Christmas Gender Games

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I was obligated to go with my family to church on Christmas Eve. My mom didn't like my appearance, so I let her dress me and put makeup on me, in exchange for letting me video tape it. Strange enough, she liked my brothers old sports coat on me. Perhaps there is some progress. I'm having fun playing these gender games with her!!

Holiday Intro/Wig at Airport

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A request from my mother and grandma every time I visit them is come back with longer hair. This time I greeted my mother with a wig and caught it on camera! Also, this is the first video I edited in the Sanyo Xacti, excuse the learning curve. (i didn't bring editing equipment) Happy Holidays everyone.

The Morning After

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I was reviewing Tor's videos from Naked54 and got fixated on these couple of frames... mixed them together with his great commentary and thus makes the short movie "The Morning After".

Naked54 Holiday Party

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Naked54 rocked the house. The porn stars, co-workers and friends, oh my!

Clips from The Charlie Monster Horse Show!!!

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I went to go see my friends Dean Disaster and Dam Dyke perform at The Charlie Moster Horse Show. A bunch of performers who usually get it on at The Cinch joined up with The Monster Show at Harvy's and put on one hell of an event!

Aima with DJ Zita at MILK

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Aima does it again! Very glad I got the chance to see this woman perform again. She is HOT HOT HOT! The crowd ate her up last Friday at Milk in San Francisco where she performed with DJ Zita. I am officially a fan!

Aima with JazzMafia

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Wow! What a hot performance. Aima rocked the mic with JazzMafia at Bruno's in San Francisco last night. It was hard to keep the camera still -- I couldn't help but dance!

The Flaming Lotus Girls

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Last week, I tagged along with Tristan to the set up for the Flaming Lotus Girls benefit art show. I was amazed by the photos of huge fire breathing metal sculptures. I can't wait to see them in action!

Disrespecting privacy vs. valuing openness

CSI on Twitter

I spend a lot of time online. I'm online at work. I come home and get online for at least an hour, usually more. I'm online for at least some portion of the weekend.

What do I do online? Research whatever I am interested in. Keep in touch with friends. Find out about local events. Watch videos of people beat boxing while playing the flute. Social experiments like Crazy Blind Dates (thanks to Sarah's blog postings). Collect domain names. Also, I've just gotten into videoblogging and am procrastinating working on a web page for KinkyCuisine.

Googling my name, I knew I already had an online presence through school and video involvement. I knew people could easily find me on social networking sites. I knew that privacy was limited on the internet but did not know to what extent until I met Tristan.

Tristan took a photo of me at Folsom. I found it on Flickr and contacted him about it. We ended up chatting on GTalk and still do. I knew I had personal information on the web but when he emailed me a picture of my house, my whole perspective changed.

Honestly, thanks to the support of this panic stricken society and my tendencies to worst-case-scenarioize, I was a little freaked out by a man I didn't know researching me on the internet and finding out my address. Now I've gotten to know him better and trust he has no ill intent. He really just helped me realize that privacy is an illusion.

I was already having problems with social networking sites like MySpace. It seemed that people feel entitled to intimacy with me just because they had access to my profile. Sitting on my friend list for 2 years on myspace and reading my blog or bulletins cannot achieve the same kind of intimacy as having a conversation with me (online or off).

I'm an exhibitionist and I like to expose my vulnerabilities because it makes me feel stronger, in control. Thats why its hard for me to stay in the closet about many things. I'd say I'm still in the closet about some things to some people, but I realize that my closets have glass doors, thanks to the internet.

The internet holds a representation of you, why not contribute to that?

My new exploration in transcending the illusion of privacy: Twitter.
Twitter me at http://twitter.com/iamfivestar

Sweet Pea: Superstar

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I had the pleasure of dancing, singing and napping with Sahara this weekend. This sweet pea stole my heart.

Charming the Stick

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While in Healdsburg for the Thanksgiving holiday, we hiked among the Redwood Trees. In this video, Kim reminds us that we are one with nature.

