GODDESS OF TRANSFORMATION

A man's job!

2012-01-26T22:33:00.001-08:00

Love Quote

2012-01-26T21:58:00.001-08:00

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and
criticism.

- Harold H. Bloomfield

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Getting ready for Vday

2012-01-24T12:26:00.001-08:00

The Problem With Skinny Bashing | GirlieGirl Army

2012-01-24T07:59:00.000-08:00

The Problem With Skinny Bashing | GirlieGirl Army

2012-01-22T12:27:00.001-08:00

A friend thought you might be interested in this article

2012-01-21T13:06:00.000-08:00

Etta James Dies at 73: A Photo Tribute to a Powerhouse Singer http://entertainment.time.com/2012/01/20/a-photo-history-of-etta-james-dead-at-73/

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Animal love

2012-01-16T22:49:00.001-08:00

Animal Love

2012-01-14T22:54:00.000-08:00

original

possible

out of

control...

Dixon Place and Sister Sylvester Present The Ventriloquist Circle

2012-01-14T22:15:00.000-08:00

Dixon Place and Sister Sylvester Present The Ventriloquist Circle

Fixing tire b4 audition

2012-01-13T14:49:00.001-08:00

Fwd: discounted tickets for THE VENTRILOQUIST CIRCLE

2012-01-12T19:01:00.001-08:00

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hey guys, forward this email on to your crew. it's got a sexy picture of dan and a link to the discount for saturday and our edge review.

matt

THE VENTRILOQUIST CIRCLE
presented by sister sylvester & dixon place

see the show EDGE New York calls
"a total mind-fisting"

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use discount code SS10
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Every Friday and Saturday night in January
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2012-01-12T09:41:00.000-08:00

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El Gato le dijo a La Gata

2012-01-09T23:22:00.001-08:00

Superhero day

2012-01-09T19:40:00.001-08:00

The Ventriloquist Circle

2012-01-02T19:17:00.000-08:00

I will be performing in:

Fwd: sister sylvester's THE VENTRILOQUIST CIRCLE january 2012

2012-01-02T19:08:00.001-08:00

THIS JANUARY:

The Milkman is coming

And things are going to get sticky.

After this summer's TWO ANGRY COMEDIES stormed Dixon Place, Grace Exhibition Space, and Kenny Scharf's Cosmic Cavern, Sister Sylvester returns to Dixon Place to premier the new and improved procedural, THE VENTRILOQUIST CIRCLE.

watch the trailer

January 2012
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Previews January 4th & 5th

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kitty plays with SH&SW

2011-12-30T11:56:00.000-08:00

The Ventriloquist Circle!

January @ Dixon Theater

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2011-12-30T11:55:00.000-08:00

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The Ventriloquist Circle every friday & saturday in January @ Dixon Pl. Theater

2011-12-30T11:46:00.000-08:00

If you haven't heard, we've been invited to present our new show The Ventriloquist Circle at Dixon Place, every Friday and Saturday night in January. It's super exciting for us.

It's a very funny play that Matt Wilson has written, which has many things to say about taboo, sex, and internet culture; about searching, what we might be looking for, and about America (always about America). We'd love to share this piece with you and hear your thoughts on its continuing development.

So, please come and support us. Seeing your face in the New Year would make us very, very happy. And please tell everyone you know who might like our work--friends who've seen past shows, as well as friends who haven't. It's a late show, 9.30pm, and there is a bar, so we can make every night a party!

We even have a special code for you, good for opening weekend:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/894955/prm/SS10

Much love and happy holidays,

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S&H/S&W morning brushing

2011-12-30T10:30:00.000-08:00

Even at 90 you feel like a 5 year old when you get gifts! I <3 Grandma!

2011-12-25T16:41:00.001-08:00

Agua.mov

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KraineGallery

Dec 20 -

Put A Bow On It! Opening Night No. 4

85 East 4th Street NYC - CURRENT EXHIBITIONJust in time for the holidays, Kraine Gallery presents Put A Bow On It, a collection of small works all priced under $300. Come join us for a fun and festive evening on Wednesday, December 14th, 2011. Art will be sold on a first come, first served basis. Once sold, each piece will immediately be wrapped (complete with bow!) and sent on its way. With all work priced under $300, it’s the perfect time to do your holiday shopping.Wednesday, December 14 @ 9pm - 11pm

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Holiday print!!!

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2011-12-18T03:06:00.000-08:00

Shirley Temple - I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

2011-12-15T16:58:00.000-08:00

class at NYAA

2011-12-12T11:33:00.001-08:00

Hard to cuddle

2011-12-11T12:31:00.001-08:00

Sketch by Karl Koett

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Sketch by David Petibone

2011-12-10T12:37:00.001-08:00

Simple gift full of Joy

2011-12-06T17:04:00.001-08:00

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: This Wednesday Night!

