Chica Chica Go Boom? Studios: Chica Photox Dox

11/24/2014

Mother and Child Reunion. A PhotoMixed Essay

These are PhotoMixes created with the iOS app Pic Stitch mainly, although some other apps were used in editing the building block photos before they were assembled and visually finalized with Pic Stitch. This photo essay is entitled 'Mother & Child Reunion' because the subjects are in fact mother and daughter, and all of the photos were taken while the two reconciled after not seeing each other for more than four years. One additional note: None of the building block photos nor the subjects themselves were posed in such a way as to benefit the making of the collages. The original photos were candids taken in a hotel room as the two re-engaged. Happily.

11/18/2014

SUPER THRIFT STORE SUPER 99 +CENTS. - The Way & How We Will/May Live + Warming Jelly Lubricant

It is on the way way Western edge of Denver, or perhaps the Easternmost boundary line of Lakewood, Colorado. If you know where you are headed, you can and will find the building pictured above. We can make it a little easier by telling you that the signs reading SUPER THRIFT STORE SUPER 99 +CENTS exist just West of Sheridan Blvd and slightly South of Evans Ave. Viewing from that particular intersection, the only illumination for a couple of blocks is the giant signs above their doors. Otherwise their vast parking lot is as dark as the 16th century concerning electric light.
Upon entering this building pictured above I was Baptised anew last night. A baptismal beneath the electricity glowing signs of SUPER THRIFT STORE SUPER 99 +CENTS. This is not an attempt to blaspheme, comparing shopping at SUPER THRIFT STORE SUPER 99 +CENTS for the first time to a Holy dip in the River Jordan. Rather it is an attempt to blur and blend. Sitting inside STS S99+¢ is a story. Here shopping transcends its place in life as mere chore (buying vitamins) or passing pleasantry (buying stamps). STS S99+¢ is its own New thing, a Way & How We all May/Will live. STS S99+¢ Presents/Predicts a certain American future, But is without visible inertia or concern towards making this prediction come to pass. A attitudinal nonchalance almost akin to when events are preordained as in most
Religion.
Drift. Caught? Here is a explanation with both feet on shiny buffed tile floors. Imagine any true pricepoint dollar store (where nothing costs more than $1) like Dollar Tree™. Dollar Tree™ and STS S99+¢ are identical in some respects. Both stock Chinese imports, Household goods and other modern necessities, almost everything under the sun can be found at either business. STS S99+¢ differs by actually selling Everything Under the Sun and the proverbial kitchen sink. Meaning the literal proverbial kitchen sink. SUPER THRIFT STORE SUPER 99 +CENTS is 10 to 15 times the size of your local Dollar Tree™
Some more examples? STS S99+¢ can provide a human an entire wardrobe. From head to foot, from leopard print imitation leather hunting hat to rhinestone bedazzled Faux cork soled Flip-Flops (née thongs). Need some sorta silky ladies underwear?- always only $1/pair! Now, this clothed human can list leisurely aisle to aisle into A complete Head Shop- No prejudice for/against any Drug here- Hard, soft, outdated... The proper paraphernalia is present! Suppositories, scarves, scales or balloons. Bullets, batteries, straight glass and empty caps. It is all here to help mankind get, sell, or stay wickedly high.
To truly illustrate the bewildering omnivorous nature of the SUPER THRIFT STORE SUPER 99 +CENTS Inventory, an item emblematic of STS S+99¢'s Chinese provenance and complete ignorance of Colorado purchasing protocol.