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:

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!

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! :)

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!).

I don't think I say it very often, but right now I'm full of appreciation for my job and how much I love what I do. I just got back from 2 days shooting in County Wicklow (near Dublin) with photographer Des Barry. I arrived in Dublin around 07:30 on Tuesday morning after spending the night in Stansted Airport (the first train to Stansted didn't arrive until after my flight closed). Actually found myself a relatively comfy bench and managed a record full 4 hours sleep (yes I have slept at Stansted more often than you would think, I'm not the only one!). Flight only cost £1 return including taxes!.

Got a taxi to Des's place and had makeup done by a lovely MUA whose name I can't recall right now for some reason! I will update when I remember. Then we headed out to shoot for the day, ignoring the almost monsoon-like rainfall in the hopes it would clear up by the time we got to the first location. It did clear up somewhat but it was still incredibly windy in the morning, the first shots were on a beach and I could barely stand from the force of the wind coming off the sea! By the afternoon it was much better though, there was even quite a lot of sunshine. We went to Mount Usher Gardens and shot some gorgeous pics there. Wednesday we spent most of the time shooting at Sally Gap and Lough Tay - the scenery here is absolutely stunning, it made me happy :) I'd love to go hiking there at some point.

Headed back to the airport for a 21:30 flight, which was of course delayed. By the time I got through passport control at Stansted I missed the train that would get me back to London in time for the last tube home by about 3 minutes so had to get a bunch of nightbuses. Have to say, London nightbuses are a fantastic thing and I have much respect for the drivers.

Yesterday was a quiet day, quick visit to Metropolis to get my roots done (and altered my new purple bits to a slightly more reddish shade) then back home to go through a huge amount of images I got sent by photographer Gregory Brown from the Portugal trip. Took me ages! I didn't really narrow it done much but these are my favs (click for full view):





( and about a gazillion more, full size/large under here... )

The other model is Erika Val.

Got back from LA Monday afternoon after a 24hr+ journey because of delays, though it feels like only a few hours ago that I was at LAX airport

This trip was almost entirely holiday only, though I did shoot with stevedietgoedde, venuswept and Taslimur. Had a great time, almost as good as last month's London extravaganza but sadly didn't last as long. Highlights included circus night at the Edison, dinner at The Stinking Rose (omg soo good), a day exploring rockpools at Laguna Beach, day trip to Six Flags (where I screamed in a most girlish manner), hanging out with friends and meeting new people, some good lazing around on the world's comfiest giant beanbag whilst reading, listening and watching some of my favourite films.

Haven't been up to much else really, I've had a bit of a break from shooting. But back into the swing of things from tomorrow and the rest of July. Tomorrow I'm flying to Portugal to shoot for a week! Rather looking forward to that as I've not been to Portugal before (going to Faro, right on the South coast, it's going to be crazy hot!).

In other news, Steve gave me a copy of his GoeddeConcerto CD while I was in LA too...

"Robert Waechter, concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra/Opera de Nice, France, and Steve Diet Goedde, internationally renowned erotic photographer, have released an audio/visual collaboration entitled GoeddeConcerto. The CD features 21 concertos inspired by 21 photographs by Steve Diet Goedde. Robert personally picked the photographs which inspired him and then composed and conducted each individual piece for the CD. The CD contains a 24-page booklet of the photographs to accompany the music."

I have 3 images in the CD booklet from our first ever shoot in September 2007. It really doesn't seem that long ago!



I just got a couple of the new images we shot last week too...

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Latex neck corset by BlackLikorish Latex
Hair/MUA: Cammy Ellis

We also shot a gorgeous new dress from HMS Latex, should have those pics soon too! :)

Rawr! Day off today. Spending some time going through my diary and organising the month in my head. April was kinda slow modelling-wise but May seems to be picking up again.

I'm shooting tomorrow in Wolverhampton, fashion and latex stuff I think with photographer John Barone. Hopefully I'll be doing some of my own fashion styling, I have a couple of random ideas I want to try out (involving animal print spandex :)).

