Bad Wolf

For those of you who wondered where the name of my photography company came from, it's a "Doctor Who" reference :)

"What in the name of Joss Whedon was that?"

Felicia Day's new video for NASA's Spitzer Space Center. Very Funny! (and educational too :)

Once a Browncoat...

... always a Browncoat :)

"You've Got Red on You."

I promise this'll be the last Boris related post for awhile, but Nathan was doing his first official signing today so I ventured out to the San Gabriel Valley for the afternoon to say "hi." I also decided I should make a custom Boris for Nathan. (I was going to give him "Angel Boris" but he looked so good on my shelf next to "Demon Boris" that I hated to break up the set.) So, since Nathan's as big a Simon Pegg fan as I am, "Boris of the Dead" was born :)



Here's Nathan with his new Boris:

And Nathan doing a Boris sketch for me :)

JACK CHOP

My friend Rileah Vanderbilt is engaged to filmmaker Adam Green (HATCHET, FROZEN). Here is his 11th annual Halloween short film! It is a spoof of TV's infamous "Slap Chop" infomercial. Behold the Jack-o'-lantern carnage and gore! It's prolly NSFW, but it is really fucking funny :)

Go Baby Go!

I've been back in LA for 4 1/2 years and had yet to make it to the racetrack so I decided today was the day. One of my all-time favorite horses was running in the Lady's Secret Stakes so I called that my excuse, packed up Boris, and headed to Santa Anita.

Boris' first trip to the track :)

The weather was perfect. Sunny, kinda breezy, and not too hot. I saw some amazing horses and some great races and just generally had a great time.

Tiago:

2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird:
The main reason I went though was to see Zenyatta. This mare is amazing. She is proving to be one of the great race horses of all time. She's big. She's gorgeous. And damn but she can run.... She was 12-0 going into the Lady's Secret Stakes this afternoon and she did not disappoint.




So with her easy (yet still impressive) win today Zenyatta remains undefeated. Next up for her is the Breeder's Cup Ladies Classic on Nov. 6th. It's a $2 million race and it should be one for the record books. I can't wait!

All Good Raccoons Go to Heaven...

... which doesn't begin to explain my devious little friend here :)

So this is "Blue Angel Boris." He supposed to be the "good" little angel to go with "Demon Boris" that I worked on a couple of weeks back, but I think he just charmed his way through the pearly gates. Just look at that face and you know he's up to something....

Many thanks again to the very talented Nathan Hamill for creating this little guy. He's been a lot of fun to work on. I have one more I want to do and then I think I'm done with the Borii for awhile... although I do have a couple of ideas for Nathan's Lava Bear when he come out :)

Here's my ever expanding collection of mischievous raccoons -

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'm off to see Zombieland!

Do You Want to Date My Avatar?

And here's another video I forgot to post... Shhh. Don't tell Felicia ;-)

The Doctor is In

I meant to post this last week after the Emmy's but totally forgot. Bad Angie. So here ya go. NPH and Fillion in all their funniest :)

The Best Comedy on TV

There's a new show ABC called "Modern Family" and it is seriously one of the funniest shows to hit the air in a long, long time. "Glee" is a great show, but if I had to choose I'd pick Modern Family hands down! So tune in at 9PM on Wednesday nights and give it a chance! You won't be disappointed :)

If you missed the first episode you can check it out courtesy of Hulu.

If you're a Glee fan (like I am), you can watch Modern Family live (it's only a 1/2 hr show) and then go back and watch Glee on your DVR and fast forward through the commercials. It works out for the best all around :)

Boris Goes to Hell

I am constantly on the look out for new projects that allow me to flex my creativity a bit. I write. I take pictures. I draw. I have however, never been much of a painter. Recently though I was introduced to the wonderful world of vinyl toys by artist Nathan Hamill. He and fellow artist Denis Vasquez inspired me to try my hand at customizing and I decided to make my first attempt on one of Nathan's adorable "Boris" vinyls. Here's the photo record of that journey.

Boris, prior to being subjected to my artistic whims :)



Boris after his dip in the red paint pool:



He then got some black stripes:





Demon Boris gets his wings:







My trio of Borii:



The process was a lot of fun and I look forward to customizing some more figures. Next up I'm thinking that Demon Boris needs an Angel Boris to go with him :)

New Website

I hope to be doing some more photography projects down the road, so in preparation for that I set up a new website. So far I have only put up my equestrian photos, but I'll add more (hockey, soccer, etc) when I get a chance.

Bad Wolf Photography

Lemme know what you think!

Ready to be home

So I'm back in Atlanta for a week. While I've missed friends and family, I don't miss this city. It's hot and humid and I just don't identify with most of the people who populate this town... not that I ever really did. I lived in this city for 25+ years and I always felt out of sync. LA is my home. It always has been. More so now than ever. I miss Jason. I miss my dog. I miss the rest of my crazy assortment of friends, Stacey, Wendy, Rileah, the various Nates... some are new friends, some I've known awhile, but I miss them all anyway... now if I could just talk Lindy, Garett, & Michele into moving out that way, I'd be set :)

Still, it was good to see the Fam again and Dragon*Con was a blast. It's always fun to hang out with Felicia and some of the costumes that I saw this weekend were even better than the ones I saw at Comic-Con. It was nice to see Denise Vasquez as well. She's a hell of an artist and I hope to get to spend some time with her once we're both back in LA too.

Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend. Here's my fave pic I got of Felicia on Friday.

