Lunar Tunes - Limited Time Only...

...Until I can get my facebook to work and tag all y'all biatches

The Nutcracker Pas De Deux

You can’t feel like a Christmas scrooge after going to see The Nutcracker ballet at the Lincoln Center in New York (preferably when its snowing!). The first time I saw it I was hanging out for the well known classics like the Nutcracker March, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy etc. Last night, I was waiting for this one amazing piece that was new to me last time but couldn’t remember which part it was. Turns out it was the pas de deux (duet) – A Pine Forest in Winter - where the Sugar Plum Fairy dances with her prince. The music is so moving that you want to close your eyes and listen but the Balanchine’s version of the dance is lovely so you can't close your eyes! Although I don’t know much about ballet it seems really classic and poised - not too much jumping around with great controlled poses, lifts and turns. He adds something that is really special that I didn’t see anywhere else in the ballet where the ballerina is pulled across the stage while on pointe. There are a lot of different versions out there, from more well known theatres and ballet companies, but I found this version, although not Balanchine’s, its seemed similar and I liked it.

La Vita e Bella - Life is Beautiful

My partner in crime, pasta, cheese, wine...what more could I want in life?

Lingerie on a Winters Night

What I love most about my friend Alicia is that she has a great attitude and as benign as it sounds, its not a trait many people have, or at least, with as much zest as she! The other thing I really like is her name that makes her sounds like Italian royalty...Alicia Anthony Giovanna Ficalore. Yum. Oh and speaking of yum, we know how to do it up when it comes to eating, no expense spared. She also happens to have the largest collection of lingerie I have ever seen.

Tonight we embarked on one of our random outings together, armed with press passes, to an event she was covering for a magazine. This time La Perla and Jean Paul Gautier collaborated on several new lingerie pieces and her presence was requested. Sometimes I play photographer for her, which really means I go to these events, run around frequenting the open bar, eat anything that is presented to me and in between try to take some nice pics for her article. She, on the other hand, does fashiony stuff... checks out the clothes, interviews people and helps me make conversation when my mouth is full. All things considered, the pictures don't look too bad...

Long Lost Photos... Holga Makes a Comeback

My holga and I were separated for quite some time and I recently reconnected with it after more than a year. With it, I found some old film - lost, and since forgotten. Getting it developed was like ... I don't know what... maybe giving yourself a surprise gift, cos I didn't remember what was inside. Turns out it was bits and pieces of Paris, London and New York.

Brain Polaroid

I’m not as motivated to blog from a pc and my mac is dead for now. A new one is on its way but am getting a little blogging withdrawal. So here are some thoughts, a snapshot of my brain at this minute, but no actual pictures.

1. I don’t think its always been 5 days of work and 2 days off, when did that whole thing start and why? Is it like that everywhere in the world? What would it take to change it?

2. Why can’t the whole world be on the same time zone and just have a system to monitor when it is night and day and business hours at different places? Would that be harder or easier to deal with than calculating time differences? Wouldn’t it be a more accurate representation of time since, for example, we don’t really lose time or gain it when we travel, although with time differences, it appears that way.

3. The teenage mutant ninja turtle song goes, “Turtles in a half-shell, turtle power” I always thought their shells looked whole, could I have been mistaken all this time?