Naked Bee

I had a lot of fun making this. I'm sure Tufte would be proud.

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Playing dress-up is pretty much my favorite thing ever.

In this first set of photos, I think my only excuse is that I've been watching Life on Mars recently and so was really excited about the 70s-era-cop-show look.


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I love doing photoshoots! A few weeks ago my marvelous model came over and we played dress up all day, resulting in a slew of exciting new photos.

( Pretty Portrait Picspam! )

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A belated review of some cute movies from the next-to-last festival day.


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Frameline 2011: Thursday

Movies movies movies!


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Took the opportunity to sleep in a little bit in the morning before heading out to the movies. Vacations can be pretty tiring!


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Another fun day at the movies! Highlights include discovering that Margaret Cho has an amazingly sultry country diva voice and that I want there to be more movies that involve characters traveling back in time and having sex with their younger selves.


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Frameline 2011: Friday

First full day of movies. Woo hoo! As usual, I'm getting all fired up about someday making my own movie. Film festivals are so inspiring!


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I just realized it's been over a year since my last update! Scandalous!

Here's a long-overdue progress report:

In brief:
* revised the initial letters at the beginning of each fytte (Jul 2010)
* revised the difficult pages I'd skipped on my initial run-through (Sep-Oct 2010)
* revised the cover, front matter, and back matter (Oct 2010)
* had the second draft hard copy printed (Oct 2010)
* took new photos for High Desert exteriors: wall & castle (Dec 2010)
* photoshopped the High Desert Exteriors (Jan 2011)
* took a break, meanwhile circulating the book among others to get feedback (Jan 2010-present)
* next step = incorporate feedback into 3rd draft!

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So I spent yesterday having a grand time making this series of ... I don't know what to call them ... maybe Secular Easter/Christian Easter/Video Game crossover fanart? I really feel like I'm getting the hang of Illustrator, though, which is very cool. Although perhaps since Katamari's iconic style is so vector-based, it's not surprising that it's easy to recreate with a vector program. It started off with imagining the Prince from Katamari Damacy with a basket full of easter-egg-colored katamaris. Then I ran across a cool depiction of the three women at the tomb called "Who will roll away the stone ..." and thought who better then the Prince?


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