shiny goodness

I'm here in LA at casa de Blum. She had to pick up her hubby at the airport late last night, so we are getting a little bit of late start. I thought blogging would be a good way to kill some time.

Getting here to LA was rough. My flight out of MSP was delayed (because of the snowstorm) so therefore I also missed my connecting flight. What a hassle. Not to mention, I was not feeling good at all. I had a pounding headache, which made me extremely nausous when I moved. Not a good thing when you're in airports all day. I attempted eating, but... my stomach was not having any of it. I barely got off my flight to LA and into the bathroom before it was too late. And whatever it was stuck around until mid-morning yesterday modeling for Sylvie. Have you ever done extreme posing when you have a blistering migraine? Nooooooot fun.

So, that's my dose of whining for today.


So it's mid-to-low 60's here and everyone and their brother are wearing sweatshirts and/or coats. When I went to the coffeeshop, I overheard someone talking to the barista saying they had such a large appetite lately, and they contributed that to the "cold" weather. The barista was convinced and continued to reassure his theory by saying that the body has to work harder to keep itself warm in the chilly weather so therefore you need to injest more calories to make up the difference. Sure.... this is true, but I would think only for the extreme temperatures, not in 60 degree weather. But its all relative.... right?



All I can say is that SoCal residents are a bunch of wimps. And I say that with love.





Tomorrow I'm back on a plane to Minneapolis. I just hope the temperature is above zero.


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Sylvie Blum.

Summer Adventures - Sylvie Blum

One of my greatest ambitions in my fine art modeling is to work with artists that share my passion for creating classic, tasteful, figurative and/or abstract and/or structural fine art nudes. Although I greatly respect and admire other forms of fine art nudes, including but not limited to, conceptual, emotive, experimental, erotica, fashion-esque...etc., it's not what lights my fire and passion deep within.

I think the most beautiful thing in the whole world is the human body. Not only for aesthetic reasons, but also for intrinsic reasons.

I've only worked with a few photographers that share my passion for figurative/abstract nude art. But every time I work with said photographers, I always come away from the shoot feeling that rush of adrenaline and the superb satisfaction of collaborating and creating impeccable art with extremely talented artists, not to mention I receive a few masterpieces for my portfolio.

Sylvie Blum is, no doubt, one of those few photographers I've had the utmost pleasure of working with. She has a true, passionate artist's heart, an exceptional eye and talent, and a generous, kind, and beautiful personality.







I'm extremely giddy to say that I will be working with her again soon.
Very soon, in fact.

We will be shooting together over the course of three days... next week! I'm flying out to LAX next Monday and staying in Hollywood September 7-10. I expect these sessions will be as wonderful and productive, if not more so, as our first session was.

I feel extraordinarily humbled and privileged to have such favorable regard of such a prolific and internationally renown fine art nude photographer. It makes my heart swell with joy!

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Sylvie Blum !!!

I Understand...

As I was going through my blog roll this morning, I noticed Dave Levingston's blog about being bestowed with an award called "I Understand and Wish to Continue." Well, of course, my curiosity got the best of me and I browsed through the awards and found out that I had also been awarded on July 4th, one award previous to Dave! Too cool!

So go check this blog out. It's pretty interesting.

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Here's a photo from the workshop I did in Long Beach, California. My first bodypainting!



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Adam Chilson.

Makeup and bodypaint by Lisa Berczel.

I'm back!

I'm back from my 2 1/2 week long west coast tour. Whew! All in all, everything went off without a hitch (well, I guess I did have a couple of cancellations, but that's not a huge deal) and I have so many wonderful memories from my travels.

But of course, I will not write about them in detail because I have no time! Lovely Erin is here spending a week with me, and we have so many plans and ambitions of things we want to do but of course not enough time to do them all.

Tonight were getting together with a bunch of her friends at a cool motor bar in N.E. Minneapolis called Psycho Suzi's. We will have a blast, I'm sure.


I'll leave you with a photo from the workshop I had in Long Beach.



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Wendy Levin.

Alone in the Big City

So I have the whole day to myself after another cancellation. First one in L.A., but its my forth cancellation with less than 3 days notice. ugh.

What to do, what to do? I'm feeling pretty homesick, lonely and heavy hearted which is why I think its a bad idea to coop myself up in this apartment. I need to face my fear of the unknown and go explore this city.


No picture today. Sorry.