On Monday I've been booked for a hair job in Rugby for Browns Hairdressing - I think it's a presentation/catwalk thing in association with Tigi but I've no idea what they're going to do with my hair yet! But it's cut & colour job so I shall have new hair just in time for the TG Birthday weekend, well timed! :)

So I'll be in London from Monday onwards, meeting Allan and Alyssa on Thursday when they fly in from LA as we're all staying at my sister's place for the TG weekend. I think it's going to be a rather busy house as a few of my sister's friends are staying over too! On the Friday ball I'm doing a fashion show for Roxy Contin and the Saturday ball another show for Antiseptic Fashion (LA invasion!!!). I think I'm doing a shoot or two while everyone from LA is in London too but the details are still to be sorted!

Then after the TG weekend is over with I have a few days break then up to Edinburgh for 2 days shooting with The Yerbury's which should be great (the first day latex goodies from HMS Latex and the second day some classic nudes).

And quite a few new pics today! Seems to be a week for darker images rather than the colour-fest I've been having this year!
(Click on them to see full size)

1. Something a bit different to the urban/punky stuff I usually do for Drac In a Box clothing. My inner goth is totally in love with this outfit, the blouse especially. And anyone looking for an affordable corset - this and the overbust that I also shot (see the DIAB site) are incredibly comfy! Shot by rootofsilence Hair/MUA: Me	2. The second outfit I modelled from the new Lacing Lilith collection (see my previous journal entry HERE for the first one). I really like this one, there's something odd and creepy about the pose and my expression that is cool. Photography: rootofsilence Hair: Arno @ Metropolis MUA: Kirka Verinen
3. A pretty new pic for Lady Lucie Latex & Corsets. Photo by rootofsilence Hair (wig)/MUA: Me	4. Second outfit for VECONA (first one was the 'Sky Pirate' here. Photo and manipulation by Matt Frederick Hair/MUA: Amelia Ebanks

Yesterday saw me make a very quick trip to London/Kingston to get my roots touched up before going to Madrid for a few days with catherineday, ruby_redxxx and queen_tea. Have just finished packing and will be heading off to the airport in the next couple of hours. Don't think I've forgotten anything, just need to grab some batteries for my camera!

I purposefully kept most of my time in Madrid free to do fun touristy things so I'll be shooting for Maya Hansen on Friday and that's it for work stuff. She sent me previews of the outfits I'll be modelling yesterday and they look really stunning! They are based on the colours of cupcakes and creamcakes, all decadent and colourful! I went and bought a bunch of matching accessories and hair things, I'm so bad when it comes to buying stuff for shoots when I'm really into the theme.

Not much else to write about for now but I will share more of the pics I just got from my shoot with Colin Ackerman. I totally love them! It's so nice every now and then to get to dress up in my own (non latex) wardrobe and style myself exactly how I want to!



( a few more under here... )

I might be shooting with Colin again next month too, if he lets me do my own styling again I may have to get out all the spandex animal print leggings I've been hoarding while they're 'in fashion' and easy to get hold of!

Yesterday I had what I think (if my rather bad memory serves correctly) my first outdoor location art nude shoot this year, somewhere around the border of Exmoor with photographer Gary Plumley. The weather was not being favourable and we spent a lot of time waiting for rain showers to pass! It was also incredibly windy which made it very very cold. We did manage to get some lovely pics done though, when the wind dropped and the sun came out from behind the clouds it was actually very pleasant!

We stopped for lunch (home made beefburger, chips, lots of hot coffee!) in a really nice rural pub that I didn't catch the name of. My heart kinda sank when looking out of the window it started hail-stoning out of nowhere but by the time we'd finished our coffee the sun was shining. Gotta love the random weather we have in the south west! After lunch we did some shots in a small wooded area surrounding some farmland, where I found a skull lying among the trees. I brought it home with me and only when I got home did the fattest spider I've ever seen crawl out of it and make me squeal like a girl. haha. The skull is cool though, haven't took any pics yet but I'm trying to decide if it is a sheep or a deer. I'd like it to be a lady deer but it's probably a sheep!

I also got a couple of pics from the shoot on friday with Colin Ackerman (the one I mentioned in my last post where the police woman turned up). I'm quite pleased with my styling efforts in these! :)


Post-apocalyptic rainbow brite

( couple more different ones... )

Off to bed now, off to London tomorrow briefly to get my roots done before flying to Madrid on Wednesday! Wheee!

Photo dump alert!!

