Deadzie's Blog + Photography

Moving..

deadzie — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:48:37 +0000

So, I am going to start using blogspot instead of wordpress for now. Decided I would give it a try.
If you want to continue reading what I write, please follow me on my blogspot account here.
Hope to see some of you there!!

Spay Day 2011 Online Pet Photo Contest

deadzie — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:57:29 +0000

Spay Day 2011 Online Pet Photo Contest.

Vote for Miss Kittie in the contest. I really appreciate it!

xoxo
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Cuteness!!!

deadzie — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:18:45 +0000

Baby Red Pandas!!!

Cuteness for today!! Enjoy!

xoxo
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Cloud & Sky Junkie 003

deadzie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:47:41 +0000

A few days after I posted my last Cloud & Sky Junkie update, we spent
the day at The Huntington Library. The sky on this day was really beautiful
all day long! It was such a lovely day to be at the Huntington. I’m including
my photos from that day, plus a few others I took on my way home from
work.

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This was as we got there. The day was a little on the chilly side but it felt really
nice, especially with all the walking. I could not stop looking at the sky for the whole
day. This was a great day!

Looking back through these photos, I love being able to see all the differences
in the shapes of the clouds. All in a day. It really inspires me all the time!

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This was as I walked out of work one day.

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Yesterday afternoon. I saw the sky was glowing this pink color. I walked to
the window and saw this. It was just stunning!

xoxo Love & Hugs

The Black Keys – Too Afraid To Love You (Live in Studio)

deadzie — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:53:41 +0000

This song and his vocals give me chills. Love this song!
This is definitely going on repeat..

xoxo Love & Hugs

My 2010 in Review

deadzie — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:58:58 +0000

I must say that this past year was filled with a lot of enjoyable
and memorable moments! 2010 did have it’s low points but I
think the fun trips and outings with friends and family made up
for the bad stuff. What a bitch of a year, but I’m glad we survived
another year. Here’s to 2011 being an even better year! So far it’s
moving along nicely.

What’s Been Going On!? Part 1 012110-022810
New York Trip, Vegas Trip, Trailer Park Boys show for the first
time, cloud photos, some movies, dinners and other fun times.

What’s Been Going On!? Part 2 030210-040410
Asteroids Galaxy Tour show for the first time!!, First Fridays
at the Natural History Museum, a couple movies, many tasty
meals, especially at The Pike, and Monkee photos.

The Month in Photos: April 2010
Magic Mountain, another fun First Fridays night, monkee photos,
That Metal Show taping, and Baby Hummingbirds!

The Month in Photos: May 2010
First Fridays for May, Hypocrisy show, Renaissance Fair, Soundsuits
after dark, Dio Memorial, monkee photos, & some tasty food.

The Month in Photos: June 2010
Last First Fridays of the year, Sadistic Intent show, Ink N Iron for
two days [burlesque dancers, pole performers, The Rev, lots of
drinks, too much fun!], Todd Schorr reception, Bowers Museum,
fun in bars, foggy photos, monkees, & more foodz!

The Month in Photos: July 2010
Summer Vegas Trip [oh my god, the heat, but too much fun!!],
having a photo at the OC Fair, Day at Melrose, Manhattan Beach
bar hopping, a few movies, monkees, and tasty food as always.

The Month in Photos: August 2010
OC Fair [to have fun & see my image hanging], Flugtag Long Beach,
Shoot with Danny, afternoon at The Grove & tasty food, monkees,
and many tasty lunches and dinners.

The Month in Photos: September 2010
Katatonia show [finally!!!], shoot for Daviel’s birthday/baptism [beautiful
location!], Mummies of the World exhibit, No Makeup Week, Dennis Hopper
exhibit, and some yummy lunches.

The Month in Photos: October 2010
Much awaited Mexico trip [family, great food, Guadalajara, Mazatlan, the
beach, meeting new family, late night club & drinking, and local graffiti!
Soo much fun!], Trailer Park Boys and some tasty food!

November 2010 [No photos for this post]
Faith No More show [finally!!!!], fun movies, finding a perfect nail salon,
and Thanksgiving with the family.

The Month in Photos: December 2010
The Getty on a rainy day, Magic Mountain, The Huntington Library
[Bukowski exhibit, the gorgeous gardens & beautiful art!], WOCA art
show, monkee photos, and clouds.

xoxo Love & Hugs

Three things I do everyday..

deadzie — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:01:34 +0000

Brush my teeth
Because I like to have clean teeth and feel icky if I don’t brush them right after I get out of bed.

Put on lip balm
I have to do this multiple times a day because I don’t like the feeling of dry lips. But, I can’t just wear any lip balm, I need to have Burt’s Bees beeswax lip balm. I seriously cannot live without this stuff!!! I love the tingly and fresh feeling it gives me.

Read email
Just to make sure there isn’t anything important. There usually isn’t, but I like to keep an eye on it since you never know when an important email may come in. Plus I like to keep it somewhat clean, even if I may procrastinate on replying to some emails, at least deleting the ones I don’t need helps.

That Scar of Mine

deadzie — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:24:06 +0000

A few years back on an early morning, I jumped in the shower to start getting ready for work. For some reason the shower mat would not stick to the tub and would become slippery. I always tried my best to be careful knowing this would happen. Well this morning I lacked being careful and felt the consequence. As I was about to step out of the shower and reached my left leg over the tub my right leg slipped and went right under me. Somehow, the front of my leg managed to hit the shower door rail before the rest of my body fell in the bathtub. I lay there for a minute since my head got knocked sideways and I felt this nauseating dizzy feeling. Once I was out of the shower and got my leg cleaned up from the blood, I realized it was really swollen and starting to bruise. It took some time to completely heal, but now I have a permanent scar on my leg. When touching it, you can even feel the dent of where my leg hit the shower door rail. So I now have the scar with a dent in my leg forever.