2011-12-05T12:51:00.001-08:00

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: This Wednesday Night!

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: ~~~~~ Put A Bow On IT ~~~~~

2011-12-05T12:51:00.000-08:00

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: ~*~*~*~*~ Put A Bow On IT ~*~*~*~*~: ***Put A Bow On It*** A Holiday Party for artists and friends of Kraine Gallery December 14th, 2011 9 til 11pm 21+ only ...

2011-12-05T12:19:00.001-08:00

The History Page: Naked ambition

A model rises and falls, leaving legacies in stone around New York

BY SWATI PANDEY MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011

PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily
Munson as a triumphant Columbia atop the Piccirilli brothers' USS Maine Monument in New York.
PHOTO: Bettman/Corbis
Dreamy, pale and softly rounded Audrey Muson in 1922.
PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily
Daniel Chester French called Munson ethereal, and modeled his statue "Memory" on her form.
PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily
Munson also posed, emerging from the American flag, for French's "Morning Victory."
PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily
Munson as "Pomona," the goddess of fruitful abundance, in the Pulitzer Memorial Fountain in New York.
PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily
Munson as a triumphant Columbia atop the Piccirilli brothers' USS Maine Monument in New York.
PHOTO: Bettman/Corbis
Dreamy, pale and softly rounded Audrey Muson in 1922.

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The word “statuesque” seemed made for Audrey Munson.

Dreamy and pale, slender and softly curved, Audrey played muse to a generation of New York City sculptors at the turn of the 20th century. Her undraped figure still graces Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum and the Municipal Building. Though she tried to translate her beauty to the new medium of film, her career ended suddenly as Modernism — and her 30s — arrived.

Audrey’s discovery was as lucky as Lana Turner’s several decades later. It was 1906; she was shopping in Manhattan with her mother, Katherine, who had just divorced Audrey’s father. Katherine, reportedly taken with a gypsy’s prediction that her daughter was destined for fame, moved the pair to New York City from Rochester. (Katherine chose to ignore the gypsy’s subsequent claim that Audrey would lose it all.)

It was Katherine who noticed a man following her and her daughter on the street that day. She ducked with Audrey into a shop, but the man stopped whenever and wherever they did. Finally, Katherine confronted him. He introduced himself as a photographer and asked if Audrey would pose for him. Katherine relented, and soon, the photographer introduced his young object to sculptors who wanted Audrey to pose naked — “in the altogether,” in the parlance of the time.

Audrey was 15 when her career began. Decades later, she recalled the not-so-gentle nudging of artist Adolph Weinman, best known today for designing coins for the U.S. Mint, to persuade her to undress for him: “Do you think I can tell anything about a woman with her clothes on?” And though she agonized later over her decision to disrobe — “I am just a model, just so many pounds of flesh and blood. He will not be scanning Audrey, the girl — but just a girl, the model” — she consented.

Weinman first saw her naked with her head hanging low, her long hands hiding the delta below her navel, her dark hair uncurling nearly to her waist. Her thick thighs narrowed into thin ankles, her neck was long, her nose Roman. Other artists would be particularly enraptured by the dimples on her back, but Weinman said only, “There, stop.” He asked her to lift her hands to her hair and hold still for 30 minutes. The resulting sculpture, “Descending Night,” made in marble and later bought by the Metropolitan Museum, captured young Audrey — eyes cast down below the veil of her hair, her narrow back sprouting wings — as a humble and slight angel.

Soon after her debut in stone, she became the “queen of the artists’ studios.” Sculptors were commissioned by New York’s new rich and by the booming city itself, building, in accordance with Beaux Arts sensibility, works intended to convey strength and wealth and taste. The sculptors clamored for Audrey, praising her classical proportions and her modern, expressive face.

She was asked to personify, among other notions, memory, peace, abundance, mourning, industry, beauty, and America. Her statues still dot her city, from the Firemen’s Memorial in Riverside Park to the Brooklyn Museum. Daniel Chester French, sculptor of “Memory” and later of Lincoln for the president’s Washington, D.C., memorial, called her ethereal. For fame’s sake, Audrey withstood sucking air through a tube while being cast in plaster, dousings with cold water for a piece called “Waterfall,” and endless hours of painful posing. But she seemed at ease unclothed. And despite spending so many hours naked in the company of men, she was often portrayed in news stories as a simple girl-next-door who lived with her mother, a beguiling naïf who said things like, “Why clothes anyhow?”

