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I'm still a little distracted by the meme I sparked and the fact that it's earned me my Been Boinged Nerd Merit Badge—which I don't actually plan to buy, but if someone wants to send me the $5 for it, maybe I will for a laugh, or maybe I'll just keep the money to help cover the price gouging, raised taxes, disappearing arts funding, and all the other "benefits" we Vancouverites are getting from the games that are kicking me in the back pocket ;-)

There seems to be a Tweet about this coming up every minute or two. The day before this started I was amused by the 27,000 hits I got in January. Yesterday alone I got 120,000 (with about one third coming from Poland) and today is looking like it will top that by at least double.

Distractions aside, I'm trying to catch up on the backlog of photographs for my iStock, Zazzle, and deviantART accounts. Today I'll be finally getting around to this shoot with Pandora last April for Art of Adornment:

OK, time to step back from this meme lunacy, and get back to my usual photography and artwork..

I've been doing a lot of shooting the last couple weeks. This one is from a shoot last Saturday that was a catalogue shoot primarily for Sinn/Sativa, with some accessories from Art of Adornment. This one is one that, obviously, is being used by Art of Adornment. Today I was doing a charity shoot for "Canvas for Cancer" - those ones will have to stay hidden until the big charity auction in September, but it was like a party here today with models, make-up artists, the hair stylist, and the shoot coordinator. After the shoot was over, however, I did a few shots of Elaine's new self-designed custom clothes.

One of the pictures from the Columbia Gorge shoot for Art of Adornment is published in the current issue of Gothic Beauty (Issue 25, p.33). Below is a scan with the associated text from accompanying article by Acid PopTart highlighted.

Saturday afternoon I did a shoot with valerian and her kambriel dress. When we were looking thought the pictures on the camera Elaine suggested I run the bunch from the last set together as a video. Here is the result: