Work this year was definitely a bit of a struggle – a big hunk of responsibility (with a deadline!) fell into my lap, and so I was deeply focused on making sure it was running on a clean timeline and coordinating with lots of folks. I can’t tell you how many dreams I had about work this year, and how often I had to take melatonin to try and get to sleep. It was an exhausting endeavour, and I was frequently putting in more time than required to make sure things went real smoot. They did! The team was victorious! […]

2025 was rough. Also hormones.



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I went to Las Vegas again in June! It’s so long ago now that I’ve largely forgotten the details, so this’ll be a nice trip down memory lane or something. I stayed at the Palazzo – I’ve stayed here before, but the room I ended up getting was largely disappointing, to be honest. A little worn, very brown, and just kind of boring. But I was here to work. And by work, I mean take a shit ton of pictures. I had tried vaguely to go into this shoot with some props and rough ideas to take interesting pictures, and […]

Vegas photoshoot… 6 months ago



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It’s a strange world that we live in. Now that generative AI is so commonplace, it’s reasonable to start distrusting everything that you see and read. The ability to make images of whatever you want is… well, it’s pretty cool honestly. When I do photoshoots, which I try and do at least once a year, it’s typical to spend some thousand or so dollars on a flight, hotel room, food, new clothes, camera stuff, etc etc. And what do I get out of it? A bunch of pictures of me (and a mini vacation!). But in this new terrifying age, […]

AI Image Generation



Here’s all the images that I ended up liking (and some that I didn’t), as well as the prompts and other settings I used to get the images – good luck y’all <3 Prompt: gtmg woman, watercolor illustration of a woman on a surfboard, detailed waves, intricate details, glasses, lipstick+, 8k, highly detailed Negative Prompt: yellow face, stubble, ugly, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, signature, cut off, old woman, elderly woman, wrinkles base_model: stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1-base Steps: 52 Guidance: 9 Prompt: gtmg […]

Dreambox / Stable Diffusion prompts



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I had some time alone at home this week, which I mostly used to watch a LOT of movies. I wasn’t really feeling like dressing up – I was mostly feeling incredibly lazy, so taking even the most miniscule amount of pictures felt like a huge effort. Plus it’s winter, so the light was fading. And I started late. Oh yeah, did I mention I was feeling incredibly lazy? It felt like a colossal effort to do my nails, shave, do my makeup. Maybe it’s just because it’s winter and the days are a lot shorter. Maybe it’s because I […]

The Shortest Photoshoot



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Well, we’re back in Las Vegas. “But Liz, didn’t you do this just a few short months ago?!” I hear you screeching. Yes. Yes I did. And it wasn’t the best trip – mostly due to the fact that I lost a whole day to what one may describe as “a vomity migraine”, though honestly, that wasn’t the only thing. On that trip in particular, I only really got out of the room dressed a couple of times – once for dinner, and once for lunch. I had grander plans, but I either chickened out (just a little bit) or […]

Las Vegas 2023, again?!



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I had a lot of high hopes for this trip. The last trip I went on ended abruptly after I got COVID before I could even dress up – that was ten months ago. I realised in the run-up to my Las Vegas trip in May that I hadn’t actually dressed up since then. A whole ten months. Life tends to get in the way, I suppose. Between getting through six months of constantly being sick from kid-germs, to general life/work stress and scheduling woes, finding the right combination of time/opportunity/energy/willpower to actually get my shit together seemed like such […]

Las Vegas 2023



My typical strategy when being out and about in the world is to avoid toilets at all costs. I don’t think that’s been a particularly winning strategy. Anyway, I wrote an actual song about my current toilet angst. Feel free to check it out <3

I need to pee