Just got back from a badly thought out trip into central London. Knightsbridge and Oxford Circus area on a weekend leading up to Christmas is just about the least fun thing to do to get out out of the house. Came back feeling wound up and crowd-hating.

Just having a quick rest before heading out to Mass to rehearse for the Lady Lucie fashion show at Torture Garden tonight. It'll be the first time I've done a show for Lady Lucie, am rather looking forward to it! :)

Not much else to report really, but at least I'm getting back into the habit of updating teh blog regularly after a bit of neglect!

I've been in quite a few magazines and stuff in the past couple of weeks, just got round to scanning them for those who are interested! I think my favourite is this double page spread in Nude & Glamour photography magazine, with one of my favourite images by Trevor Yerbury.



I also have another double page with aother of Trevor's images and 2 other full pages by Faye Yerbury. Not bad!

( scans under the cut! )

I also have a double page image in the Bizarre Girls 2 book for a feature on Marla Rutherfords photography. Unfortunately don't have my own section/interview this time round as I missed the deadline, but maybe next time!



And also a small pic in the latest issue of Bizarre Magazine promoting Lady Lucie and a full page in the spanish El Duende Magazine promoting Maya Hansen corsets. Cool stuff :)

( more scans! )

I took way more photos than I realised in Rome, finally finished going through them all and resizing my favs for internet consumption. Alas by the time we got to Venice my battery ran out pretty quick so the number of photos is somewhat miniscule in comparison.

Flew to Rome on November 17th. This was the first country on the European tour-athon that I had never set foot in before (unless a childhood day trip to Sicily from Malta counts as Italy. I says not) so it was especially exciting. Not to mention the fact that this was Rome, The Eternal City, center of the Roman Empire, home of various Renaiisance masterpieces and in the top 3 of my places-I-have-to-visit this lifetime list.

The first thing I noticed about Rome, after how much coffee costs near St Peter's square, was the almost comical abundance of ancient ruins. Seriously, in addition to the actual ancient roman area they have piles of columns and bits of buildings in neatly stacked piles around every other corner. I saw bits of ruined columns being used as benches, tables and baths by the more discerning pigeon.

The next thing I noticed was how insanely cheap (and good) pizza and icecream is. An average of 5 euros for an entire pizza! Even in the more touristy areas. In fact it was so much cheaper than everything else on the menu that I ended up eating an entire pizza to myself everyday for 6 days in a row. Along with icecream and the odd burger. Yep I'm pretty sure I gained some extra pounds, But it was sooo good!

It was pretty much a perfect trip, with glorious weather and productive days packed full of walking, climbing to the top of St Peter's Basilica, visiting The Roman Forum, The Colosseum, Castel Sant Angelo, The Appian Way and generally exploring and eating way too much! Oh, actually.. perfect except for the Sistine Chapel being inexplicably closed as we attempted to visit it on the penultimate day of the trip (the last day of the trip being a sunday, when it is always closed).


Castel Sant Angelo, walked past it every day

( lots more pics under here, with captions and everything )

After 6 days in Rome we got an overnight train to Venice. After finding 2 literally gross and large obnoxious men in our reserved seats we promptly upgraded to a sleeper carriage. Best 30 euros I have ever spent. And much to my wicked delight we had the 4 person bunk-bed carriage to ourselves for the entire journey. Arrived in Venice at something like 5am. Despite the early morning gloom and heavy rain I still squealed quietly in delight upon stepping out of the train station and finding that Venice really is exactly as people told me - like a odd pretty film set, literally nothing but slightly crumbling looking beautiful buildings and bridges, no roads in sight (and hence, of course, no cars - which was a dream after the mania that is traffic in Rome. Guidebook's advice on crossing roads on Rome - walk at a steady pace into the oncoming traffic and they will probably stop).

We only had 2 days in Venice, and it was grey and rainy the entire time but it was glorious anyway. If I weren't a hard hearted cynic I may even have used the word 'romantic' (bah humbug! :p). Venice somehow suited the overcast skies and damp cobbles on every winding street, made me think of Labyrinth. Got lost constantly! But I think that was probably the best way to appreciate the place.


