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Portland!

Samantha — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:16:33 +0000

Portland Recap

Heartland

Samantha — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:25:22 +0000

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Hail to the Thief

Samantha — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:38:06 +0000

Chloe and I are planning a trip to Dead Horse Bay. I was once taken there on a field trip in elementary school, although its educational purposes have escaped me. Our plan was birthed over far too many beers, far too early in the day, in a bar somewhere in the West Village that was playing horse races on the television.

Beirut’s The Flying Club Cup has been on repeat on my iTunes for days. It is only substituted by Patti Smith, both of which have taken me much too long to become acquainted with.

The subject line of this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, it just happened to be the first phrase I saw when I glanced up from my monitor.

Journeys are upon me : Oklahoma, Los Angeles, Portland : I may have been fibbing when I said I was hanging my travel hat. One day, I would like to have an adventure to the Creation Museum, but Kentucky is not currently on my itinerary. Obviously, my passport is not required for domestic travel, but boarding passes no longer exist.

My reading stack is currently completely out of hand. It does pale in comparison, but I still forbid myself from purchasing any new books in the foreseeable future. [I have already broken my rule since drafting this]. That is only one of many stacks and stocked cases in the house, and I doubt I’ll ever even make a dent in it.
The concept of “weather” is slowly becoming a reality that I am reluctantly accepting. The only weather I am accustomed to is “hot” and “hot and apocalyptic”, so the actual changes that occur on a daily basis here are throwing me off balance. It actually rains water here, as opposed to snowing ash. This is not without its upsides, though. It has given me free reign to completely update my wardrobe, which I am always happy to do.

I spent quality time at a local cafe with 44 Digs, where I instructed them to ignore me while I took oddly cropped photos of them.

They were excited about it, as you can see.

I discovered shooting at sunset is difficult, but somehow, with my magics, I made it work. Misty was visiting New York from Belgium early last month, and had a beautiful view of the Williamsburg bridge from her friend’s apartment. Naturally, a set was demanding to be shot there, so we obliged.

[Misty : Stories From the City is currently in Member Review on Suicide Girls]

My next updates might be brought to you from the heartland, where I shall be roaming around the plains with plastic cameras in search of Americana. God speed, young soldiers.

New Year, New Site

Sunday Smut : Yellow & Green

Samantha — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:00:49 +0000

Nya, Posh, & Zoli in Absinthe

A touch of the green fairy for you all, which personally, I think smells and tastes like Scope infused gasoline. We shot this on the never-ending Vegas trip last February, on Valentine’s Day, a strange day for me. After receiving the news that Lou had passed, wrapping the Love Spell shoot, and feeling the first hints of the Death Plague, Absinthe started rolling. This, like the other filmed shoots that week, were really quite difficult to shoot. I was at the mercy of staying out of the film crew’s way (and frame) while they were filming, and could only jump in for close ups between their takes. It didn’t turn out exactly the way I had envisioned it when I pitched the proposal, but considering the circumstances, it came out far better than I had expected.

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The half empty bottle of Absinthe wound up in my room the rest of the week, and much to the bellhop’s surprise, he was tipped with it when loading my car with my luggage the last day.

ToriBell : Time Waits for No One

ToriBell and I shot Time Waits for No One not too long ago, in a hotel room a bit north of Los Angeles. The room had the typical boring beige decor that hotel rooms typically do, and since she has such a timeless sort of beauty to her, I asked Cherry to color treat the images to match her anachronism.

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Time Waits for No One is currently in Member Review, waiting for your happy little I Loved Its!

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Moxi’s set, All You Need, is one of the last remnants of Vegas left. We shot on the very last day of the trip, and the guilt I felt being that close to someone while in the state I was in was epic in its enormity.

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Elbow Deep in Negatives

Samantha — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:23:54 +0000

I’ve spent the last two days scanning and sorting film from the last two months. It’s like tapping into memories that were hiding just beneath the surface, tiny little moments that seemed totally unimportant at their conception, but bring a nostalgic smile on their reappearance.

I really like long, quiet drives and uncropped edges.

I’m not entirely sure if I was coming or going in either of those, but that’s just semantics.

Mark of the Beast

Transit, Transit

Samantha — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:21:51 +0000

I’m still a little awestruck about having wifi on a flight. Currently, I am 34,903 feet in the air and somewhere over Missouri.

I happen to be more than just a tiny bit exhausted after this trip. My plan to combat jetlag failed miserably, so rather than acclimating to EST, I woke up around dawn almost every day and sustained myself on a diet of coffee and cigarettes. Three hours is just enough of a difference to throw you out of whack.

