I know this cover is way over the hill old. But I still think it holds water from here until eternity….
Just got some new shots I did with master photographer Max DiBiaggio in NYC. There are many to choose from and I only have them in really low res. But you’ll get the picture of his style from these 3 shots.
Max is a genius with light. Truly! And I always love to work with him.
We did some video in July as well. Can’t wait to show you the result when he is done with the editing.
Also, some of our work will show in an Italian Magazine soon. I will publish it here when I’m granted permission by the publishers in Rome.
Fashion: Chick With Guns, Calvin Klein, Object, Zara
Just got these new shots from a shoot I did with artist Aaron Axelrod and Tanya in LA just before I went on my NYC/Europe journey for the Summer 2010. And they make me miss my home on the West Coast badly!!!
Rock Star 101! Can’t wait to get back and continue where we left off …
Fashion: Dolce et Gabbana, YSL, ZARA, Object.dk, La Perla, H&M, Versace, Vintage, S&M shops.
It is the weirdest thing. This time when I got into NYC and was anticipating the crazy, warm sensation rolling over me that I usually get when I cross the Williamsburg Bridge entering Manhattan from JFK. The joyous madness of being in love with the city that never sleeps and all it has to offer. However, something was different this time. And it wasn’t the cab, the smell, the July heat or the city lights from the concrete jungle. No, it was me. My feelings were different…. I didn’t feel the jolt in my belly or recognize the instant smile I usually get on my lips when in the Empire State. Can this really be? Is it possible that my undeniable passion for NYC is cooling off like day old, luke-warm water?
I sort of kept this discovery to myself the first couple of days. I mean, who wants to be out of love with the coolest city in the world? And I lost myself in work and the beach and high-life in The Hamptons. Now, back again in the city working and playing like I was paid to do so (which I am ha ha… Man, I feel blessed)… I’m contemplating again. Have I become the unspeakable? Have I joined the enemy and left the cool pack and become one of ‘those’… I can hardly utter the word here in Manhattan. ‘A Los Angeles lover’….????? I wasn’t sure about this new ambivalent state of mind I found myself in, which used to be a crystal clear ‘Empire State of Mind. Have I fallen out of love with the man of my dreams??????
this was the question that I kept asking myself since I arrived late Saturday night. But then something happened.
This morning I went down to the street to pick up my single shot skim latte and a tea for my friend and I got a little lost in the neighborhood. Soon I found myself wandering the area around University, 5th ave and East 11th street debating, which coffee shop to pay a visit. The weather today is overcast, mild and feels like a bliss after 5 days of 100 degrees merciless heatwave. And right there on the corner of University and East 11th street it struck me like lightning. I fell in love all over again. Hard, passionate and sensational!!! Just like I remembered it. NYC is still the hottest thing I ever involved myself with. I might like LA and love the lifestyle and my work on the West Coast. Trust me – I do. But NYC and I will always be an item no matter how involved I get with LA or any other city on the planet.
To celebrate my rekindling flame I’ve decided to pay my favorite Spa a visit – The one and only Miss Christine Chin – to get a deluxe facial. Later I’m meeting my girls for dinner and debauchery since I’m not working tomorrow. yay!!
Here are a couple of shots from last night’s shoot and other random NYC stuff….
I paid my favorite NYC hairdresser Mazja a visit down at Arrojo Studio on 180 Varick . On Thursday’s before 4 pm they have ‘bring a friend day and get half-off’. So my old NYC friend Jeff and I decided to test it out. This shot is taken just before Mazja transformed my haystack of hair into something looking more healthy and groomed. Thanks girl!
Sipping wine and touching up between takes from last night’s shoot on location in Jersey with Max. Oh and check out how healthy my hair looks 
…mirror stuff…
…more mirror stuff….
Tine & I at restaurant Lion. The people behind The Waverly Inn opened this restaurant recently. The food, wine, crowd and ambience is impeccable. All I can say is: When in NYC, go there!
Up at 6:30 am…wowza! Is this early rising becoming a habit of mine all of a sudden?
This morning I had my private acting lesson in Santa Monica and after my teacher helped me film an audition I have for a feature film. It’s a pretty big project and I really like the script so I was kind of nervous driving there. And of course LA morning traffic doesn’t help the spirit. What’s up with that anyways? Grid lock that early in the a.m. going west on the I10 should just not be legal.