Pretty pretty. everywhere was so pretty.

( and a few more pics of Venice! rather less abundant than Rome after camera death )

And so ends the 2009 part of Euro-tour! Spending the rest of the month in London, resting and finally watching Battlestar Gallactica from start to finish. I'm only a small way into the first season and already a total addict!

Hmm. The trouble with not updating my journal as soon as I do things is that I forget all the details and things that I wanted to talk about. I know I had way more I wanted to say but I can't recall any of it right now ><. But anyhoo I was in Barcelona with Allan at the beginning of November, mostly for touristing purposes but also to shoot again with corset designer extraordinaire Bibian Blue. Alas the shoot had to be postponed as Bibian was ill but we still had an amazing time visiting La Sagrada Familia, Park Güell and other fantastic creations by architect Antoni Gaudí. I wasn't hugely familiar with his work previously but I became pretty much an instant fan. It was like a mixture of alice in wonderland, gingerbread houses and twisted botany, so unique.

I annoyed myself once again by not speaking any Spanish despite knowing enough for simple coversation, even something as simple as ordering coffee. I have this silly apprehension towards speaking foreign languages for fear of saying something wrong, even if I know what I'm saying is correct. Oh, speaking of the glorious nectar of the ground coffee bean, cappucino in Barcelona was so good, and an average of 1 euro a cup. I don't get how or why coffee in the UK is so much more expensive yet not as half as tasty.

We also went to visit Bibian's Barcelona store, where I absolutely was not expecting to see a giant poster of myself in the window! Naturally I had to take photos ;p



Bibian also gave me a copy of the Lacing Glamour book too which looks great.

Still going through my photos from Rome and Venice, will update probably tomorrow with 'tales from Miss Vex in Italy land' but here's a few of my holiday snaps from Barcelona if anyone wants to see! :)

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Finally back from my adventures around Europe and having a rest in London! I have so many pics from Barcelona, Rome and Italy but I'm still going through resizing everything so far now I thought I'd just share this new pic. It was mostly a test shoot but I think it's rather cool :)

The armour is by Maunel Albarran, whose workshop I was lucky enough to visit briefly while I was in Barcelona. Ended up carrying a whole box of his amazing stuff back in my hand luggage for shooting. Very surprised the airport security didn't ask to search my bag!

Photography by Allan Amato

This month has been an unexpected publication bonanza! As well as the beautiful Lacing Glamour book cover I'm also on the cover of issue 2 of the German Gothic Lifestyle Magazine with one of my favourite pictures of all time :)



Photo by Allan Amato
Hair by Robert Masciave
MUA: Bea Sweet
Clothing: Mother of London and Antiseptic Fashion.

I also have a big feature/interview inside but I've not seen a copy yet.

As well as that I also have a pic in the German Foto Magazine for a feature on Marla Rutherford, a full page in the new Bowens Litebook magazine, 2 full pages in the Spanish Sensuality Magazine for a feature on Maya Hansen corsets and I'm on a full page ad in this month's Scarlet Magazine for the new collection from Angels Carrying Savage Weapons. Phew!

( (big) scans under thee cut )

I think I forgot to post about the new Angelic Weapons collection actually.. it was shot several months ago around the streets of Nottingham but has only just become available. Many pretty clothes! And the shoes were so hot! Can't find any bigger pics than these at the minute though:

Following on from my previous update regarding the impending sleepover at Stansted airport... thanks to the decision to get a National Express coach to the airport instead of the fast train I managed to get absolutely no sleep at all before the 6am flight. Usually I manage about 3 hours - yes I'm actually tight enough to have done 6am Stansted flights more than once. Curse you Ryanair and your £5 flights - which seems to be just enough to keep me from going temporarily nuts. The effect on my brain from being unable to sleep was rather interesting - I actually became a little delerious, complete with minor hallucinations, inability to complete a sentence and finding stupid things really hilarious. Thankfully my partner in travelling crime was equally affected so I was not a lone moron on the plane. I managed to sleep for most of the flight and the coach from Lubeck airport into Hamburg though, which my brain was very thankful for. Upon arrival in Hamburg around 10am we were met by Voivodess. Unfortunately we were so tired we then spent the rest of our first day in Hamburg in a state of semi-conciousness on an inflatable matress with a fast puncture. It's a form of torture.

