1/27/2014

Donatella Versace x Lady Gaga

My Tumblr feed is filled with Lady Gaga's photos of her attending Versace's show in Paris. The most popular is were they both are together, a gif from a youtube video.

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Donatella Versace – for very long time, I only knew how she looked like, because she has such an unique style. Very recently, I saw few interviews with her and was surprised, how interesting person she seems to be. At her age, 58, she looks wonderful and youthful. She kept on repeating about the amazingness of internet, and how much you can benefit from it business-wise, of course. Because she is throughout a strong business women and I admire people like her.

There were few interesting interviews about Donatella Versace on youtube, that I liked in particular, both were provided by Vogue. The longer interview, that was held by Vogue UK was really interesting and fun, but the interviewer was so unprofessional, that it was impossible to watch to the end. Such a shame on Vogue UK. Donatella told many fun stories and I like, that she has this terrible sounding voice and English, still she doesn't care nor let's that stop her from speaking. Also I was very touched by what she said on other Vogue interview that she would like to work more on her self-esteem. It sounded so human.



Here is the long interview, where the interviewer sucked.


Still, Lady Gaga and Donatella look amazing together, like mother and daughter. Love it!

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 Image from here.

This collaboration of Gagz and Donatella brought up some rude village story, that Lady Gaga is morphing into Donatella Versace. I find it rather interesting, the chameleon like advertising campaign, where Gaga reminds of young Donatella.

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 Image from here.

Some people compare Donatella Versace to a blond leather bag, how nasty?! Little advice, that will make you a better person in this universe: stop judging people because feeling stupid afterward isn't pleasant!

Aalo
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1/24/2014

Faroe Islands, why do you have to kill whales and dolphins for fun?

It breaks my heart, makes me very sad and angry as hell.
Faroe Islands are part of Denmark, located between Norway and Iceland, has the most brainless annual “festival” ever. They tricked to the bay or fjord, where they will be slaughtered. Through this tradition young men will become “adults” after they kill the animal. Would you date someone who proudly for no reason killed an innocent huge animal?

These dolphin species are friendly in nature and come close to human to play and communicate. Their meat is also unsafe for human consumption. Especially for children and pregnant women.


 All images are linked from here, where you can also read more about whale slaughter.

There are also several petitions where you can sign against this cruelty. It won't take long time.






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1/18/2014

Tumblr's Digest: Black, Leather and Crystals

I love and hate Tumblr.com. It's like ”made in China” items: they are easier to access and cheap, but in the bigger picture, they are economically bad, may lack of quality or duration, and the ethical side is most of the time unknown.

Tumblr is the sweetest sins of the Internet. I am using tumblr app for iphone and basically I scroll blogs I am following and rebloging stuff I like. It's filled with beauty and filth. It's a visual stimulant. You'll never leave tumblr uninspired or lacking of ideas. Tumblr is the bad ass sibling of Pinterest.

To spice up my blog, I thought it would be awesome to garnish it with a collage of images I like. Seems like today's theme is black, leather, dark side, crystals and rhinestones, low energy, goth, twisted. 

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It's funny, when I see black, it doesn't awake any emotions in me. Have you noticed anything similar with yourself? I mean different color combinations, white, vivid colors, pastels etc, they all put you into certain mood or bring some moments to your mind, but not black. At least not for me. Although funny fact is, that in color theory, black is the combination of all colors! It's basically like a rainbow but blended together.

My closet is filled with all kind of colors except black. Right now I don't even own any black shoes. But I do have some black pants which need to be fixed to fit me. One pair of black vintage The Boss denim jeans and black leather pants, which remind me of something Shakira wore in her “Whenever, wherever” music video. So they definitely need to be re-altered for good!

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 Here are the links to the original images, counting from left to right:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20


LOL!! 
http://whosaalo.tumblr.com/post/73476378060

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Aalo

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1/16/2014

Behind the scene video of photo shoot: "How we met"

Hello ya'll, how you've been doing?
My blog's been kind of off for some months. Usually the reason for my rare blogging is being too excited about other things. And I am wowing myself for what I've learned meanwhile. Also I am considering expanding this website's themes and topics and adding some more categories, perhaps. I think blogging is a nice way to try out new things. I never contacted any designer to borrow some clothes for an outfit shoot for my Lookbook profile, which has by now over 2600 followers. Also it would be amazing to access exciting location for free, for some fun projects.

This blog has been created in November 2012. Basically it's a bit over a year old and I must admit, I am pretty satisfied with the statistics. I wasn't investing that much of my time like some other awesome bloggers did, and got killer stats. Even while being offline, everyday someone was visiting this blog.

