Wednesday 10 November 2010

Info for meribeth

yo meribeth this is specially for u, here's what im thinking for the makeup looks. you should be able to click on any of the images to make them bigger

1-Black and White (images 1,2,3 for eyes, 4 for lips)
Heavy black on the eyes, coming towards the nose bone extending right to the eyebrows, with eyebrows thickened towards the center. Perhaps some contouring under the cheek bones to sculpt face more and give a heart shape. Lips very bare with a light staining in the centre, i want to be able to see the creases in the lip texture. Or instead of the really dark eye, depending on what you think would suit the model best, perhaps look to image 3 where the lid is white and the top crease heavily outlined in black with lots of black underneath to shape the eye.






 

2-Colour. 
Im thinking a clean face with very little make-up, perhaps even erase the eyelashes with a white mascara or eyeliner (ill go searching for some white eyestuff) and then a bold popping lip colour
     
and this is the girl that will model, she doesnt wear any make-up so i think we can really transform her face with these looks, especially with the blind contacts too! For hair im not very creative with that but i know i want something that will flow in the air so im thinking to just leave it natural, but im open to suggestions


Saturday 27 February 2010

MISS BADU

Erykah Badu is a sick ting, straight.

Saturday 6 February 2010

STEALING

Oi baz, I edited some of your images from time ago that happened to be on my computer, do u mind if I use them as part of my portfolio? the first picture is a sick ting.


Thursday 4 February 2010

MORE PLANNING

Been taking more practise photos, this time in the studio! omg Larry + a studio = never thought it would happen, but anyway decided to give it ago with some more ideas of things to put on kaishia for our photoshoot. So Sanam wrapped in black meshy but not fake chiffon stuff with wire mesh over her face

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Tuesday 2 February 2010

LOOKING FORWARD TO

  • d.i.y.ing an outfit for kaishias shoot
  • doing kaishias shoot
  • shopping with my nan in portobello on friday
  • going out with kaish, emma and kaysi on saturday
  • hearing about kaysis life
  • seeing precious on sunday hopefully
  • getting involved with waynes film project
  • getting invloved with kaysis film stuff
  • successful interviews!

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE


This shoot is hella pretty, if reading serves me right its from this months issue of Interview magazine with that gaunt model Sasha Pivovarova, anyways im loving the white with all the busy drawings in blue, green, yellow and pinks. Id love to have loads of plain white furniture and give the fam all rainbow pens to jazz up my room. anyways it reminded me of a page from my wee sketchbook where i played around with food dyes and inks and the tissue that i used to dry the wet paint brush actually turned out prettier than the drawing

the cyan-indigo-violet-pink-red-murky yellow-green on soft tissue is so pretty methinks, thats all.

BARCELONA

Barcelona was fun, the kingston people are cool and im alot more pleased now i don't feel so tied down to 1 group of people there, i can drift about everyone, sorta. But in no way does it compare to holidays with the fam, (spain year 9 remains my favourite holiday, Croyde, Portugal). So I took my camera with me, not the chunky beast of a D90, but my Fuji, which i have to mention, why the fuck does it only take pictures at 72dpi ? i mean i can barely tell the difference but i feel like im being conned (side note: how do u spell coned? conned? just doesnt look right) So here's my favourite pictures from Barcelona (i posted them on fb, but fb is gay, so ill post them here too)




1- some big fancy house designed by Gaudi, everything in there has round edges, its nice, but i was more interested in the chandelier / 2- in a train station, i love the kind of photos where it looks like ur peering into someones life, plus the colours help / 3- beach, the sun was going down the the waves were bad ass at this time / 4- some fat street where there was water features on the road, the sun as so nice that day / 5- i have a thing about trains, they just look really cool to me, especially these fancy spanish trains we werent even supposed to be on and almost got lost in barelona with.

PLANNING

Hello, its been a while, i've been pretty busy lately with all my college work, ucas crap, and going to Barcelona so excuse for the lack of updates, that and i go through periods of being really uninspired to do anything.
Well i think im finally back on track, see i've kinda avoided doing fashion photography because i can paint n draw n sew n crap so i was all why just stick to one? but being decent at those things isnt enough and i realise the only inspiring thing for me is photography, or more fashion photography. So ive decided that even tho im budget and dont know anyone freakishly tall and hot im still gonna go ahead and hopefully produce some interesting shots for my portfolio to show some potential, because ive honestly not done anything worthwhile on this dang foundation course that im proud of.

