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Baby, The Stars Shine Bright @ Otakon 2011

Purplepenguin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:17:23 +0000

Check out the rest of the photos at http://purpleskymagazine.com/2011/08/photo-baby-the-stars-shine-bright-otakon-2011/

Favorites From Sixh – Animenext – June 11, 2011

Purplepenguin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:06:21 +0000

These are my favorite shots from the Sixh show at Animenext. I wonder if these are the same fashions from all their shows (they’ve been touring around America at Anime Conventions) or if they choose different ones for each show. You can see all the pieces at www.purpleskymagazine.com

Favorite Shots – Head Kandi

Purplepenguin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:36:49 +0000

These are my favorite so far from the Head Kandi shoot. And I’m thinking more and more that wigs are pretty darn awesome.

Head Kandi & Translum Backgrounds

Purplepenguin — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:30:07 +0000

Head Kandi, a hair accessory crafter, contacted me recently to do some photos for tradeshow banners. They would be tall, vertical banners with some text. The hair accessories are super colorful and cyber and the tradeshows would mostly be geared towards fans of Japanese animation. I’ve been playing with translum plastic from Savage. It’s a long roll like their paper, but this stuff is an opaque plastic. I used a bare light with gels behind the translum and a simple softbox up front and to the left. The results were pretty interesting and I like how evenly the color from the gel spreads on the plastic background. You can see how it’s too hot in the first picture, before I moved the light farter away in the second picture. Check out Head Kandi’ accessories at – http://www.head-kandi.com/

Kristin Costa “Monstrous” Fall/Winter 2011

Purplepenguin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:38:50 +0000

NYC may be a big place, but it’s pretty weird how small the sub-cultures are. I photographed the Kristin Costa show at INC Lounge this week, because my friend was modeling. I recognized several of the other models from Steampunk conventions/events. Shien Lee from Dances of Vice was also modeling and she perhaps best embodies the under-underground fashion in New York. It’s a devilish care-not attitude that gives a big fat middle finger to the Anthropologies/Abercrombie crowd and embraces a mix of risque fashion from the the victorian era, anime, 1920’s and more. I’m just happy to have a chance to photograph it in the making.