MISS BADU

Erykah Badu is a sick ting, straight.

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.

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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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.