M. Marquis (ix09 Photography)

3 Ravens and a Viking(ish) girl

2011-11-30T00:53:00.008-06:00

This composition combines 5 different photos of the model into a unique pose not captured during the photo shoot. Shot originally in 2009, model nude, against dark backdrop. All elements; clothing, jewelry, tattoos, spear, and location/atmosphere were added post production.

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It's good to be the King ...

2011-11-26T18:50:00.001-06:00

According to an article on Slashdot, you can get 15 years in prison for criticizing the King of Thailand.

Gynoid 1.02

2011-11-25T17:33:00.005-06:00

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The following is another revision I've been working on with some false positive finishes.
I think I may be finished now.

Changes to hair, makeup and background are major points among several others.

Gynoid v1.02:

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Mermaid Revision + Before and After

2011-11-21T22:35:00.003-06:00

This composition was 'complete' several months ago, but, the original arm reaching from the left to right, towards the jelly, always bothered me. It looked too short due to perspective from the forearm being bent toward the camera.

I've fixed that by replacing the arm with the same arm, but, from a different frame out of the same photo shoot.

Further, I've put together a before-and-after for comparison with the original shot.

Light Brite Jelly (revised)

Original Raw -> Light Bright Jelly (before and after)

Pink and Green II; a variation

2011-11-21T02:23:00.000-06:00

This is a variation on something I've done before, with the same tattoo on the same model from the same shoot.
There's a slightly different pose, however, thus, variation.

Spider Woman

2011-11-20T12:13:00.000-06:00

A mysterious alluring woman that clings to walls? Spider Woman seems the right name for this one.

Baby got back

2011-11-20T04:32:00.000-06:00

Strangely well defined back muscles in a mere waif of a girl weighing all of 90lbs at 5'0" was an interesting surprise.

Jinn, Djinn, Genie, Jinni or a Harem girl?

2011-11-16T03:54:00.006-06:00

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Djinn, Genie; a capricious spirit known for granting wishes, but, in reality, causing more mischief and ruin than anything benevolent. Wish at your own peril.

I Dream of Genie:

I'm rather happy with the idea to use chameleon lizards on the shoulder straps. :)

... and here's another with a different model:

Geisha - Turning Japanese ... I really think so

2011-11-13T12:46:00.003-06:00

Geisha; because everything Japanese is so much more awesome. I got fascinated with Kimonos, and Geisha recently, and before long, I had to grab some shots from a past shoot and turn one of the models into a Geisha.

Geisha:

Geisha: before and after

The Swan Dance Tango

2011-11-08T02:16:00.002-06:00

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The following is the second work in a series of ongoing experiments.

The Swan Dance (Tango)

Running Red

2011-11-04T17:20:00.004-05:00

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The following piece is the first piece in an experiment.

Running Red (v1.2):

Fuzzy white ball of light to left of frame in initial version, I thought was too distracting. Some other changes, additions, subtractions, and improvements to details have been applied.

Running Red (v1.0):

I was originally planning on doing another Gynoid, this one pulling and breaking away from cables and cords, but, the work progressed to this. I may do another variation on this as described with another Gynoid I'm not sure yet.

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My Niece the action hero

2011-11-01T23:18:00.003-05:00

One of my nieces, 12 years old, but 16 to look at the girl, really really likes the movie Sucker Punch.

She asked me if I could do a composite shot of her to put her in place of one or some of the characters.

Using the bodies of a couple characters, with creative liberties taken on background and a few other things, the following resulted. Please note, these are all face-paste, head in hole type composites, unlike my original work with models.

Macbook Apple Variations, Skins

2011-11-01T17:59:00.005-05:00

I've noticed a trend with some who own Macbooks. People are skinning their laptops with art, typically integrating the glowing Apple logo into the personalizations.

