Uh-oh. Maybe not.
(There are 40 or 50 more shots of me rolling around weeping. One of the best afternoons I’ve ever spent. Also hilarious. I kept applying mascara as the tears flowed so I would get the appropriately freaky black streaks on my face. I could have kept going, it was very cathartic.)
Interesting that the pictures are saved as “sad_sheila” and “sad_sheila3”. “sad_sheila2” must have been disappointing for some reason; I hope you didn’t ruin it by doing something silly like smiling.
Steve – What I find “interesting” is that while you were saving the photos to your Desktop and analyzing the titles, you must have forgot to read the post where I say // There are 40 or 50 more shots of me rolling around weeping //.
So no. No “silly” shots of me smiling. It’s “sad_sheila” 1 through 50.
If you didn’t mean to sound hostile, then you need to work on your delivery, creep.
Sorry, I certainly didn’t mean to be hostile. It was supposed to be a joke. I wasn’t saving the pictures. The tags just showed as I was scrolling by the pictures. Yes, I certainly did read that there were 50 pictures and for some reason the fact that you used #’s 1 and 3, rather than 1 and 2 or, say, 7 and 23, struck me as funny.
I have read your blog for quite a while, enjoyed it greatly, and commented on a number of other occasions. I am very sorry that my comments this time came as across as being offensive. That was definitely not my intention and I apologize.
Okay, we’re cool then, I suppose. Like I said, you should work on your delivery.
Language is important. You say now in your comment that you found it “funny” that I skipped a number – but in your original comment you said “Interesting”, a more detached word, and to me – detachment is often hostile.
Extremely different words giving two extremely different feelings.
Choose more carefully is my advice.
Oh shit. Running mascara is a certain emotional cue effect. Like smeary lipstick, or hair and wind, but sadder.
Kent – hahahaha Exactly. The tears kept drying immediately under the hot lights so we added these glycerine-y drops as I recall so that they would still seem wet and smudgy. The rest of the photo shoot is still just so funny to me, picture after picture like this. I had been there doing some promotional shots for a show I was doing – and the photographer (who was just starting his business) asked if I would do a shoot with him to build up his portfolio. The whole thing (the theme) was his idea. It was so fun! He was very talented.
Very well achieved, the right amount of everything! Too much mascara looks like a badger, and signals nothing… this tells you there’s more inside. I love stuff like this… like when actors silently count to ten onstage, and the audience fills the time with great emotion.
Yes, it was key to get the tears to DRIP – not smudge and flow into raccoon territory. So I would get some tears going, then we’d drip drip some glycerine-stuff to make them shiny and last under the lights – and we went to town.
Maybe the full series will surface some day in a book titled:
Black Jacket Black Tears
answer to blog header contest:
Gloria S before the pictures got smaller.
Phil – isn’t she just a SUPERSTAR, even in that one little glimpse??