Dave Received a Daily Deviation!!

My best friend, Joanna recommended my boyfriend Dave for a Daily Deviation on Deviantart.com, and a photo that I modeled was selected today!! If you have a deviant art account, follow him and leave him some love!

http://www.Dave-Star.deviantart.com

or link directly directly to this image here:

http://fav.me/d2f9vfj

And here are a view other images we've done together!

I am also a member of Deviant art, you can follow my work by clicking: Here

Ms Manchester -- Theresa Marie

Theresa Marie (Ms Manchester) was planning her road trip from Pittsburgh to NYC to take a makeup workshop with Mac Cosmetics when she wrote me about collaborating.  She is both a makeup artist and a model with a love for FX. I noticed her portfolio was primarily nude work so as always my main objective was to bring something completely different to her portfolio. She packed up a bunch of fun dresses and away she went!

I had a lot of fun with this shoot -- I got to take a lot of artistic liberty to try out new lighting techniques. The double exposures and flow (movement) images are all done in camera- they were not created afterwards in post. What was amazing is that she has a full Lisa Frank sleeve (anyone remember those colorful, cute folders and pencils and such when you were a kid =D?) One of her dresses matched her tattoo perfectly!!! Would you believe that was her Prom dress o_o???? (Top set)

Model:http://www.modelmayhem.com/371054
MUA:http://www.facebook.com/theresamarie.cosmeticartistry
http://www.modelmayhem.com/1956078

And here are the images we did! Again, Don't forget to click on the thumbnails to enlarge them to see full view!!!

Burlesque Dancer Maria Bella

So I've received some great comments from the tear sheets that I recently did for Alt Noir and Bachelor Pad Magazine! (As seen in the post below) After all the great feedback, I decided that I wanted to share the rest of the images from the sets that the magazines did not use as I feel they are equally as interesting! Again, credits go to Burlesque Dancer Maria Bella (model) http://www.modelmayhem.com/189639

Alayna Rakes (MUAH) http://www.alaynamarie.com/

Hello Dolly Latex http://www.hellodollylatex.com/ 

& Goth Fox http://www.gothfox.com/ 

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them for full view!

Catching up!

Dear Blog,

I have neglected you again. For this, I am very sorry!

On a fun note, I did my first presentation of my full program "Through the Looking Glass into another Realm, Using Fashion, Fine Art, and Fantasy to go from Mundane to Avante Garde." I was teaching at Antonelli Institute of Art and Photography -- the college I graduated from in 2008. http://ww.antonelli.edu ...It's an amazing school with a lot of changes going on right now! I know they took photos so hopefully I will be able to get a few soon and post them on my blog! I've gotten a lot of really great feedback from the students so I hope everyone enjoyed it, learned a lot, and most of all, were inspired!

So I have two brand new tearsheets out in Magazines right now! Both are featuring Model and Burlesque Dancer Maria Bella!

First is Alt Noir Magazine; you can buy a copy here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/132917

The theme was a Cirque du Soleil type of look. Alayna Rakes did the makeup for both sets and Hello Dolly Latex made the outfit for the cirque set!

And second is Bachelor Pad  issue 14! This is my second publication with them! I adore this magazine! The pasties were made by Goth Fox for this set and the rest of the outfit was a sort of collaboration between things Maria and I both had! Buy this Magazine!

http://www.bachelorpadmagazineonline.com/

Best Motivational Video

I remember seeing this amazing video a while ago. I found it again recently and had to share. This just shows how powerful the spark inside every single one of us can really truly be if we just fight for what we want in life.



And just another amazing person who is showing the world they can make a difference no matter what tries to hold them back.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1330043/Acid-attack-victim-Katie-Piper-poses-glamorous-magazine-shoot.html

Kerli - Tea Party

Absolutely had to share this video! Dave and I went to see his brother's performance of Alice in Wonderland at the high school. Halfway through the show immediately following the Mad Hatter scene, we get to the intermission. The Mad Hatter and March hare run forward and say that since Alice left, they need new company. This song begins to play and the cast runs up on both sides of the audience, the middle of the set opens up like a double sided doorway and the entire audience gets up and goes on stage through the doors to a "Tea Party" on the other side. There were lots of brightly colored cupcakes and tea =D! I thought it was the cutest concept. I had this song stuck in my head for the next few days and I finally hunted it down....and O_O! I absolutely LOVE the music video, concept, and styling. Very Japanese Lolita-esque!

Fireworks

I really truly love this song and the video! Another random fact of Serena-- It's really easy to make me cry. I'm one of those girls that watches sappy movies and is balling her eyes out by the end. This video really reminds me again why my career is so important to me. To bring joy to every one by capturing memories and saving them forever in a photograph. To accept, to love, and to cherish all that is what we are, to bring out and let the beauty shine in our world. It's such a beautiful concept.

...and Since it's Veteran's Day.. a friend of mine on FB reminded me of two beautiful videos that make me use a box of tissues every time I see them. Beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkGzqpGx1KU
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSTKoKjJ5XA