The Month in Photos: December 2010

deadzie — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 05:17:18 +0000

December was sooo much fun and went by so fast! In between the holidays
I managed to have some fun outings and ended up taking tons of photos for
the month. Had Kerri’s art show, The Getty, Magic Mountain, and The Huntington
Library, among a few other things here and there. Unfortunately there were a lot
of other personal things going on as well, but luckily we were still able to have
some fun and try to forget about certain things. It was a fun way to end the year!

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My first photo on my iPhone 4. Of course it had to be Loki.
This is his typical day, looking outside wishing he could be
out there all the time.

Autumn Tree & Dinner at Claim Jumpers 121110

I had gone to help Nanny with her closet and spent the night.
The next morning, as we were walking to her car, we were parked
in front of this beautiful tree. I just had to take a quick photo. I
just adore the colors!

In any case, Nanny was dropping me off since I had to be ready by
early afternoon to go meet up with N’s parents. We were doing early
dinner for N’s birthday at Claim Jumpers. The food is always good there.
This was while waiting for our food & playing with my new camera.

WOCA Art show 121110

Kerri was showing some of her new pieces here so we went to check
out her work as well as the rest of the exhibit. They had some really
nice art.

This was Kerri’s section.

After the art show we headed back to Long Beach to meet up with
Nanny’s friend for a drink. We ended up at E.J. Malloys for a little
while and then went back to Nanny’s place to hang out. It was a fun
evening and night!

*More photos can be found at the Flickr set.

Rainy Day at The Getty with Kerri 121910

Kerri had invited me to go to The Getty for the day with her. She was
very much trying to avoid having to go Xmas shopping, although it
was a very wet and rainy day. Being that I always like going and didn’t
have anything else going on that day, I decided to dress warm, bundle
up and go.

There was literally no view from The Getty. It was all covered in fog.

This was one of my favorite sculptures. Depicts Winter.

These were some huge tapestries. I felt really small in this area since
everything was so big and opulent.

Ok, this is probably my favorite from the day. I couldn’t stop looking
at it and the detail. This was really beautifully done.

All the clocks were really neat to see. These old lavish and beautiful
clocks. I definitely found myself gravitating towards the clocks.

I want this couch!

More lovely sculptures from the day..

Going in and out of the buildings was a bit difficult. My umbrella
almost flew out of my hands because of the crazy wind and rain.
We pretty much ran from one to the other. This photo though was
on our way out and the rain had finally subsided. It was unfortunate
we couldn’t see the garden area or walk out there.

It was definitely a fun day, even though it was raining. Luckily there
were hardly any people there so it worked out to our behalf. Considering
this was Kerri’s first time here, I made sure to mention that we needed to
return on a clear and sunny day so she can really enjoy all of The Getty.

*More photos can be found at the Flickr set.

Clouds on Xmas Day 122510

Heading to Tish’s’ place for Xmas dinner, it was a very cloudy day.
I managed to catch this quick photo on our way to the house. By
nighttime it started raining.

Magic Mountain with Nanny & Tori 122610

Tori was visiting for two weeks during the Xmas holiday. Why not
plan a trip to Magic Mountain during winter, haha! Nanny and her
invited me. I can never say no to Magic Mountain. It’s tooo much damn
fun! So we ended up going the day after Xmas. This was our second ride
of the day. This was our first time on the Terminator ride. I wasn’t expecting
the speed of this ride! That was one hell of a fast ride. I liked it! Can you tell?

This is Tori with her Xmas sweater Once we were done with the rides,
we made a stop at the Photo booth for some fun photos! In the meantime
we also took photos while waiting for them to come out and hung out.
We were being super silly and it was fun!

Tori with her friend Baylee.

Nanny and I.

And here is proof of our photo booth fun. What an awesome day!

Day at The Huntington Library 123110

Ahh the last day of the year. It definitely came too soon! Anyways,
this was Tori’s last day in town so Nanny invited us to The Huntington
for the day. It was a perfect day to go. The weather was just right and
there wasn’t too many people also. That’s always great! Well we got up
bright and early, got ready and headed out.

We wanted to check out the Bukowski exhibit plus wander around
the gardens for the day. We started off with the house first, then
did tons of walking around the gardens and finally we checked out
the exhibit.

And I must mention, the sky was perfectly covered wih scattered clouds.
They deserve their own Cloud & Sky Junkie update [soon, I promise].

We couldn’t stop going through all the various books and their beautiful
spines. So classy and elegant! These I wanted really bad, along with all the
various history books from around the world.

The Blue Boy.

And Pinkie. Two of my favorites from when I was a kid.

By this time we were tired from all the walking and getting hungry for food.
Actually, no, we were already hungry. But we had to see the exhibit.

The Bukowski exhibit was small but very cool. I really enjoyed reading
the fan letters and Bukowski’s personal letters. This was his typewriter
and radio.

Such a fun day!!! Really glad we went and spent a full day here. There
was still so much that we didn’t get to see, so there has to be another
day trip here.

*More photos can be found at the Flickr set.

xoxo

Three Countries I’d Like to Visit

deadzie — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 03:13:49 +0000

Sydney Opera House Close up HDR Sydney Australia

This is such a difficult choice for me, since there are still many countries that I wish to go to.
If I had to narrow it down though it would have to be Italy, Australia, and Japan. I do feel bad
leaving out the Scandinavian countries, Germany, France, UK, Brazil, New Zealand, Spain, etc etc etc…