On film, she stuck to that philosophy, becoming the first woman to appear nude onscreen. It was the 1910s and Audrey was rounder. She mimicked her life and career by playing models and — in the grand tradition that spans from Ovid’s Galatea to Kim Cattrall’s “Mannequin” — an inanimate object that comes to life in order to love its creator. Yet her onscreen poses were as static as her sittings for sculptures; the full erotic possibility of film stayed unfulfilled, at least for that innocent while.

Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, Audrey’s naturalism and ease abandoned her onscreen when she actually had to move around; a lookalike actress was hired to do her acting. Her four films — with neoclassical names like “Inspiration” and “Purity” — didn’t survive their decades. If they had, they would perhaps have the voyeuristic appeal of Marilyn Monroe’s “The Misfits,” of peering through a beautiful surface to search for hints of unfolding tragedy.

Audrey never forgave herself for her failed film career. Or the subsequent scandal that she claimed irreparably damaged her social one: A doctor, infatuated with Audrey and desperate to marry her, murdered his wife. (He hanged himself in prison.) Though she did cling to some fame as a newspaper columnist, writing tips for girls based on her modeling days, she considered herself “cursed.” Artists moved away from depicting the natural human form; Audrey never understood why, and described abstract art as “ugly.” Tabloids ran articles with headlines like “The Awesome Tragedy of Audrey Munson’s Strange Life,” and described her as referencing often that gypsy’s baleful prediction.

Audrey perked up briefly in the early 1920s, claiming she was going to marry a former aviator named James Stevenson from Ann Arbor. But on May 27, 1922, after receiving a telegram — the contents of which are lost to history — Audrey drank down four diluted tablets of bichloride of mercury. She survived the suicide attempt, but she stopped leaving her house, and the New York Times reported that no man fitting Audrey’s description was ever found.

Nine years later, Audrey was forced into an institution for reasons of “mental blight,” as it was vaguely termed. Her father blamed her mother for her supposed madness and for pushing the girl to model; neither of them ever got her out. To her rare visitors, Audrey seemed lucid. And still full of life: On her 100th birthday, she asked hospital staff for a ride on a jet and a bottle of wine.

Five years later, in 1996, Audrey died. Though she was eventually reburied, she was at first put to rest without a tombstone — much less a marble angel.

Swati Pandey is a writer in Los Angeles.

Inspiration

2011-12-03T11:56:00.001-08:00

Hija de La Luna

2011-11-29T22:25:00.001-08:00

TOM WAITS - EGGS & SAUSAGE LYRICS

2011-11-28T15:18:00.000-08:00

TOM WAITS - EGGS & SAUSAGE LYRICS

My red tights

2011-11-28T14:33:00.001-08:00

All I wanted today was to pose in my red tights... I got out of bed thinking how can I be painted in my red tights? I have so many red tights I have a bag full of red tights, very bright red. I refer to them as Chicago Red. I can't remember a time before my winter in Times Square... All the lights! The SNOW!!! The TOURISTS!!! Oh New York City!!!!Sometimes I miss the rushing sound of humans disconnected but in tune. Cameras Flashing, Homeless smiles, the smell of roasted peanuts, ticket sales, and red tights! I Love you Times Square!

So I got to the Painting Class today and took everything off except my red tights! Guess you got her wish today!

2012

2011-11-27T18:10:00.004-08:00

Watch "Tom Waits - Eggs And Sausage" on YouTube

2011-11-27T18:10:00.003-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=o8rsq6lYrwU

My future home

2011-11-27T18:10:00.001-08:00

Give Thanks!

2011-11-23T16:05:00.001-08:00

To all my wonderful friends and family I give thanks everyday for all of you... Including the clowns.

elements of style #3/GRETA GARBO + a very young AMERICAN LAD in western gear

2011-11-20T23:57:00.000-08:00

elements of style #3/GRETA GARBO + a very young AMERICAN LAD in western gear

Sometimes its that simple,

2011-11-20T23:23:00.001-08:00

Another amazing day!

2011-11-19T20:15:00.001-08:00

Photos by: Damien Derouene

Performers:

Liliana Velasquez

Yamila Viana

Tangos Influence on Movement vs Moment

Workshops @ Producers Club

Sunday Nov 20th & Dec 4th

3pm 5pm & 1/2 hr guided Practica

$50 to Participate

$20 to Audit

358 West 44th Street - New York, NY 10036 - 212 315 4743 - tel - 212 315 0069 - fax

info@producersclub.com

Business Hours 9am - 7pm Monday - Friday

This is a beginner workshop for actors and performers. You do not need dance experience to take this workshop. This workshop aims to help actor/performers with there connection to each other, physical timing and intention. Thru Tango!