Fire Fly: Naomi Fino

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I spent this Thanksgiving in Healdsburg, CA with Simona's family. I had an amazing time, hung out with some great people and took tons of video. The first video I'm posting from this weekend is of Simona's sister Naomi spinning Poi. She's awesome! Thanks Nae.

Folsom Street Fair Leftovers

I am still receiving/finding photos (pic 1) of myself and the gang from Folsom Street Fair. Perhaps I'm smiling too much. The late September weekend with Marcel and Sir was totally fun. I also met a lot of photographers that day including 3 that I became friends with afterwards: Terry Taylor , Tristan Savatier (pic 2), Nikki Nefarious (pic 3).

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Party Trick

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These peeps are so much fun. More antics from Shawn and Kara's party!

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Naked54 Behind The Scenes

I work for NakedSword.
This holiday season we are throwing a grand (GAY) porn industry party, Studio 54 style. This is behind the scene footage to the video being produced for the event.

KinkyCuisine: Behind The Scenes with JuJu Apple

This weekend I shot the 3rd episode for KinkyCuisine. I'm still having issues getting the website together. We're up, but not exactly running. I hope to be up and running with a bi-monthly cooking show and kitchen pinups. I should probably put up a good landing page instead of what is up next. I'll keep you all posted.

Fight Therapy

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Yesterday I went to Shawn and Kara's 8th anniversary celebration with my friend Charlie. The most intense and exhilarating part was "Fight Therapy" lead by Melissa Wyman. She taught us 3 specific moves and we had one minute to exercise them with each other. Thanks to Jez for holding the camera while Charlie and I duked it out.

First Xacti Video: The Lexington Club

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I took this video at The Lexington Club while fliering for Sean Dorsey's performance Lost and Found part of Tranny Fest 2007.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: lesbian, xacti, lexington, club, sean, dorsey, tranny, fest

Another great shoot

Last night's photo shoot with Terry was fun. I love the forced perspective in this walkway.

We also tried two other night locations. A parking lot and a parking garage. As people walked by the shoot in the dimly lit parking lot, they turned their heads to stare at me in a boobalicious shirt and Terry with all of his equipment.

One of the passerbys decided to come back to enjoy the show. I didn't really mind the voyeurism until he unabashedly started jacking off through is pocket. A little annoyed I yelled "Hey buddy, I take tips!" I laughed it off and we continued with the shoot. The clean cut suburbanesque wanker kept beating off through his neatly pressed khakis. Annoyed, I decided we should leave.

After spending a good amount of time searching for another location, we stumbled upon a well lit parking garage and got some good shots.

Terrence Taylor

I am writing this blog while I wait for Terry, one of the photographers I met at Folsom Street Fair. Marcel and Sir were in town and we arrived dressed more than appropriately. I don't know if it was our fierce hottness or Marcel's twelve inch hairstyle, but we attracted paparazzi like fruit flies to the produce on my kitchen counter (I have a fly problem). Terry took a picture of us (top) and since then we have met up for a photo shoot.

I'm sitting in fishnets and my new skirt, waiting for our second photo shoot for a second try in a construction walkway (bottom).

Sanyo Xacti

I just bought the Sanyo Xacti E1. We'll see how it works!! It will be here in 2 business days:) In the meantime I'll be getting my blogs ready. This one is the most functional and the easiest. I'm working on a blog for KinkyCuisine.com to host on my personal server using a template from Show In A Box. I have so many broken links and don't really know how to manipulate the design. There is not enough documentation on all of this, so I'm just using trial and error.

Any way, I should get to work!

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

test video

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from my razr3 shitty phone... 

Beginnings

I'm just getting started. I got the domain. I got the motivation. Here I am on my free blog!

I took a Video Blogging Class at BAVC with Schlomo. Learned a lot of new tricks. So here's my go.

To Do:
-choose template
-customize template
-replace blogger URL w/ iamfivestar.com
-Buy a Sanyo Xacti