Can you believe that this gorgeous beach shoot was done in early December. That is the beauty of Southern California. 80 degrees at the beach a few weeks from Christmas. Love it! As you know I have been doing some wardrobe styling in my spare time (HA HA) as if I have much of that, but it is more of a pleasure than a task for me. This latest shoot wasn’t really planned out months in advance, it just sort of came together. The video here is just one set of photos and one model, we actually had two models and about 10 looks. What a great day. More to come!
We all met in the morning at Bluff Park in Long Beach, Ca and took over an area of the grass and started make up, hair and I opened the back of my SUV and started sorting wardrobe – we must have looked sort of crazy, but I was really looking to capture a chic/bohemian look as the main focus and then we threw in some MOD and Sexy Glam too… I am very happy with the results!
Does anyone wonder why Maria fell in love in East LA.. but grew up in Spanish Harlem.. and is living da life just like a movie star… I mean, if she was so freggin poor – how did she get from Spanish Harlem to East Los Angeles? I was thinking that maybe she got the eviction letter in Harlem, so she hitchhiked to East LA, and while cleaning houses and thinking of way to make it better she fell in love with Mario Lopez at a bar where Carlos Santana was playing guitar (i think she was bussing tables there), and is now dancing with the stars…. and living the life just like a movie star….
does anyone else find this song somewhat stereo type heavy…. and what the heck does “Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula” mean?
I thought at first they were saying Mama CHOLA? Like tear drop and tattoo Sad Girl or something… odd
oh Maria Maria
She reminds me of a west side story
Growing up in Spanish Harlem
She’s living the life just like a movie star
oh Maria Maria
She fell in love in East L.A.
To the sounds of the guitar, yeah, yeah
Played by Carlos Santana
Stop the looting, stop the shooting
Pick pocking on the corner
See as the rich is getting richer
The poorer is getting poorer
See mi y Maria on the corner
Thinking of ways to make it better
In my mailbox there’s an eviction letter
Somebody just said see you later
Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula
Ahora vengo mama chula (east coast)
Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula
Ahora vengo mama chula (west coast )
oh Maria Maria
She reminds me of a west side story
Growing up in Spanish Harlem
She’s living the life just like a movie star
oh Maria Maria
She fell in love in East L.A.
To the sounds of the guitar, yeah, yeah
Played by Carlos Santana
I said a la fella los colores
The streets are getting hotter
There is no water to put out the fire
Mi cosa la esperanza
Se mira Maria on the corner
Thinking of ways to make it better
Then I looked up in the sky
Hoping of days of paradise
Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula
Ahora vengo mama chula (north side)
Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula
Ahora vengo mama chula
(south side)
Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula
Ahora vengo mama chula ( world wide)
Ahora vengo mama chula mama chula
Ahora vengo mama chula ( open up ur eyes )
Maria you know you’re my lover
When the wind blows I can feel you
Through the weather and even when we’re apart
It feels like we’re together maria
She reminds me of a west side story
Growing up in Spanish Harlem
She’s living the life just like a movie star
oh Maria Maria
She fell in love in East L.A.
To the sounds of the guitar, yeah, yeah
Played by Carlos Santana
Puttin them up yo
Carlors Santana with the refugge gang
wite clef jerry my dog Mr santana GMB
yo carlos u play that guitar proud
I have no interest in those things real – those things un real, and those that fall between the lines – i have read what was written – written past and present and that awkward area left blank for good reason -
i have lost interest…. perhaps never had a real interest in the reality of this place – in anything i could touch or taste or feel – but only those things beyond tangibilty that scrape the inner lining of meaning and scar memory – oh so gently – so permanently.
People – talk to me - maintain eye contact - I care – i have heard them – have they heard me? They maintain they have – i have said nothing – communicated only the very surface of any thought so far reaching into me like the roots of some mythical rain tree – still they speak of me with such charity – such splendor – they compliment all things i never called by my name….
who is this person – so adored – so appreciated – so loved?
This little movie was a guilty pleasure. I am a Queen Latifah fan – there is just something very real and solid about the way she plays all her characters. She has a level of confidence that trancends the screen. Of course Diane Keaton is always a riot. I love her classic head shaking, hand flailing, squealing hysterics. Alway funny. A surprise to me, was Katie Holmes, playing a totally whacked out, but likable bimbo. You cannot help but like her in this film – she is just too cute. Great job on her part and I am personally glad to see her out of the house – Tom is freaky!
Anyway, if you just want to have flat out silly fun and are in a light hearted mood, Mad Money is sweet, simple, clean and friendly.