The basics of Argentine Tango will be covered including:
The Tango Walk: style and musicality
The Embrace: complete connection and awareness with your partner’s every move
The Dance Floor: developing a dance-floor friendly vocabulary

--
Liliana Velásquez

LIVE LOVE LAUGH
http://goddessoftransformation.blogspot.com
http://www.NYCastings.com/LilianaVelasquez

Wise Words by Lady Velasquez

2011-11-14T16:40:00.001-08:00

When in close proximity to 3rd generation Italian clowns, remember tasers, cattle prods and stun guns are all safe methods of self defence.

--
Liliana Velásquez

LIVE LOVE LAUGH
http://goddessoftransformation.blogspot.com
http://www.NYCastings.com/LilianaVelasquez

GODDESS OF TRANSFORMATION: Tango Peligro

2011-11-13T07:28:00.000-08:00

GODDESS OF TRANSFORMATION: Tango Peligro: Don't Tell Us How to Tango! Show Us! Photos by: Damien Derouene Performers: Liliana Velasquez Yami...

2011-11-13T06:06:00.001-08:00

dreams, reality & nightmares

2011-11-11T22:54:00.001-08:00

I had a dream that one of my favorite cousins had cancer and was quickly debilitating. In this dream I was visiting my father and he lived in a basement type apartment that you entered the way bugs bunny did in his cartoons. My cousin had gotten so ill she could not exit, so we had a Crane arrive and hoist her out like those sick horses that have to be lifted in to trucks. I was watching as she was being lifted and talking to my mother crying bc I would never see her again. And asking myself if she ever repaired the relationship with my great aunt who adopted and raised her, She is 94yrs old give or take a few years. At this moment in real life my roommate walked in and asked me if I was ok... Because I was crying so hard over losing my cousin. I answered him my cousin died. He gasped for air and asked me when. I replied just now in my dream... at that moment I was finally able to move and wake up. My hurt felt so real I was paralyzed in bed.

Opening Reception Nov 16th!

2011-11-11T14:10:00.001-08:00

Artist Panni Malek

2011-11-11T14:00:00.001-08:00

Panni Malek

Wise words by Lady Velasquez

2011-11-11T11:37:00.001-08:00

If you start a relationship with my abusive ex... you are no longer my friend. Its that simple.

Tango Peligro

2011-11-07T22:52:00.000-08:00

Don't Tell Us How to Tango!

Show Us!

Photos by: Damien Derouene

Performers:

Liliana Velasquez

Yamila Viana

Tangos Influence on Movement vs Moment

Workshops @ Producers Club

Sunday Nov 20th & Dec 4th

3pm 5pm & 1/2 hr guided Practica

$50 to Participate

$20 to Audit

358 West 44th Street - New York, NY 10036 - 212 315 4743 - tel - 212 315 0069 - fax

info@producersclub.com

Business Hours 9am - 7pm Monday - Friday

The basics of Argentine Tango will be covered including:

The Tango Walk: style & musicality

The Embrace: complete connection and awareness with your partners every move

The Dance Floor: a dance floor friendly vocabulary

2011-11-07T16:24:00.001-08:00

Sometimes frustration anger and impatience test my soul, but then I look in the mirror and remember my desire and hope are greater. I put on some red lipstick a fabulous outfit heels and keep going!

- Liliana Velásquez

A film I am in!

2011-11-07T13:03:00.000-08:00

Hello to Everyone From PublicAdCampaign,

PublicAdCampaign is excited to announce the world premier of the full length documentary film This Space Available, on November 5th at 7pm. The film investigates the topic of Visual Pollution in our global community through the eyes of industry insiders, governmental agencies and public activists like myself. While I have yet to see the film myself, I expect the film to be an even handed account of this pressing global issue meant to spur debate on the topic and build a critical platform on which further discussion can occur. There will be a Q&A after the screening for anyone who would like to discuss the issue further with the participants and film makers. I cannot fully express my excitement for this film and hope you will join us on Saturday November 5th for this unique event and critical public space issue.

thanks and I hope to see you there.

To purchase tickets for the This Space Available premier at the DOC NYC fest at the IFC theater on 11-05-11, please visit the DOC NYC website [HERE]. remember there is limited space available so get your tickets now.

The grassroots movement against visual pollution

A documentary film directed by

Gwenaelle Gobe

Executive Producer: Marc Gobe/Emotional Branding

World Premiere at IFC Center/ New York

Saturday November 5^th Time: 7:00 PM

Tuesday November 8^thTime: 1:15 PM

_______________________________________________________________________________

THIS SPACE AVAILABLE: Press Release

Billboards and commercial messages dominate the public space like never before. But is a movement taking shape to reverse this trend?

In This Space Available, filmmaker Gwenaëlle Gobé says yes. Influenced by the writing of her father, Marc Gobé (Emotional Branding), this new director brings energy and urgency to stories of people around the world fighting to reclaim their public spaces from visual pollution.

From 240 hours of film, 160 interviews and visits to 11 countries on five continents, This Space Available charts a fascinating variety of struggles against unchecked advertising and suggests that more than aesthetics is at stake. If Jacques Attali once called noise pollution an act of violence, is visual pollution also such an act? Should we also consider, as one Mumbai resident says, "which classes of society can write their messages on the city and which classes of society are marginalized?"

Gobé offers a canny generational analysis of visual pollution, laying blame not just with the advertising juggernaut but also an entire generation of Baby Boomers, whose consumption-based culture has implicated them in the environmental fallout. She argues that it's her generation, left to do the cleaning up, that is now leading the fight back.

But the filmmaker also recognizes the history and politics behind this fight. Turning to such legislation as the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, Gobé shows how the enforcement of this landmark law, designed to regulate outdoor advertising on America's roadways, has steadily eroded. And today, public space activist Jordan Seiler faces harsh penalties for covering illegal outdoor ads with art, while officials turn a blind eye to illegally erected billboards.

Still, the film strikes a hopeful tone. A standout interview features Gilberto Kassab, the popular mayor of Sao Paulo, who threw a stone into the quiet pond of the billboard industry by successfully banning outdoor media in his city – the eighth largest in the world. The move is not without precedent: Houston's 1980 billboard ban was also a deliberate tactic to improve its flagging image, economic competitiveness, and quality of life.

In the end, This Space Available challenges audiences to recognize that aesthetics and beauty go hand in hand with responsibility. Gobé asks why brands continue to ally themselves with an industry that cuts down trees, hogs energy, and spends its profits in courts and statehouse lobbies, especially while younger consumers push for improved corporate citizenship? And is everyone equally to blame for enabling the spread of visual pollution, while other humble individuals show that it's possible to reverse it?

The film navigates these issues without promoting a universal solution. Gobé instead weaves together stories reflecting diverse local responses to an increasingly global condition. This Space Available compels audiences to consider these stories long after the film ends, or at least to remember them each time we speed by a billboard.

--
Jordan Seiler

http://daily.publicadcampaign.com/

www.publicadcampaign.com

www.PublicAdCampaign.com/nysat

--
Liliana Velásquez

LIVE LOVE LAUGH
http://goddessoftransformation.blogspot.com
http://www.NYCastings.com/LilianaVelasquez

I love that scent; Latina been lied to. Its so rare few survive

2011-11-06T00:24:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Not a dull moment

2011-11-05T11:54:00.000-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Good news vs. Bad news

2011-11-05T10:13:00.000-07:00

Good news vs. Bad news

It's all the same.

Today was a strange day! I love my little apartment in Williamsburg. In our home we are 4 pussies. Two cats a gay man and myself. My home is like a little cottage. I always have beautiful girlfriends staying with me. It's my fear of being alone that makes me invite girls over all the time. My friend was trying to convince me that I am gay... Although I love kissing girls that's the extent of my gayness. I don't even like to cuddle, but I don't want to be home alone. I like sitting and painting or writing with a girlfriend around. If she's really special i will tie her up and place her comfortably in the corner next to my kitties. It's probably because I am the oldest of 5 children that this noisy company keeps me at peace. I love my little home. My friend is going to be staying with me for a month and we wanted to get twin beds, like little sisters! We can share my full size bed but the truth is I like sleeping alone, unless its after sex, and well thats not going to happen. So we were all excited about this November December artistic sisterly support. That's was the good news, now for the bad. My landlady was suppose to give me a new lease to sign today, she was raising my rent $100.00. Which is relatively high increase % wise, but I was ok with it because it's still at market value and I love my little cottage in Williamsburg. I went to her office and I got the news that she wants me to move out on Jan 1st... On New Years day! Is that even possible? The story goes like this apparently she wants her daughter to move into my apartment which is below her. My only reaction was to start crying and say I love living here. Ahhh my mother calls me her little gypsy. So here I go moving again. But not on New Years day!!! I legally have 3 months so I will manifest a bigger and better place. Looking forward to my new adventure. Blessed to live with Alvaro and planning to keep it that way!