Anyhoo sleep found us eventually and day 2 in Hamburg was spent visiting some sights, including the St Nikolai church ruins. The weather wasn't great (read: bloody freezing, damp and grey) but it was still a pretty cool view from the top of the tower.

The next day we car-pooled to Berlin to meet up with baudot and for halloween the 4 of us went to Feenfest. We managed to get a wee bit pissed and I think I won 'stupidest drunk' prize of the evening by setting my hair on fire. There's really nothing like the smell and sound of hair burning next to your ear combined with the drunken delayed reactions of your companions telling you your head is a-flame. It was on my short hair side though so the damage wasn't too bad...

We also visited the Pergamon Museum again (was there very briefly in june). It's the first time I've done an audio guide, it made a huge difference and I saw many things I would usually have overlooked! I'm no good with words so I won't even try to describe how amazing this place is. So inspired to make more drawings :)

The trip back to Hamburg is worth a small mention by itself... Voivodess had befriended a couple who were also looking to travel from Berlin to Hamburg on the same day as us and as a party of 5 we could get a group ticket which would be 8 euros each between us instead of 70 euros each seperately. However this meant we weren't allowed to take the 1.5 hour fast train but instead had to make 3 changes on the daftest most indirect route around obscure parts of Germany, totalling 6 hours.

But the story doesn't end there! We finally got onto the last connection only to have it terminate in Lubeck instead of Hamburg. No explanation or annoucement from anyone, the staff at the train station were as confused as the many passengers who had been travelling to Hamburg, who all stood around the empty station looking confused, tired and cold. Some of the passengers had obviously been to some sort of Anime/Manga convention and were still dressed up in Cosplay gear, it was a sight! The situation wouldn't have been so bad had it not been after midnight at this point and the entire station was deserted and about to close. There was one last train to Hamburg at 00:40 to save us from another night of no-sleep. Felt sorry for people who had been catching other connections in Hamburg though ><.

So ends my very brief overview of adventures in german-land. And now, for some silly photos! I just dumped my camera memory card so these actually start off from latest travels in Northumberland and Scotland before getting to Hamburg and Berlin.

( under a cut, there's quite a few... )



(Thanks to baudot for the last few :)

Off to get a coach to Stansted airport in about an hour, coach gets in just after 1am, flight to Hamburg leaves at 6am. Not sure yet if I'm going to attempt to sleep or just drink a lot of caffiene. We're spending a couple of days in Hamburg and then going to Berlin for a halloween party, though I'm sorely lacking in a costume so far!

But I did just accidently dye my hair fluorescent orange about 20 minutes ago. Not my usual bright coppery orange, but full-on molten lava mixed with nuclear waste sort of orange. I'm not 100% sure if I like it or not yet. It certainly looks as if it will stain everything I come into contact with.

For now, I will leave LJ land with the first shots from the one shoot I did on my holiday in Paris. Another reason that Paris is fabulous - no-one tried to stop us or ask us to leave, despite the fact we had semi-transparent outfits on and full giant light. We did attract quite a crowd of followers too though, including paparazzi photographers! I think maybe they thought we were more important than we were! haha.

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Photography: Allan Amato
Clothing: HMS Latex
Hair: Camille Rapin
MUA: hurtmeso

Models: Myself and Marie Kalista

( here are some behind the scenes pics too! :) )

The guy in the last pic had nothing to do with the shoot whatsoever, he just decided to follow us around for about 20 minutes taking photos!