There and back again...

Ok, so I haven't posted anything here in awhile... a long while. Interesting that my last post was about the crazy wildfires last fall and now this latest one is in the midst of SoCal's latest inferno. (check out my friend Denise Vasquez's awesome pictures!) Fire fascinates me (I think I was a pyromaniac in a previous life) so I guess this is apropos... (In a semi-related topic, check out Nathan Hamill's latest work, "Lavabear" at www.nathanhamill.com)

Most of you know what I've been up to lately, but for those of you who don't, here's the quick and low down... I've been writing. Writing, writing, and more writing. Mostly with Jason, but also some with Stacey as well. The three of us recently completed a pilot script for a TV show. It is being read by the PTB (That's "Powers That Be" for you non-Whedonites out there) over at Fox... and its progress at the studio has been promising. The right people are reading it and more importantly, loving it! I can't say too much about it yet, but I'm even excited about the possibilities and in these types of situations I'm usually a cautious optimist at best. I promise to keep everyone posted as events progress so keep your fingers, toes, and various other appendages crossed (no, not THAT appendage you perverts... although if one of you has a way of crossing THAT, we need to talk ;) HeHe),

As far as the other scripts go, they are moving forward as well, albeit at a much slower pace. More on that as details become available as well, but suffice it to say, some recognizable names are reading them and that's never a bad thing. Meanwhile (back at the Batcave) I've got 2 pseudo-horror scripts I'm working on. One is a Tim Burtonesque fantasy-horror kinda thing and the other is a comedy-action-horror (think Shaun of the Dead meets Halo). The treatment on one is done and I'm hard at work on the other. I hope to have 1st drafts of both done before Halloween. (I'm going as a Zombie school girl for those of you who care.)

This week I'm in Atlanta though. I'm going to Dragon*Con to see my fantabulous friend, Felicia Day and I'm catching up with other friends (old and new) as well as family members. I haven't been back here in a couple o years and it's kind of odd to be back... that and the chip in my brain that contained my maps of Atlanta must have short circuited, 'cause I got lost driving from my mom's house to Perimeter Mall yesterday (and that's only like a mile away). Hey, I never claimed NOT to be directionally challenged. HeHeHe.

So that's the skinny, scoop, latest breaking news. Love you all. Talk soon!

-- angie :)

More Fire Pictures

This is a good array of shots that show just how scary these fires have been:

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USTRE4AD1DM20081117&channelName=topNews#a=10

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

So for those of you who may have not seen the news, a large chunk of Southern California is on fire... again. This time it is north of the city about 20 miles (sorta up where I lived when I first moved out). The fire has destroyed 100's of homes and 1,000's of acres and is still ragin out of control. Even this far south there is a thick blue haze hanging over the city and it smells like everyone decided to grill out at the same time. My eyes are watering (even indoors), my car is covered in a fine layer of ash, and to make matters worse it's about 90 degrees out there today. You can feel the air/smoke pressing down on you when you go outside. Ick. I took Vala to the dog park this morning and you could see the smoke rolling in over the hills. It's very unsettling. Hopefully the winds will die down and the firefighters will get a handle on it soon.

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

So I was talking to a friend of mine on the way in to work today (actually "whining" is probably a better description of what I was doing) and he asked me what was stressing me out so bad as to account for my current state of agitation... I almost had to laugh. Do you want the long list? or just the short one? Let's go with a shorter version and start with my head. I have a pounding headache that is threatening to turn into a migraine... and I'm out of my medication, with no hope of getting my perscription filled until at the very earliest tomorrow... I haven't had sex (or actually the desire to, which is disturbing on a whole 'nother level) in like six weeks and that makes me grumpy... and would actually probably solve my headache problem... which almost prompted me to make an impromtu (and wildly inappropriate) booty call to someone this AM.... what squashed the making of that call you might ask? How 'bout the fact that I managed to lock myself (and my dog) out of the apartment for the better part of the morning. (Pardon me for a moment while I bang my head against the wall.) Add to all of that my rather shakey financial state at the moment and there you have it. Lack of money + pounding headache + lack of sex = very frustrated, stressed out me :P

It's not that I don't have good things going on these days. I do... in fact I have some potentially life changing possibilities on the horizon... but the promise of amazing things to come is hard to focus on when the immediate craziness is threatening to consume me... Sigh... I need to go horseback riding. My soul needs that right now... or chocolate cake. Right now, my soul would be (briefly) appeased by chocolate cake...

So close...

So my current imdb goal is to break 100K... this week I got to 101,348. Definitely my best # yet (and a huge improvement over my 980,225 from last week). So the 615% jump was awesome, but that 100K mark is now so tantilizingly close as to be evil... hehehe... Oh well, hopefully next week :-)

Here's the link in case some of you may have lost the bookmarks I'm sure you have for it ;-)

http://us.imdb.com/name/nm2593632/

My new favorite quote...

From "Slither" director, James Gunn:

"As commercial artists – whether we're actors, writers, directors, or whatever – we need to 100% fully immerse ourselves in a job, and yet 100% fully not give a shit. That's the paradox we face every day."

I'm finding out more and more exactly how true that statement is...

PG-Porn/Humanzee Photos

Thanks to James Gunn for the mention/link on his My Space blog this morning. Pics are from the photo shoot I did with him and Mikaela Hoover a couple of weeks back. Thanks also to my friends Wendy and Scott for letting us invade their house for the shoot :)