I don’t think I took a single photo this week other than those two above. I did just find a lens cap in my boot this very moment, and I’m not really sure what it is doing there. I’ve been wearing the boots in question for many hours now, and don’t recall putting it in there at any point.

I made an in-flight playlist :

Mr. Baseball

I’m hoping I fall asleep to quiet music and wake up on the tarmac in L.A.

Crossing the Missouri / Kansas invisible border on my little Where am I map, and currently hitting turbulence.

Sunday Smut : In the Sun & Late at Night

Samantha — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:00:46 +0000

Gator video Nixon : Day Star

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Goths in Hot Weather? Yuh – huh. Nixon and I shot this when I went to visit her last month while we were out walking around in the Albany Bowl. I like lens flares, and also have absolutely no idea what I am doing shooting outdoors. Actually, I have no idea what I am doing outdoors, period, since not only am I allergic to fucking everything, but I dislike the dreaded Day Star.

Roza : R & R

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The Bridge to Nowhere film

Roza’s R&R set happened at 2AM in Portland, wrapping up the mega shoot fest that I had out there. I had posted some behind the scenes shots from this back in time, but it took a bit for the set to pop up in member review.

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Snapshots

Samantha — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:22:38 +0000

I’ve slowly sorted through the snapshots I took in Costa Rica and did some post work on a few. I mostly shot film while I was there, but haven’t dropped any of it off yet. As it was rainy season, and apparently the worst they have had in many years, I didn’t take the cameras out too often.

Kill Switch

Most of these are from San Jose, the most frustrating city that has probably ever existed in the modern world. It is over crowded, crumbling, and mostly made of tin. Have I mentioned that there are little to no street signs ANYWHERE in the entire country, and all the maps are full of lies? It’s like trying to navigate inside the House of Leaves. I am convinced that things move or cease to exist when you aren’t looking directly at them. Highway exists aren’t marked, and the few signs that do exist are flat and mounted against the walls of random corners, completely camouflaged, painted over, or ripped off entirely.

Sloths, on the other hand, are made of hugs and holding hands.

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I have a few more pics up on my flickr River Queen on dvd

, should you care to look.

Burhl

Samantha — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:45:01 +0000

I made it home from Costa Rica a few days ago, along with a gross sinus infection which caused me to miss Comic Con. More pictures and tales to follow in the not so distant future, but for now, I leave you with Burhl, the monster that shared a shower with Nixon one evening in the Arenal region.

Graveyard Shift divx

Any arachnologists out there want to take a guess as to what he might be? The closest we can figure is that he’s either a member of the huntsman or the fishing families, and was about 6-8 inches in diameter (even with the missing legs).

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Sunday Smut : From my Travels

Samantha — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:00:37 +0000

This week’s edition of Sunday Smut comes from hundreds of miles on my car & boarding passes buried in luggage.

Miss Q & I have been friends for about five or six years now, ever since she messaged me on SG once upon a time to say she’d be in Santa Barbara for the weekend. We shared a bottle of vodka on my front porch, and she projectile vomited across my living room shortly after. We’ve been friends ever since, and she on occasion will send me incredibly wonderful unmarked packages in the mail. One included a number of dried chicken feet, with no note or return address. It’s why I love her.

I shot Regal Lace

while in Oakland two weeks ago, in one of her friend’s lofts. It’s the first time since I became a staff photographer that I tried my own hand at photoshopping the set, and I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out Cherry’s methods.

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Serene was one of the lovelies I got to meet while in Portland in May. Reflected was shot in the beautiful bathroom in the suite at The Nines I shared with Courtney, and I couldn’t resist the triple mirrors for a set. She was such a fantastic model that the only thing I had to worry about was whether or not I was in the mirrors as well – which I am in a few shots, but I’ll forgive myself for my accidental cameos.

So many millions of thanks to Cymagen for helping me out with the lighting on most of the Portland sets! I couldn’t have done it without him, and once again, Cherry completely read my mind regarding the color treatment. I don’t even bother telling her what I’m looking for anymore, since I know she’ll either just KNOW or competely one up me.

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Lilac is another Portland girl that I had the pleasure of working with. She has the face of a Russian doll, don’t you think?

We still had tons of natural light streaming in, so we went with the sun rather than the strobes for Flirting with Summer Mr. Moto Takes a Chance . I hadn’t realized that the big shoot day in Portland was the same day as a huge parade, which caused a ton of traffic and street closures surrounding the hotel. If you look through the windows in this set, you can see the crowds of people in the streets and in the squares. I’m still not sure if they were able to see her through the windows, but seeing her was probably better than any parade events.

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