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no huskies were harmed....

in the taking of this photo...not that i didn't consider it but no. none were harmed. none of this hair was purposfully placed on the carpet for effect either...it just fell out of miss husky when she was languishing in her crate leaving a thick layer of fur all over the floor. rather than vacuum it up i seized the opportunity to take an spc.  still on the seven deadly sins...sloth being one of them.

in my opinion nothing is more disgusting than a carpet full of dog hair except maybe a sweater full of dog hair but you won't ever see that on any sweater of mine because i go out of my way to keep all my stuff away from dogs and their mud, hair and slobber unless i happen to be trapped in a vehicle with them and can't escape and even then i never wear any black or dark colors and never wear a sweater.

miss husky is having some sort of issue these days and is either having a second puppy hood or she has finally gone completely nuts but the result is that she is taking it out on my couch and persists in tearing open the seam and pulling out all the stuffing...every single day. she does this religiously.  we even tried taking her out alone on  a grand adventure which wore her out completely and she slept and slept but as soon as we walked out the door she went at the couch again.  she has been spending some time in a crate when we are gone because of all this and although i vacuumed the floor on saturday by tuesday

 

it was covered in a thick layer of her hair all around the crate.  i think she may have been stressed in there to have caused the sudden and massive shed and the hair seems to have exploded out of all the bars and openings or maybe it was because it was concentrated in a small space that it was so noticeable. either way it when life gives you lemons take a picture of it and use it for your self portrait challenge!  i didn't have any better ideas!  see more sins here.  later...love   g

greed...

one of the seven deadly sins.  one would do in a pinch.  two could be justified one for regular use one for sun.

 

this is just greedy!  see more of the seven on spc flickr!  later...love g

spc featuring the 7 deadly sins...

this month the self portrait challenge is focused on the seven deadly sins. my choice of sins for the week is wrath.  for a change of pace and a bit of new focus i decided to start participating in spc once again.  as you can imagine i groaned and grimaced and said why why why???  last month it was shoes i can relate to that. i can have fun with that but the seven deadly sins? wtf? it seems i can have some fun with this too. without going into a philosphical discussion of sin which i could do...you know i could...others have summed it up better than i could so i'll leave you with this. according to the history channel:  Italian writer Dante placed those that committed the sin of anger in the "Fourth Circle of Hell," tearing each other limb from limb for eternity. 

come on...you  know you'd love to or you have wanted to do it...at least one time huh? me i have an axe to grind!!!  see more depictions of the  seven  here on flickr. later...love g

i missed it...

the june theme for the self portrait challenge was shoes...and i missed it.  the group which i used to faithfully and regularly participate in moved to flickr and it was not a forum i could relate to and i lost interest. at the very least i dropped the ball...quit the habit...moved on to...i moved on to nothing as far as i can tell but that us a whole other story. i have toyed around with the idea of participating again but never seem to be able to match the theme of the month with my mood.  shoes would have been a great start.  as a rule i do my fair shair of self portraits in shoes on any given day even without being told to.  i think i may have even participated in the invention of the concept.  ah well. next month may be my month. or not.  in the mean time lots of folks do self portraits as a daily, weekly or monthy ritual. i find them sort of interesting and so until i get some knitting mojo back and since i am lacking in any real focus on the blog and in my life...self portraits it is...daily??? hmm i can try but honestly don't know if i can maintain that.

 

along the way these may lead to some exploration of other topics.  like celebrity. this morning i had a long conversation via email with a blogging friend about the topic as it relates to knitting.  i can't say it was a conversation...it was more like  pontification on my part.  celebrity relates to everything and the bigger you are the more attention you get.  attention and celebrity are not necessarily indicators of talent and artistic ability nor are they a predictor of an interesting person but it is what it is and in this day as in days gone by celebrity is what it is all about.  when i think of celebrity i think of andy warhol. he has come to my mind several times in the past weeks. the first time was at the moms house.  the guy and i went for dinner a few weeks back and the subject moved to art. the mom is a watercolor artist and in her old age she has become quite prolific. prolific is not necessarily a good thing either but that as i have said often and quite a few times just today is another subject for another day.  perhaps even tomorrow.  her husband is her greatest fan and her biggest critic and he is very opinionated about most everything and somehow we got on the subject of andy warhol.  i brought it up if the truth be told but it was said in that room on that night that he was a no talent nobody who painted a picture of a soup can which was no damn good anyway and his portraits of jackie o were...well i won't bore you or piss you off with the rest of the conversation which i can hardly remember anyway.  i am a fan of andy warhol and i am fascinated by him...once again another story...so i defended him with every argument i could come up with and put a stop the the andy bashing that was going on. last night the guy and i went out for a motorcycle ride and a bite to eat and a beer and we stopped at the book store after to look for knitting and boating mags.  a young pretty self confident girl walked in and picked out a copy of interview magazine. she nonchalontly adjusted her kelly green sweater, turned on her heel and walked out with her geometric yellow bob swinging back and forth.  she was just sooooo andy warhol in attitude that i had to stare. celebrity starts in school doesn't it?  i was gonna say high school then i was gonna say junior high but these days i think it starts in day care...god...andy warhol would be so proud.  he celebrated celebrity.  he created celebritites. he was maybe the biggest celebrity. i do not intend to debate his talent with anyone. it is a personal opinion as far as i am concerned  but certainly no one can argue that he was a celebrity and those who are celebrities are rewarded thats for certain. it is fitting that i start my journal of self portraits with discussion about andy warhol. he was fond of the self portrait himself and...i think i look like him!!!   later...love   g

politics of fashion...

who ever thought one thing had anything to do with the other but i  recently came across this article in the new york times called the newly uptight and the title caught my eye.  read the article, it's really quite funny and very amusing!  a lot of things influence fashion and those who design that fashion and those who tell us what is in fashion. never did i connect the dots between fashion and politics.  perhaps i should have but i never did.  according to this fashion writer the current political climate has altered what we will be wearing or what we will want to wear this year. because we as a country are nervous about the impending recession and the current social ills such as global warming and teenagers overdosing on drugs no longer are the influences of the spirited  warhol years going to be reflected in our clothing.  we as a people are looking for comfort and unalloyed optimism...whatever that us...and we are about to get it from fashion designers in the form of bourgeois clothing, business suits, little beige dresses, opera gloves and kitten heels that hearken back to our days of camelot when jackie o was the dictator of what was fashionable.  young people are now abandoning the fads in fashion for the conservative quality pieces of timeless clothing to add to their wardrobes to show that they want to be taken back to a time when everything was wholesome, respectable, optimistic and well mannered.  huh!  no longer will we be seeing platform shoes, mini skirts, disco boots, babydoll dresses and young hollywood's disheveled style.  huh! i suppose tie dye will also be out of the question and any way who's wearing disco boots?  if as they say we are hesitant about the recession and about global warming which i dare say we are and with good reason why oh why is it that the fashion industry thinks these problems will be helped, solved or changed by purchasing expensive pieces of couture?

take a stand. amuse yourself. wear whatever you like or better yet wear what you already have!  just don't wear it all at the same time like i do!  global warming will not go away because we buy a little beige dress or a suit and neither will teen age drug use.  see more politics here.  peace.