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Aja

Nutella

About Me

Ask me.... .. This cartoon of me is by my good friend Steelee. Check out his work at www.steelee.commspmb allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://tamity.com/pics/2005/01-29-2005/01-29-2005_.185. jpg" enableJavaScript="false" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" allowScriptAccess="never" style='display:none'Coming soon in January 2007... http://www.3satva.com/eridu/When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao - Tzu

My Interests

abandoned buildings, underpasses, urban exploration, bollywood, costume design, historical costuming, fashion design, Kogoro Kurata, Vivienne Westwood rocking horse shoes, Japanese culture and youth fashions, elegant gothic lolita, corsets, armor, metal clothing, cyberdog, absinthe, action figures, Nirasawa, transformers, Fewture Models, robots, transdermal implants, plastination, blood, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol, Cirque du Soleil, Tim Burton, playing my harp, photgraphy, hiking, indian food, sushi, Morocco, henna tattooing, tribal belly dancing, Pucca, Hello Kitty, fetish, BDSM, tamakeri, latex, harps!, mermaids, SQUIDS, deep sea fish, Mortier organs, strange machinery, automata, medical quackery, violet wands, cuttle fish, stomatopods, long hair, spiky boots, parasols, tea and tea sets, rogue taxidermy, Walter Potter, Victorian living, punk, goth, fake hair, anime, scribbling weird colors all over my face and putting all sorts of things in my hair (bird's nests and bones lately), witchy-poo stuff....Egon Schiele

I'd like to meet:

"Why do you weep? Whatever may be, your dreams will be fulfilled my troubled child; why do you weep?If your heart breaks it is nothing but dust. If your heart burns it becomes a light. If your tears flow they are nothing but water. If your tears cease they become like pearls.Don't waste them, these pearls are the treasures of you eyes."

Music:

Betty Hutton, Dead Can Dance, Helen Kane, Morrissey, Malice Mizer, X-Japan and other such J-Rock, Siouxie, The Smiths, The Cure, Bjork, Wolfsheim, And One, Najma, Ludacris, Gravediggaz, Tricky, Massive Attack, Tracy Chapman, Joy Division, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Micheal Franks, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Edith Piaf, Utada Hikaru, Ayumi Hamasaki, Josephine Baker, Al Jolson, Etta James, Uta Lemper, Yma Sumac, Andrews Sisters, Vera Lynn........too many to list.

Movies:

The Princess Bride, Chinese Torture Chamber Story, Magic Crane, Titus, all dem Evil Dead & Return of the Living Dead movies, Calamity Jane, random old musicals, Bladerunner, Malena, Ichii the Killer, Audition, Curdled, High Tension, The Cook the Theif His Wife and Her Lover, Legend, Mirrormask............Troll 2..............silent movies (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Haxan, Nosferatu...), Bollywood movies. Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Vincent Price, Jeremy Irons... .. width="425" height="350" ..

Television:

(Courtesy of the fabulous August Beck!) ..

Books:

"Maldoror" by Lautremont, "Beautiful Losers" by Leonard Cohen, Edward Gorey, "Vathek", Georges Bataille........

Heroes:

My sister!My Godmother Dezzie is my guardian angel (and my sister's)!...and Theo Jansen.

My Blog

"Feast of the Mau Mau" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- some history.

You can listen to the song here. Lyrics:HEHE HEHECut the fat off the back of a baboonBoil it down to a pound in a spoonScoop the eyes from a fly flying backwardsTake the jaws and the paws off a 'coonT...
Posted by Aja on Tue, 08 May 2007 03:53:00 PST

Leprechaun Sighting on the News!

If you'll indulge me for a few moments I'd like to share a St. Patrick's Day phenomenon that I've found quite entertaining.This video clip was taken from a real NBC newscast: How 'bo...
Posted by Aja on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:20:00 PST

My Christmas Tree and Santa!

A little late, I know. I'm about to put my tree away and wanted to show my family back home!The skeleton figure was made by my friend Steelee a few years ago. It's still my favorite figure ever. Check...
Posted by Aja on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:56:00 PST

Mortier Organs

Yeah, you probably clicked on this expecting to see organs in the anatomical sense and not the mechanical. Better luck next time! No wait, really. I'm writing to share something I love to those who ca...
Posted by Aja on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:57:00 PST

Olivier Theyskens

I'm a longtime fan of 29 year old Belgian designer Olivier Theyskens. From the first time I heard of him I've been following his work. He was a young designer that dropped out of school, made elaborat...
Posted by Aja on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:49:00 PST

Rock of Ages

I'm currently working backstage on the musical "Rock of Ages" in Hollywood with my friend Michellle until my birthday (March 18th). It's a fun show, check it out at www.rockofagesmusical.com ! ...
Posted by Aja on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:10:00 PST

Viktor & Rolf's Upsidedown Store in Milan

I love Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf for their creative ways of exaggerating details that are most usually mundane. They will have giant buttons, dozens of layers of collars atop each other, ...
Posted by Aja on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 06:20:00 PST

Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital in New York

Thanks goes to Josh for telling me about this place. Founded in 1885, Kings Park Psychiatric Center is the largest of the many now-abandoned state-funded asylums in New York and New England. I hope...
Posted by Aja on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Show me a picture, tell me a story, a favorite quote, a poem, artwork....

 
Posted by Aja on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST