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PhotoDiva

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About Me

MyGen Profile Generator I'm an NYC art geek.I do fine art erotic portraiture. If you want to see some, there's a bit posted in my "pics" section. Or, check my web site, Photodiva . My newer work is in the Erotica Portfolios under ... what else ... New Work.I have been shooting this work for the past 10 years; I've presented & lectured on my work across the US & Canada, been featured in photography books, and published in flocks & flocks of fetish & erotica magazines in the US & Europe. I was Photography Associate for On Our Backs magazine in their latest incarnation (& they will be missed), done webcasts, podcasts & cable TV interviews. And I've exhibited all over the place. I do it because it thrills me ... that's the line Pet Silvia from Art @ Large told me to grab off my web site for my Seattle Erotic Arts Fest bio & darn it, I pay attention to my teachers. Current events
Come see me & my handsome sweetie DeLano present "Connection and Intent: The Illustrated Guide to Hot Rope Play" at the Boston Fetish Fair Fleamarket this coming Sat, Jan 27th. We'll be talking about how to raise the temperature of your rope bondage play, and we'll be illustrating our talk with LOTS of bondage pix of him with Domina Skye , Mistress Alana , Mistress Yin , Mayan Lee , Monk , and others.Connection and Intent: The Illustrated Guide to Hot Rope Play What’s the temperature of your rope bondage play? Are you missing out on what others are experiencing? Got the techniques down, but want more than just pretty rope? We do rope for many different reasons. Explore the ideas of connection and intent as foundations for hotter scenes, for play that has the potential to go deeper, farther, faster for both top and bottom. Using slides of their artistic collaboration as a visual example, Michele & DeLano discuss connection & intent, ways it works well for them, and what happens (& what to do!) when it fails. Discuss, share and explore ways to define and focus connection and intent to enhance your own play.Other news .... I have a new interview & gallery posted on Eros 'Zine . My work is also for sale with the Tiny Fine Art project, and through Art @ Large .About friend requests: Most of the people on my Friends list are people I either know or are friends of friends, vendors whose product I enjoy, organizations I support, and a couple of entertainers I admire. I don't always add strangers but will if something on their page, usually their blog, piques my interest. If you have your profile set to private, and I don't know who you are, please drop me a note introducing yourself if you want me to add you. Thank you.

My Interests

Photography, art freaks, good food, hemp rope, black & white film, lovely fetishistic things like shoes & boots, leather & latex. Pretty girls who want to conspire with me to make art. Handsome, sexy couples who want to do the same. Oh, and cats. Of course, cats.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, style junkies, glamour hounds, geeks, readers, creators, lefties, cat lovers, foodies, fetishists, oddballs, and patrons of the arts. People to make art with, people who do cool stuff.

Music:

Thievery Corp, Massive Attack, Agricantus, The Beatles, Suzanne Vega, Morphine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Reed, RL Burnside, Firewater, Peggy Lee, Dr John, Milt Jackson, Johnny Cash, Jim Carroll, Stranglers, Pops Staples, Michelle Shocked, Duke Ellington, Concrete Blonde, Rachid Taha, Khaled, Aerosmith, Meat Puppets, Hot Tuna, Curtis Mayfield, Soul Coughing, Chris Isaak, Violent Femmes, Black Eyed Peas, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Leonard Cohen, Ray Charles, Buena Vista Social Club, BRMC, The Ramones.

Movies:

Victor/Victoria, Amelie, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, The Royal Tannenbaums, The Lion In Winter, All That Jazz, Repo Man, Best In Show, Nightmare Before Xmas, Hard Day's Night, Frida, The Thin Man, The Philadelphia Story. James Bond (Sean Connery).Most of anything by Eddie Izzard, Margaret Cho.

Television:

I hear there's this thing on thinkgeek.com ... it's a remote control that fits on your keychain & can turn off any television that's annoying you in seconds. Mwah ha ha!Seriously? Rocky & Bullwinkle. Homicide: Life On the Streets.

Heroes:

Sung or unsung?

My Blog

Missing Words

Well, not missing really, more like borrowed. But from myself, so that's ok. Just posted on LJ about the Boston Flea & didn't want to write twice, so I'm borrowing part of what I said there to put...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:36:00 PST

Mud Truck

Love the Mud Truck. Best AM coffee fix this side of 14th St, real bagels, and sweet little grunge guys serving it up with a smile. Some of them even remember I like my small Mud dark, with half a suga...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:31:00 PST

The Flea

I'll be presenting next weekend at the Boston Fetish Fair Fleamarket (which is actually in Danvers, MA.) It's a full weekend of kinky shop-til-you drop, a fashion show, an art show, and classes with p...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:10:00 PST

Fog, art & index cards

Walked to my rent job this AM through a thick mist. By the time I got here my glasses were so wet, it was easier to see peering over the top than through them. Rather disorienting, before my morning c...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:35:00 PST

the forgotten blog

This week I realized it'd been ages since I posted here ... I get kinda stuck in LJ land & end up blogging much more over there ... but I know I have friends here who don't read me there.So ... New Ye...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:10:00 PST

Butch Is A Noun

Sunday night I was invited to a private "speakeasy" reading by S Bear Bergman, from hir new book, Butch Is A Noun. Going to readings is always a risk. Even if you love the author's books, there's not...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:07:00 PST

Seattle Erotic

My selections for Seattle Erotic Art Festival are final. Very happy .... 2 latex images from my garage girls photos ... 1 steamy shot of Midori in translucent latex, & 1 of my friend Katie, who is...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:09:00 PST

Nonconsensual smoke

Damn. Spent Fri & Sat shooting 2 women in Philly. It was actually a kind of great weekend. But ... one of them is a smoker. It was a big, well ventilated house. She always opened th...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:56:00 PST

just do it

Vote.Damnit.Time to take back the power. Every one of you counts. No voting, no bitching rights when they trash your access to birth control, abortion, free speech, education, health care, housing ......
Posted by PhotoDiva on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:02:00 PST

things that make me smile

there's about 15 8 ft tall lit up jack-o-lanterns on vines running in a circle around a huge brass "flaming" cauldron, surrounded by an outer circle of little pumpkins, also on vines, running circles ...
Posted by PhotoDiva on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:49:00 PST