E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

hair-whip heartbreak

Naomi is 16, and works with us at photography factory when she is off school pretty much as an equal member. Lets be honest age is irrelevant in a great picture, plus she has a sense of the social media space to rival the best new media agency analysts. All the newest trends are always playing out as only she predicts. Her detailed clear and analysis of youth culture on the internet is worth a million dollars to us and she is a key member of our team. More importantly her simple black and white photographic portraits are utterly brilliant, an evocation of sub suburban teenage life as seen though the eyes of a 15 (now 16) year old girl. But on the day of this slow motion test Naomi was not her normal beautiful smiling dry sarcastic self (think Juno with a camera). Recently she had a relationship with a Hollister lookalike boy end in an unfair way (what was ever fair about being 16?) and have to get it all dragged around the internet as the aftermath played out on FaceBook in a very modern and very public way. So in other words she was putting on a brave face. We all involved setting up the high speed camera and needed someone to stand in as a lighting dummy, When shooter one had the idea to getting someone to shake their hair around... and see how it might look at 2000 fps. Naomi stepped up to the plate and quite shocked us by the force and passion she used to whip. The beguiling result is here... if you look at here closely you can see something else: Something about that action and the air swishing though her hair just seemed to change her mood, as if she had just tossed away the weight of an the old nightmare, something thick and heavy that had been clinging to her, but suddenly it was gone. As she was hair whipping for the camera, shooter one quietly said to himself: "Go girl, shake that boy right out of your hair..." http://www.photography-factory.co.uk Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux I don't know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too. ~Missy Altijd No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~Oscar Wilde When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal. ~Dante In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. ~Author Unknown Love is like a puzzle. When you're in love, all the pieces fit but when your heart gets broken, it takes a while to get everything back together. ~Author Unknown Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. ~From the television show The Wonder Years I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine? ~John Suckling As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. ~Eileen Mayhew It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~Colette The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ~T.E. Kalem Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces. ~Author Unknown What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur Sadness flies away on the wings of time. ~Jean de La Fontaine If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking. ~Thomas Otway Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. ~Rosa Parks With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! ~Thomas Moore Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live wi