The following are a some ideas I tossed together in Photoshop. Feel free to find the source art online, to print your own sticker for use. I'm too poor to have my own Macbook, iPad, or even a laptop to do this to (Hint - buy some of my art at: http://ix09.imagekind.com/ Please?), thus, these are just Photoshop ideas.

Adam + Eve - The Temptation

Adam + Eve - The Temptation (colorized)

The Sacred Heart of Mary

The Sacred Heart of Jesus

Adam + Eve -The Temptation

Anyway, I hope you enjoy. Buy some of my art at: http://ix09.imagekind.com/ Again, Please?

Circle Circle Square Nude; The Body Geometric.

2011-10-17T16:28:00.001-05:00

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Reinspired by material from older shoots, here's a new one.

Circle Circle Square Nude; The Body Geometric:

2 revisions of older work

2011-10-13T23:15:00.002-05:00

The following are 2 revisions of older work with model Skylarr.

Contortion Blonde II

Mirror Mirror II

3 Clean, Sustainable, Renewable, 'Free' Energy solutions: FOR SALE

2011-05-28T21:57:00.000-05:00

I'm poor. I have no money. No matter what I might 'invent' as an inventor, I have zero means to make them a viable marketable reality.

For instance, I have 3 clean, renewable, sustainable energy solutions no one else in the market I've seen is developing, working on, or selling.

Clean, green energy these days usually takes the form of Solar, Wind, or Hydroelectric/tidal, and even geothermal. Other than numerous companies developing their own versions of these solutions, what else is there?

These solutions have problems. They're expensive, and the reliability of their performance is dependent on environmental variables, ie; the sun has to shine, the wind must blow, etc.

The 3 different solutions I have are independent of these capricious environmental variables.

Solution 1 capitalizes on state change in applying readily available technologies in using a 'fuel', that does not get used up, create waste, is toxic, or is in rare supply. This solution could potentially not only supply a scalable, man portable. on up to city sized consumption clean energy solution, but, could also supply clean, fresh water anywhere and everywhere on the planet. This solution will work in remote locations; in deserts, on the ocean, mountains, deep forests, or anywhere else far away from civilized infrastructure, as well as populated areas.
You might say this solution answers the problem with wind turbines in what does one do when the wind doesn't blow?

Solution 2 capitalizes on a resource that's constant: Gravity.

Solution 3 can also capitalize on gravity with the addition of water, like a hydroelectric dam, but, it doesn't require a river or massive amounts of land and the environmental impact building a dam causes. You could, potentially, have one of these in the backyard of your home.

Any one of these solutions, developed with proper funding could net the solution holder millions in whatever currency you like to do business with. Most importantly, these solutions can provide clean, safe, sustainable, accessible energy to everyone in every market around the world.

All of these solutions are FOR SALE.

Granted, I'm a nobody, and there's even the possibility that someone has actually already put the pieces together in developing a similar solution to any one of these, and failed. There's risk.
Personally, had I the means, both with engineering and monetary, I'd pursue development of these solutions myself. I, however, don't.
I'm not greedy. I'm not after wealth and power. Had I the means, I'd develop these solutions and give them away with little regard to profit. I just want to have enough money to eat, have a decent roof over my head, work on my art, photography, and writing, and pursue other interests.
Each of these solutions is available at a cash price, little over one-year's salary from when I use to work in the IT industry. I'd also love a small, negotiable interest, company shares, or some other token attached to the success of the project solution, so, when you make 50 million, I might get the added bonus of another year's salary.
Yes, there's risk. I'm a nobody. I'm not a businessman either, so, whatever deal is made, you'll get the better part of it even if you just turn around and sell what you just bought to someone else.

For someone with the means and capital to develop any one of these solutions, purchasing any one of them will be a nothing in cost. If you find you don't like the solution, or research and development costs are too prohibitive, you can still profit by simply selling the solution to someone else.

