Machiavelli Id is Changing! [It's OK, you can peek]

Apr 182013
 
 April 18, 2013  Posted by at 01:46 Inside Machiavelli Id Tagged with: ,  No Responses »
Machiavelli Id is Changing! [It's OK, you can peek]

It’s come to my attention that I have an abandoned blog here. Sorry about that.

How are you doing? I’m busy blogging for clients at Lizard Creative Chaos and teaching other people to do the same at Be A Freelance Blogger. That crazy game plan I had a couple of years ago finally paid off. :D

Aside from a one-off booking to appear as Mystique [X-Men] for cult photographer David “Draken” Watkins, I don’t model any more. I get paid more to blog than I did to pose, and the offspring needs new shoes.

So, this blog is coming down bit by bit. I may update some of my better posts and publish them somewhere else.

If you’re here for the alt/fetish photos, you can still look at a few for now. When I take the gallery down, you’ll be able to find a lot of them on the photographer or client’s websites anyway.

If you’re here for the rants, inspirations, DIY ethic and stubborn clinging to the notion that sanity is a relative term, sit tight. I’m creating a new place for us to hang out and encourage each other to reach for the stars, right out of the gutter.

Stay in touch with me on Twitter: @sophielizard

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Toddler Art: The First Face

Aug 072012
 
 August 7, 2012  Posted by at 00:41 Crash Test Baby, The Picture of Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , ,  4 Responses »
Toddler Art: The First Face

This is the first definite face Mini-MI ever drew. I know it’s a face not only because it looks like one, but also because I was privy to the artist’s stream-of-thought babbling throughout the creative process. “Eyes, it’s a ears, it’s a nose…” and so on. Crayon on plastic coated fabric, 2012.

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7 Telltale Signs You’ve Got a Toddler

Jul 032012
 
 July 3, 2012  Posted by at 14:24 Crash Test Baby, Machiavelli Id's list of lists Tagged with: , , , , ,  No Responses »
7 Telltale Signs You've Got a Toddler

Toddlers affect every single aspect of your existence. Yes, of course having a baby does that anyway, but toddlers are a lot harder to keep up with. Here are 10 ways to recognise that your toddler has taken over your life:

1. You can name every character on In The Night Garden, but you don’t know what day it is.

2. You do know what day it is, but only because the kids’ TV presenters were singing about it.

3. Your most exciting conversation today went along the lines of, “What’s that?” “It’s a shoe.” “What’s that?” “A shoe.” “What’s that?” “Still a shoe.” “What’s THAT?” “That, surprisingly enough, is the same shoe you asked about earlier. It’s a shoe.” “What’s that?”…

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Happy Jubilee, Your Majazzle!

May 302012
 
 May 30, 2012  Posted by at 14:32 Fetish and teh sex Tagged with: , , , ,  6 Responses »
Happy Jubilee, Your Majazzle!

Dear gods, I don’t know what to say about this. Um, what better way to celebrate Her Royal Majesty’s 60th everything than by sticking some crown-shaped sparkles to your lady garden? Srsly? Your bedazzled mind must be fried, but hey, it’s your call. And it’s nowhere near as worrying a political statement as the Obama-headed dildo I saw a couple of weeks ago. If you really want to get one of these, you’ll find them for sale at Lovehoney for a fiver, along with a huge pile of sexy stuff for women, men and couples. Please, don’t send me your photos.

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Tampax: Excessive Packaging Fail

May 262012
 
 May 26, 2012  Posted by at 13:40 Inside Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , , ,  No Responses »
Tampax: Excessive Packaging Fail

The Tampax Multipack: 3 different absorbencies in one handy box! Not really. It just has three smaller unprinted boxes inside the bigger branded box. What a waste of tree-corpse. Even if it’s all recycled and recyclable, what a waste of energy. It all has to be manufactured and transported. You know, I’ve got no issue with the colour coded individual wrappers. They’re hygienic and they help me find the absorbency I want. But why box them up like that? I could have coped if they were all loose in the one box. Tampax, you disappoint me. With you I can

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Festival Makeup Survival

May 112012
 
 May 11, 2012  Posted by at 14:30 The adventures of Machiavelli Id, The travels of Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , , , , ,  No Responses »
Festival Makeup Survival

This is a guest post by Bee at Bee Loves Beauty.   Since the sun is well and truly out and long holiday weekends beckon, I thought it might be a nice idea to share some tips and recommendations for make up survival at festivals. Based on trial and (considerable) error, I’ve come up with some golden hints I swear by. Hopefully these will help us to avoid the third-day-leprous look that can afflict the make up wearing festie-goer.

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Cute Photo Alert! A Toddler Stole My Keys

May 072012
 
 May 7, 2012  Posted by at 15:30 Crash Test Baby, The Picture of Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , , ,  2 Responses »
Cute Photo Alert! A Toddler Stole My Keys

For as long as mankind has had keys, babykind has been fascinated with those keys. They’re an interesting, possibly shiny or jingly, definitely biteable or suckable toy to any tiny mind seeking entertainment. By the time they’re toddlers, kids think keys are even more magical. Not only fun but also a tool for opening exciting boxes or –even better!– doors and windows onto the outside world. Plus the keys are clearly important to the grown-ups, which makes stealing them or hiding them much more satisfying. My Toddler, My Key Thief Hmm, these look interesting… is that a beetle preserved in

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Jubilee Xbox 360 Celebration Pack: Union Jack Skins

May 052012
 
 May 5, 2012  Posted by at 09:39 Machiavelli Id goes digital Tagged with: , , , , , ,  No Responses »
Jubilee Xbox 360 Celebration Pack: Union Jack Skins

Just seen that the leaked news last month about a special edition Union Jack Xbox 360 package has been confirmed by Microsoft. It’s the same white hardware and extra stuff as you get in the older Xbox 360 Family Pack: a white 4GB Xbox 360 S console a white Kinect sensor 2 white wireless controllers Kinect Adventures Kinect Sports 3 months’ Xbox Live Gold membership The only extra to what they’re calling the “Celebration Pack” is that it comes with free Union Jack skins for all the hardware, so that you can make it look like this: That means you

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Are Sex Robots In Our Future?

Apr 252012
 
 April 25, 2012  Posted by at 10:04 Fetish and teh sex, The science of Machiavelli Id Tagged with: , , , , , ,  2 Responses »
Are Sex Robots In Our Future?

Researchers (and in this case I use the term researchers loosely) from the Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington have predicted that we’ll be sleeping with sex bots in 40 years. The “study” came from a management school, not a psychology or science department. And any prediction of technology that is 40 years out is largely guesswork. You can predict pretty much anything that far out and be lauded for your foresight without being held accountable if your predictions don’t come true.

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