Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Bleak


Bleak

Washed out charcoal has a faded grey colour, nothing really special. It’s the most blasé colour, hue, shade or whatever you call it. It’s the colour of the sky on a cold December day right before it snows. It’s the colour your white shirts go when you don’t wash them, even though you wear them every day. Or like the bottom of your socks as they shred into gaping holes. It’s just a sad, pale hue that says absolutely nothing. It has no voice.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Reflections


What do you see when you look into the mirror? Is it a true reflection? Or is ­­­it flawed? Is it wrong to look in the mirror and only see flaws that you wish you could change? Is it wrong to dislike so much about yourself that you can’t see anything good? Is it wrong to wake up every morning wishing you were someone, something, else? Not that it would matter what you were, just as long as you weren’t yourself.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Blackadder gold


 A fashion shoot inspired by the summer heat and the predatory faux snakeskin-like jacket. 

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Graffiti and pearls


This is my version of a party for Victoria Day weekend. The sun kept enroaching on my location so it was a race to get as many shots as I could. I'm sort of happy with these shots, they seem to be lacking something and I had no end of hair problems. Enjoy.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Who am I? - Self portrait


Who am I?

Look at me, look at my face, look into my eyes. Each time peel back another layer till you can finally see past every mask I’ve put up. What do you see? Can you tell me cause I don’t know what I look like. I don’t know who I am.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Lipstick and Brandy


Scarlet lips like cherries on a cold winter day. The graceful scorn of one perfectly arched eyebrow. The flutter of eyelashes, eerily reminiscent of the death throes of a butterfly.  She could rule me of by a single movement of her face. I loved her and loathed her. Such extreme emotions can easily overwhelm ones heart and mind so that he becomes unable to control his actions. I know I certainly couldn’t. Yet how I desperately wanted to. I wanted to be the man that she desired. Oh, she told me how I failed at fulfilling her desires. She would never let me forget my failures. That would be showing mercy.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

On point under the moon


 A short while ago my friend, Britt, and I wandered our way downtown and took some photos. While the quality of these photos are not quite what we wanted them to be, I rather like the ghostly quality of the shots.  My friend is something quite amazing, a ballerina in the armed forces. 


Saturday, March 31, 2012


Saturday night, playing with my make up, and a delicious snack. 
I played with a smokey eye and a coloured lip. I didn't put any foundation or cover-up on, just playing with the eye. I did do my hair though. 
As for the snack, kiwis and strawberries, smothered in whipped  cream, and french music in the background. Oh yes, I feel classy.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Hues of grey


Outside the city there is this little orchard and field, an oasis from the hectic world. I like to go and wander through the marshy grass, puddles, trees, and just think, ponder life and all it's complexities. This shoot took place on a cold day with plenty of wind whistling around. I explored the feeling of freedom in the later shots, surrounding myself in a lace shroud, but I tried to stage it like a magazine spread. 

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Rococo


 Rococo, or Roccoco (the correct but outdated spelling), refers to a period of art where pleasure and opulence was celebrated with vigor and abandon. This shoot I did was a play on that, Rococo with morals so to speak. The plethora of textures, colours, patterns, and poses all touch the Rococo aesthetic, but the facial expressions and location bring the story back around to the result of too much pleasure, which is dissatisfaction. Also I have Arcade Fire's "Rococo" stuck in my head, and even though I don't think it's a good song, it influenced my title. 

Monday, March 19, 2012

Rambles with poison

Whenever I sit down to write I end up with nothing. A few sentences, delete, a few more and hit delete. Frustration at my lack of inspiration exhausts me. I’m tired but I loathe sleeping. I need to find a way to express the emotions pent up inside of me but I don’t know how. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say when I write but rather that I feel like I’ve said it all before. I feel like I’m running in a circle with no change.  My life is just continuing in the same way and I’m desperately screaming for a change.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Thorns and lace


Recently I went outside, in the dying rays of the early spring sun, and was struck by the textures of nature. The sharp thorns, soft grass, rough bark, intricate seed pods, they all called out to me. This post is some the highlights from that shoot, focusing on the thorns and lace of nature. Read and be inspired.  

Friday, March 16, 2012

As Free As My Hair


Some days I get a little board and the lighting is just right. The combination of boredom and fantastic lighting often results in an endless supply of photos and clothing strewn across the floor of my apartment.  This shoot was all about hairpieces and wide-eye makeup. I tried playing with line of femininity and masculinity, as well as reference some religious and pop-culture themes. 

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Last of the Wild Ones

A photo shoot in February, believe it or not. More of a fashion shoot, no message under laid in this one.



