Disowned Update

Hello! Just wanted to let you know that all of these hand picked vintage items are now available in the shop. 

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Thank you momma for all the wonderful things you've done for me over the years! You are the greatest mom ever! Enjoy your day <3

Hello Spring.

Lovely wonderful beautiful spring.

Pink light came in through the windows.

Sitting in the windows.

Clouds.

My favorite place to be.

My brother came for a visit.

Here are some photos from my life lately. I guess most of them are from last month. Things have been going really well.. The weather is getting nicer and nicer and the store is doing amazingly well so far. Everything is exciting and new and full of possibility. I think spring can make you feel like that sometimes. Jim is done with school, which means we don't necessarily have to stick around Philadelphia anymore... I've been dreaming of moving for a couple of years now... Somewhere with a lot of trees and streams and mountains to wander up..

Disowned.

I apologize to the two people who read my blog for my absence, it's been a while! That's because my partner Dani and I have been working day and night to launch our own vintage store. Disowned Clothing Co.'s online shop is now up and running and you find can our hand selected  vintage pieces at www.shopdisowned.com. Also, on tumblr we're giving away a really awesome pair of vintage sunglasses in celebration of our grand opening. You can enter the giveaway here.

What else is new? Trying to adhere to a regular training schedule for aerials. I'm finally noticing that my form is getting more fluid and refined. So, that's exciting. Anyway, here's a video of me doing a drop on the corde lisse:

In the Mangroves

I walked here everyday. There is a long bridge that winds over the water through the mangroves. The water is filled with turtles, tadpoles, frogs, fish, and birds of all kinds. The cranes are particularly majestic with their long necks, and there were whole trees filled with those big bold white birds. The trees are dense and they seem to grow right before you just eating up the sunshine and stretching out their leaves. Everything is just green, so green, the most beautifully brilliant green. If you close your eyes you can imagine the low hum of the bullfrogs, the deep smell of the richness of the earth, the warmth of the sun shining down through all those leaves, and you are there.

Was it all a Dream?

the beautiful green earth below

the best ocean

the greatest trees

the old man and the sea

the water

naps under palm canopies

happiness

bungalows

in a mirror

My dad and I travelled twelve hours through buses and airplanes and more buses before finally reaching a beautiful place where the waters meet the land of the Dominican Republic. Having escaped the doldrums of Pennsylvania in the winter time we were happy and light, the whole place seemed radiant, joyous, alive. The air smells different and the ocean heals you. We ate fresh fruit and cheeseburgers under the palm frond canopies. I fed colorful birds. I learned to breath air from a tank on my back in the turquoise water. I worshiped the sun all day long and took cool showers at night.

The Dominicans are a wonderful and happy people. Their country is beautiful, their cities are colorful, and their food is from heaven or somewhere even better maybe. This trip reminded me of how much I love this part of the world, I love speaking (sloppy) spanish, eating the freshest fish, and lazing in the sun. It was so nice there and when we landed in Pennsylvania and saw the snow we wondered if it had all been a dream.

And so, I think this will be my last winter here. More photos soon.

Four years of my life in Photobooth: January 2008 - February 2012

January 2008 in my first studio apartment.

My friend Jeff (who I dearly miss - he just moved to Angola) and myself.

Lindsey eating toast shooting Edward with a handgun.

Happiness.

Happiness to me comes in the form of a metal hoop suspended from the ceiling of our loft. Jim is wonderful. He got the lyra for me for Christmas and it took a lot of emailing the amazing Trevor of trapezerigging.com to figure out how to rig it properly, but we finally got it worked out. It came untaped, so I taped it black because I don't really like the way they look taped white. I may add some red stripes later...Not sure. I've had a projector for a long time, but was missing the necessary cords so Jim and I remedied that the other day and have been watching things like Willow and Lord of the Rings in our own personal movie theatre ever since. The top two photos are a little experiment Jim and I did last night... You can expect a lot more projector shots to come! So much fun.

Layne.

Last Saturday I met with Layne to take some photographs. We ventured down into the abandoned basement of a building at my alma-matter, the University of the Arts. It's an old YMCA building and for years it's been left to deteriorate and crumble underneath classrooms and galleries. There are very few lights to navigate by, and we had to bump around in the dark until we came upon the occasional window. There's a pool and locker rooms down there all painted in bright colors left over from the 80's. It's really very large and confusing and we struggled to find our way around in the dark. Pipes rattled and strange noises came from every direction, which was pretty frightening at first, but you soon get used to the sounds of an old rotting place. Layne was a fantastic model to work with and I'm definitely looking forward to working with her again. I think she looks a bit like Faye Dunaway, don't you?

All these items will show up in my shop soon, by the way, so keep your eyes on it!