Live Love Laugh Liliana sent from my iPad

Agua.mov

2011-11-04T12:23:00.000-07:00

2011-11-03T20:06:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Lexi

2011-10-30T13:31:00.001-07:00

2011-10-28T23:54:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Want want want

2011-10-28T23:12:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

2011-10-28T15:12:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Eye of the beholder

2011-10-26T20:39:00.001-07:00

Eye of the beholder
My friendly stalker, everyone has a friendly stalker in life... My first friendly stalker happened when I was 12, some referred to him as my aunts husband uncle Viejo. When I told my mother about this situation she was so angry she stopped calling him by his nick name and would address him by his full legal name, the way parents do to children when they misbehave... I never understood how this meant she had my back. He died violently years later. I was confused by the joy I felt, I called my mom and asked her if it was ok for me to congratulate my aunt.
I moved in with my second friendly stalker when I moved to NYC 15 years ago. I was 20 and he was 56 year genius millionaire w/ many control issues. I was kept like a bird in a golden cage. Birds in cages don't fly. I once over heard my father say I really messed up that relationship bc I would be set up for life by now. My mother now refers to him as the predator, I wonder why she never said that before? Then again there is always their fear of me being a lesbian so old and rich is better than tits & pussy. If I was still dating him he would be turning 71 this year.
I have had a few more friendly stalkers like the street vendor in Times Square who gave me Diamond earrings on Easter. He disappeared one day without notice? & the protective dyke that would walk me to and from the train when I lived in Fort Green, Brooklyn next to the projects. Or my bow tie wearing cross dresser who kept me sane as I explored the world of S&M. Or the pycho 3rd generation clown, who trained me to do acrobatics. Friendly stalkers come in all shapes and sizes some with good intentions some not so great. The older I get the better quality of human my friendly stalkers are becoming.
My newest friendly stalker confuses me sometimes I think he is like a guardian Angel other times I fantasize that he is from the Russian mob. Not so hard to imagine when you grow up in Colombia during the 80's & 90's.
Yesterday my friendly stalker & I went on a bike ride on the west side. We got to the pier where he pointed out that easily he could throw me into the Hudson... I said well that's not a far swim. Then he told me that we must change the way that I dress on a daily basis, for if I want to make it as a movie star I must dress as if I was going to be photographed all time... My friendly stalker likes to photograph me. I love being photographed. His advise is right! I have been slacking on the presentation of self side, and dressing up makes life so much more fun. Clothing is like armor for social survival. So today I am dressed like an 18th century Russian film star. He would be proud. I am very happy with our relationship... He encourages me to write about our stories, I hope he's not really in the mob... But then again I love role-play!

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Possesive cat or crazy cat lady???

2011-10-25T00:09:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

small Healing

2011-10-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

Today I was modelling for artist Margaret Bowland, I always feel great inspiration from her, she is a woman with an iron fist in a Velvet Glove. She said to us "Life is difficult, Love is easy" somehow this clicked in my brain and healed a little piece of my heart. Since I fled from my last relationship I have dated 2 of the wrong men. Sabotage is like a super power. I think I did this to punish myself for leaving a man that I loved so much! (but that did not believe in me as an artist) I know that for the type of woman that I am and the example I have from my parents, I had to flee...

What type of woman am I? LOL well that is ever evolving, some like to call me a princessa caprinsnica (Spanish and Russian terminology) translation Fickle Princess. All I know is that the past two years I have thrown myself into performing nonstop, found that comedy can help me with my figure, and 3rd generation clowns are dangerous humans. Oh... and that when I am angry I unleash my crazy. Tonight when I heard Margaret say this, I felt hope.

2011-10-23T15:15:00.000-07:00

LIL'CHEWY COMEDY

KGB BAR

9PM-10:30PM

85 EAST 4TH ST BET 2ND AVE & BOWERY

TONIGHTS LINEUP

Charles Mcbee

Chewy May
Bunny Jenn
Beth Maria
Dan Frigolette
Jessimae Peluso

Hosted by

Liliana Velasquez

Do Blondes have more fun?

2011-10-22T22:57:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Chillin w El Gato Motor

2011-10-22T12:13:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

My cat loves me...