On purchase, I won't be disappearing into the woodwork either. I'll still be here with 2 other solutions, potentially more if I land on something else. I'm easy to find, and I believe in these solutions. As said before, I'd develop them myself had I the means, or connections to those that had means, but, I don't. At worst, you're paying a fellow a little over a year's salary for an idea that might or might not work out. Should it work out, you'll have millions more in the bank than you already have, and be back for the other two solutions, but, by then, someone else may have purchased one of the other solutions with binding nondisclosure and non-compete agreements, thus taking them off the market.

Whatever the case, there's risk.
You could of course also hire me as a consultant for whichever project solution you have interest in purchasing. I'm then under your thumb. This would be in addition to payment for the solution and you'd be paying me another salary, but, you'd have me on paper, in the organization, even if I'm just a ghost telecommuter on call.

Whatever the case, it's your call. Gamble with a nobody on something that could make you millions, introduce a new sustainable clean energy solution to the market, and change the planet for the better, or not.

I'm, of course, hoping you take the gamble. I'm poor. I have lots of debt. I'm hungry. Purchasing one of these solutions would be charitable at the least. Thanks. I wish you all well, and the very best.

Peace. Love and Happiness in the Universe

2011-03-22T16:42:00.005-05:00

Below is a composition I'm working on.
It's based on some concepts forwarded by a a gentleman in Switzerland named Billy Meier, mostly as it pertains to his accounts of visitations by by human aliens in UFOs called Pleiadians who say that the universe is a universe of peace, love and happiness, and we here on Earth must grow away from our selfish destructive ways.

Do I personally believe in UFOs and aliens of any kind? I would love to, but, I've never seen a UFO, or had any experiences categorized as 'unexplained', so, until then, if ever, I remain a skeptic as it applies to UFOs and aliens.

Something of note; Billy Meier has been working on his mission to create a body of work with a beautiful message for well over 50 years. Whether or not he's been in contact with extraterrestrials or experienced any of the fantastic things he claims is mostly irrelevant if you get to the core of his message.
Even if tomorrow he was proven an absolute fake in regard to the UFOs and Aliens, I'd still have tons of respect and admiration for the fellow for the beautiful message he's been working on for more than half a century.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a joiner. The reason I like this Meier fellow so much is because I was already living my own version his message long before ever finding out about him or his message. It's nice to find a kindred spirit.

Anyway, here's the photo composition (you can click for larger view):

This will probably go through a few more revisions before completion, but, such is what I have so far.
:)

My most recent work

2011-03-01T01:26:00.005-06:00

The following are my most recent compositions.

Anyone interested in purchasing prints on canvas, photo paper or any common media can contact me ix09@hotmail.com. For a less personal handling, you can also purchase directly from http://ix09.imagekind.com/
Prints can be sized to fit any space up to 40"x60" and even larger. Transaction cost will include cost to print, shipping, and handling. Working directly with me, all prints will be hand signed and dated with number designation of print. All work shown below at the time of this posting would thus be signed - Matt Marquis (ix09 Photography) 2011 - limited printing, #01, etc.

*     Work here can be representative of custom work. Should you desire a custom image with a model of your selection, covering a theme of your choosing, I'm open to contract.

*     Prints can be sold based from print number, where also the option is available to purchase exclusivity which will take the image off the market. Purchasing exclusivity prevents any future print runs. If you are the first to purchase a print, that print will then be unique, and the only one print in existence. If other prints have been made previously, your purchase will be the last.
Options for limited exclusivity are also available where you may halt any future print runs for for any negotiable number of years.
Exclusivity does not include reproduction rights. Exclusivity does not include image display in artist portfolio or publication in in magazines, or books.

*     If you are a model, and are interested in contacting me to schedule a photo shoot, or even arrange remote long distance handling and processing of RAW photos done by another photographer, you may also contact me at the above listed email address.

