by May-Jun | Wed-Dec-2014 | Blog
People ask me, what made you interested in taking Ariel silks and Lyra? I was totally curious and wanted to try. As a child I was obsessed with gymnastics as a kid. To be honest the class I’m taking is one of the most challenging classes I’ve taken. I’m afraid of heights, and I’m not use to twists and things pulling my body in different directions. You also need a lot of upper body strength that I’m still working on building. I was attempting a flip with the silks and a classmate and I were stuck. We kept looking at the ceiling and falling back down when we were trying to get our legs hooked onto the silk above our head. Another classmate said to look behind instead of the ceiling. When my classmate tried it again, she actually flipped right around and held herself up by one leg with the silks. I asked her what she was thinking. She said “It’s fun to flip around in circles”. So when it was my turn, I thought “it’s fun to flip around in circles” and it actually worked! On my second try I flipped and had my leg hooked onto the silks for a pose. The life lesson: Always try a new thought or perspective when you are stuck. You may be looking at the wrong place and it won’t get you anywhere. If you think something is fun and you look in a new direction it may give you better results....
by May-Jun | Mon-Dec-2014 | Art, Artist Muse, Blog, Inspirational Mondays
Rumi is one of my favourite poets of all times. So I’m working on having a regular meditation practice. Have you had those days when all of a sudden you hear people on the streets talking about it, you see a poster for it, you hear a radio show about it, you see it in a tv show and all of a sudden what ever you are thinking about is everywhere? It’s been like that for me about meditation for the past few days. I was taught to meditate since I was around 3 years old, and I took it for granted that it is an important aspect and ritual of my life that helps calm and ground myself. I’m the type of person that gets so excited about life; I can easily be on the go all day and night. As I’m learning the fine art of balance (a life long endeavour), I keep coming back to my meditation and the need to do it regularly. I’ve tried everything from Kundalini breath work, om meditation, guided visualization, Buddhist mediations, breathing and emptying your thoughts, and I still haven’t committed to one that works best for me regularly. I’d love to hear what kind of relaxation, meditation etc.. you do, please share! Lately I’ve been excited about: • stevia, coco powder, mint hot chocolate; • juicing experiments with ginger, apple, celery etc..; • Two words: Whole Foods; • Kombucha filled with chia; • My best friend having twins (I’m a twin and it’s my first time being around twins); • Making art; • Experimenting with colours and vibrancy (I...
by May-Jun | Mon-May-2013 | Blog, fashion
So Chinatown in Ottawa is having an arts festival called Chinatown Remixed. The grand opening is May 18th from 1:30 – 5:30pm. Tonight I did a photoshoot for China Doll’s exhibit, here are just a handful of photos we did in collaboration with many wonderful models, we had China Doll style everyone just like her! It was fun....
by May-Jun | Mon-Nov-2011 | Artist Muse, Blog, How To, MainPage, Photo Blog
This weekend I did a few self portraits. I was really inspired by movement self portraits by this photographer that does levitation photography I decided to try movement by “whipping my hair back and forth”. I used a gold vintage belt as a head piece. I like how it looks like I’m under water. Like my hair is floating. I did some film making before with mythology pieces from the arctic as inspiration. There are stories of women that lived in the water and would steal children that would play close to the waters edge. They would take them to live with them in the water. Tech specks of the shoot: 40D Canon with a f/1.8 50mm lens iso 100, with a 580ex flash on half power on manual mode. Pictures shot in RAW and processed in light room. Played with the colour balance. I shot this in a 12×12 office space so I did bounce flash to have softer lighting. I put this on a self timer, and of course a tri-pod. I had a lamp in the spot of where I was going to be so that I could make sure I was in focus. One thing I noticed was that since my f/stop was a bit lower there was less depth of field. This means that there was a smaller area (plane of focus). So I found that with my movement I didn’t always stay in focus, but the pictures did turn out great. I also found that it’s difficult to have a calm or controlled facial expression when making fast movements with your head. So...
by May-Jun | Tue-Nov-2011 | Blog, MainPage, Music, Uncategorized
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! Live off the floor by May-Jun...
by May-Jun | Mon-Oct-2011 | Blog, Music, Uncategorized
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!...
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