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Friday, December 28, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Halloween Makeup
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Good Luck To The Academy Award for Makeup Nominees!
Good luck and congratulation to the nominees for The Academy Award for Makeup at the Oscars tonight!
Martial Corneville, Lynne Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle for Albert Nobbs.
Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin for makeup on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2.
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland for makeup on The Iron Lady.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Face off Episode Three Highlights
Episode Three of Face Off is entitled 'Rock Your Body'. There are two makeup challenges in this episode, a foundation challenge - which is a tag team challenge with teams of 3 and then the Spotlight Challenge, where teams were paired up and had to body paint models to blend into a background image.
The foundation challenge was an interesting look at team work and the skills of picking up a theme quickly and completing it. Each team had a model with special effects contact lenses that were to be the motivation for the full face makeup. Each team only had one member able to see the model at a time. So it was up to the first team member on each team to start a clear path to their vision and then each consecutive member to come in and continue and then finish the same look. Beki and her team won for their vision and execution of their Alien makeup and prosthetics.
For the spotlight challenge, it was very artistically driven as each team received a backdrop to work with and two models - one had to be camouflaged into the backdrop and the other incorporated into the picture. Guest judge is hip hop artist Asher Roth and the winner will be chosen as his new album cover.
Each of the teams come up with amazing album covers and do their best to fit into a theme for Asher Roth's new album. Brea and Matt run into a huge road block when Brea's model gets sick and passes out with only minutes left in the competition. She is allowed to get a new model and an additional 6 hours to complete it, but means that she had to pull double duty and finish by herself.
Her hard work ends up paying off as their team wins the challenge with their amazing sneaker mural!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Face Off Episode Two Highlights
I have been looking forward to this WaterWorld makeup episode for probably months, since I saw the first preview for Face Off Season Two. Season Two of the makeup artist competition featured only one spotlight makeup challenge that was well worthy of the focus. The makeup artists were split up into 6 teams of two, with the exception of Brea who got to pick a team and make a team of three.
The teams took some time to check out fish and aquatic animals at an aquarium to pick one animal to replicate on their model. The real kicker is that their models will be completely submerged under water in a tank in front of the judges for the evaluation. That means that the makeup, prosthetics, and costume pieces all have to withstand being underwater! The results really were amazing and worth the hype and the wait!
I really loved the LionFish character that was created by Athena and Heather, but you have got to hand it to the winners were Matt and Tara's iridescent, flowy lyretail basslet fish. I had high hopes for the two teams that were both making dragonfish makeup characters, one of my favorite sea creatures. Here are some pics from the Face Off website:
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Face Off Episode One Highlights
Face Off is a makeup competition on the SyFy Channel. The show has professional makeup artists who specialize in special effects and theatrical makeup pitted against each other. Each episode one contestant is eliminated and the rest of the contestants are one step closer to being the next movie makeup magician!
Fourteen makeup artists begin the competition. Who gets eliminated is up to the show's judges are three-time Academy Award winner Ve Neill (Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands) and Hollywood veterans Glenn Hetrick (Heroes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files) and Patrick Tatopoulos (Underworld, Independence Day, Resident Evil: Extinction) as Face Off's judges.
Episode One of Season Two is called Return to Oz. And starts out with last year's champion Connor McCullagh and the show's host McKenzie Westmore assign the first challenge to the contestants: transform their live model into a character that represents their makeup style. The winner is Gerald with his Elvan Queen.
Pics From http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/
And that means that he has immunity for the spotlight challenge and cannot be sent home.
The spotlight challenge was one I really loved because I am a huge Wizard of Oz fan. The makeup artists were split into two teams: the girls vs. the boys. Each had to design 4 iconic Wizard of Oz characters into a re-imagined design.
Here are the characters the boys came up with:
Pics From http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/
And the girls won with their fabulous re-imagined Wizard of Oz makeup and costumes:
Pics From http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/
The Wicked Witch makeup and headpiece for the Wicked Witch was really cool, but my favorite was the Spooky Scarecrow:
Pics From http://www.syfy.com/faceoff/
The girls won, so someone from the boys' team had to be sent home and it was Greg, the judges were not impressed with the chest he designed for the Tin Woodsman.
Stop SOPA and PIPA Protests Covered the Web
I received this email from FightForTheFuture.org and figured I share it as a good way to end the blackout on my blog. Not that I post to it everyday anyhow, but it's just the principle.
"Today was nuts, right?
Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators' websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.
You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms. The free network defended itself. Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet.
The really crazy part? We might even win.
P.S. Show this video to as many people as you can. It works! http://fightforthefuture.org/
Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA. Last week there were 5. And it just takes just 41 solid "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate. What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.
But don't trust predictions. The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass. Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don't understand why--so they're easily duped by superficial changes. The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical. Here are two things to think about:
1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week. Pick up the phone each morning and call your Senators' offices, until they vote "no" on cloture. If your site participated today, consider running a "Call the Senate" link all next week.
2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators' district offices. We don't have a cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we're too exhausted! any takers?). So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the Senator to vote "no" on cloture. These drop-in visits make our spectacular online protests more tangible and credible.
That's it for now. Be proud and stay on it!"
You can also see my article for South Florida Internet Marketing Association on the SOPA Protest: SFIMA Blog
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