Obi Femme Kenobi

No one messes with the Pink droid

Pink and Green

Curls

Pink Flowers

Jedi Bon Temptressa Spunk

The Painted Artist

Lite Brite Jelly

Twist and Ouch! An Artist and her work

Photo Illustration explosion

2010-11-29T04:37:00.003-06:00

I don't have anything to say, but feel the urge to post something. I'm thus posting some compositions. The following are nothing new, unless you haven't seen them before. You can click on each image to see larger versions. The following work covers 3 different models I've worked with. These are arranged in no particular order. Some of this is really old work, while others are more recent.

About the novel ... and what's holding me back

2010-11-26T06:54:00.007-06:00

Times I'll mention this novel I've written, usually in regard to being upset that it's not going anywhere. You might wonder what all that is about.
Back in July I hammered out a 141,000 word Post Apocalyptic Zombie SciFi Horror novel. It's split in 2 books over 21 chapters bulking a bit over 425 pages double spaced in MS Word format.
I've got a finished manuscript and have edited, re-edited, and worked on it quite a bit trying to shape it up for publication. You'd think all I'd have to do next is chat up some publishing house, and be on my way to the bank with an advance check ready to kick my feet up for the royalties to start rolling in.
No. That's not how things work in the literary market. To get a book published, unless you are already a well known celebrity, politician, rock star, or public figure, you have to have a literary agent. This is good, and this is also bad. A literary agent is a good thing because agents get books published for a living, typically representing a stable full of productive writers. Agents negotiate contracts, and know all the who's who peoples to talk to about getting your words printed up and selling. A writer can always self publish on a site like lulu.com or something, but, should you do this, you'll find all that success you dreamed of going nowhere, plus, you'll have probably blackballed yourself from getting any representation on that book you tried publishing on your own, and you may have also blackballed yourself from anyone ever showing you interest in the industry for anything else you wind up writing since you tried to circumvent the system. If you have any interest in writing, you'll stick with the system. 1. Write your book. 2. Secure representation with a literary agent. 3. Work with your agent on getting your book published. Sounds pretty simple no?
Thing is, your package of words might be printed on gold leaf, sprinkled with diamond dust, written in pure light and will make the baby Jesus cry tears of ecstasy, but, a literary agent doesn't care. Well, they do, but, you have to get their attention, and you do this with a query letter. Before they ever see word one of your work, they are going to get a very brief, polite, formal letter from you that tells them why they are going to pee their pants with joyous excitement every time they even think of you and your work.
If you've never been published before, chances are, 99 times out of 100 query letters you send out will get returned to you with a polite automatic rejection letter telling you "Thank you so much for your interest in our agency, but we do not feel your work is a good fit for our enterprise at this time ... " There are sundry variations to getting told "no".
It'd be nice if you could SPAM every known agent on the planet with a single query letter, or have your query go to an international database for agents to look over like potential employers do with resumes since more than likely they're going to respond to you with an impersonal, but polite, rejection. Try the SPAM approach and you'll be black balling yourself again. To woo an agent into warming up to the possibility of picking you up for representation, every single query you send out has to be addressed to the individual agent with formal salutations in the query to that agent by NAME; Dear John Hancock, I've researched your agency and am excited about having your firm represent my work ... Should you try the Dear Sir/Madam approach, you may as well shoot yourself in the head in hopes that your death will get your work the recognition that your laziness in researching and addressing individual literary agents never could.

