Feeling fresh n’ sassy because I got a grand total of thirty minutes to poke through the photos accumulating on my hard drive last night! This post is dedicated to the LA Noir art show – the one I made The Centipede and Rachael for. Here are a few photos I managed to snap between sipping Manhattans, ogling all the art and being fabulous in an outfit I really wish I’d documented. As I’d mentioned before, the exhibit was held …
Before I kick off this Style Dispatch, I wanted to direct you to an article Lou O’Bedlam wrote about me for Manolith.com. Lou, an outstanding photographer and wordsmith, told me he was using me for an article last week, but I thought he was talking about one of the many photos he’s taken of me since we’ve been friends. That lovable scamp! In the article, Lou describes my philosophy on person vs. persona, and us all having the power to …
Perry Purple by lcrontic.com Greetings, fellow hair adventurer! I’ve rounded up all the beauty questions from the past couple of weeks and picked the three most frequently-asked for this week’s Blush Response. We’re continuing last installment‘s hair color theme, as it seems the most exasperating of all. What is your favorite blackest-black dye? This one’s tough because Feria’s Bright Black, the prettiest, most dramatically black dye out there, fades. It fades tragically, inevitably, quickly. Unless you’re prepared to keep dying …
Kicking of the month of Halloween in style with some GOODS! First up, The Centipede’s counterpart, revealed. I give you, Rachael, the melancholy raven-hared replicant. Created first with pencil and ink then digitally finessed, this sultry, deep fuchsia, 8.5×11 print is available for purchase right from this page for $29.99 Second, I present The Midnight Centipede. Much like the original Centipede but in shades of night. There are only six [Six! Six!] two of these left, they cost $29.99, and …
Coming up for air from finalizing Coilhouse 4 content for a brief update. Despite my squinted eyes and labored breath I do have a few things to share. URRGHH In spare moments, instead of troubling myself with questions like, “Where the fuck did September go?” I’m focusing on the important things – Halloween! Oh god yes, finally. This year I’m manifesting destiny and dressing as Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell. I’m going for moderate sluttiness, mostly because, contrary …
Sunday’s outfit is a franken-beast made all of my favorite things: enormous scarf, tight dress, big boots, black. Oh, black. I love you. There was a time a few years ago when I, after wearing black almost exclusively since my teenage days, decided to open my heart and my wardrobe to color. Like all hare-brained experiments this was fun at first. Of course it was – there was shopping and dressing up to be done! However, as my shelves gradually …
Achtung, Angel City residents! On October 3 and 4 The Centipede* and its secret counterpart [glimpse below] will be on display at the location above, for those two days only. What makes this especially superb is the fact that L.A. Noir will be held in a beautiful house instead of yet another white gallery space. It’s a party, it’s an art show and there’s going to be food and entertainment. I’m not actually sure what the entertainment will consist of, …
I should probably warn you, dearest new readers, that much of Style Dispatch will involve socks, thigh highs, stockings, etc. I really, really love legwear. One might even call my love an obsession. My sock collection takes up at least 6 drawers! Seriously, gents and ladies – I dropped over $200 on socks alone when I went to Tokyo. There is something infinitely alluring in covered legs, with maybe just a sliver of skin peeking from under a skirt; more …
The very first Blush Response is finally here! Today, our topic is Color Maintenance. I’m pretty excited to get this one out there because longevity is the most troublesome issue when it comes to unconventional hair color. Sadly, most of the jewel tones we love are made semi-permanent. Upon finally reaching that brilliant shade we’ve been lusting after it’s so disheartening to watch it fade and literally go down the drain wash after wash. It doesn’t have to be this …
A quick “Hello, new week!” in the form of a short Photo Flurry from Saturday’s excellent photo-excursion with Lou O’Bedlam and Ian Broyles. These are some of Ian’s pictures, taken in the 2nd Street tunnel and in the back of Lou’s automobile. You might recognize the tunnel’s jade glow from such fine films as The Terminator and Blade Runner. Or you might not. Was reminded of just how different casual, very-nearly-unplanned shoots are from mega-styled and costumed ones, though both …
Made it to the top 3 of Attack of the Show’s Women of the Web Special, out-webbed [and out-boobed] by Megan Fox and Jo Garcia. My positronic brain-device glows with gratitude to Jonah Ray for saying I should have been #1! Sadly, this clips chops off my introduction, when one of the guys called me the Russian Angelina Jolie. Alas. Below, the quick Lovecraftian Kevin Pereira sketch I did for the show.
Disclaimer: just had to get this piece done. I can’t promise you I’ll be updating quite this often all the time so don’t yell at me later! If you would like to purchase an 8.5×11 print of The Centipede please email me – they’re $19.99 and I’m offering them on individual basis only, for now. Check out my store for more prints! The Centipede, ink+digital Here she is, finished. Really looking forward to seeing this printed and framed for the …
A friend of mine is hosting an annual art show – a group of friends making art on a given theme. This year’s theme is LA Noir. Got the Noir part down, still not sure about LA, however. In any event, here’s stage two of a little damsel and her trusty yet vicious centipede boa. Stage three will involve scanning and digitizing.
Hello meine lieblinge and welcome to the very first installment of Photo Flurry. I can’t be certain whether all of these will have a theme, but this one does: 1. fire and cobalt 2. night. And while I have your attention: at 8pm ET this Thursday evening tune into G4 for Women of the Web to see me do something hideous to Kevin Pereira. Sort of. And now, on to the photos for I have said too much. Completely un-edtied, …
Late last year I realized it was time to make this place more interactive, consistent and dynamic. The concept of designing the whole beast from scratch was very exciting but, with the amount of work and travel on my plate at the time, I quickly understood there was simply no way. The project has been charring its behind on the back burner until now. Though I still had zero time to devote to web design I could no longer wait! …