Shoot Promos on Race, Class, Gender, Etc

"Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea." - Edward De Bono March 8, 2022. "Let me know if there's something else you want to try", Zach says to me as he rests on the couch for a few minutes. We're nearly three hours into the photoshoot and we took a few photos in my white linen shirt and pants outfit with some black chiffon fabric draped over my head (see last week's blog; yes, I would greatly appreciate a few more views). The contrast in colors and lighting weren't working well. I did have one more look that I wanted to try. At this point I felt relatively comfortable in front of the camera, Zach and I had already took three different sets of photos. The Prince playlist I had curated for the photoshoot (selections from my top 20 Prince albums, in descending order, starting with 2 tracks each and adding an extra song after each group of 5, i.e. 2 songs for albums #20-16, 3 songs for albums #15-11 and so forth; yes I know VERY OCD) ...

"Maybe he's found the answer to all the April snow" - Prince, Sometimes it Snows in April The following portrait was inspired by album covers from two of my favorite artists, Prince's 1986 album Parade and David Bowie's 1977 album Heroes . They were two prolific genre defying singer-songwriters who constantly reinvented themselves and pushed the boundaries of gender image and sexuality. As a music nerd, I like to create debate topics like: if you measure the body of work in both quantity and quality, which artist had the greatest decade of music? Some of my qualifications: do they have 3 or 4 widely considered classic albums and several songs from that era that have stood the test of time? While Michael Jackson is synonymous with the 1980's like no other pop star, he technically only released 2 solo albums ( Thriller in 1982 and Bad in 1987). Is that enough quantity to stack that up against every other artist and decade? For me, David Bowie in the 1970'...