Got back to London yesterday from another portion on the European tour-athon. This time less glamourous but still an adventure of sorts, firstly to Glasgow for a couple of days and then Newcastle and surrounding areas of Northumberland. Newcastle to visit my parents for the first time in almost a year, with a day trip to Barter Books and the castle in Alnwick. The former is one of the largest second hand bookstores in the UK, housed in the old train station. I'm particularly fond of the toy train that runs around the top of some of the bookshelves and the open log fire to sit and read next to. Managed to limit my spending to an illustrated hardback of the Plague Dogs and a History of Erotic Literature. haha.

I think I forgot to mention in my last entry that I stumbled quite by accident upon Cecil Court in London not long before we left for Glasgow. It's a wonderful little street close to Charing Cross, where every single shop is a second hand/rare/antiquarian book store with a Victorian frontage, it's wonderful! They even have one that specialises in illustrated children's books, where I stood with a goffy excited grin on my face. I don't think many people know that I am rather into late 19th/early 20th century book illustration. Most of my favourite artists specialised in children's fairytale books.

But anyhoo, back to the trip! Got to Glasgow via a stopover in Edinburgh where I met uglydiamonds new puppy, which was perhaps the most adorable creature I've ever met. She clung to my face like an excitable little face-hugger and tried to eat my hair. The next day off to Glasgow to meet up with Grant and Kristan Morrison (Grant Morrison, who is such an eloquent speaker I was pretty much awestruck and quietly mourned my own complete lack of conversational skill ><). Extra thanks to Kristan for showing Allan and I around Glasgow (particularly the Museum of Transport! hehe).

And we're off to Hamburg tomorrow! So I'll be spending Halloween in Germany. Hopefully going to fit a day or 2 in Berlin in there too :)

I didn't get a chance to check my email much for most of the past 2 weeks, so it was rather a nice surprise to have this in my inbox! It's the cover of Bibian Blue's new book 'Lacing Glamour', published by Norma Editorial. It's being released this week at the 2009 Salon del Manga de Barcelona:



( the full wraparound cover and the 2 full size images under the cut... )

Photo: Phantom Orchid
Styling & clothing: Bibian Blue
Hair: Mizzie Logan and Angela Holthuis
MUA: Angela Holthuis

I had some idea that the second outfit we shot was going to be on a cover as it was vaguely mentioned after the shoot but I haven't been allowed to see the shot until now! (The first of the 2 outfits was the equally cool 'Black Lace' I wrote about HERE :)

Haven't had a chance to properly collect my thoughts and do a proper update on what I've been up to recently! Mostly as I've been away on actual proper holidays in France, I had such a good time! Have been basking in the glow of several 'to-do list' ambitions achieved, including visiting the Louvre (absolutely wonderful and I only saw about 1/5 of it!), Notre Dame cathedral and I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower. I wasn't quite prepared for the sheer scale of the last 2, pictures really don't convey the impact felt upon walking around a corner and being confronted by these epic structures.

We also made a day trip to the tiny medieval town of Provins, which was picteresque in a lovely fairytale romantic sort of way. Also being non-tourist season and during the week, the place was absolutely deserted. Made a nice change after several days of extreme busy activities in the heart of Paris.

After Provins, jumped on a bus to Monetereau to spend another glorious 2 days relaxing at Le Cabartbey. Fell asleep under a tree in the garden with the sun shining down. Bliss..

( and now for some selected holiday pictures!! )

Back to London for a couple of days, frantically trying to catch up on all my emails and other work related internet stuff! Not quite there yet but almost! Have a bunch of new pictures to put on my website as well as a couple of new tearsheets and stuff (I made a feed for when I add new stuff like that to my website if anyone is interested! ulorinvex_news :)

My favourites of my newest pics are these ones by photographer John Tisbury. They were shot about 1.5 months ago (ish). I don't really do a lot of 'bondage' themed stuff anymore but I really liked the idea of having a rope attached to the ceiling to use to pose with, it made possible quite a few poses that would have been impossible otherwise!

I wrote this entry on my laptop on October 8th sans interweb connection and didn't have time to post it before I left for Paris...

