floating

a series of fortunate events.
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foraging/grey worlds/crab and ship graveyard

It was so grey that every piece of color in the world stood out. I stumbled upon a crab graveyard that was swimming with exoskeletons of sea beatles and plenty of fish vertabrae and bone fragments, we even found a sort of femur-ish looking bone. There were two dead birds at the entrance to the beach, and when the sun came out I saw two birds dancing in the little waves, but I dont think it was a dance so much as mercury poisoning or a defect from something. They were alien birds, three eyes birds, or maybe three winged? in all sincerity they couldnt move correctly and a dog tried to eat them, it was horrible. But the beach itself was calm and so grey and pretty magnificent, I think I tainted the purity of it all with my 32 oz of MILLER HIGH LIFE. But what could I have done? The champagne of beer was beckoning.
This is expired film, 600, excellent photo conditions with the grey and the bright light and the fog diffusers. It was misting heavily and you can see beads of dew on Miles' mustache and hairs. A girl made GOLD out of kelp, a crab died, the sea and the sky were the same.

The Real Show.

I wanted to make a world where you come face to face with the lady from your dreams. She's the one there, taking you deep sea diving, flying around Jupiter leaving trails of rainbows and cotton balls. She is the lady of the universe, and she looks sort of like an American Apparel ad, apparently, ha ha. Lana was my number one choice for a dreamland fairy godmother. We made cotton ball clouds and decorated balloons to be planets. The images captured what I wanted them too, though there are some definite lighting issues seeing that one of our umbrella flashes was not working. Also, I need to learn some serious editing skills, but, hey, I am trying!
Overall, I am happy with these photos, and I had alot of fun taking them. I was really inspired by The Knife's "Like a Pen" video. All the deep colors, shadows, urgency and closet like spaces. Also, I was sort of trying to recreate a little part of my dreams where the universe swirls around you leaving pretty dusts and little fairy godmothers to help you wake up.

galactic

Here is a sneaky little preview of our photo shoot today. Lana is in the galaxies.