Lost in notation blog

The problem with 365 dresses; the Mind project, is not so much the difficulty of sourcing the dresses; this is tough but if all else fails I’ll get out the old Singer and get creative with some bed sheets or become an expert in towel wrapping; the main difficulty one has is trying to think of interesting photo-shoots day after day.

Thankfully I am a little mad so from time-to-time I do come up with some slightly strange but nevertheless pretty cool looking shoots, such as me freezing my Irish arse off in the snow or sitting on an unstable chair which keeps trying to float on out to sea.

Over the past seven weeks the boy has become quite keen on his role as “the photographer” and so when he found out that another artist was on the horizon he decided it was time he stepped up his game.  This then is why I found myself today lying on our bed like an eejot trying to emulate one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

The boy has chosen today to tap into his creative skills mainly because he is a little jealous of another photographer, a real one,  who has approached me to offer his services.  The photographer is one of my old colleagues from News Associates who has previously used me for some portfolio portrait shots; for further details see January 2.  He is pretty darn good at what he does and covers a lot of gigs as well as weddings and so I was extremely pleased when he offered to do a shoot to help the project.  Since being informed about this piece of good news, the boy has unsurprisingly been having an almighty sulk.  Whilst putting together the shoot for today he made a few sarcastic comments one of the best being, “I bet Dave Musson would have ironed the bed sheets before letting you lie down on them.”  Bless his heart, he is a big silly at times.

Today’s shoot, sulking aside was one hell of a lot of fun.  As the Marks and Spencer roses, fair-trade though they may have been had pretty much deceased after only six days, the boy decided they may as well be used for some good; as an aside, it is bloody annoying that they lasted such a short time and they hardly even blossomed, I’ve had roses from our garden which have lasted more than ten days for goodness sake. Although the photos shown here are the best of a very bad bunch, putting the scene together was a giggle.  The boy kept teasing me throughout, telling me I was not allowed to move unless he said so whilst throwing random buds of petals at me; at one point a particularly large posy hit me square in the nose which was hardly romantic and I muttered under my breath about how I was sure Dave Musson doesn‘t physically assault his models.  We came to the conclusion at the end of the shot that Hollywood sets have a larger budget and that someone other than starlet or photographer throws the petals.

Today I had one of my most busiest blog visit days receiving almost three hundred hits.  One of the things that happens when you begin a blog is that there is the potential for you to become an extremely sad person, especially when one’s feature requires regular posts and daily photography.  Luckily it has been a pleasure to post and when I became aware of having regular readers I nearly cried with gratitude.  The problem is however that wordpress allows one to monitor one’s statistics throughout the day, week or even year; because of this it is very easy to become a tad obsessive about one’s ratings and on more than one occasion I have been left disheartened when having spilled my heart into a particular posting only 40 people log on to read it.

There is luckily a lighter side to monitoring statistics; this is the section which allows a blogger to see where exactly one’s traffic has come from and why it is that people have stumbled upon the blog.  The most brilliant ways people have come upon lostinnotation so far is by running the following searches.  If you type them in to the usual search engine many of them will bring the site up within the first page which is quite good fun really albeit a tad confusing.  If you get bored of searching for the site in the usual way give some of these a try -

• Thin Bra
• Busty women
• Market Harborough Job Centre… very nice
• trouble in my mind notation
• Cumbyea
• Catholicism in Lost
• Rio Ferdinand’s Summer Outfit
• Designer dress transvestite
• Does a woman dress for attention
• Chav wedding