Just back from 2 days modelling for Yerbury seminars once again at Maunsel House. The first day was Boudoir and the second Fetish/Fashion with both myself and anitadebauch. Stayed at the local Premier Inn where I was mildly excited to discover that both Twitterfox and Skype bypass the pay-per-hour internet and work for free.

Euro-tour plans are now well under way! Off to Paris tomorrow morning for a week, with plans to visit the Louvre, Notre Dame and that tower they have there ;p Also shooting for HMS Latexs new 'Arabia' collection which should be cool. I saw a couple of the outfits at TG last weekend and they're so pretty (lots of handpainted panels). Then to Provins via croissants with jam and asking people if their cat speaks French (if not, why not?).

Apres le France, current travels are roughly like so (mostly for my own mental organisational purposes!)

October 28th - November 2nd: Hamburg, DE
November 8th-12th: Barcelona, ES
November 17th-24th: Rome, IT
November 24th-26th: Venice, IT
December 1st-3rd: La Rochelle, FR

Now to the titular subject... got my copy of Myrmidon from the parcel depot several days ago. I probably already mentioned in recent days past that myself and Taslimur are on the front cover of allan_amatos book of very very pretty photos. I'm also on few images inside, invading houses with a large sooty broom and other such things.


(More details HERE ;))

Just got back home from an afternoon spent at Portobello Road (street where the riches of ages are stowed), after breakfast at the S & M Cafe. They do great cups of makes-my-hands-shake-after-one-mug coffee. Which is how I rate coffee. I prefer tea for tastiness value. I love Portobello, it's a massive sensory overload of old stuff that I want for no reason other than it looks cool. Like brass bugles, binoculars and boxes of antique skeleton keys! When I ever have my own non-rented abode it will be filled with such things and I shall lounge on my leather couch wearing tweed and reading a musty old copy of Le Morte D'Arthur illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.

Now I am having a small rest before heading off to Mass to rehearse for the fashion show I'm modelling in tonight at Torture Garden. Still haven't figured out what I'm wearing before/after the show though ><.

Today's decorate-the-blog pictures courtesy of threnodynvelvet, shot for Lulu & Lush. These were shot literally the day after I got back from my last trip to LA at the beginning of September, I was so jetlagged I could barely keep my eyes open! But Morgana always manages to make me look nice! :)

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Ach! Once again travelling shennanigans have been making me put off the updating of livejournal, to the point where I have way too much to write in one entry! I just got back from a mini-break in Edinburgh, firstly modelling for a YERBURY seminar and then a couple of days a-touristing with venuswept. We spent much time repeating to each other how beautiful a city it is, touring the castle and being rained upon. uglydiamond was our most gracious host, though I still did not get a lap dance dagnammit :p She did take us on a tour of Mary Kings Close though, which was pretty cool.

The week before that I spent a day in Diss near Norwich modelling on location for Julia Holland and Simon Revill. It was in and around a fabulous (and huuge) old barn full of bits and pieces of old furniture, all covered in inches of dust and cobwebs. I have a few images to post soon!

For now though, I've been waiting to post these new pics for Lady Lucie Latex for a little while! Been holding off until Lucies new website went live (which it did at the beginning of the week and can be seen in all its glory aqui).

Photography by rootofsilence for Lady Lucie Latex
Hair by Ruby True
MUA: Myself using eyeshadows by MISS X Aesthetic Laboratories (colours: Amphibian, Erics Trip & Crime Pays with Tormentor gel eyeliner)

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I have been working in collaboration with Amelia Arsenic trying out her new makeup range of crazy bright colours, which I'm really excited about! This was the first proper shoot where I've used the makeup but I've still to do an actual dedicated shoot to showcase the makeup properly (sooooon!). I'll hopefully be doing some shoots focussed on the makeup this month and posting them along with some reviews of the different products! :)

All moved into my new abode! 'Twas an amazingly painless and uneventful move, apart from the bit where I dropped a futon on my head. That hurt quite a lot but was also amusing.