My latest project, that I finished, was a ”behind the scene” video of one of my photoshoot in a hotel. It took place in in Tartu, Estonia, in August 2012. Thankfully I was smart enough to ask my friend to film the whole action. Because lately I've been interested a lot in videography so I had some materials to work on. In the future I see myself as a videographer and a photographer. Editing and composing the movie was a nice practical experience. On the next day, after posting the video, it already got over 500 views, thanks to participants, who shared it on their facebook profiles.



Seeing yourself on video is pretty awkward, sharing it to the world feels even more odd. But I guess a video tells you more about the person than a photograph. It's more real too because in photoshop you can edit everything you wish. It's possible in video too, but not as easy.

The story behind the shooting was to get me materials for couple photography promo. The funny part was, they weren't even a real couple, just friends. That's why you can't see any kissing, touching and such.





Here is a picture I posted on my instagram. Two images below are screenshots of the video: before color correction and after.



Hopefully you enjoyed the video!!!!

Aalo
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10/31/2013

Kick ass Halloween costumes and movies

Halloween is my most favorite tradition of the year. I am more excited about it than my birthday, Christmas and celebration of Midsummer combined. Well maybe not more than Midsummer but still. I remember when I was young and watched satellite TV too much, there was so much Halloween themed movies and programs that I didn't go out at all during these days. Those movies and such were stimulating my imagination so much that it gave me kicks to paint strange stuff at school.
 For Estonians celebrating Halloween is pretty new thing and I doubt if they really celebrate it at all. We have our own celebrations that are somehow similar though. Right now I am living in Finland and here it's a big thing and I love it!

Right now there is a Halloween themed costume competition on Lookbook.nu which is sponsored by BlackMilk clothing. It's so amazing what kind of ideas everyone came up. Also the image quality is kicking ass like always.

Here are some looks that I liked the most. They include my favorite movie characters like Edward Scissorhands and Wednesday.












What is Halloween post entry without movie suggestions? Well, garbage, because not all people are interested in dressing them up like weirdos and go clubbing, drink their faces ugly and wake up somewhere costumes on. I'd like to share some old time favorite movies of mine. I probably watched these billion of times and won't get enough this Halloween either.

Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice" is one of my most favorite movies he has ever made.



"Rocky Horror Picture Show" made history! It was difficult to find a good trailer on YouTube.



 Hotel Transylvania is probably the less violent animation for children I've seen in my life!



Happy Halloween!
Aalo
xx

9/25/2013

If only these streets could be your lovers

Usually I am super lazy to take out my camera, no matter how cool is what I see. Although I photograph a lot with my phone that I've got from my mother for my birthday, it still makes only 10% of what I think would be nice to photos of. This fall I tried to kill my laziness and take out that god damn phone more often.

All these photographs are taken with my iPhone 5 and edited with an app called PS Express. It's a free app where you can manipulate with toning, contrast, the darkness and lightness of the shadows and highlights, I love using it! If I could I would have added some features like sharpening function and masking.

I've been feeling very romantic lately. For me, personally, these photographs are taken with a romantic filter in front of the lens. They are hiding romantic feelings, erotic dreams and longing in themselves.
 It's about the feeling when you are not walking alone anymore.

This is how much I love walking around in the city at night,with lights fooling around on the wet street. I don't mind the darkness, it's more fun at night.




Aalo
xx

9/20/2013

September with Mickey



There was a competition on Lookbook.nu where two attendees could win a free trip with all costs covered to New York Fashion Week. It felt kind of awkward not to try your luck, especially when you are spending so much time posting new looks there anyway. At this time I was watching Friends from the first episode to the really really last one. They did ten amazing seasons and filled my brain with New York.

Always, when there is a really special event I have to take part of, I want to wear something I made myself. It's been like this for years and I can't really explain this because I don't understand this weirdness myself. My best scenario of me dressing really cool is if I could order the clothes custom made by professionals, designed by me of course. I mean, if you can afford designer clothes, can't you afford in this case something more unique and tailored especially for you? I guess the process won't take much longer than ordering clothes abroad. Just imagine finding a very unique and inspirational vintage fabric and you get this cool idea that you want a jacket out of it. And boom, you're cool! Cooler than Lady Gaga in her meat dress or Kanye West with his Alexander McQueen face mask.

Anyway, I found this fun bed sheet from a thrift store and wanted to make a shirt out of it. Which didn't take more than a half hour to finish, a very simple three pieces long sleeve shirt. It's always fun to make these!



