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Sunday, 16 March 2008
YouTube - Photographers job on the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week
For me, as I just took about 20 pictures of myself in my new fancy dress for the Wall Street dinner in order to show Dan, here is what helps:
- Face body towards camera: just more flattering for las curves, I think.
- Look down, not up. Issue is that my chin is rather not prominent so when I look up it just disappears into my neck in the photo and I look entirely chinless, rather than the desired double-chin-less.
- Turn head to left and down (as mentioned above), tilt head slightly away, look back.
- Smile. Easier to get away with a "demure" smile than an all out one, otherwise face gets wayyyyy too round.
- REALLY HELPFUL: keep arms by sides and extend both arms and fingers, as in dancing. Turning the arms into smooth lines like this is really slimming.
- Shoulders back, draw tailbone down, as in ballet posture.
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Sunday, 01 October 2006
Overheard on the T, 6pm: 'Vegetables. That could work. Not like a salad, but celery--you could eat celery in the shower, definitely.'
diana: I went to the doctor yesterday and he explained things to me using pictures he got off of a search on google images.
written on a pin both Dan and I bought: 'Elitists for Obama'
caitlin: Only people who know how to use the internet should be in charge of things these days.
seen on a typography products website: "our dollar is weak but our text is strong!"
em: your brutally honest comments are what I am convinced give me my edge
paci: nobody will notice your flagrant grammatical mistakes as long as they're couched in gorgeous typography
amylin: I think google maps is God.
amylin: is that too much to assume? probably.
amylin: although if it is, God got me lost today on rt. 36.
[ed. note: a high school classmate named adrienne went by "age"]
joe hall: ::wants to go drinking with age to see if wine really does get better with her::
in his talk on his study abroad experience in paris:
sam: This is a picture of a cheese shop. By FAR, my favorite place in France was my neighborhood cheese shop.
sam: No, really. The cheese in America is always so packaged and...well. The cheese in America is just so repressed!
sam: And then you go to France, and you have the cheese there, AND THEN YOU LEARN WHAT THE REVOLUTION WAS ABOUT!
paci: in my opinion, any med school would instantly accept someone who fought mildew...and won.
random guy: so, like, i think i'm just, like, not all that articulate...
joe hall: Oh, about how summer makes you excited to see your friends, and that lasts until you actually see them!
joe hall: ::figured you would empathize!::
me: were you ever allergic to eggs?
dan: yeah, when i was younger... chicken, too.
serena: which one came first?
me: i think those extra holes in your sneakers are for ankle support
dan: eh, my ankles don't need them...they joined a support group months ago.
me: people are nuts in their hypen/dash usage!!
me: i wrote in a comment to one article, "this paper is so very dash-happy..."
sam: i think you should've written
sam: "this paper--despite certain positive qualities--is so very dash-happy..."
dan, to shoe salesman: do you have this in "left"?
me: yeah back when wearing shirts with random chinese characters on them was really popular, my dad was all, we need to start selling shirts that say "i am an idiot" or something
seth: i'm forced to comfort myself with the fact that japanese and filipino teens wear wacky english slogans
me: hahahaha, oh that's TRUE
me: so the conclusion is that teenagers around the world are ALL stupid
seth: regardless of race. how uplifting!
seth: i am ordering a t-shirt to wear in china!
seth: it says, "白人看不懂" (white person can't read understand)
seth: It'll be ironic!
seth: but also mostly true.
me: so what exactly is the relationship between Gadzooks and Forever21?
shopgirl: they're getting married.
me: ack, sorry, i got caught up in writing out a grocery list/planning meals to use up everything i have in the kitchen and to last me 2.5 weeks
dan: speaking of neurotic, i'm reading a book about freud for my euro class.
joe hall: I bet Dan's cute in bed.
me: don't be silly
me: dan's always cute
joe hall: Yeah. ::dreamy sigh::
me: how can you be driving during a blow job?! isn't that dangerous?
joe hall: Yeah... and it's tough to multitask.
joe hall: But, hey. Sex in a volvo is always safe sex.
dan: history roxx.
Neuroscience text: Opium was probably known to the ancient Sumerians around 4000 B.C. Their pictrograph for the poppy roughly translates to "joy plant."
joe hall: nalgene lantern = awesome for picking up chicks
me: well, they labeled one diagram, "the brainship enterprise"
me: so, you know
dan: haha.
dan: how nice
dan: tenure is
"Wordsworth in the Tropics," Aldous Huxley: The only completely consistent people are the dead.
amylin: BE MY HUSBAND, MR. THORNTON. PLZ.
amylin: he is my baby's daddy.
amylin: that's all i have to say 'bout that.
amylin: it's really odd how cold it's gotten. i think autumn just told summer, "girlfriend, you betta move it! (snap snap snap)"