So I am now based south of the river in a lovely place that will be my base of operations for the next few months while I bounce backwards and forwards around Europe. I've been wanting to take some time out to visit places in Europe for such a long time, I'm really rather excited :) I'm off to Edinburgh next week to model for a Yerbury Classic Nude workshop (I believe there is 1 place left if anyone is interested ;) and then spending a couple of extra days in the city and staying with uglydiamond.

After than, a week in Paris with no work at all. Staying with hurtmeso for a few days and then a pretty villa about 40 minutes outside the city. Hoping to spend a day in Provins too (can't believe I'd never heard of this place until I was researching places near Paris. It's a World Heritage site, looks so gorgeous!). I'll try and take lots of photos :) After that I have Rome, Tuscany, Athens, Barcelona, Istanbul and various Eastern European places on my list but haven't booked any of those yet.

Got sent a few pics from the shoot I did for Heavy Red Clothing while I was in LA. I'm kinda fond of them as this is almost exactly how I looked/dressed when I was about 16 (except I had black hair back then!)



Photography & hair: Tyler Odine
MUA: Myself

Not been up to much else. Did one shoot last friday for both Drac In a Box clothing and for Lady Lucie all in one day. Special thanks to ruby_redxxx who did a great job with my hair and also helped modelling a few of the outfits as I ran out of time! Should have pics soon :)

Today I managed to not wake up until 2pm, after going to sleep at 5.30am. Oopsie daisie ><. I was woke up by the postman though, who was making another attempt to deliver two of my wayward parcels I mentioned yesterday (or actually this morning). So there's only one unaccounted for now. Hope it turns up before I move out on Saturday!

Off to stay over at goth_amaltheas shortly with skin_diamond for a girly night in, might have a day out at the Westfield shopping centre tomorrow if I get all my stuff packed in time. Then I'm shooting some new goodies for Lady Lucie and Drac In a Box on friday.

Got a few new pics too shot by Julian Kilsby at the Gallerino workshop I modelled for recently in Yorkshire. These are my favs but there's a few more on his blog here too :)

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The hair styling was by threnodynvelvet (I shot with her the day before and didn't have time to wash my hair before getting on the train to the workshop! It lasted rather well though!).

Returned to London from Norway this afternoon. Had an amazing time! Special thanks to Margretha Østerdal, who arranged the whole weekend and made sure we were well looked after!

Flew back via Liverpool airport. I don't know why it is that when I hear strong accents I very quickly pick them up and my own accent changes. Had to make a concious effort to stop speaking Scouse, which I could only do by slipping back into my own native Georgie with avengence. I'd love to know the workings of my brain that control this!

No doubt I will be back to my usual way of speaking by tomorrow (tomorrow which is today). Why it's 4am and I don't care, I'm not shooting for the next 2 days. Though I do need to pack my entire worldly posessions away as I'm moving house on the weekend to a most delightful new abode. I also need to run a bunch of errands due to online banking fail and housemate even more fail (apparently my housemates didn't know my name and have been telling the postman I don't live here! *tears out hair*). But I'm beginning to waffle...

What I actually wanted to post about was some cool new pics. I love it when I totally forget about a good shoot, resulting in pleasant surprise upon forgotten images' arrival in my inbox.

I don't know if anyone remembers I briefly mentioned shooting an editorial for Coilhouse Magazine during my last stay in LA? These were shot after the editorial, with a quick change of hair. Couldn't waste the awesome location that is The Edison! :)

For Clutch Ltd clothing, designer of leather jackets most fine.

Photography: Allan Amato
Hair: NoogieStyle
MUA: David at MakeupForever USA

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I also just got a copy of the new issue of Marquis Magazine where I have 5 full page images for Starkers Corsetry and Girl Armour which is kinda cool :)

( scans under here if anyone is interested! )

First things first. Heavy rain + open skylight above bed whilst out at a shoot = fail. I'd like to blame exhaustion and jetlag for my current swamp-like matress but actually I'm just not very bright.