2011-10-20T17:48:00.001-07:00

When I get home and crash on my bed, the first thing that happens is this little orange boy cat comes over to lick my neck. This little kitty has brought me so much joy. & frustration he mimosas on everything he eats my plants he jumps on & off the bed to wake me up for food. He was the size of my palm when we found him. So tiny and afraid. None off that fear is left. He goes to the front door when ever someone knocks. He continua to jump on my dinning room table. I try to train him yet I enjoy his free spirited wildness. My girl cat its Burmese and likes to be left alone she is polite and demanding. I live her raspy cat voice. I have been suffering from the most debilitating headaches, and manage to function until today. The lights hurt my eyes and I become so uncomfortable I can barely lift my head without wanting to throw up. My father and my aunt always suffered from this when I was a child and the were in there 30's... Is this the future? Oh where is the health insurance fairy? For now Excedrin migraine and watching the kitties. Hope to feel much better by tmrw.
Live Love Laugh Liliana

Fwd: this is good

2011-10-18T20:32:00.001-07:00

Beautiful! Thank you my Friend for sharing

Farewell Letter by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If for a while God forgot that I'm a puppet and gave me a piece of life, probably I wouldn't say everything that I think, but definitivelly I would think everything that I say. I would give more value to things not because of what they cost but because of what they mean.
I would sleep less and dream more. I understand that for each minute that we close our eyes, we lose sixty seconds of light. I would walk when the others stopped, I would wake up when the others slept, I would listen when the others spoke, and how much I would enjoy a chocolate ice-cream!
If God gave me a piece of life I would dress simply, I would lie on the sun, "showing" not only my body but my soul. My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on the ice and I would wait for the sun to rise.
My God, if I had a piece of life... I won't let a single day pass without saying people I love how much I love them. I would convince every single women and men that they are my favourites and I would live in love with love
I would prove people how wrong they are to think that they stop falling in love when they get older, without knowing that they get older when they stop falling in love! To a kid... I would give him wings, but I let him alone to learn how to fly. To the elder I would teach them that death does not arrive with being old but with forgetting.
There are so many things I have learned from you, people... I have learned that everybody wants to live in the pick of the mountain without knowing that the true happiness lays in the way "you get into it". I have learned that when a new born grasp his father's fist for the first time, he caught him forever.
I have learned that a man has only the right to look down to another when he has to help him to stand up. There are so many things I have been able to learn from you, but actually they won't be that worth, because when they keep me into this suitcase, unhappily I will be dying.
Always say what you feel and do what you think.
If I knew today as the last time I'm gonn see you sleep, I would hug you so strong and I would pray the lord to be able to be the guardian of your soul. If I knew this is the last time I'm gonna see you going out through that door, I would give you a hug, a kiss and I would call you again to give you more. If I knew this was the last time I am gonna hear your voice, I would record each one of your words to be able to hear them forever. If I knew these were the last moments I see you I would tell you "I love you" and I wouldn't assume, stupidly, that you already know it.
There is always a tomorrow and life gives us the opportunity to do things right, but in case I'm wrong and today is the only thing we have left, I would like to tell you how much I love you, and that I'm never going to forget you.
Nobody has for sure a tomorrow, young or old. Today can be the last time you see the ones you love. So... don't wait more, do it today, because if tomorrow never comes, you will for sure regret the day you didn't take time for a smile, a hug, a kiss, and that you were so occupied to give them their last wish. Keep the ones you love near you, tell them in their ear how much you need them. Love them and trate them good. Take time to tell them "I'm sorry", "forgive me", "please", "thank you", and all the love words you know.
Nobody will remember you for your secret thoughts. Ask God for the strength and the wisdom to express them. Show your friend how important they are for you.

2011-10-18T11:24:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

2011-10-17T16:57:00.001-07:00

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2011-10-17T14:43:00.001-07:00

The date: Thursday, October 20th
The time: 7pm
The place: The lounge at Belleville, corner of 5th Street and 5th Avenue, Brooklyn
The happenings: Tableau cast & crew reunion gathering, film screening of the performance edit (you haven't really seen it until you've seen it on a nice big projector screen!), distribution of limited edition prints from September 2010, January 2011, and May 2011

--
Liliana Velásquez

LIVE LOVE LAUGH
http://goddessoftransformation.blogspot.com
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Goals & Influences

2011-10-15T00:50:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Happy feet

2011-10-14T16:34:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Passing thru artist studios

2011-10-13T07:27:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

In my way

2011-10-10T10:16:00.001-07:00

On my way to model for a painter I sit down waiting for the train and see the cutest shoes ever!

Live Love Laugh Liliana

NYAA

2011-10-08T19:04:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

Press release Psssttt...

2011-10-02T22:08:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

BLACK PEOPLE IN COLOMBIA ???

2011-09-30T20:08:00.001-07:00

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbQcWtSV5q0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Live Love Laugh Liliana sent from my iPad

KGB art show!!!