much aside i hate studio photography, so im gonna grab my girl kaishia and hit up some lonely streets particularly those with interesting angles and buildings. I dont have a written concept for it yet, but fuck it, i just wanna take pretty pictures.
For the outfit, a while back we made these fake bodice pieces to attach stupid pieces of paper on to, i made mine more into a sorta super hero thing with shoulder pointy things and wings, but ive dragged it back up and taken off the wings and cut through the middle of the bodice so kaishia can wear it, oh and cut holes down the centre for fastening, its all basic and made out of paper at the moment, so i want to get ahold of some matte black spray, or maybe gloss, not sure yet and spray the whole thing black, then perhaps some holographic silver paper to cover the shoulder spikes with. Then underneath the bodice im just gonna get a couple metres of fabric and drape that around kaish, i could just be cheap and buy that satin polyester blend stuff, it should photograph nicely but im thinking perhaps a sorta shiny mesh layer on top of that? unclear. anyways i was bored in college the other day so i took said bodice and random disgraceful fabric and piled it onto Sanam, then went around college to do a few test pictures,



I think theres some potential in it, i dont know how good a job im gonna do at making the whole outfit, but i like the thought that when its finished i know that i put all the work in, im not just the photographer photographing someones designs, yagetme. 

 


and then with the whole angles thing im thinking for presentation i might do alot of doubles. also you can clearly see how terrible the material is in that colour photo, it all needs alot of work, but im inspired at the moment, and thats all that matters.

For kaishias make-up ill be using lots of black around the brow and top lip, and then i want to learn how to do that fantasy irrescent makeup and put that above kaishias brow and on her cheekbones, picture illustrates just that:


im not sure what to do with Kaishias hair yet, so if you have any ideas for it, or generally just for the entire shoot, hit me up fam.

Sunday 17 January 2010

OH SHIT

Hmm I feel pretty scared right now, as of this week i've been experiencing a couple strange things in my house, i'll start with the other night;

Sleeping peacefully when im suddenly awoken by the drop of paper, the paper was sitting on top of my printer, on my desk, on the floor, so sure no big deal but it was a pretty big leap to not fall on my desk but the floor instead, so I feel abit wierd but just try to go back to sleep, and as im laying there swear to you I hear a voice shout as if it's right next to me, and at that point I jump up to turn the light on and look around my room because im pretty shook now. But of course there's nothing in my room so I just talk myself out of it and try again to go to sleep. And as I lay there I can hear noises coming from outside as usual. Next day in the morning I did see that my window was open a small amount, however I thought it was closed the whole night, I would have noticed the curtains move, so in no way was it open enough to have strong enough wind come in to blow the paper around and for the neighbors to be loud enough to sound as if they're right next to me.

So that was odd, but I got over it and put it down to being half asleep. But then today, a sunny sunday afternoon, the family all out food shopping, me chilling in front of the TV catching up on Big Brother, music playing from the kitchen, all cool; and as im watching the show I hear some strange breathing noise, like someone keeps heavily exhaling from their nose really quickly, at first im confused thinking its the TV, so I pause the TV and the breathing still continues, it sounds like its in the room with me, and its not me, the window isnt even open either. So im sat there listening and then it stops, I don't feel too scared because its so bright out, just abit odd. I then forget about the noises, turn the TV off and go into the kitchen to do the dishes, when I hear a noise from the door so im thinking my mum is back from food shopping, so im standing there waiting to hear her call me but there's nothing, there's no one there; so I continue the dishes and I hear it again and check the door once more, and still, just me in the house.

NOW IM FEELING FREAKED OUT AS I START THINKING OF ALL THE WIERD THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN OCCURING RECENTLY.

but its only around 3pm and its so bright out. I walk into the living room to just stand and listen confused, and i can hear a humming, I look around and the Wii is on, everything else off, and ya know, the hum on gaming systems is quite loud, I should have noticed that earlier, and also no one had been playing Wii today.

So here I am now blogging about it because im so confused, im hoping its just me being really sensitive to sounds of the street, forgetting things, and the wind. But I dunno, i've seen strange things before, and having watched Paranormal Activity and having it running over in my head now really doesn't help. 
So all I can say now is, incase im found dead in the near future, atleast my experiences have been evidenced.

Saturday 16 January 2010

KAISHIA'S EAR

Well my stomach feels abit groggy, but there's no headache or extreme tiredness, so all in all, pretty good. Last night me, kaishia, emma and her friend Mark went to this bar/club in Kensington called Opal, I suspected it would be shit, because Kensington is full of rich old twats and shitty commercial music, and the name Opal, which is ya kno, a granny stone.