Now I have that out of my system, hello world of livejournal. Absence of recent updates mostly due to my having spent 3 glorious weeks in LA watching films, consuming my body weight in chocolate Hagen Daaz icecream, becoming addicted to the WoW trading card game, enjoying art shows and parties and many more delightful things. Shot some cool new pics for Steampunk Couture and a fashion shoot for Coilhouse Magazine too.

To balance out the happy calm and relaxation, I flew back to the UK on September 5th and proceeded to shoot for the next 3 days, lagging behind the jet on 1 hour of sleep and many cups of coffee (I'm not even exaggerating). I think I managed to blag it ok. haha. First was a new lot of goodies for FairyGothMother/ Lulu & Lush with threnodynvelvet and then a trip to Yorkshire for a 2 day workshop. When I finally got back to Londinium I slept for 13 hours, but still seem to be on West Coast US time.

I would post some of the pics from all these shoots but I'm currently in Norway for 4 days (2 days modelling, 2 days travelling) and am borrowing the photographers laptop. It's really beautiful here, and despite wind and rain, not half as cold as I was expecting. There's so much space! The population of the whole of Norway is less than 5 million (for comparison - I'm pretty sure in London alone there are around 7.5 million people).

I flew from Liverpool airport to Oslo on friday and we drove a few hours to Farsund, where we're staying in a rather cool hotel called Lista Fly Park. It's a former airport and military base, I can see an empty aircraft hanger if I climb out of my window :) I'm here primarily to model for photographer Damian McGillicuddy, who is here to talk about his photography and demonstrate how he works. The actual event/convention type thing is tomorrow, with today being our day off to sight-see but we couldn't resist taking the opportunity to shoot in the morning :)

Freshly shot this morning, while back at the hotel my matress was filling up with rain water...

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Photography by Damian McGillicuddy

I'll probably be posting quite a lot more work with Damian soon-ish. We have shot a few rather exciting things that I'm not allowed to talk about quite yet!

Have been in LA since August 13th, mostly avoiding the interwebz and eating a lot of food. Good stuff! Highlights of said culinary activities so far including rattlesnake & rabbit hotdogs, marrowbones and the largest juiciest pork chop I ever did see. Yeah vegetarian I am not. Haven't really been doing much in the way of work, but had my first photoshoot in some weeks early this morning, for Steampunk Couture. 8am pick up for the drive to Vasquez Rock, which was awesome all by itself, kind of like a Martian surface in sandy shades instead of red. I took a couple of pics on my camera but haven't got the cabel to upload them till I'm back in the UK next month. Kato (the designer) did a very quick behind the scenes preview-type video though... :)



I'm shooting a fashion story for Coilhouse Magazine this coming week which is going to be fantastic, but won't say more until it's done and published!

Now for movie night and excessive amounts of icecream and grilled cheese...

Good morning Livejournal! I realised I've been getting up in a very timely fashion recently, even these couple of days where I haven't been working I've been awake and out of bed before 8am. I feel rather productive and have been getting quite a bit of drawing done too. Hurrah!

Another 2 days of modelling work this weekend, then I'm on holiday for the best part of a month *boogie*

I'm able to post the new pics for Fairygothmother/Lulu & Lush now they're up on the site. I really like them :) And quite pleased with my hair styling efforts for once!

Photography: rootofsilence
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( a few more... )

About facebook.. first of all THIS isn't me. I do have a facebook, but it's not under my modelling name and it's private. It's the only social networking profile that I have purely to keep in touch with my 'real life' friends and I cherish this. Apparently my not having an 'official' facebook page is "just helping the fakers" Well.. I have an 'official' myspace and there are still at least 12 fakers there. LOL. I dislike the phrase 'official', it makes me think of organisations and governing bodies, I'm just me.

Incidently, I will add anyone on my myspace profile, I have a completely public Twitter that anyone can follow and I have this delightful Livejournal you are reading right now that anyone can post comments on (and I read and respond to most of them). I don't want yet another place to publish the same pictures and updates that can already be seen here! :P

Just a quick post to say that DIVA Magazine spread that I wrote about recently (here!) is out today. The one where I was semi-naked in a pond in Epping Forest. All is revealed!

