought about just setting it down at its normal height and tried to give the cups a shape with the required length measurement, it doesn't fit into the width measurements without looking very creepy.
( Some pics under the cut for better insight )
Any advice regarding the pattern is very welcome. Thanks
Greets from Germany
Cao
- Location:Germany
- Mood:
geeky
It’s been quite a hiatus for the FAM. Why that was, no one knows. Perhaps the FAM was in hiding, on the lam after a particularly large methamphetamine deal went decidedly South; or maybe the FAM has been kept in a dank, dingy basement for the past two or three weeks, the unwilling plaything of a cruel and demented mistress. Like I said, we’ll never know. But the FAM is back, albeit with a gaunt visage and a faraway look in its eyes. Poor, poor FAM.
To ring in its return we present to you, our adoring, viewing audience Rowdy Roddy Piper’s breakout film, They Live; directed by the one and only John Carpenter. Now, I realize that there has been a particularly heavy dose of Carpenter on the FAM as of late and, rest assured, this will be the end. For a while. Hopefully. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. They Live is the story of a young man named George Nada who comes into the possession of a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the truth lying under the surface of our perceived reality. That truth being that the world is controlled by skull-faced aliens who jerk us about like puppets through the use of hidden, subliminal messages. This lifting of the veil terrifies Mr. Nada and he is encouraged to save the human race by masticating chewing gum and “kicking ass”. He is partnered with Kieth David — who previously appeared in Mr. Carpenter’s The Thing — who plays the part of Frank Armitage. Frank Armitage is also the pseudonym that Carpenter used when he wrote the script and is also the name of a character in The Dunwich Horror by one Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The story of They Live a has equally pulpy roots, the plot being taken from both “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson, originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and a story called “Nada” from a comic entitled Alien Encounters by both FantCo and Eclipse.
It is no surprise then that They Live turned out the way it did. This is a classic sort of quick and dirty sci-fi, with brash, one-liner-spewing heroes and a central premise masquerading as social commentary. But you know what? As cheesy as They Live can be — um, Rowdy Roddy Piper stars in this — it is still fantastic, a delectable morsel of Carpenter’s truly over-the-top films that are both unabashedly silly and truly enjoyable. It is mindless, yet guilt-free entertainment and sometimes, that’s all one need.
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I sound like a glutton listing off everything we stuffed in our mouths. The company was jovial and joyful, and
beowabbit and I deeply grateful to our guests for making it such a success. Neither Wabbit nor I know how to carve a poultry in neat slices the way you always see in food photography. We just sort of hack at it, and the chunks of meat still taste as good, but it's kind of a Cro-Magnon style of service. We'll have to work in the coming year to learn to carve civilized-like.
There's so much I'm also grateful for, but they deserve their own post, and Piggy-Girl has leftovers on her mind. (You can probably tell I'm hungry. :-)) I'm enjoying reading about everyone else's holiday, too!
We searched for the footprints of Bobby Beausoleil
And there in the desert past the LA county line
Bobby buried the canister in the middle of the night
- "Scorpio Rising," John Vanderslice
So lately I've been listening to the John Darnielle/John Vanderslice EP Moon Colony Bloodbath on repeat. It's the old tale of boy goes to Moon to guard secret clone organ banks, boy comes back to Earth and is sequestered in a luxury chalet in Colorado until he returns to the Moon, boy goes crazy on the moon and starts eating the clones. You know, you've heard it a million times before.
But this post is not about the album's high concept. It's about a verse, reproduced above, that got me thinking about one of my own high-concept and now indefinitely defunct games: my contribution to the "Nexus Hat Trick," three intertwined World of Darkness games that
rayan4d2 (Werewolf), ioianthe (Vampire) and me (Mage) were running, set in the present day. None of us ever got to finish our parts of the Nexus Hat Trick, but if I had, it would go something like this:( Spoiler space for those of you who don't want to know how Mises et Metteurs would have ended )
Obviously, one of the big inspirations for this game was Flicker, which contains a very thinly veiled stand-in for Kenneth Anger, and I think at some early point in the prep work for the game I noted the proximity of Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, and Charles Manson in L.A. in the 60s and took note of it for The Devil session.
Anyway, to see more of my game planning notes, this entry has the early workshopping. Also spoiler-heavy:
http://mgrasso.livejournal.com/1299
- Mood:creative
- Music:"Scorpio Rising," The Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice
In other news, .... haven't made jewelry today. Also haven't eaten. I'll wait another few hours before either of those might happen. Might be time for water. Is that other news, or just the same news? Eh.
- Mood:
slowly getting better
Join the Boston Sunday Night Film Club this Sunday, Nov 29th at 7:00pm for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans at the Coolidge Corner Theatre . Look for Sean wearing a nametag in the theatre lobby about 15 minutes before the film. As always, after the film we will descend on a local establishment for dinner/drinks/discussion.
( Film Synopsis )Happy Thanksgiving, folks:)
People keep asking me what my Black Friday sale is. How about $25 Red Robot plush toys by Squishable until Monday?!
Boys wear makeup, originally uploaded by Djowanovska.