So we met at Emma's to start drinking coz we're cheap and ghetto, emma was up for getting wasted tonight because she was super nervous for her male friend who decided to tag along with us, but hey, he doesnt drink and has a car, can i get a T-A-X-I! is all im thinking, brilliant. So we get to the bar and its pretty tiny in there, theres a dance floor too with a couple oldies getting down with there bad selves, so we just plonk ourselves down some seats, best thing is our bags didnt get checked so we got away with taking our alcohol inside, coz u know what West London is like with their prices. 

So as I thought, the place is pretty shit, 3 people dancing, shitty music and an awkward atmosphere, oh and there's this 30 year old guy whos probably on Ecstacy but he's mad fun because he keeps coming back over to us to give us high fives. But anyway me and kaish decide to make the most of the night and go bust some moves on the dancefloor, alcohol having kicked in. And the next thing theres this SWARM of oriental asians (not the hot sort tho) entering the club and I don't really know how but next thing me and kaish are dancing with them, and then theres this one in a suit who keeps coming to dance with me and his friend tells me its his birthday, so heres me dashing away from him every 5 minutes to escape the whole, im NOT ur birthday present kinda thing, so anyway thats funny; but then every time I leave kaish she keeps getting sandwiched with asians, and then one is following her to sit down next to her to whisper sweet nothings into her ear...im so jealous of this guy right now! But anyways once he leaves we find out from Kaishia he was kissing/licking her ear! amazing! thats 2 guys now that have done that to her. I've never really checked out kaishias ears but they must be doing something right!

hmm well that wasnt amazingly exciting, but it was fun which is strange for me to enjoy going out, so yeah, me and kaish had a good night, don't know about the rest.


And here's just 2 pretty pictures I found surfing around DA





Thats all folks/only barry x

Thursday 14 January 2010

ITS A FAM TING

Everytime I visit my great grandad in Portsmouth I always get excited looking over old photos, and in particular this portrait of my nan; she's one of my favourite people, so I had to take a snap to keep for myself


lovely, although I think she was abit of a whore back in the day though...

DROP

Check out this awesome site: DROP, its basically just another street fashion snapper blog, but ya know, the Japanese just do it SOOO much better.




Wednesday 13 January 2010

CARD MAKING

It's my friend's birthday tomorow, and since I didn't bother to leave the house today to go and buy her a card I made one instead :) Im quite pleased, made an envelope and bow too, check it...


outside

the card

inside.

Saturday 9 January 2010

YO TOK YO



I saw these lovely photos by James Ryang of Tokyo, ah so badly want to go back there, and these pictures also remind me that I should post some of my photos from Japan too, but Ryang's work is just lovely, so here's more:




OFF SHE GOES

Well yesterday was barry's last night in london, and well, we didn't really plan anything, so me, koos and barry decided to hit up cheap n cheerful Liquid nation for cocktails. The night included: hovering guys that turned into an older version of Philipe and that main guy from Greenday talking to barry, a disgusting big old black man that said I look fertile, wtf! A chav talking about a hat and a random film then trying to kiss kaishia, failing at pool, barry stealing a lampshade - pure brilliance, kaishia stealing the white ball and me the que, getting nasty ass kebabs and missing our bus, and random black guys hovering at bus stops. Wierd. Anyways here's 2 pictures.




HOT DAMM 2

Silviu Tolu, gosh he's pretty




CHAMPION

Woohoo I finally won something on Ebay, its this strange holographic silver top I dunno if i'll ever wear, but it was too holographic to not bid on, and 99p! ok with p&p the total is about £4, but I can deal with that.




The amazing multi-coloured bustier I posted earlier is ending in about 15 minutes, but its gone up to £16, hmm, pricey, I dunno whether to bid, but its so good though.

Thursday 7 January 2010

WHY SO SICK

Urgh Ebay makes me so depressed, I keep finding all these awesome clothes, watching them, and then completely forgetting to come back to them to bid, so this time i've bidded early, but they all end at annoying i'll be at college times,

I've just spied these 2 pieces today






WANT WANT WANT. The first one is getting scooped up so quickly by other people though, its unfair.

HOT DAMM

Ok I have no idea what happened, but this picture of Jethro is actually amazingly hot, dunno, maybe its because the smoke covers half his face, but whatever


DISSAPOINTMENT

Aww man I was totally looking forward to the Chiswick Ceremoney today, and sure im happy that the snow cancelled college for me for a second day, and that I get to keep cosy in my warm house, but I really wanted to go back to school and wear my dress I previously thought Id never wear and now think is major awesome, and see everyone from school including Mr.Miller the photography teacher.
Well, they better reschedule.



DOES MY FRO MATCH THIS TUX?




Haha, Jean-Paul Gaultier is mixing fake afros with tailored suits, fucking love it, looks so hot.