2011-09-30T14:54:00.001-07:00

PssstttPRESSRELEASE

2011-09-30T14:52:00.001-07:00

2011-09-27T14:43:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

La Cosmopolatina » Liliana Velasquez

2011-09-27T12:48:00.000-07:00

La Cosmopolatina » Liliana Velasquez

Gay-Z - Nut Up On My Chest

2011-09-27T10:00:00.000-07:00

Posing for Art workshop atNYAA

2011-09-26T02:50:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

NYAA

2011-09-23T12:19:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Liliana

NYAA

2011-09-19T14:20:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Lilian

Fwd: Photos Shooting Sunday Sept. 11th

2011-09-15T14:23:00.001-07:00

Photographer DEROUENE Damien

2011-09-14T18:54:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Lilian

2011-09-12T21:29:00.001-07:00

Tribeca Ball 2011

2011-09-11T20:00:00.000-07:00

2011-09-11T11:38:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Lilian

HKFF

2011-09-09T18:53:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Lilian

BG

2011-09-09T10:23:00.001-07:00

Sitting and,waiting I listen to all the conversations around me and find my self numb... They never mentioned it was a walkaway lunch... Do I have enough time to ride my bike home and back? Dam I am hungrier bc they have no food here. how is that possible? Strange half of NYC was listening to Obama while the other half drank and shopped aimlessly to feel pretty on the first night of fashion week, Keep working together to make your community better, basically create your own supply and demand. Only supplyand demand I saw most middle class NYer's was in bad shopping choices and drinking to forget those bad shopping choices, while I also see, the poor example of "men" these young girls have holding there bags? What happen to real men who waited outside while women shopped or sat there not looking at your options and pondering how to afford (our) lifestyle? But Iam aware those men don't exist anymore... Or really there are only a few, and they are probably married to other strong yet slightly more feminin men!

Reduce deficit. Type of spending and type of revenue that you choose is that. Have to do more in the short term... Have to do more? More more more, I am becoming skitzo, just to make ends meat. Well at least I will always have my figure.
Youth unemployment double the national average. Am I considered youth?

The country can go in two different directions... Doesn't everything? the fork in the road age old story... American job sack? (I get an ugly visual) Bring more people into civic engagent. This is just a rant...

Live Love Laugh Liliana sent from my iPad.

Final picks pic

2011-09-07T23:42:00.001-07:00

Live Love Laugh Lilian

GODDESS OF TRANSFORMATION

A man's job!

Love Quote

Getting ready for Vday

The Problem With Skinny Bashing | GirlieGirl Army

A friend thought you might be interested in this article

Animal love

Animal Love

Dixon Place and Sister Sylvester Present The Ventriloquist Circle

Fixing tire b4 audition

Fwd: discounted tickets for THE VENTRILOQUIST CIRCLE

ART THOUGHTZ: Damien Hirst

El Gato le dijo a La Gata

Superhero day

The Ventriloquist Circle

Fwd: sister sylvester's THE VENTRILOQUIST CIRCLE january 2012

kitty plays with SH&SW

S/H&S/W likes...

S&H/S&W morning brushing

Even at 90 you feel like a 5 year old when you get gifts! I <3 Grandma!

Agua.mov

KraineGallery

Holiday print!!!

Shirley Temple - I want a hippopotamus for Christmas

class at NYAA

Hard to cuddle

Sketch by Karl Koett

Sketch by David Petibone

Simple gift full of Joy

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: This Wednesday Night!

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: ~*~*~*~*~ Put A Bow On IT ~*~*~*~*~

The History Page: Naked ambition

PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily

PHOTO: Bettman/Corbis

PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily

PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily

PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily

PHOTO: Brian Zak/The Daily

PHOTO: Bettman/Corbis

Inspiration

Hija de La Luna

TOM WAITS - EGGS & SAUSAGE LYRICS

My red tights

2012

Watch "Tom Waits - Eggs And Sausage" on YouTube

My future home

Give Thanks!

elements of style #3/GRETA GARBO + a very young AMERICAN LAD in western gear

Sometimes its that simple,

Wise Words by Lady Velasquez

GODDESS OF TRANSFORMATION: Tango Peligro

dreams, reality & nightmares

Opening Reception Nov 16th!

Artist Panni Malek

Wise words by Lady Velasquez

Tango Peligro

A film I am in!

I love that scent; Latina been lied to. Its so rare few survive

Not a dull moment

Good news vs. Bad news

Agua.mov

Lexi

Want want want

Eye of the beholder

Possesive cat or crazy cat lady???

small Healing

Do Blondes have more fun?

Chillin w El Gato Motor

My cat loves me...

Fwd: this is good

Farewell Letter by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Goals & Influences

Happy feet

Passing thru artist studios

In my way

NYAA

Press release Psssttt...

BLACK PEOPLE IN COLOMBIA ???

KGB art show!!!

PssstttPRESSRELEASE

Kraine Gallery @ KGB Bar: ~~~~~ Put A Bow On IT ~~~~~