Photos for Women's Summit event:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47143685@N03/sets/72157624950652565/

NEW

http://erinelizabethcuff.tumblr.com/

here is a link to my new blog, i decided to go tumblr because the layout makes it alot easier to organize everything. I just like it alot better, hope you do too.

ENJOY

quick and easy homemade veggie burger recipe. serves 2-3.

• half package of firm-extra firm tofu
  
• 2 table spoons of flour
• 2 table spoons of soy sauce
• three green onions (minced)
  
• 1/2 cup cut mushrooms
  
• 2 tablespoons of whole peppercorn
• 2 cloves garlic (minced)
  
• lawrys seasoning salt to taste (about 1 or 2 tablespoons)
• olive oil
• pita bread
  

1. combine and mash tofu in bowl, while adding ingredients - flour, season salt, soy sauce, peppercorn, garlic, green onions, mushies. (all vegetables finely diced / minced)
   
2. heat olive oil in pan, form patties to desired size and start fryin. cook covered and on medium heat. getting the patties to 'stay together' is kind of tricky. after some trial and error i have found the easiest way is to let it fall apart a little for the first five minutes of cooking (flip after a couple minutes on each side). this lets more surface area of the patty to become that cooked golden brown. after about five minutes of this used the spatula to try and keep a little more shape. then cook about 3-4 minutes on each side.
   
3. once the outside of the patty looks like it has a yummy crispiness to it, remove from heat. you can doctor it up like a burger (i.e. buns, lettuce, tomato, ketchup etc), pita sandwich (a lettuce, tomato, hummus, sprouts), or any crazy combination you can think of. The other day I stuffed it in a pita along with some tomato slices, some alfalfa sprouts, some feta, and a leeeetle bit of *rasberry chipotle sauce*. DELICIOUS.
   

(This recipe is made from purely my own trial and error. I have no idea if this is the correct way to cook, but i also dont really care.)

enjoy friends & lovers!

Photographer:TiernyGearon

onephotographer:Taryn Simon

twoUKvoguesept2010

threephotographer:Ruven Alfanador

fourbob and the band

fivephotographer:Laurie Simmons

unencumbered.

Gibson Gals

I am very much inspired by the pin-up subculture of the early 20th century. Charming, funny, and totally amiable - Although the "pin-up persona" has carried on from the early 1900's to today, there is a certain congeniality that pin-up models like Tennessee born Bettie Page (1950's) have that Pam Anderson, well, just doesn't.


Evelyn Nesbit 1900's

-"Stanny [Stanford White] was lucky, he died. I lived."



As said by Tali in 'The Pinup Blog"
Pinups aren’t just a pretty face, and despite what the art form seems to be at face value, I’ve learned it can be read and understood in many ways. Viewing politics, feminism and moral issues through pop culture gave me a whole new perspective on the world around me.


Vilma Banky1910's-1920's


Billie Dove1920's


Barbara La Marr1920's

-"I like my men like I like my roses...by the dozen"
Jack Dougherty (1923 - 30 January 1926) (her death)
Ben Deeley (1918 - 1921) (divorced)
Phil Ainsworth (13 October 1916 - 1918) (divorced)
Lawrence Converse (2 June 1914 - 1914) (annulled a few days later)
Jack Lytell (1913 - 1914) (his death)



Nita Naldi1910's - 1920's


Mae West1920's

-"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond."


Jean Harlow1920's


Paulette Goddard1930's

-"Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don`t have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself."



Lupe Velez1930's


Betty Grable1940's

-“The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there”


Carole Landis1940's


Bettie Page1950's


Sophia Loren1950's
-"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."


Eartha Kitt1950's


Marilyn Monroe1950's
-"Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?"


Pamela Green1960's

Racquel Welch1960's


Farrah Fawcett1970's

-"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."

musee mechanique - self portrait

on my radar

Hey there,

I just found out that Costco is helping to destroy the oceans by not having a sustainable seafood policy. So I took action with Greenpeace and sent them a message. If enough of us do the same we can get them to change. Join me and take action yourself right now!

http://us.greenpeace.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=695&s_src=taf

Costco is the largest wholesale club operator in North America. And in almost every Costco warehouse you’ll find freezers and coolers full of unsustainable fish. Greenpeace surveys found that Costco continues to sell fifteen of the twenty-two red list seafood items.

If enough of us take action we can shine a spotlight on Costco and expose the truth behind their destructive seafood policies. Please take action right now…

http://us.greenpeace.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=695&s_src=taf

Greenpeace is urging Costco to implement a sustainable seafood policy, to offer transparency in its seafood labeling, and to stop selling red list seafood starting immediately with orange roughy and Chilean sea bass. Together we can stop Costco’s wholesale ocean destruction.

Sincerely,
Erin-Elizabeth

Scene 4Busty - Take 1

Yesterday I was woken up to my friend Kate Hull-Nye - "Wake up Erin, I need an A.C. for the hooker film today, we're going to the Tenderloin." Needless to say I jumped right up (soon realizing I had had one too many glasses of Zinfandel the night before).
Kate works with film for all of her movies, This particular film she was shooting with Super 8 for the first time. A big part of her composition of the filming has to do with bright colors, as you can see by the lighting/costumes/backgrounds in the pictures I took below, which are going to be stunning once the film is developed!
After dressing Elena in 7 inch heels, fishnets, an orange 90's halter, black leather shorts, and one groovy afro, I grabbed elenas canon rebel and we made our way to the alley behind Edinburgh Castle (a bar in the T.L.) to meet the sound guy Curtis. Kate and Curtis explained to me how to organize the scene/take records and how to manage the slate.










Elena is an amazing actress/model and also one of my seven roommates in the flat. Her rendition of "Annabelle the hooker" was grand, and was worthy of all the whistles she got from the tenderloin locdawgs - ha ha.







After we wrapped up the street scenes we got in Kate's silver toaster car and headed to Port Costa. It was an odd little town that kind of reminded me of Spectre, the town in big fish, via Edward Bloom's return. After meeting Morgan and Mark, who were helping Kate with the lighting (which was AMAZING) we shot in a creaky hotel that was once a brothel. All of the rooms had prostitute names instead of room numbers - Kate had reserved 'Victoria'.
After shooting about four scenes, the (completely sweat soaked) six of us packed up our gear at 1:15 A.M. and headed home - we had been filming for twelve hours. The feeling I had on the way home was euphoric. I felt like I had been a part of something of artistic importance, I was excited. I'm serving as Assistant Cameraman for the rest of the filming, and I cannot express how fucking stoked I am. Kate is an awesome director of photography and I am truly inspired by her eye for composition. Who knows, maybe this whole film production idea will become a new medium of interest for me...