Lighting

[pecunium]

For reasons which are moderately apparent, I was asked to do some self-portraits last night.

The light was difficult. My skin tones, and the wood, are fine, but the shirt is actually a sightly blue-toned lavendar.

Play the Fife Slowly II


Just Looking


If you look in the background you can see my youngest sister peeking over my shoulder.

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[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

I wish *I* could grow hair down to my ass! It's just past my shoulders now, and I'm pampering it with lots of conditioners and no color processing for the moment, so maybe I'll be able to coax it to mid-back.

Well, it's mid-back NOW, when it's wet and the curl's pulled out. I want it to be mid-back when it's DRY.

The no color procesing was in service of the search for employment, and the current lack is more about a lack of funds, because the purple streaks don't come out right unless I get a pro to do the preliminary bleaching, and that's pricey. If I can stand to leave it my natural color for a while, maybe it'll get longer.

The Jackson Browne reference is intended to be complimentary, btw. So's the Tom Petty one, even if he's considered something of a joli laid. Old-school Jackson Browne is a little soft and unfinished for my tastes, but when combined with the Petty angularity, well. I like those pictures of you.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I saw Jackson Browne Friday night at Bluesfest. He's cragged up slightly and is in fact One Hotass Old Man. ;-)

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Jackson Browne gone craggy is RIGHT up my alley. Yum!

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Current photo: http://www.barreoperahouse.org/magick-event.php/jackson%20browne%20headshot.jpg

You don't really see the cragginess unless his face is in motion, but it's thre. Subtle, but there.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

The resemblance is pronounced! Terry's nose is thinner, though.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

And crookeder. :-)

Adds to his charm, I tend to feel. Jackson Browne came out in sunglasses, because it was still sunset and they had the FOH on high, and the resemblance was REALLY pronounced.

Have some not-so-hot video :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVz0TigPhw

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I believe I am being objectified.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

No, No, I love you for your mind. Your corporeal form is of no importance to me whatsoever; I never even notice it. Ever.

*ispureofheart*

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

*eyes you*

Twice

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

*is eyed*

Twice would be a good start...

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Unh hunh... my mind.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

(it's such a lovely, twisted, filthy, creative one)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I figured. Most people don't compare people to those they find unnatractive.

My hair was, actually, down to the small of my back. If I tilted my head it would drag across the top of my ass, which felt really nice.

So, given past performance, in about two years it will be there again. With luck that's not it's limit (this length is 13 months since it was 1/16" long), and it will go all the way to my butt.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Woe. It takes two years for my hair to get from the point of my jaw to my shoulders! I really do intend to find out where "down to where it stops by itself" is on me, but I have to be vigilant about preventing split ends -- I lost three inches or so, a few years back, by not realizing that standing 18" from two 375 degree deck ovens all day was the equivalent of all the blow-drying, hot-rollering, and other assorted heat processes I DIDN'T do on my hair.

The prep room I work in now doesn't have ovens or other heat sources beyond what the ice machine throws off as waste, so it ought to be an improvement.