( my easter weekend in pictures )

There were loads of people taking pics and video-ing the actual show, so should have some of those to post soon :)

Still hunting for a way to get Essen pics off my camera and onto the interweb! But since my last post I did the shoot for Fairygothmother/Lulu & Lush on wednesday afternoon. There were loads of beautiful dresses, corsets and bits of lingerie waiting for me to model. I thought it was going to take ages but we actually managed to get through everything in only 4 hours. As well as shooting, iberianblackart also did my hair and makeup, I had finger waves in my hair and the makeup was very bright blue (I kept it all on for the train back to London afterwards, it was so nice I couldn't bare to take it off even though I probably looked a bit silly in my comfy travelling clothes!).

I stayed in London in the evening so I could get my roots done yesterday. goth_amalthea came with me and we drank cappucino and did a little window shopping before I caught the train home in the evening. So today is my first day off, and my first day home in 9 days. I think I'm pretty much caught up on emails and stuff now. Had some really exciting proposals waiting for me when I got back. I'll be shooting a new collection for Angels Carrying Savage Weapons corsetry in a couple of months, will be going to LA for several cool shoots pretty soon and I've also been contacted by a new makeup brand and will be shooting some of thier products quite soon! They do nice crazy bright colours, the best kind :)

And, last but not least, a whole host of new pics shot for Lady Lucie Latex & Corsets. I had so much fun shooting these! The green ones in particular amuse me, for reasons known only to a few people :p You can kinda see my new blonde bits too.

Photography by rootofsilence
Hair 'n makeup by me



( lots more PORN face )

And there's still more to come!

I arrived back in London last night after getting the coach from Paris. The fashion show for hurtmeso went really well, the whole weekend was pretty cool! I have a lot of fun photos and backstage pics to post but I haven't got anything to get the images off my camera at the moment (won't be home until tomorrow). I guess I'll write a proper account of the weekend once I post those photos :)

Just sitting in the internet cafe opposite goth_amaltheas house catching up on various emails and stuff. I got a copy of the new issue of Bizarre Magazine last night, my interview thing looks pretty good! I'm heading up the feature on the "world's hottest alt models" (also featured are Scar13, Maureen Van Mortis, Koneko and KandyK). I was pleasantly surprised that they were very faithful to what I actually said instead of editing quotes and making me sound moronic like other interviews I've done *cough* Front Magazine *cough* lol.




Then I'm off to Colchester this afternoon to shoot some lovely corsets with iberianblackart for Fairy Goth Mother. Fairygothmother was the first ever clothing company that I modelled for (and the first time I ever wore latex!), I'm really excited to be shooting for them again after so long :)

The weather is glorious today! It has been for the past couple of days. It's amazing how bright sunshine and singing birds through the open window can make me feel so uplifted!

Today I have the images of the first look from the shoot I wrote about in my last post. The one where we were working at TG the night before and only got 3 hours sleep. They didn't turn out too bad considering! :) That birdcage on my head was so painful though. I had to lie my head down on the end of the sofa in between sets.

Photography: rootofsilence
Clothing: Lacing Lilith
Hair: Arno @ Metropolis
MUA: Kirka Verinen

Left to right: ruby_redxxx, myself and sohuiii (Click for full size)


I also did the retouching (as you can probably tell cos it's a bit rushed in places!).

In other random news, I'm published in Bizarre Magazine this month for a feature on Girl Armour. The pic they used was shot way back during that brief period where I had purple/magenta hair. Due to the handy LJ tags feature I discovered this was in January 2006! There's a small scan of it here if anyone wants to see. I also just found out (thanks Lilbittydemon!) I was published in the January 09 issue of FHM Magazine (Estonia edition!) for a feature on Perry Gallagher (scan here). The FHMs of Europe seem much more fond of latex than the UK!

Oh while I'm here (I guess I should have wrote sooner!) - most muffins knew before I did, but just to clarify - I won't be touring with Emilie Autumn for this tour starting today. As much as I would have loved to meet everyone, it is US crumpets only this time! I'm sure everyone will enjoy it anyway! :) And I'm sorry I haven't replied to many messages about it, I've just been away without internet access quite a lot recently. And also it seems whenever I write anything EA related, be it on my public profiles or even in private messages, it ends up being reposted or paraphrased on the EA forum. While I know it's not intended to, it kinda makes me feel awkward! Yeah I'm too sensitive :p

Where to begin! I got back home this afternoon after over 2 weeks away, first in Newcastle as I already mentioned, then since Friday I've been in London. Just spent about 5 hours going through emails and messages on various sites and I'm still not quite caught up!

Friday
I arrived in London in the morning, dropped my luggage off at goth_amaltheas new house then back on the bus to Kingston to get my colour re-done at Matropolis. They changed me from the bright red back to copper, had to pre-lighten first to remove the excess red, the result being that the copper went on extremely vibrant. I love it! It's pretty much back to the same colour as my avatar now, except without the yellow tones. After that I went back to the house and met up with uglydiamond who was also staying over. We had takeaway curry and watched Stardust, was great. I don't get enough girly nights in.

Saturday & Sunday
Saturday was pretty hectic! In the afternoon I was shooting for a gorgeous boutique in Kingly Court called Nikita Sablier. I arrived a bit early so I had coffee and icecream downstairs. While I was there I had to take a photo of the coffee shop as they had a wonderful display of colourful cupcakes in the window! I modelled a beautiful bridal outfit and then quite a few pinup style dresses and lingerie. I seem to be getting booked for loads of pinup stuff recently, which I find so weird as I have never promoted myself as a pinup model! But it is fun, and an interesting contrast to my personal punk(ish)/80s style.

( some colourful cupcakes and pics me inside the boutique's look-book )

After the shoot I headed off to east London to meet up with Paul of Lacing Lilith and the other models who I was doing the Torture Garden fashion show with that evening. Had a quick fitting then we all jumped in 2 taxis to Brixton to rehearse the show. The overall theme was medical, which was great as it allowed me to bring my crutches to help me do the show wearing ballet heels! lol. I did get some odd looks earlier in the day carrying around a pair of crutches for no apparent reason.

( here are the first couple of pics I've found rom the show so far )

There are also a couple of behind-the-scenes pics on sohuiiis journal :)

I do hope someone got some full length shots of me stumbling around in the ballet heels otherwise I suffered for nothing! I think it was one of the most difficult shows I've done, not just because of the shoes but also the combination of corset and neck corset, and the giant blob wig which was not at all well secured. I had to do the whole thing with my head tipped at an angle to stop it falling off! ><.

The show was at 2am. Afterwards I went straight back to goth_amaltheas with ruby_redxxx as we were both shooting at 10am the next (same!) day. Several night buses later and I got to bed about 4am. For some reason it took me ages to fall asleep and in the end I got about 3 hours sleep before getting up for the photoshoot, again for Lacing Lilith. rootofsilence was shooting and myself, sohuiii and ruby_redxxx each modelled 2 outfits. I had a birdcage attached to my head, which was possibly the heaviest and most painful hairdo I've ever had (and that's saying something!). Was still very cool though :)

Monday
On Monday I was shooting with iberianblackart on a really exciting new shoot for Girl Armour. It's been a long time since I last worked with Morgana and I was really looking forward to it. Firstly we did 3 or 4 outfits with a soft 'playful' look and then 3 more with a darker look. Morgana did all the hair and makeup herself, I was so impressed with how good it was too! And I've already been sent a few images :)

All photography, editing, hair and makeup by iberianblackart (threnodynvelvet)

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First things first - OMG it's so cold here. Am using free wifi in Newcastle train station, I can barely feel my fingers. Have been back in Newcastle now since Monday. In only 3 days I have reverted to a strong Geordie accent, I feel like it's a defense mechanism to convince people that I am 'one of them'! lol.

I grabbed a copy of the new issue of Photo Pro Magazine from WHSmith's yesterday. Well done to Trevor Yerbury for getting the cover and a 6 page feature! Extra cool is that the image chosen for the cover was shot in about 10 minutes last month in one of the back stairwells at the SWPP convention! Wearing the now rather infamous Lacing Lilith dress :)



As well as the cover I'm also on a double page image and 3 smaller images inside the mag (there's also 2 gorgeous full pages of Lozie, also shot at the convention! I haven't got a scanner here but will try and scan it when I get home next week.

I may have other shiny new pics to post but email checking is proving difficult with people looking over my shoulder.

