Last Saturday littlemissrisk of LittleMissRisk.com, Sweet Soul Burlesque, and the Voodoo Dollz was over to model some of valerian's Art of Adornment jewelry and accessories. I have well over a hundred quality photos to go through and will start up a project file and gallery while I am working on the photos. Some of these will be added to the Red Chair Project, plus there will be some 3D animations as well, just for fun. In the mean time here's a behind-the-scenes shot and a couple of Polaroids for the sake of funky retro sassiliciousness.








I am seriously tempted to play hookey from the day job later this week to get some work done.

The Sin City anniversary party is coming up this weekend so it would be nice to get through these pictures before I have another pile to go through. I'm not really interested in being tethered to my photo booth when there will be stage acts (including littlemissrisk), especially with Richard's on Richards being such a great place to shoot the stage because of the balcony - that's where I made the image of Collide that was used in Keyboard Magazine last June - I think I'll bring the big camera with my long lens and concentrate on the stage. As much as I like how many of the photo-booth photos have been coming out, it will be a good thing to change things up a bit. I still have to talk to cheekydevil about this. I don't like to assume I'm guest-listed when I don't really have a defined rôle at the event.

I've already got the 31^st booked off so I can get out on Sunday and "celebrate" (i.e. get drunk enough to pretend I'm not ancient) my birthday at Skank. That will definitely be a night for the waterproof+shockproof=bar-proof wee camera so I can enjoy some unfettered stupidity without worrying about tending to a few grand worth of gear.

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If you like the way the smoke was hanging in the air in Stereo #25, you'll really like this one.

While using animated GIF files was adequate for the black and white vintage stereographs, I haven't been happy with the way the 256 colour limit of the format causes so much dithering in the full-colour images I'm making now. If you click on the thumbnail below you will be taken to a new version of Stereo #25 that uses Flash to animate the two frames as JPEGs. This is a much more satisfactory method of animation, the only disadvantage being that LiveJournal doesn't allow embedded objects so I can't display the Flash animation here directly.

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