The theme of the opening double-page was an all-girl remake of a Bow Wow Wow EP cover, which itself was based on Manet's painting 'Le dejeuner sur l'herbe'.

I've just been told that Manet's painting was actually based on a lost painting by Raphael called The Judgement of Paris, which is known of through an engraving made by Marcantonio Raimondi. And Rapheal may have based his work on a sketch by Da Vinci. And as well as that, Picasso also based several works on Manet's!



Photography: Lezli and Rose
Hair and makeup: Bea Sweet
Left to right: Georgie Bee, Harmony Boucher, Bea Sweet, Myself.

( the rest of my pages for the spread under the cut! )

Unfortunately for reasons that totally escape me I've been credited as 'Kris'. I did write down both my real name and modelling name for them too. Oh well :/

Just got home from my trip to County Donegal modelling for Eamonn Farell of Photocall Ireland. I hope this doesn't come across as terribly smug, but I'm having one of those 'I love my job' moments! I met Eamon and his assistant, Nancy Pineda at Londonderry airport around 4pm on Sunday and we drove an hour or so to Portsalon, where we were staying for the trip in a lovely little cottage. Went out for dinner at the restaurant down by the pier then back to the cottage to discuss the plan of action for the next 2.5 days.

The first day started off with rather a lot of rain, which proved quite useful in allowing us to have the beach all to ourselves! Wikipedia tells me the beach at Portsalon was voted the second most beautiful in the world. Having not been to every beach in the world I couldn't say, but out of those I've been to it definitely ranks pretty high! I don't think there was one place we shot at that the whole trip I wouldn't describe as stunning. Due to the rain we were limited to shooting mostly in the mouth of a cave, but I did brave a few minutes in the rain and under a small fall of water running off the top of the cave mouth. It was actually a pretty mild day and I didn't even feel that cold, it made being naked-on-a-beach-in-the-rain quite plesant!

After lunch we ventured out again to an inland location (afraid I've forgotten the name!) which started off with me posing nude stretched out next to a pretty stone wall surrounded by heather. Getting up to change pose, I noticed what I thought was dirt all over one arm and leg but upon closer inspection realised I was covered in little deer ticks! I have never seen so many ticks all at once! Thankfully I recognised what they were straight away from back when I was a fieldwork assisstant in the Scottish highlands (yeah I really should have remembered they live in the heather!), and brushed most of them away before they got over the shock of having such an easy meal thrust upon them. Still had to tweeze a few from my legs later in the evening though! lol.

The second day was probably my favourite. I can't even remember what we shot in the morning now, as the whole day was made by getting to swim in the ocean at Drumnacraig beach. I'd been posing in the water and was surprised at how (relatively) mild it was and couldn't resist having a swim when we'd finished shooting. The water was so clear you could see right to the bottom, and the sun even came out to help me dry off. I felt invigorated for the rest of the day!



( edit: found my camera cable, here are some pics I took, and a couple from Nancy )

Today was the last day of work, up for a 7am start to shoot at an abandoned cottage, again at the coast. After the cottage shot we moved down to a small cove for a last couple of water shots - I should have a comedy photo to post soon of me fishing out a large piece of unphotogenic sheep skin from the water, wearing nothing but a pair of paddling shoes (me, not the sheep skin - I'm just not that great with grammar).

Lastly we climbed up to the rocky area above the cove to do some latex fashion shots, made an interesting contrast to the rest of the work we'd done!

Fantasy fish hunter poised for the kill! This is just a small preview I pinched from the photocall website... I'll post some examples of the art nude work soon too :)

Photo: Eamonn Farrell
Dress: Blacklikorish Latex



Yes, it was just as difficult as you would imagine it would be to pose on that rock surface in that dress and those heels! :p

After that it was back to the airport and the inevitable security stop when the people doing the X-Ray can't tell what the 8 inch platforms are in my bag! I have the next 2 days off for a bit of a rest! :)