Skin Two Rubber Ball 2007 by Zille Defeu

Any excuse to travel to England is a good one for me, but the best excuse is the Rubber Ball weekend! I’d had my bag mostly packed before I had even picked up the last items for various outfits, and the last things put in were; a custom black latex pencil skirt freshly fashioned by Lust Designs, black and gold leg warmers, some random assorted Shiseido make-up, and an enormous amount of fake pearls. With an assortment like that, you know a good time is in the offing!

Travelling is always a crap-shoot. Sometimes you soar effortlessly from one side of the world to the other. Or, you may have a trip like we had. My Master (photographer Malcolm Weir) and I did not know, when we boarded the plane in San Francisco, that Chicago’s O’Hare airport and our connecting flight, were shut down due to severe storms. This led to extra hours of flying, a refueling in Des Moines, three hours sleep, a very exciting drive through rush-hour traffic and then rushing through a packed airport to not miss our final flight to London.
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