I haven't secured representation with an agent yet. This makes me sad. I have, however, gotten replies expressing close-call interest with interest to look at my work again if I can get it edited by a 3rd party editor.
Editor?
Yeah. You'd think all the editing jazz could be taken up by the print editors at whatever publisher your agent gets to bite. From what I understand, it does, but, after you've already had another other editor work on and polish up your baby to a fine and sparkling mirror shine for presentation to the publisher. Think of it as having your car detailed very thoroughly before going out on a date.
Thing about getting an editor, it costs $, and, depending on your style of writing, there's all sorts of levels to how much it can cost you to get your 'car' detailed.
This is where I'm at. I need an editor. I have a few different editors lined up to review my work to see if they are a good fit for working together in getting my work all sparkled up, but, no funds to pay even one of them. Without an editor, I might get lucky with a literary agent, but, even then, there's no guarantee they can get a publisher to show interest without a professional editor's professional experienced attention.
It's a tough market. Heh, you probably thought the hard part was in writing the book. Nope. Writing the book is 10% of the effort it's going to take in getting the work on shelves.
Once you've got an editor, things will go easier. Should you be fortunate enough to land a well known editor in the industry to work over your words, you can add their name into your query letters to agents; "Dear Ms. Agentrealname, I've completed work on a novel after thorough collaboration in editing with well known novel editor name inserted here, and hope you will be interested in representation. Lalalala."

I have no editor yet because I have no $ to pay an editor. This is what's holding me back. How much will this cost? A middle grade number would be $2000. On the low end, after publication, my novel should land at least $10,000 in royalties, and that's if it's pretty much a failure. Some other writers that have explored this particular subgenre niche have sold over a million copies. At roughly $2 royalty per copy sold, well, you do the math. My most optimistic hope is sell at least 1/4 of that.
Anyone interested in making an investment will get their name stamped in the credits, and the possibility of a decent return on their investment. Granted, there's risk since I'm an unknown pony on the track, but, since my novel is written in the form of a Book I and Book II, these could be published separate, for near double the return that publishing a single combined volume would. Once Book I gets picked up, the publisher can negotiate deal with agent over Book II. On top of this, I've already started Book III, but, have held off on any further writing until I at least secure agent representation on Book I. Further, I've another other other novel unrelated to this series already started as well, but, on stall until agent representation for the first work happens.

That's the gig. Boy needs editor and boy needs money from somewhere to fuel the flight to publication the rest of the way. I find it pretty pathetic that $2000 is holding me back. $2k is nothing, but, it's a nothing that's less obtainable than the nothing I've got.

If you know any rich folk that like to talk about how they support the arts that might be interested in riding their name in on publication of a novel, point them my way. Hell, they don't even have to be rich, just comfortable enough where $2k isn't a risk, and interested in helping a baby novelist get his feet.

That's where I'm at right now. I get angsty sometimes about it. I've got a novel that could go somewhere, and even go far, but, a cheap little $2k is holding me back. Just one Blue Fairy could turn me into a real boy. *sigh*

Narcissa

2010-11-24T15:47:00.005-06:00

In attraction we desire the company and recognition of beauty. To be recognized, embraced, and wanted in return by someone beautiful results in a selfish affirmation of worth. What is beauty and why is it prized so highly? Is not a deadly poison still a deadly poison no matter the artistry, and elegance of its container? Personally, I'm a victim of desire, like most everyone, but I'm also stubborn and picky, waiting years between relationships before finding someone, like that crazy fantastic girl with the yellow scarf, having just the right balance of everything both inside and out. Unfortunately, the attraction is not always mutual, recognized, convenient, and even more rarely ever returned, and I go for more years with only myself to try to love when no one else will. It's so very hard to love yourself when no one else will.

It's extremely hard to love yourself when there's no one else to back that up.
Suffice to say, I'm not feeling any love, from myself, or anyone else.

Mirror Mirror

2010-11-22T04:48:00.001-06:00

Look into the mirror and you'll see a twinned reflection of yourself, but mirrors are tricky and they can lie.

A photograph can be more honest than the mirror, but also lie more effectively.

Look at your friends and associates. There, you will see yourself with greater honesty, if you know how to look.

But what do digital shepherds dream of?

2010-11-21T06:53:00.002-06:00

We're all familiar with the question and title; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Any debate regarding the capability of sheep, electronic or no of dreaming, I'm going to leave alone.
Where digital shepherds are involved in herding electric sheep, however, more than of their flocks they may dream.

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