Saturday, March 10, 2012

Menswear-Fall 2012-13: The Winner Takes it All

The winners of Menswear -Fall 2012-13. I want everything in this post. Absolutely adore. The clothing in this post actually took my breath away. Admittedly there is a lot of Balmain in here, cause it's amazing. I do not feel sorry one bit. I'll stop salivating now. So sit back and enjoy the jewels of menswear.


 Balmain 
I just adore this. All of it!

Friday, March 9, 2012

Menswear-Fall 2012-13: The Bucket List

The title of this post may be misleading. Generally the bucket list is something, or things, that you want to do, or in this case wear. However the title is referring to a vomit bucket because the clothes in this post are just some of the horrors in Menswear Fall 2012-13. Prepare for bitchy comments. And bitch back in the comments.

Burberry Prorsum
The coat comes with it's own inflatable inner tube. You just can't deflate it and it's always riding up in your armpits.

Menswear-Fall 2012-13: The Meh category

To start of my three blog post spree about the wonders and horrors of fall 2012-13 menswear, I figured it would be best, and most interesting, to begin with the clothing that I liked or disliked on a lukewarm scale. Please enjoy and tell me if you agree or disagree in the comments.

 Bottega-Veneta
While I neither like or dislike the top of this outfit I am kind of in love with the pants. Kinda. 