Unfortunately this was the last time I wore these white shoes which I wound from a second hand shop for four euros. They were Nike's golf shoes and someone painted them white, which I really liked. Not sure what happened but for some reasons they got really moldy from the inside. What the heck?! Anyway I had to through them away. I feel really bad for the cow who's skin these shoes were made, good find though.



 You may notice I photoshopped the background to match the shirt theme. Otherwise the photograph would be so boring to watching that it would literally hurt eyes and and burn two holes into your brain! You never know what are photography's hidden powers!




To sum this blah blah up, no, I did not win a trip to NY! But I hope the winners had a blast over there!!!



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9/10/2013

Top 5 Youtube upcycle fashion tutorials

Youtube is an amazing source for all kind of new knowledge. People give such an effort to produce videos about topics close to their hearts. It's not just for musicians to promote their music and boost sells. Young geniuses have kick ass channels too. I truly believe that today's education is getting more and more online and video classes are new way to study on your own ease that suits your busy life the best.

Photography, styling, tailoring, graphic design, cooking, you name it, someone probably has a video about it. I'm watching non-stop everything photography related like video courses about posing, photo editing tricks, business and so on.

Not that long time ago came across some unbelievably amazing videos about upcycling, I had to pick up my mouth from the floor. Upcycling clothing is like breaking the rules for me. It's so much fun and for me it lifts the value of the garment. Also you can save money, create your own unique style, lessen global waste and such through re-using and pimping your new stuff, instead of binning it and get new piece that is made in China or Bangladesh. A lot of people even earn money with their upcycling fashion. This makes a whole new group of DIY/Upcycle designers who's clothing look very wearable and professional.

Here are few awesome Youtube links I've stumbled on.
This one is my all time favorite upcycle video. I mean this women is a genius! And especially watch the end, it's a killer!


This one is more documentary video about London's upcycling business. Awesome work, I wish that kind of businesses would bloom around the world!



First I was very skeptical when she said in this video "few years old H&M coat". But the end result was like "omg I want this". I love her energy!



Going through all kind of upcycling video tutorials I've got an idea, why not make underwear out of old t-shirts? I found few DIY underwear tutorial and in one panties were made out of t-shirt sleeves. Although underwear and everything down stairs is extremely holy, it would be okay to create them from owners own old shirts. In case someone got undie-excited and got a future vision blast about creating upcycled underwear business, then go for it but use other textiles than thrift store shirts. Second hand stores are full of excess fabrics, small and big pieces. It's better to use something unused for that kind of intimate projects. Other than that, it's a nice way to turn your favorite unwearable t-shirt with cool print into new pair of underwear.



She made undies in 14 minutes! I love the way she cuts out the pieces without measuring. Also her moves are so fast, I thought "wow don't hurt yourself!". Especially the way she puts her fingers close to her overlock. My serger has cutting blades, so this is like an undie horror movie, seriously!



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Aalo

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8/29/2013

Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup

Hell yeah, baby! My submission's got picked in Independent Fashion Bloggers' weekly ”Links a lá Mode” competition! It feels like winning ELLE Award or something, although it's a weekly thing and every week someone gets lucky. But still, I want to explode into f*#%ing glitter and fall down like sparkling magical dust, just like in Walt Disney's movie intro! It's fun and I like that kind of fun!

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If I'm not wrong then earlier this competition was held in IFB forum, but as it got shut down, the results are displayed on the site's homepage! Which is even cooler because according to the stats of the site, there are nearly one million page views a month! Pretty neat or what?!

There was in total around ninety submitters and only twenty of them will get picked for the list. My selfie was used in the banner which gives me more reasons to celebrate! I submitted my “DIY: Shooting “White Polar Night” OOTD” blog entry which I posted last week.

I thank IFB for this fun experience and congratulate other participants who got chosen for this week's Links à la Mode! 
Here is the list of other bloggers who got picked!

Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup

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8/28/2013

Beauty and the Bling

Internet is filled with all kind of awesome fashion photographs. From crazy editorials, high fashion look books to amateur photographers' work who create professional looking imagery for own fun. Yet not all images are pleasing ones' eyes or worth sharing.

Few days ago I came across this editorial on V Magazine. And oh boy, all these colors and bling blings made me so excited to share it on my blog. The story is photographed by Richard Burbridge and styled by Robbie Spencer, Peter Philips with his team made the cool make up.

This is the craziest series of mind blowing photography I've seen in a while!

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All mighty source of these photographs is VMag.

