All the wind bends and sends the feelings through the brain, through my ways; and I feel, in a long way, the cold, solemn relapse of an empty filling in a frightening way, as if all the trees twisted in a so-solemn-cold-tristed love affair.  The cold turns brisk, into a frisk, winter bending of salt -- to the assault that I feel when I walk into the reeling cold freeze of my own alone.

This is the prelude to the drawings that I have been working on and will post tomorrow.

-kc

Radioactive Glow Spider

Doll orgy at the thrift store.

 Ok, I lurk people.  Mostly behind things that obstruct their vision so they don't notice me.

It used to say "Personal Training."  Someone altered it, now it says "Sonal Raining."  This is my most favorite made-up word ever.

 Celine has a NIGHTMARE FACE in this picture.

This was the best 50 cents I ever spent.

Winter time mouse death.  Sad.

Spotted: Amazing geometric '90s windbreaker.

The best day of my life! I found out my (real) preserved in resin brown recluse spider necklace GLOWS IN THE DARK.

Got Hanson?

This deli has a decorating theme every month.  This month involved owls, silver trees, and roses.

...More owls in silver trees, and a bunch of roses.

...More owls.  Also: icicles.

....And to complete the theme: Gnomes.  (with roses.  and icicles. and owls.)

The man doll with some treasures.

Every night should end like this -- with OMC's "How Bizarre" music video projected onto a wall.

 

Here is some back log:

My "Mermaid floating on a cloud in the sky in the dream sequence of the movie Oklahoma" dress.  (For a vintage fashion show.)

My vintage hairstyle, done by me.

all photos copyright Katelyn Roof 2010.

-Kc

The Dreaming

Music video for Kate Bush - The Dreaming
(watch what happens at 2:28 ... amazing).



I want to learn this "dance."  Everything she does is epic.  I love it.

-kc

The night lurkers

Last night was a dream.  (When you see photographic evidence of last night below, you might think nightmare rather than dream...it's a matter of opionion, I suppose.)  Alex, Amber, Shannon, George and I had a "photo jam sesh" at George's studio in Allentown.  I brought lots of black clothing, fur collars/stoles, and even some neckpieces I made out of deer remains (skull and antler) found in the woods.  The funny thing is, when Amber and I unleashed our bags full of clothing we brought for the shoot, it was a sea of black (with a little sparkle, or even some grey, here and there).  

This is the deer skull and the deer antler.  I bleached them before I made them into neckpieces.

Click to see the larger versions.

Amber also took some shots of Shannon and me, I'll post them later after I have a chance to send her the files.

-Kc

All photos copyright Katelyn Roof 2010

Haze halo

I've (allegedly) heard so many strange sounds today.  (I'm not sure which were auditory hallucinations and which might have been real.)  Chalk it up to the dip in barometric pressure, I say.  Today was one of those weird days, where the sun was wearing a foreboding haze-halo all day.  My camera was also acting up.  On the up side, I'm doing this vintage fashion show sort of thing on Friday with a few friends, so we got to go into a costume shop and try on beautiful old dresses.  I was like a kid in a candy store.

This past weekend I finally finished altering this really awesome vintage dress I've had for a while, that was half finished when I found it.  To celebrate, I subsequently wore it.

I was going for a "New England Private School Student in the 70s" sort of look.

This is actually a boarding school blazer from 1973.  It was my mom's -- she went to boarding school in Massachusetts in the 70s, and I'm now the proud owner of her blazer.

I love my weird taxidermy-chic mink wrap scarf -- I refer to it as "my pet" (I know, that's strange).  Under the blazer and over the dress, I also wore this really great vintage sweater that has applique flowers and rhinestone embellishment.

Anyway, back to today.  To break the weird vibe of today, I decided to change things up a bit.  I'm pretty much married to the idea of wearing navy or black opaque tights with EVERYTHING during the winter.  I even do it in the summer, as long as it's not 95+ degrees.  Instead of the old routine of black or navy, I decided to wear grey opaque tights to match the grey of the atmosphere.  I wore them with this really awesome geometric-patterned 60s or 70s dress, and my favorite Frye T-strap wedge heels.  (Note:  the dress has triangles all over it.  The triangle is my favorite polygon!)

So, here's to awesome polygons and weird, cold, hazy sky and hazy brain days.

-kc

Are you leaving for the country?

I have been listening to 60s and 70s folk music all day.  (That's where the title for the post came...a Karen Dalton song.)  That definitely put me in a certain mood, that being the mood for gold buttons, high collars, obnoxiously bright, wide stripes, and big, furry hats.   People like to make fun of my collection of giant, furry hats, but I enjoy them thoroughly.  The one I'm wearing in the following pictures is equal parts lumberjack cutting trees in the woods and hiker in the Siberian tundra.  And .... to be quite honest ... I'm totally into that.  Also, it's a very special day -- I conquered a fear today.   That fear is the fear of wearing bright orange.  I have always feared bright orange, because of my coloring -- bright orange and red hair can sometimes be really overwhelming.  But, I decided I liked this shirt more than being afraid.  It kind of feels good to break one of my own rules.

I estimate the shirt to be from the 1970s.  It's made of wool, so it's kind of itchy, but I wore my American Apparel double U-neck dress underneath it to make it less itchy.  My hat is also wool, and rabbit fur, and I got it way back when in Beacon's Closet in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (it's vintage, I don't buy retail fur).  Sometimes I really miss Brooklyn, and New York in general.  Today is one of those days.

-kc

the great blizzard of 2010

So there's this weird thing .... one of my dogs is obsessed with gin + tonics.  Seriously.

Blizzard '10.  Staying in the house all day was making me ultra-stir-crazy.

Other stuff....

Baked a birthday carrot cake for my dad.

Shoveling for 2 hours brings a plight I call ... blizzard hair...  And this is after 10 minutes of combing.

Spot the lurker.  Yep...a dachshund.  My wolf lamp is also just chilling there.

Twin Peaks marathon ... totally happened.

I'm in a giant icebox of weird feelings.  I'm finding a way out of here ("here" being the rectangular space created by state lines).  There's too much snow, the soil is made of permafrost, and amidst all of the frigidity, too many bridges are on fire.  

-kc