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Insomnia

Insomnia

 I can’t sleep; my body won’t stop functioning like a robot, spiralling out of control. My mind won’t stop. Always thinking. Always talking. Screaming, singing, shouting in my head. Like a choir of rusty swings and nails. Piercing, stabbing, slicing away at the fleshy walls of my brain. I can feel the migraines coming. Little claws hooking into the bone of my skull, digging their way into my nerves. Behind my eyes with torches, burning, burning, burning. Nerves afire, pain is my only friend.
Why can’t I sleep? Why can’t I feel something other than this hollowed out numbness? I feel nothing. Am I more than sleepless nights and days split by migraines? Am I actually here? Or am I just going through the motions, the daily list of things I have to do to pass as alive in this world? Am I actually alive?
Sitting here, alone in my apartment, the sound of a fan my company. I thought if I cleaned it I would feel better. And I did. For a moment. A brief moment I felt like I was moving forward. As if all my atoms lurched into motion. But only for a moment.
Limbo. Between life and death. What separates life from death? Feelings? So if I feel nothing then am I alive? I don’t feel like it. I feel nothing. Just this hollow feeling deep inside, emanating from the center of my body. A hollow numbness, a black hole of nothingness deep inside that swallows up who I am. Limbo. Floating in stasis, stuck in between. Watching everyone else move on and never feeling my own feet on the ground. Never feeling those steps, the stumbling, shuddering, clumsy footfalls of one who has crawled too far. I can’t even crawl. Just stand. Stasis. Limbo.
I just want to feel. Feel pain. Sorrow. Anger. Rage. Anything. I’m in a cage and I don’t know how to get out. I want out. Or do I? What is out? Does out exist? Does everyone feel this numb about life? Does everyone feel all the pressure pushing down, as if we are lying at the bottom of the ocean, in the crushing oblivion? Oblivion. Nothingness. Empty, a hollow shell of frayed nerves and sleepless, bloodshot eyes. How long can I continue to force myself to go on? What is there to chase after? What is there other than this? This emptiness, this severed state? Is there more than this?
There must be more. I have to believe in something greater than nothing. Death is greater. I believe in death. Don’t I? After all if I feel nothing in life, what would I feel in death? Would death really be an end? Or just another state of limbo? I shouldn’t think these things. I believe in more than death. I believe in Heaven, eternal life in bliss. Or do I?  I don’t know what I believe. Sure it’s easy to muster up conviction when the sun shines bright. But when the world fades away to slumber and I sit awake, alone in the weak light of a bedside lamp, what do I believe. All my convictions, beliefs, fall away, leaves cast from the tree, no longer a part of the greater whole. Lifeless words, forced fed into me, only to be spewed out in the presence of others. Alone there is no passion, just the empty vomit, the drippings of bile. Alone there is nothing but the empty pages and dusty shelves.
My mind is like a library burned, ravaged by life. Documents cling to charred bookcases, pages curling, blackened with neglect. Mould creeps in the soggy corners, a musty growth eating away the foundations. I can’t find what I want in the books of my library. Useless facts, gathered from the remnants of shattered memories. Shredded bits and pieces of what I’m supposed to be. What we put in determines what comes out right? Well pour all you want in, it all just comes out, leaving only sour curds clinging to the lip of my brain.
My brain, the great burned library, full of mirrors. They all stare at me, everyone shouting a different message. Twisted faces, ink stained mouths screaming, with fat, swollen tongues pushing through rotten teeth and batter, bloody lips. I can’t look away, but I can’t focus. I can only see them all, hear them all. Every word, screamed into my ears till blood drips to the sagging floor, every word a hammer blow to my throbbing temples.
“Accept yourself”
“Faggot”
“You are chosen, a child of God”
“Disgusting worm”
“It wasn’t your fault”
“What could you have done better? Did you even try?”
“Keep fighting, it’s worth it”
“Give up. You’re worthless”
“God loves you. He says you’re worth something”
“Worthless junk”
“God doesn’t make junk”
“Worthless”
“Loved”
“Worthless”
“Loved”
“Worthless”
I want it to stop. This cacophony of crows and seagulls in my head, echoing over and over. I can’t separate one voice from the other. I feel like two people warring for the space of one mind. Split, separated.
When I close my eyes I can see those mouths, polluted, full of sores. I can see the eyes, boring hatred into my soul, pouring loathing into my heart. But it’s my mouth, my eyes. It’s me, slowing killing myself every night. A thousand drips of acid on my skull. Burning.
Burning, burning, burning. Every nerve ending is fried, baked. And yet every nerve screams out in agony. I can’t stand, my stomach lurches and spins. My head is splitting in two. Skin stretching with every beat of my heart. I can feel it in my temples. Pounding away, a machine beating out a rhythm to remind all that hear it there is no hope. Nothing but the everyday toils.
My body is a factory, mindless processing, producing, every day. Churning out what is necessary to prove that this body still works. Grey matter chugging away, belching black oily smoke. It coats the backs of my eyes, burning the once white flesh.  Tired, dry eyes, staring without really seeing. I’m a factory that produces the very thing it runs on. A mindlessly numbing cycle with no end in sight. Producing the shit required to keep producing the same shit. Grey matter working away with no goal in sight.
But what else is there? Is there really a point where the colourless becomes colourful? Is there proof that things do work out? I can imagine it. Well not really, just what I would want it to be. Free, colourful, open, breathable, soaring, dancing. Abstract terms nothing more. A made up fantasy in my head. But make believe is better than no dream right? It’s not real, and fantasies only last so long before everything comes crashing down and the ravenous hunger sets in. I want more, but I can’t see a way to get more. Can’t even see a reality that is more than this.
So that’s it then. This is all there is. This existence, this struggle to survive with no real reason for survival. Do we just live to exist? Do we push on everyday just to push on every day? What’s the point? If life is just a daily, tortuous fight why do we fight? Do we fight because to not fight is the selfish thing to do? Is life meant to be focused on surviving to make everyone else’s fight easier? Then why are we fighting? What the use?
Do we fight because we don’t know how to stop? Or are we afraid that fighting is all there is and, as pointless and self-defeating this fight may be, it is somehow better than nothing. So here we are back at nothing. Funny huh? We fight because fighting is better than nothing but when nothing is our reality why do we fight? It makes no sense.
What’s the use? What is the purpose? This exhaustion but no rest? This battle but no resolution. Hell, I’d take defeat if it meant resolution. If it meant that I could finally move on. But move on to where? What lies ahead? Nothing. I’m already at nothing so what the heck is left. The same as before. Nothing.  A big fat blank nothing. And because I feel nothing then I don’t exist. And if I don’t exist why do I keep fighting?
There is no answer to this headache. No restful sleep for this insomnia. Just a circling pattern with no end in sight. A perfect circle, the perfect reason to continue on.
And then we can bring God into all this. I mean I know He exists. I know He’s real. Is this worth fighting for? The end result is to be with God forever? Then why fight? There is no reason for it. To convert souls? Sure. Sounds like another fight to me. Nothing makes sense. It’s all a big jumble, a mixed up mess of twisted thoughts. And what are we left with? Insomnia. And no real reason to keep on going.
I just want to sleep. I can feel the pressure building behind my eyes, pushin outward. Could I, just this once, explode? That would a relief. Just let all that pressure out in one messy, final, glorious, discharge. And then peace.
Quiet. Just absolute quiet. And nothing. Absolute nothing.
So I feel nothing. And I want to feel nothing.
I must feel something.   
And I don’t want to feel nothing. I want to feel. What I want is to be normal. But what is normal? There are no answers. There is nothing.
But insomnia. And a hollowed out numb body, sitting, typing away when he should be fast asleep.
So I do feel something. And that something is nothing.
And I can’t sleep.