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8/25/2013

Shooting ”White Polar Night”, OOTD

Have you ever photographed with balloons? If I'm not wrong then this should have been my fifth shoot with balloons! But because it's my 300th shoot or even more, you can't really sue me for lack of creativity!

Balloons are cheap and fun props that can give childish or mysterious spirit to your imagery. And they are reusable! Don't just pop them with needles, don't create pointless garbage.


In this shoot I am wearing a DIY sleeveless shirt. The color was so intense that I couldn't leave it in the thrift store. Not to mention its super low price. It was awesome and exciting, yet its imperfection left me in doubts. ”When it doubt, through it out,” they say. But not with this thought. The point was, it had a terrible print on it, which went all the way through the fabric to the other side. What a fucking idiot prints ”bastard” on a shirt? That's what means ”värd” in Estonian! And the other reason was that it was like XXXL. A lot of work before I could finally enjoy it. But the fantastic color and really really nice and high quality cotton kept me thinking, ”I need this, but what the heck should I do with it?!”.


So I cut it tighter and unsleeved this beautiful monster! To be honest with you, I removed the print in photoshop. I was kind of busy shooting it for my Lookbook.nu. But I'll promise, I will do some killer prints on it, to level it up to a kick ass bastard. I had something illuminati theme in mind. I know it pisses Christians up as hell, but listen up, this one is different. I thought it would be cool to print two eyes in front and one big eye on back, with a text “stop watchin'”. Didn't it mean “all seeing eye”, the eye symbol? Well, stop watching, retardo, and mind your own shizl!

At some levels it was that kind of shoot that didn't take long to get it right. Sometimes the idea is so easy and inspiring that everything falls effortlessly into its place. Even the digital processing part went very smoothly without wasting tons of hours of my life.





 The funny thing is, that this can be done without a sewing machine. You can sew everything by hand and no one can tell. Can you tell that about my shirt? Because this is how I made it. I'm not done with it yet though. Also, if you would ever get tired of it, you can sew sleeves from other shirt to make it different. Because high quality long lasting clothes you can redesign, costumize and upcycle many times. They simply last years and years.



 Well Gaga is back, which means listening to her older songs. My forever favorite is acoustic version of her "Paparazzi". I must admit I was listening to it on repeat the whole time I was writing this post.



Did you enjoy this post and photos I took?
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But you don't have to if you don't feel like it. We are humans and deserve the right to be our selves. Russia has a lot to learn from real world. Don't get me wrong, it's not the country, it's its asshole laws.

8/20/2013

The Frog from Berlin

Recently I rediscovered Lookbook and gosh: ”My name is Aleksander and I am a Lookbook.nu addict!”. For a week, I've been posting looks every day and on few days even twice. The feedback I am getting is amazing. People are so kind there: leave positive comments and send me super lovely e-mails. Well, some flirting e-mails too, it's like new dating site!

Anyway this sweatshirt I got few years ago from H&M in Berlin. I guess it was this time when I arrived at 7.30am and all the shops were opening at 9 or 10am. Somehow I remember I was ”spending” my time literally on the streets because everything was closed. And it was raining a bit. It was raining the whole fucking trip! Like seriously, great vacation, thanks weather!

The pants I bought from a thrift store, when I was visiting Estonia last month. Cost me only 5€!



To be honest, I can't be honest! Especially in photography, I photoshop the shit out of everything! I cheat with everything that is cheatable. I even photoshop myself skinnier. Not because I see myself as fat, sick and nearly dead (it's a great movie, please watch it!), but just a little something makes me always feel better. Although, now that I lost some weight, I spend less time photoshopping! LOL


About the shoot... I don't know where the idea came from, like always. So I threw everything to the floor and ducktaped a blue bed sheet behind the bed! We have vino tinto color wallpaper there, which is ugly and didn't matched with the idea anyway. Naked bed's been in my mind for many years and I remember one photograph I took of myself back in 2005 or 2006.

I used two of my 300 LED video lights. They have 300 tiny super bright bulbs, every time you watch into them, you are blinded for few seconds. But they are really comfortable to use, because of the adjustable power option and they are on rechargeable batteries. You see what you get, whole different world from using speedlights!

I still don't have a remote for my Nikon D800. I usually set my camera on timer to shoot 5 photos with 5sec intervals. The focusing is kind of cheesy because the focus locks when you press the shutter button, when you are by the camera pressing it! So I had to use a pillow as my stuntman to fix the focus and run onto the bed, throwing the pillow away and imagining looking fab and sharp in focus. Normally it takes me around 30min up to 1h and 100-160 shots to get 1-2 photos for the Lookbook. Sometimes even 10min, if I need only one shot and it's doesn't involve anything extreme posing or jumping. Plus photoshopping time, which takes usually 30min up to 1,5h per image. I didn't watched the time but I guess it took me about 15min to edit the white wall photo and about a hour to edit the bed shot. Usually not knowing what are you looking for in processing, is most time consuming. Here I struggled a bit.