Since beginning typing I have now migrated to the significantly warmer train to Glasgow, where I'm shooting today. Fingers defrosting is slightly painful!

/edit. Mostly caught up on reading 3 days of LJ friend's entries now. Just noticed on Trevor's blog that one of his pics of me was chosen to hang at the 09 Seattle Erotic Art Festival. "one of 215 pieces chosen from 2,100 submissions we received from 530 artists in 38 states and 29 countries". Awesome! :)

I ended up not getting to Birmingham today after missing the coach yesterday evening, spent the evening stuffing my face with pancakes instead though so not all bad!

Shooting with Tony Rusecki went really well. I can't remember the last time we worked together but it must have been almost 2 years! Firstly we shot some of Tony's funny ideas (I was posing with tomato soup with a big grin on my face...) wearing some vintage dresses from The Girl Can't Help It. The second part of the shoot I was modelling some new designs for What Katie Did with a sailor theme. They were so cute! I attempted smiley pinup facial expressions with mixed results! lol.

It was also the first time that I've visited Alfie's Antique Market (where Tony's studio is now based). What a wonderful place! I arrived a little early so had a chance to have a very quick look around. I could have spent the best part of a day there! It's full of different antique shops as well as various vintage clothing, furniture and accessories shops, jam packed in every available space with cool stuff. Definitely recommended as a day out if you like this sort of thing. Nina's hair parlour is also based there. Perfect! There was a small cafe on the top floor too, which surprised me with the extremely good 'blackened cajun salmon with fries' that I had for lunch. I think I'm going to have to go back there with my sister for a day out of hair-dos, vintage shopping and nice food.

I forgot to mention on my rather brief overview of the FOCUS convention that I bumped into Trevor and Faye Yerbury who had driven down from Edinburgh. They pointed me in the direction of Mario Acerbonis stand, as he had made several sample books around the Yerbury's work and a few images of me were included. Sad thing that I am, I took some photos :) I'm afraid my photography skills are not good...



( once more with boobies... )

Trevor also told me that one of their images of me is going to be on the cover of Photo Pro Magazine next month along with a 6 page feature about their recent work, which is rather exciting! :)

Not sure if I've posted this in the past, but any 80s/childhood nostalgia fans should pop over to Truffle Shuffle. So much stuff I want! Particularly the KiaOra TShirt and Wizard of Oz purse. The Jammy Dodger necklace is awesome too. I'm so easily won over by material things relating to childhood.

Today I'm mostly doing housework. I'm also going to make my own vegetable soup shortly. I called my mum earlier to ask how she makes it, she makes the best home-made soup (I think lots of pepper is the key). I always ask her to make a huge pan of it when I visit home and the first thing I do when I get in the house is eat 2-3 bowls full. I have turned soft since moving down south and can no longer cope with the northern weather coupled with my parents' lack of central heating! I think I will be back in the North East in early March, just got booked for a shoot in Darlington then and they're covering all travel expenses. Yay!

I shot my new HMS Latex dress a couple of days ago with rootofsilence. It was just a quick shoot to try out this new tinsel background but I rather like the results :)


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( couple full size more doing my best evil queen type impression... )

I also just got this one from my shoot for Switchphotography which is pretty cool! I was going for a sort of semi-80s punkish disco sequin and spandex overload (Yeah I've had that same jewellry in my makeup bag for a while now! lol).


Click for full size

These past few days have mostly seen me becoming far too well aquainted with the more remote and unstaffed train stations of Southern England. On Saturday I was shooting with Aaron of Switchphotography Studios in Ford. Where you ask? It's actually not far from Brighton in West Sussex but I am a cheap train ticket hunter and went for the 2 changes at Westbury (small but fairly normal station) and Fareham (tiny station with no indoor waiting area) to get there. To be fair compared to today these were pretty cvilised stations, they just had an unusual over-abundance of children getting off each train, and I had a 50 minute wait for my connections and there was no indoor waiting room).