The basic storyline: A mature couple faces debt and possible financial ruin when after a year of looking for a new job, the husband (Ted Danson) finally admits he just cant find anything and they are now flat broke. His wife (Diane K) takes the reigns, but all she can find that matches her skills is a janitorial job in the Federal reserve bank where she quickly hatches a scheme to rob the place. After noticing they use locks just like the ones you get at any Home Depot on the carts that carry “Worn out” money that is to be shredded, she drags Queen L into the scheme and later entices Katie H as well. From there its a fun romp through the robbing, almost getting caught, more drama… finally getting caught and then … well, you’ll see..
Pepsi’s brand-new chief (as of Oct. 1) is a powerful force behind the consumer giant’s strong profit pipeline and $108 billion stock market valuation. Formerly CFO and president, the Indian-born strategist reached the top even though she never ran a line operation at Pepsi. Nooyi believes in constant reinvention: “The minute you’ve developed a new business model, it’s extinct, because somebody is going to copy it.”
2. Anne Mulcahy
Chairman and CEO, Xerox (XRX)
2005 rank: 2
Age: 53
An emphasis on color copiers, digital presses, and systems that can copy, fax, print, and scan has helped the turnaround magician (aided by No. 27 Ursula Burns) continue to drive steady growth at the $15.7 billion company. Thanks to the iGen printer, which cost more than $1 billion to develop, Xerox is also a market leader in color commercial printing. In 2005 the company launched 49 new products.
3. Meg Whitman
CEO and President , eBay (EBAY)
2005 rank: 1
Age: 50
Whitman’s task is to figure out how to put the shine back in one of the brightest stars of the Internet age (see story, page 158). Last year’s acquisitions have failed to bring in big revenue, and U.S. traffic growth has slowed. That has translated into a slumping stock, down about 40% in the past year; market cap is now $37 billion. The Internet phone provider Skype won’t bring in profits anytime soon—the service remains free until the end of the year. In July the company announced a $2 billion stock buyback, eBay’s first.
Talk about a brief retirement. In March the 29-year Chevron veteran stepped down from running the $194 billion company’s downstream division. By May she had stepped into the corner office at the $37 billion agribusiness giant. Woertz’s energy expertise is expected to guide ADM’s push in renewable fuels (see story, page 166). Her timing was impeccable: Riding a commodities boom, ADM stock has had a good run.
Taking the top job at Kraft was a homecoming for Rosenfeld, who spent 22 years at the company, then took a detour to PepsiCo to head the Frito-Lay unit. Now back at Kraft, the world’s second-largest food company (2005 revenues: $34 billion), she is facing major challenges. Several years into its restructuring plan, Kraft’s sales are sluggish. Rosenfeld’s next move: preparing for the widely expected spinoff from parent company Altria.
6. Brenda Barnes
Chairman and CEO, Sara Lee (SLE)
2005 rank: 3
Age: 53
Barnes inherited a mish-mash of companies when she became CEO last year. So she began selling noncore businesses like Hanes apparel to focus on food. The divested units made up 40% of Sara Lee’s revenues, which were $19.3 billion when Barnes took over and are expected to shrink to about $11.6 billion this year. The stock is still lagging, as Barnes has been forced to lower the company’s long-term targets.
Jung’s turnaround plan for the $8 billion beauty company is on track to reach $200 million in annual savings. Key markets like the U.S., Canada, and Mexico are struggling. Russia is doing well, though, and so is China, where Avon has shifted from department stores to direct sales.
8. Oprah Winfrey
Chairman, Harpo Inc.
2005 rank: 4
Age: 52
Move over, Howard Stern. Oprah took to the radio waves in September with the launch of Oprah & Friends, an XM Satellite Radio network. In January her $40 million Leadership Academy for Girls will open in South Africa.
9. Sallie Krawcheck
CFO, Head of Strategy, Citigroup (C)
2005 rank: 7
Age: 41
Krawcheck and CEO Chuck Prince have spearheaded major changes at the financial services giant (market cap: $247 billion), including the sale of the asset-management and life insurance and annuity businesses. But with rising interest rates and a weaker housing market, Citigroup has been missing its earnings targets.
In April the P&G lifer added the personal health, oral care, and pharmaceutical businesses to her beauty portfolio. At $29 billion in sales, her divisions bring in 42% of P&G’s revenues. Down the line, she’s a contender for an even bigger job: CEO.
