My name is May-Jun. I’m passionate and excited about design, painting, lighting, video, photography, music and running a business. I’ve decided to showcase my creative inspirations and share my processes and knowledge. If you have any questions, you can reach me at mayjunmuse@gmail.com
<3 ~ May-Jun
So I recorded these tracks at Kevin Komoranski’s home studio. We recorded these tracks live with no edits. This was a test for doing audio recording at Algonquin College. Kevin is a teacher at Algonquin and we ended up recording the song Truth Serum at Algonquin with his students. The funny part about the recording session at Algonquin was I had a photo shoot to go after so I had to be dressed up all glamorous for 9am all the way till almost midnight. It was a long day, but it was amazing! The track wil possibly be shared in the next few months or so. For now, this is what you get. Free downloads!
So I’ve been currently in a home studio laying some rough tracks to record in studio. I will be posting them quite soon. Mailyne from Dream Love Grow surprised me with this behind the scenes edit from the music video “Hibernate”. Thank you Mailyne for this wonderful surprise, you did a great job!
So Mailyne from Dreamlovegrow.com was unable to do live painting as expected. She just announced she is having a baby! I am so excited and happy for her. She may be moving to the same city as me.This will mean more creative collabs. For Ottawa Fashion Week I had Becky Mearns perform with me both nights. It was such a delight to have her with me up on stage. Ottawa Fashion Week keeps getting better and better! The fashion shows are amazing, they have pro lighting on the run way and a lot of amazing designers and artists that come by. The pictures below are from bookthebooth.ca and Ming Wu a local photographer/events blogger! Thank you for the pictures!
Hanging out with my friends!
We tried jumping!
I’ve had this dream to sing and perform on stage since I was a little girl. As I grew up, it became more difficult to perform and feel confident with my performances. I would think about screwing up on stage while performing until I did. I would get the shakes, cold sweats and complete fright.
I’ve been performing live shows now for 5 years and finally after 5 years of performances I do not feel as scared and afraid. I’ve really had to push myself out of having stage fright because performing and music is my passion and I choose not to let something like that get in the way of my dream.
So how do you get over stage fright? Here are some tricks I’ve done.
1. Think of the stage as your home. Make your self feel at home. What would make you feel good? What does it take for you to own the stage?
2. Try performing in a group to start and than on your own. You can feed off other band members (who are more confident).
3. Look at what you are afraid of. Is it people judging you? Is it you judging you? Once you have figured it out, you need to let it go. Also congratulate your self for even being up on stage. I don’t care what stage you are in the music game, I absolutely respect everyone who is on stage because it takes courage to do it.
4. If people are being critical of you, you need to be neutral, curious and look at where they are coming from. Are they coming from a loving place? Is this someone you truly value and love or is this someone being mean to you? I get critics online from this blog, they waste their time commenting here instead of focusing on something more fulfilling. These people have yet to come from a loving place, so I don’t take it personally at all. I feel sad for them because they are wasting their time and energy. Why not focus on being the best you can be and leave others alone?
5. Visualize before the show as if you are there right now. Imagine the pot lights in your eyes blinding you from the audience, the rough black stage floors with black tape all over it, the microphone. Now feel the confidence you want to feel and all the people you don’t know waiting to hear you sing. Think of how you will say “Hi” with love and confidence. When you really are on stage think of that again.
Thank you!
Love & Good Melodies
~ May-Jun
So I’m apart of the China town Remixed. This is when artists collaborate with China town in Ottawa and have local art in many stores as well as performances. This year I will be posting self portraits in a store as well as performing. This is a sneak peak to what is to come.
The photography concept is letting go of the idea of who you think you are. This means to me letting go of the idea of defining yourself by what you do, where you work and what you have. This is my expression of letting that go.
I’ve been very inspired by other self portrait artist/photographers. My friend Richard Desmerais recommended some female photographers that are absolutely stunning. Here are there links for you to enjoy.
www.rebekkagudleifs.com
www.missaniela.com
www.sheispretty.carbonmade.com
www.parkeharrison.com
My favorite of them all is Rebekka Gudleifs.
I do photo shoots professionally. I have a great list of credentials and experience for photography and encourage you to take a look at my new website.
Some of my credentials include: I have a photography diploma, I’ve shot weddings overseas, worked for many established magazines, and much more.
I’m currently booking overseas weddings, local weddings, portraits and architecture shoots.
Other exciting things that are coming up are:
I’m doing traditional inuit throat singing for Canadian Future Achievers
If you want to see my Inuit throat singing collaboration watch the video below:
Canadian Future Achievers is a great organization to donate to. This is mostly private funded non for profit that gives money to minority youth that are doing an exceptional job at school. They provide financial incentives as well as other incentives to be supported in continuing their education.
I have a modelling gig in Toronto this coming month for http://www.davidscott.com/
I will be doing a head shot with cupcakes!
This is what he has been doing so far for his body of work.
I have also modelled for other commercial photographers such as Richard Desmerais, this is what came of the shoot we did together.
I really enjoy both modelling and photography. I enjoy them both for different reasons, but truly feel lucky that I get to have fun on the job.
Love and Good melodies
~ May-Jun
Ottawa Fashion week is a 3 day event that happens at the National Art Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It was a beautiful experience performing at this venue. There is a huge walk way (like a ramp) that has several hundred foot high ceilings all made of window. The length of the walk way is quite long. I was at the bottom of this walk way on a stage with Mailyne doing live painting. Once the fashion show was done, there were hundreds of people walking towards me and moving around the stage getting wine and taking pictures. It was a really beautiful site watching this mob of people slowly come to me and than kind of disperse. Mailyne did a beautiful painting job. The last day was a charity fashion show and we donated the painting with one of my CD/DVD compilations to help raise money. Here are some pictures from the show! I was so grateful that Mailynes partner in crime Kyle took video and photos of the performance and Ming Wu a talented local Ottawa event photographer took some great photos of the event too!
photo by http://photogmusic.com/?p=13450
photo by http://photogmusic.com/?p=13450
photo by http://photogmusic.com/?p=13450
photo by http://photogmusic.com/?p=13450
photo by http://dreamlovegrow.com/
This band MTL played as well. They were super awesome.
photo by http://dreamlovegrow.com/
photo by http://dreamlovegrow.com/
photo by http://dreamlovegrow.com/
photo by http://dreamlovegrow.com/
I adore beige. I’m not too sure why I love this neutral pallet. Here are some beautiful beiges….
This image has more black tones, but the back ground over all tone is beige… I just love surrealism photography.
Share it, swap it, listen to it at house parties or where ever you would like. Send me pictures of you listening to the music at a party, at work, baking cookies, what ever is PG 13, and fun. I will be posting the pictures up.
May-Jun offers workshops for:
*Song writing
*Music video development
*Photography and self portraiture
*Youth leadership development through the creative arts
May-Jun’s experience: *21 years of song writing*memberships with Saw Video+IFCO (film & video cooperatives)*College diploma in photography*Overseas photo shoot experience (China, Hong Kong etc..)*Creative youth leadership workshops*Songwriting youth workshops*Music video workshops*Audio recording development and coaching*Music performance coaching