Lists 2010: Editorials

Since it's the end of the year and I'm being hit with many best and worst and top so on and so forth list, I'm putting out one or a couple of my own. Today is some of my favorite fashion editorials from various magazines. This list started as a Top Five, however I decided to post more than five so it became some of my favorites. It's set up as cover of the magazine issue, then the editorial(s) from that issue.







































































Strays from different issues of Complex. I think this is all 2010.







Shot by Ruben Afanador
















Since it's the end of the year and I'm being hit with many best and worst and top so on and so forth list, I'm putting out one or a couple of my own. Today is some of my favorite fashion editorials from various magazines. This list started as a Top Five, however I decided to post more than five so it became some of my favorites.






Wow, this has to be the longest post ever, and the post that took me the longest, glad thats over. Up next, favorite advertisements, this wont take or be as long for sure.
6:04p.m.

Special Sauce Sunday: Featurette Erica C. at Per Populus Gallery

Friday I went out to support my girl Erica as she hosted a showing of some assumed local jewelry makers and a photographer, and an artist. Of all five people showing the photographer Tony Lopez, the venue Per Populus Gallery, and my buddy Erica stood out.

The photographer features about 10 or so HDR images that were awesome. He used photomatix software, to create surreal looking photos of regular spaces or locations might be a better word. Digitally he did an old photography trick we call sandwiching that I learning in a darkroom. I guess combining negatives has found its way to digital photography.The work of Tony Lopez.
Per Populus Gallery is a small venue but a place you can imagine so much possibility in because of the energy circulating in the people and in the space.
Erica I met in college, we had the same major. She graduated on time ahead of me and when I get back to the city she had already started a line of tees, and started working on becoming the socialite that she is. She’s a stylist first, but does so much and has so mastered being in the right place at that you can’t help but to notice her. I’m sure it won’t be too much longer before the right people are utilizing her talent. Click here to see her old portfolio.
The belly out chic, that would be Erica C. talking to a friend.Erica on the right with the model that she styled for the event.

Erica with Ryan (not sure if thats how he spells it) of Kustom Karats The model is wearing Kustom Karats as well.


6:29p.m.

This Blogs old, new beginning.

So what I’ve been thinking about doing for a while now is to feature other people on this blog. Kind of like I did with Kwesi Abbensetts. They could be friends, people whose work I like, people who inspire me so on and so fourth. This idea is not necessarily original to blogs or anything and there’s no way I can think of to do it different, so I’m just going to mention these people on Sundays, probably not every Sunday, just the Sunday closest to whenever I discover them, it, whatever.
The idea is to have a couple words from them so I’m not just regurgitating stuff you’re going to see when further looking into them neither the same stuff you may already know if you already heard of them. If I’m featuring someone I don’t know, or can’t talk to I’ll still feature it, if I’m so moved, despite that being the bane (sometimes fortune) of most blogs existence.
This is important because the goal of this blog from the beginning was to be a launching pad for my magazine, which I got off track from with photography gigs, a bullshit job, boyfriend, car trouble, no money and other happenings of life.

They original idea was for the blog was for it to be the “making the band” of my magazine, i.e. an episode a week (a couple posts a week) until you have the actual band (writers, photogs, editor) and the product of the show and all the hard work… an album (magazine!). But it didn’t go like that, I super slacked.

At the end of 2009, I knew 2010 was going to be my year, and in many ways it was, the only thing missing really just happens to be one of the biggest. So just like last year, at the end of this year I’m back in the mind frame of next year being a big year. So 2011 is almost here, let’s have another go round shall we? 4:36p.m.

All over the place and in pain, pursuing feeling better...

So I was hoping I'd have it together and get back to posting more regularly in December, But the month is here and I've been bullshitin' well with the post's anyway. I have a ton of ideas for Sexless in Chi-city but I haven't had time to write the columns. Even now, I'm rushing through this brief update post so I can go to sleep, so that my attitude isn't so bad at work tomorrow morning so as to prolong being fired from retail hell a bit longer. Anyway what I've been up is, starting kind of backwards or from present moving to days ago: First Chicago Bulls game, sad I know for a born and raised super Chicago girl, but we won against Oklahoma Thunder which I had never heard of before the game Monday. Went out West to support/watch my friend do his poetry thing- he's pretty awesome at it, which reminds me to mention something about other people being featured on this blog, but thats for a later date. Noticed a crack in my windshield that same night, that really disappoints me.

First Erykah Badu concert on the 3rd, she was great as well, however being the critic that I am I must say there was a song or two or three I would have chosen over some of her choices but she still did wonderful, but of course. Saw and independent film with the boyfriend, spent the night and the following morning got an HIV test with the boyfriend(i might explain where he came from in a Sexless, or I might not, depends I guess). Had my first day at my new job as a professional part-time volunteer with an amazing Men's health clinic on the Southside in one of our rough neighborhoods, second day was today. Started and finished all my Christmas shopping (I'm probably the poorest I've been all year right now) Eventually completed orders and got PAID for a couple photography gigs. Started a Flckr account which you can click here to see but not much there yet. Got new business cards finally. Im going to have to stop there because my back aches tremendously, I'm tired and the rest is boring anyway. I'm really working at this time management and focusing thing, and I guess as a result the blog will suffer a bit till I get it as close to figured out as one can get. Oh yea, and its cold as hell, and I DO NOT have HIV, but you might so go get tested. Goodnight 12:26 a.m.