Well, the lesson with Anthony – my teacher – was amazing and hard work as usual. Searching for truth and only expressing truth every moment seems simple, but it isn’t. Try it for yourself.
Then I hit home for a bite and 10 pages from a script that I have to finish tomorrow buy noon. Then on the road again, en route to Downtown where I was walking in a fashion show for a Japanese designer. An experience to put it mildly. I’ve never been to Tokyo, only Osaka, but I’m getting the idea from tonight’s show…haha… damn that’s intense!
Let me break it down: Goth meets Cyber-space pixie, meets sexy dominatrix diva, meets Twilight teens under a blue moon…
I had aprox 6 feet of metallic wire in my hair to make it stand in a Pippi Longstocking-ish way. 2 bottles of hairspray and so much white powder in my face and glue in my eyebrows that they will never look the same again… But it was fun!!!
I’m wearing: Zara cardigan, Object top with studs, Dolce&Gabbana hotpants, Steve Madden sandals
My still in my own ‘feathers’ half made hair
no makeup getting hair done
Mini Mouse..?
pretty…
femme fatale…
The Fashion Designer
Welcome to Planet Future….
Grrrrrrrrr…… hot girls!
Le Look
Aliens 4… anyone..?
Today I had a fitting downtown at the Marriot Hotel for a fashion show tomorrow night. It’s for a Japanese designer who’s in town showing his new ideas. His look is very street and ‘Tokyo’. Fun a tad over the top and futuristic.
What’s a ‘fitting’ you ask? It’s a meeting between you and the designer where he or she has you try on different outfits from the collection to see how it looks on you. Sometimes it can take a really long time if they are behind schedule and they need to make many changes to the dresses. But today it was really fast and easy. I just pulled into valet parking at the hotel, walked to the suite and tried on a couple of outfits and then I was done. In and out in 15 mintues.
Then I had to pick up my leather jacket that I forgot at yesterday’s film shoot at some location in South LA. Damn, that area is inflamed. Just south of USC (which is one of America’s best Universities. Still, this area down there is so shady I would be very careful getting out of my car).
Anyhow, then time for a much needed jog around my neighborhood and now it’s time to prepare for acting class tomorrow morning and an audition for a feature film that I need to tape and then upload to a director who is out of town. So I’m being a good girl and staying in tonight.
Tokyo Love 1
Tokyo Love 2
The Designer & I
Tonight Tanya & I was doing a shoot with artist Aaron Axelrod. Aaron is a super talented and fierce up and coming young artist who lives here in Hollywood. His work shows from Paris to LA and Aaron is represented by the same art gallery as legendary David LaChapelle. So if you don’t know Aaron by now check out his work. No doubt, he is going to be huge.
So what was the shoot about? Well basically about having a good time, party, chill and see where the mood would take us… and well… it took us places…. ha haha. These are just random ‘behind the scene shots’ and ‘around the camera shots’. Next week Aaron will make selections and then start painting the ones he likes.
check it out:
Baseball bat & Boom box
Super Soakers & Lollipop
Tanya loves her Lolipop
Aaron, Tanya & I
Beer & Lolipop yup!!!
Aaron getting us out of control. BTW: his art work is hanging on the walls.
Aaron in action
Tanya & I jumping on the bed
WTF!!???
Ha ha… What on Earth were we thinking…
Tony (photographer of these snaps shots) and his 6 pack
Let me present to you the most insanely beautiful and dramatic performer ‘CANDIS CAYNE’!
Candis performed at the Abbey at Robertson Blvd last night and made us cry with laughter. She’s a genius. Truly!
I don’t know what it is. I have a ‘thing’ for trannies. I love love love photographing them. While I was still livning in NYC I was always at Room Service or Arena to document Amanda LePore and the likes. Those chicks are always ready for their ‘close-up’ and know how to look amazing in every frame.
Drama, drama, drama!!!!
Here are a couple of snaps form last night:
Tony, Tanya & I trying to pull a ‘Candis’
Heeyyy.. Ian just came in the frame too!!
- An automaton that is created from biological materials and resembles a human
For sound click here
”…Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What’s that…? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What’s that…? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)…”
Photography: Karla Gotcher
Make-up & Hair: Eva Woodby
Android: Me
