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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Back to classes!

Sorry for the absence, I have been incredibly busy. Had some new (Amazing!) projects pop up and took a detour to Indiana. That's why there are two weeks missing below.

Started a new round of classes (this time all figurative) at the Animation Guild. Here are the results from Mark McDonnell's Gesture drawing class. I LOVE IT!!! If my memory serves me right these are 2min, 3min, 5min, and possibly 7s(?) We focus on super short poses which makes it really challenging and really fun. Some of the more elaborate ones are poses I really enjoyed and had to take further :]

Week 1:
Week 2:
Week 5:

Whew, one update down. A lot more work to scan/photograph, so more to come!

Short White Wedding Dresses


Short White Wedding Dresses
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Short White Wedding Dresses

Short White Wedding Dresses

Short White Wedding Dresses

Short White Wedding Dresses

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Short White Wedding Dresses

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There are many wedding dress styles to choose from, from white traditional gowns to wedding gowns to match specific wedding themes.
Many brides choose the dress they will wear based upon the time or the year that they get married in or the location of the wedding. If you have a destination wedding in the hot summer months, this may influence you to wear many different styles of wedding gowns including short wedding dresses, strapless (or spaghetti straps) or dresses made of lighter material. If will get married in colder months or a more traditional setting you may choose other elements such as long sleeves, a full ball gown skirt or something a little more modest.
Another way to make the decision of what your gown will look like is choosing the wedding dress based upon those themes and thinking about any type of wedding themes you may have.

Reverend's Reviews: From Boy to Man

Today, October 9th, would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday if he hadn't been brutally murdered in 1980. The singer-songwriter and former Beatle left behind a significant musical and political legacy, of which today's younger generation may not be fully aware. Nowhere Boy, a docudrama about Lennon's childhood and teen years now playing in Los Angeles and New York and expanding nationally soon, doesn't delve into this but it does provide an informative, unexpectedly emotional glimpse into the formative experiences of an eventual icon.

In mid-1950's, post-WWII Liverpool, American rock & roll was making a significant impression on British teens as well as their Yank counterparts. Teenager John Lennon (Aaron Johnson, a star on the rise between this and playing the title role of Kick-Ass earlier this year) was already a disciplinary challenge at his private high school. Taken in as a young boy by his Aunt Mimi (the always reliable Kristin Scott Thomas) and Uncle George (a brief but enjoyable turn by David Threlfall), John becomes even more difficult after George's unexpected death.


Things don't get any less complicated for young John or Mimi when his birth mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff of The Magdalene Sisters and The Last Station), re-enters the picture. Long haunted by sketchy memories of Julia, John finally gets the opportunity to put the puzzle pieces of his childhood together. The answers don't come without a price, including an intense, pseudo-incestuous relationship with Julia. In the process, though, John discovers an interest in sex and, most critically, in music.

Nowhere Boy was nominated for numerous 2010 BAFTA awards, including Outstanding British Film and Best Supporting Actress nods for both Thomas and Duff. The women are excellent both separately and together as long-estranged sisters who ultimately find some degree of reconciliation through their mutual love for John. Johnson is fine as the future rock star if more cut from photogenic, leading man stock than Lennon was. 17-year old Thomas Brodie Sangster (Nanny McPhee) is probably the best casting, short of going back in a time machine and fetching young Paul McCartney to play himself.


Questions have been raised over the decades about John Lennon's possible bisexuality. A prior film, Christopher Munch's acclaimed The Hours and Times (1991), speculated about the depth of John's relationship with Brian Epstein, the Beatles' gay manager. The pair took a private trip to Spain in the early 1960's and rumors have persisted ever since that theirs was more than a professional relationship, although Lennon denied that he and Epstein ever "consummated" their admittedly "intense" feelings for each other.

Similarly, if not as salaciously, Nowhere Boy hints that John's lifelong friendship with boyhood pal Pete Shotton (played by newcomer Josh Bolt) contained some degree of sexual attraction. Lennon reportedly often referred to himself and Pete as "The Terrible Twins." At one point in the movie, Pete mentions nonchalantly to John that he wished he had breasts like a girl so the two of them could mess around.


The film's script was written by Matt Greenhalgh, who is apparently becoming the go-to screenwriter for films about musicians after penning 2007's Control, the award-winning expose of the band Joy Division. His screenplay for Nowhere Boy is a bit by-the-numbers and sketchy at times, especially when dealing with Julia's mental and relational instability. Sam Taylor-Wood, a protégé of the late writer-director Anthony Minghella, does an admirable job with her feature film debut and draws great, emotionally expressive performances from the cast.

Of course, John Lennon is most remembered for his music and often philosophical lyrics, including such songs as "Imagine," "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Give Peace a Chance." Nowhere Boy certainly doesn't do or depict anything that diminishes their enduring power or Lennon's ongoing influence.

Reverend's Rating: B

UPDATE: Nowhere Boy is now available on DVD and Blu-ray from Amazon.com.

Review by Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident film critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.

links á la mode.

links a la mode

Hats Off!

Edited by: Thom of The Sunday Best

With fashion weeks in full swing it would have been easy for the IFB fold to post multiple photos and call it a day. Hats off to these dedicated writers for continuing to pump out original content on often thorny issues (negative blogging anyone?). In particular it was nice to finally see more than one male blogger throwing his hat into the ring. Dressed for Dinner - we salute you and your lovely beard.

Links à la Mode: October 8th

  • A la Modest: Bjork - the bold and bizarre living canvas
  • Beauty and the Recession: 5 ways to avoid bitchy commenting
  • Beyond Fabric: Buckle up
  • Dressed for Dinner: The growth of menswear
  • Fashion Limbo: How to grow old gracefully and happily
  • For Those About To Shop: Giving back is the new black
  • Forever Amber: Back to the asylum
  • Fuyume: Japanese fashion's influence on western style
  • Independent Fashion Bloggers: The Money Myth of Fashion Blogging
  • Oh la la Curves: We need diversity
  • Oranges and Apples: Negative blogging
  • Other Dutch Animals: Gap teeth: fashion trend?
  • Qqueen of Hearts: Are you in it for the fame or fortune?
  • Sam Sensibility: Is Gareth Pugh predicting a future without catwalks?
  • Sparrow and Urchin: Henry Ford
  • Sugar and Spice: Postscript - copying in fashion industry
  • The Sunday Best: The curious appeal to authenticity
  • The Taxonomy of My Wardrobe: Negative fashion bloggers - why?
  • The Coveted: Nicole Miller's preppy twist
  • Watch This Place: Stockings and stereotypes
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    Friday, October 8, 2010

    Alexander McQueen spring 2011


    Sarah Burton did a fine job capturing the late Alexander McQueen's essence in this spring collection. The butterfly effect in the first photos are mesmerizing and ornate. I also love how the detailed print in the last photo gives an autumn feel with the use of leaves and colors.
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