And this is what I am charging for, my dear clients. Clicking the shutter button is the tiniest deal of it. It's my 8 year photoshop experience and time spent behind the screen. Okay, not really. My camera's price was 3000€ and then comes all the other shit, like different lenses, strobes and lights, stands, reflectors and 10 years photography experience. I feel kind of old saying these numbers.

I am 26 years old and I have a long, sunny and healthy life ahead of me!

Here is a little behind the scene picture I posted on instagram!

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And here is me, being #1 male lookbooker this week! I guess it changes every minute but right now I am number one in top 25! Ahh!!!  

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My Lookbook dream is right now to be in the HOT section! Because Lookbook is sharing hot looks on tumblr and facebook. Would be a blast!!!






 
Aalo
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By the way, did you like Lady Gaga's new music video "Applause" that was released today? I love it!


7/19/2013

OUTFIT OF THE DAY: Summertime Sadness

"Kiss me hard before you go,
Summertime sadness,
I just wanted you to know
That baby you´re the best
"
Lana Del Ray, "Summertime sadness"

The fact is that July is very soon over and August means end of the summer. That sucks billions out of pennies, which are tiny just like our short summer. I've been cutting shorts and shirts short like crazy. Creating clothes you can't wear in the winter, what a waste of fabric. Maybe I should sew them back together? It would be like the next level of DIY master slave 666 (jokes on you, Illuminati freaks). 

To be honest, all this Illuminati paranoia shit is pissing me off. Christians go all coo coo, when a profit hungry pop singer does some kick ass music video, with horns on her head. Or something provocative stuff with super tight clothes, that leave no imagination, showing all the camel toes, vaginas and swollen tits. To get media's attention to spam us and promote their new songs and CD/s. Which we download illegally anyway? The real power of horns and triangles, wow, this deep shit just got deeper.
I think semiotics is very interesting and mixing a bit with art makes it all more meaningful.

Meanwhile, when singers are kissing The All Evil's buttocks, I am playing an angle. My skin is very white and gets never tanned, just like angels'. I mean, they are above fluffy clouds, grilling under the sun all day long and still white? White men logic.
My friends are telling me: "It's nice to see someone more white than me!" Pff, it's pretty pink not white!



With that mouth it's hard to pretend to be an angle. Said that, the photo of me might have some angel symbolism: the white light coming from the window, looking down at fools and the bed sheets are like those fluffy clouds, where you want to die on Monday mornings.


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I took this photo with my tiny Sony Nex-F3 camera I bought for under 350 euros. Every time, when my friends are getting a new camera and ask me for advice, I am a total micro camera worshiper. The image quality is amazing and they are super light in the weight. You don't need a camera that is too heavy to carry around, otherwise your life will be something that is described as hell. 
Of course I photoshopped the shit out of the original image.

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It was around 9am and sunny, obviously. I had no tripod or other humans around to take the photo. So I built something out of cardboard boxes and tilted the camera with my friends' socks and put pepper plants in front to get more diamentional result. It is called "framing" in the photo and video industry and there are many ways to frame objects in the imagery.


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There is no logical nor systematical explanation of this outfit. All the clothes I bought from second hand shop and they cost me around 8 euros in total. Like ZOMG! The pants are cut short and bleached. I use more bleacher than drink milk a year! But that's only because I am anti dairy.

Right now I am into this Lana Del Ray remix.



And if you are using Facebook (you can log in without registration) or Lookbook.nu, 
HYPE ME, MAYBE?





Aalo





7/17/2013

Rick Day

Rick Day (born 1960), he does boys and girls, in a very beautiful way. In case you don't know this photographer yet, hopefully you will become a huge fan of his work just like me. Because he is self-taught photographer and picked his camera at the age of 28, it makes him double inspiring!

He's the master of male nudes, beauty, fashion and advertising. I would love to intern for him! The lighting, post-pro and models' posing is just perfect. I wonder if he ever captures a bad frame or struggles with the light!

Although Rick Day is good at so many photography genres, his male nudes are the most strongest ones. Day published also several books that according to Wikipedia power boosted his career to a new level.

Hopefully this post is not too NSFW!
You can check out his portfolio here.


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This was today's dosage of men meat.
Now you know another big name in photography business!

Aalo
xx