I am currently working on a big project that will try out various drafting methods used to create custom made slopers. We will do the bodice/torso only. It's a project that will run for the whole next year on www.fashionstudentsonline.com
My question is, which methods would you like to be reviewed and in which order? We expect we will do one method per month. Perhaps two.
We will have about 5-8 people of various figures trying out a muslin of each method. Every review will contain pictures of the figure, muslin, and a rating of the method. It will be rather detailed, a huge research that nobody else has done before. After the research is done, I'll be working on a comparison of all the methods, trying to explain WHY several things didn't fit and giving my general opinion on all the methods.
The methods we are thinking that come in question are (origin of the method in brackets):
- Winifried Aldrich (UK)
- H.J.Armstrong (USA)
- L'école Guerre-Lavigne (F)
- M.Müller & Sohn (D)
- Pattern magic (JP)
- J. Handford (USA)
- European cut (UK,F,D)
- Don McCunn (USA)
- Leena's (FIN)
- Natalie Bray (F)
There are similar methods to these, so we didn't list all of them to avoid duplications, but don't hesitate to suggest any other drafting method (maybe we don't know it!). Our maximum is 20 methods.
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- Location:Czech Republic, Prague
Oh, I forgot to mention: in the service yesterday, everyone got a chance to say what they're thankful for. Of course most people muttered some version of the same old same old, friends and family and so forth, but I liked mine. "I'm thankful for art". And I am. I'm immensely glad I live in a society that is happy to spend a moment gazing at pretty things, and occasionally pat the head of the creatures who make them.
On that note, I leave you with a piece by Henri Rousseau, "Woman Walking in Exotic Forest".
Oh, and dessert was delicious as well: chai spiced pumpkin pie (and tofu pumpkin pie for those who weren't inclined towards chai) and an amazing Bailey's chocolate pie with Oreo crust. Oh my holy lord, it was rich and was only improved by judicious use of whipped cream.
The part that might be odd, is that I was ready and willing to eat again about 6-7 hours later! I know some people vow to never eat again, but after only 1.5 the normal amount of time my body needs to feel empty again, I was empty again. Now, it's almost noon, I've had about half a banana, and I'm really hungry!
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I was devastated to learn that today I would have to wear a bra for the first time in months. My also genderqueer roommate told me that it’s easier to wear them if you think of them as gun holsters for your boobs. She was right.
What’s your experience?
#27: 259. Sand Painting Skull
This was one of the more satisfying pieces to make, though I really don't think the photo really captures the impact of the loose grains of sand that made up the image. The original post includes a side view so you can get a sense of scale. It sat on my work table for a while, but I finally needed to clear the space to work on other skulls, so since there was no way to preserve the image I decided to film its destruction (using the oscillating fan on my desk). I held on to the film for a while, not sure what to do with it and then I heard that Nine Inch Nails was having a video contest for the all instrumental album Ghosts I-IV, so I figured I'd use it for that. I decided to run the film backwards and speed it up to match the eeriness of the song. Here's the end result...---
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First up is Stephen from KY/NC, who said: “So excited I found your site last night! I've been quite a skull lover since I was just a kid. I did this today while I was bored at work, i used permanent marker and white out, then photoshopped the image when I got home. ”
Next up is Tyler M. Whaley who made this skull image using hexagons.
and last up is a old friend of Skull-A-Day Joseph, AKA Jozip, from Sedona, Arizona met the Skullmaster's logo challenge with this piece.
Monochrome C says:
Thank you all for submitting your work for us to feature. I think what I like most about all these pieces is the use of a single color pallet, its simple, classic, but powerful. Keep up the great work.
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My wife Nikki came up with this slogan.
Happy Thanksgiving, Americans! Do all your holiday shopping online this year.
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Can one of you guys please get me this Yulia Tymoshenko doll for my birthday? A $53K porcelain representation of Lady Yu as Robin Hood, complete with a bow and arrow and leather boots fitted with spurs, isn’t too much to ask for this year, is it? Anyone? …guys? Okay, fine. I’ll settle for the homemade Barbie version. (Unless Marina Bychkova decides to take a stab at it.)
The dolly above, along with other figures of prominent Ukrainian politicians, was crafted by artist Yelena Kuznetsova for yesterday’s Ukrainian Doll Parade, an auction aimed towards raising money for the construction of an orphans’ rehabilitation center. Tymoshenko’s doll was by far the most popular; it was auctioned off for ten times the estimated price, according to news source RT.
Top row: L: Yulia shows the babybats how it’s done. R: Yulia and the Prince of Darkness. Bottom row: L: Yulia and her pet tigress, Tigrulya. R: Yulia knows how to accessorize.
The Coilhouse obsession with Tymoshenko (and, more recently, her tribe of Amazonian defenders) dates back to 2007. Since then, she’s been busy – negotiating oil disputes with Russia, campaigning for health reform, and galvanizing global support for leg-o-mutton sleeves and black lace. After falling out with President Yushchenko earlier this year, Tymoshenko announced her bid to run in the January 2010 Presidential Elections. While I’m neutral on Tymoshenko as a politician, I’m a staunch supporter of her hair and its commitment to solving the gas crisis.
Today is Tymoshenko’s birthday, so here’s wishing our Ukranian Dune Priestess the very best on her special day. Your update on Yulia’s gothic agenda, after the jump.
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