So one of my fave movies right now is Marie-Antoinette – I have been listening to the Sound Track Non-Stop! J’adore the “I Love Candy” sequence, because every now and then, i just want clothes, shoes, Jewlery and tons of fatty little cakes and champagne… without those days we will shrivel up and die… or at least i do…
My work is insane… i have been in the office till 9 or 10pm most nights, when i am not, i am working from home till 2am… Tonight I had to go home sick from stress and fatigue at about 5:30pm (usually that is about 1/2 way through my day) I got home and slept till about 7pm – when I woke up, Moulin Rouge was on tv and i had just been dreaming about Amelie… I put on my MA soundtrack.. pushed away the lap top and threw all my pillows on the floor, served myself flowering japanese tea on a glass tray with chocolate covered candided orange peels and then followed it up with a small bottle of Sofia Champagne and fresh mango slices with crystal sugar sprinkled all over them… Just now I lined up my shoes in a row and organized my jewlery… discovered that i have way too much of it… i gave Pearl (my kitten) some whip cream, she needed a break too… then i watched The Riches (my new fave tv show- Eddie Izzard, wow… quite a change)… anyway, somedays you need a fix.. whatever your fix is.. treat yourself to it before you are sent home sick.. keep yourself happy… no one else will do that for you… I started a new screenplay tonight… i think my creativity is most comfortable in the throws of indulgence… those candied orange peels were amazingbr>
One thing i know is that even Marie sought out peace and traquility away from the stress and pomp of Versaille.. when i visited Versaille, i was most impressed with her little cottage sanctuary and her music room… as a woman in a world where it really sucks to be a woman.. sometimes finding fulfillment is a moment to moment process… i have alot of friends who seem to think that getting a man is the main goal of life… from what i have seen, it seems like you shouldnt get a man unless you are ready to add even more stress to your life… not that men are all bad, they have their place in life too.. but i think unless you are totally happy and fulfilled and joyous in yourself and your own life, a man is just a complication one can do without… that being said.. a cutey patootee now and then is always a nice addition to cakes and shoes and champagne… and the daily work out (which oddly, i find i enjoy too – i DO mean exercise..)
Think of ways to pamper your brain, your soul, your body, your spirit… and be well.
Currently listening:
Marie Antoinette
By Original Soundtrack
Release date: 10 October, 2006
Rotten Tomatoes users were correct, this film has a great deal of posturing, rants, soap boxing and tirades. Whichever side of the political issue you are on, you will most likely find a reason to argue after watching this film. Tom Cruise was not convincing in his role, in fact, it was a bit laughable. Redford was good, but of course, and Meryl as always was realistic although her characters realizations were a bit over the top. I think it is a good way to open discussion if you are looking to debate someone on the issues. Hollywood is so prominently anti-war as a group that it is hard to watch films like this without seeing the propaganda for what it is. I am not Anti-War or Pro-War, but I do wonder sometimes if during WWI & II, had we had the internet, cnn and MSNBC, if we would have acted the same during those campaigns. Reasons are always cloudy during war from a political standpoint, but i cannot help but wonder if during the holocaust, when so many of our troops died – thousands and thousands and thousands of men, if there would have been tons of people only concerned with bringing our troops home and letting that Hitler terrorist guy just go about his business since it really wasn’t our affair to interfere… and he didn’t actually have WMDs to speak of- aside from pure evil. I wager we might not have concerned ourselves so deeply with the fate of millions of oppressed Jews if the news was playing images 24/7 like those in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan…. what would it have been like to wait till he was really on our doorstep before we stepped in…
i just wonder how much access to instant information (whether correct or complete) has done for us – has it empowered us to be more effective in our choices or has empowered us to instantly judge and react to things before we’ve had a chance to fully comprehend them…. or before the truth will out, so to speak..
I am not saying the current wars are right or wrong – or that any of those past were right or wrong.. there is so much oppression in the world, and we have sometimes been able to step in with good results – being a haven at times for refugees etc.. since we have been more informed via internet and television etc, it seems we have almost become more self focused than ever before.. if the world is truly FLATTENING Thomas Friedman, than why does it seem – now more than ever, the more of the world we have access to the knowledge of, the more we are mostly concerned with ourselves….? i just don’t know…
Current mood: artistic Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
The Nanny Diaries is a cute little movie. Funny, Sad, Sweet. Nothing to write home about, but perhaps Scarlet was sick of working with Woody and needed a break.Soft, Clean, Good Hearted Fun. If you liked 13 Going on 30, Just Like Heaven, The Devil Wears Prada, Legally Blonde.. you will most likely enjoy The Nanny Diaries.
A student of antropology takes a job as a Nanny to a rich family in upper NY only to find out that the upper east side can be a JUNGLE of a different kind. She meets a gorgeous hunk, of course, and helps a rich distant mother reconnect with her life and her son.
Just got back from the Beyonce Concert – that chick can SING and DANCE… the cutest part was when she decended the stairs during the number that ended her on her face during the florida show and gave the audience this big grin – that said – whoo, i made it! – and the audience broke out in cheers… see all the videos at:
curious
I have no interest in those things real – those things un real, and those that fall between the lines – i have read what was written – written past and present and that awkward area left blank for good reason -
cheerful
artistic