The shoot itself was great fun, Aaron wanted to take a bunch of headshots of me doing 'expressions'. It was harder than I thought doing emotions and expressions using only my face. I rely quite a lot of hand gestures and body posing usually. I'll post the results when I have 'em :)

Today I was working in Poole with Scott Chappell. Poole itself is a fairly decent sized place very close to Bournemouth (only about 2.5 hours to drive to) but unfortunately on yet another crazy-links train route. Thankfully my outward journey was pretty well timed but my return journey involved 3 connections with waiting times of 45mins, 1 hour and then another 45mins which was extended to over an hour as that train was delayed. The second connection in particular was especially hellish as it was at the rickety little station known as Dorchester West (reached after walking down the road from the Dorchester South station). Fairly average looking at first glance, Dorchester West in fact turned out to not even have a clock, nevermind anything to tell me when/where then next train was and no waiting room or toilet. I spent an hour walking up and down the platform trying to keep warm and then I watched a spider picking bits of paint off it's web. I think it was as bored as I was.

Though I like to complain about my awful experiences with public transport, I don't mind really :) I enjoy travelling, I just keep forgetting my book and really need to add new songs to my ipod. I'm even starting to get sick of my 80s cheese playlist. And the shoot went well, which is always satisfying. I think Scott must have been happy with the results too as he already posted a bunch on Flickr by the time I got home! This one is my favourite so far:



I did my makeup on the train in the morning to pass the time. I hardly ever use brown shades, then by happy coincidence Scott's setup was all brown and mahogany :)

No more shoots now until Feb, firstly the Yerbury Workshop, then I have shoots booked with John Tisbury, some hair presentation and show for Robert and 2 days in Ireland with Ciaran Whyte. There's a possiblity I may also be doing a few days working at the 2009 Focus show (but that is still to be confirmed). Feb is usually so quiet!

December has gone by so quickly, it completely escaped me that Christmas is this week. In time honoured tradition I haven't done any shopping yet. I find it so difficult to think of good presents for my family and friends ><. I'm going to Bath for the day tomorrow to meet up with a good friend from University, we shall drink mulled wine and eat roast chestnuts and then I will pick his brains for gift suggestions! lol.

Since my last post, I did what was probably my last 'proper' shoot of 2008, a rather odd shoot modelling for a 2009 calender for Redmount International Ltd (a Cardiff based garage equipment supplier). I say odd as I was booked directly by the photographer, who didn't tell me there would be 2 other photographers there jumping in to take pictures between the actual calendar shots (I've no idea why or what for!). And also, I was wearing my own black and red latex outfits, which matched quite nicely with the sets, but there were 4 other models wearing really mismatched outfits, none of us matched each other at all. It would have been much cooler with proper styling and wardobe. I want to be an Art Director! lol.

And, more random pics.. I was supposed to post this wonderful HMS Latex dress to catherineday when I got home from Lille last week but I was so knackered I totally forgot (sorry again ><), so I was a little cheeky and wore it for some experimental fun shots I wanted to do on the weekend with a 'red' theme. It's amazing what a difference standing up straight makes to hiding pot-belly! hehe.


Pics by rootofsilence (click for full size)

/edit: after a couple of comments on deviantart, I will add that I haven't dyed my hair red again, it's just a wig (though if I had the ability to grow my hair this long and this thick overnight, I'd change the colour every day!)

And being a shiny latex alien looking thing for High Gloss Dolls :)

I sold my Plague Rats drawing this week (see miss_charlotina). I will be a little sad to part with this one, it's one of my favourite recent works. But it's a very nice feeling when people want to buy my art work :) I'm still planning on doing a whole series along the same theme (one for each of the Bloody Crumpets) but I'm slow and have only half finished one other so far.

I got a copy of Front Magazine today, and although it isn't as bad as I was expecting (actually a couple of the pictures are quite funny), I'm still not pleased about being described as a 'myspace first timer' and they have mis-quoted my interview answers too. But it's not the end of the world.

Tomorrow I'm off to Reading to stay with goth_amalthea as I'm shooting not far from her house the next day. I think we're going to go to the cinema and eat lots of popcorn :) madamebink has also bullied asked me (:p) to go to a net-model.com socialising event on Saturday evening so might be popping along to that if I don't finish shooting too late.

Last of all for now, thought I'd post a couple more pics from the Lady Lucie shoot as I'm incredibly fond of bright orange on white :)

Photography by rootofsilence
Ribcage courtesy of gut sucking-in & lack of muscle


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Did I mention how much I love my new hair? :)