Self-Portraits: Potty Shots
April 15th, 2012
Last week when my friend Mo told our sewing circle about Nina Katchadourian and her Lavatory Self-Portraits blog post, WE KNEW WE HAD TO DO IT TOO.
In a nutshell, Nina’s ridiculously awesome post goes like this, “Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style: While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror using my cellphone.” That is THE BEST QUOTE EVER. EVER!
So while Mo was at work at an undisclosed location’s restroom, she sent me a text with her self-potty shot. I busted a kidney laughing so hard. Shortly after Mo’s world’s-most-awesome text, I was in Trader Joe’s and went to the restroom to try my hand at a potty shot. I giggled, and giggled, and giggled, and this is my result:
I don’t know how to pull off the Flemish look, so I just tried to look serious. And it’s damn HARD to look serious when you’re giggling and cracking your S up. But I think I pulled off a rockin’ bunny suit look and look like I just developed the zombie antidote for The Walking Dead cast.
Later that night at sewing circle, I say to Mo, “I need to go to the bathroom [wink, wink], wanna come with me?” - so off we go to the building’s restroom. Heather comes along too, no knowing what Mo and I are up to. Mo heads one stall for “wardrobe”, I to another. And before we know it… we’re freak Heather out into THE ultimate OMG moment!
Mo and I look like we got caught escaping from somewhere that escaping is frowned upon. We had so much fun. Incredible, crazy fun. Like playing a grand prank, but no one gets hurts and nothing gets damaged. When we got back to circle, we showed our friends the potty pics, and gut splitting, side hurting laughing ensued. I won’t name names, but soon there were more potty pics zipping through the internet tunnels.
There’s something so fun about this and I HIGHLY recommend everyone who’s got a camera, a public restroom and a potty-protector sheet to take a potty pic! It will be a very long time before I ever walk into a public restroom and not crack up. It feels SO GOOD to do something some dumb, so childish, so weird, so embarrassing. In a weird way, it’s kind of empowering. I think anytime I’m scared to do something, and then do it - I feel very empowered. And with that said, last night at the grocery store I slipped into the restroom and had some fun. I was giggling like a school-girl all the way out the store. And in my car. And when I got home…
I didn’t know what I was going to get until afterwards. I’m going with Ninja on one, but unsure what the other one ended up being. Sigh, I love this game! I’m really hoping others will play along, too (I’m going to tag my pics with #pottypicfun on flickr, and hope it catches on!). And I’m hoping my girlfriends will show their potty pics - they are just too good not to be seen!
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Hysterical!!!! Seriously, a hilarious idea that I may soon try myself! You should pitch a book idea…”creative women in seat cover hats”.
April 15th, 2012LOL! I can only imagine the giggling and hilarity that ensued. I’ll remember this and try it next time I find the potty protectors. My friends will enjoy this.
April 16th, 2012Flushed with love, for you and your potty pics. I am inspired to take a stand for seat cover portraits, and to join your Flemish fashion revival. I will not stall, but head straight to an area WC, ASAP.
April 16th, 2012I adore the second one, on the left… Sister Merry Monica, of the Order of Protected Posteriors. Amen.
I just visited Nina’s page…
April 16th, 2012I’m rolling. OMG… she nailed it.
How? How did she not raise suspicions on that flight… all those trips, props… and the results? Frickin’ brilliant.
Now I feel a little intimidated about achieving a worthy effect. Monica, this is high art!
You’re the next Mona Lisa, I daresay.
April 16th, 2012*giggle*
…I actually meant the next “Monica Lisa”
April 16th, 2012heh heh heh
I’m thinking performance art…….kickstarter grant…… Warhol Foundation…..
Ah, screw it - just have fun.
April 16th, 2012O.M.G. Perhaps you should carry a supply in your purse for those deprived bathrooms around the world that don’t have the covers! And, I’d really like to see one with that bathroom sign that I made for the SW’s in the background. Or, perhaps a group picture???
April 16th, 2012So my friends and I have been thinking about planning a cookbook for our 50th grammar school reunion from St Eulalia’s but you have given me a much better idea! But this post needed a warning line, I did spit coffee on my monitor when I realized what you had on your head!
April 16th, 2012What a great idea for good, clean fun!
Won’t be able to enter a Ladies’ Room from now on without thinking of you!!!
April 16th, 2012That is just too funny. Thanks for sharing.
April 16th, 2012Thanks for the laugh this morning :)
April 16th, 2012that is hilarious!
You are Awesome.
April 16th, 2012You’re TOO MUCH!
Thanks for the (much needed) roar of hysterics over here!!! :-)
April 16th, 2012OMGH!! We need to start a flickr group!!!!!
April 16th, 2012OK… Serioulsy! This confirms my opinion that there’s a blog about EVERYTHING out there. EVERY-THING!!!!!
April 16th, 2012lmfao! i want to do this!
April 16th, 2012Okaaaayyyyy. (trying not to pee my pants) ;-)
April 16th, 2012Dying! You just made my life :)
April 16th, 2012Looks like some Depends moments!!! Funny!!
April 16th, 2012OMG that is so funny Monica!!!
April 16th, 2012You totally crack me up. Maybe tomorrow when I go in for my daily radiation treatment, I will slip into the bathroom to see if I can have a bit of my own fun. If I could do this AFTER I’d put on a silly hospital gown, imagine how much I could look like I’D escaped from somewhere that escaping is frowned upon! ;)
April 16th, 2012Loving the wistful look ‘potty shot’ ~ Monika, you crack me up!
April 17th, 2012Oh, and I went to check out Nins’s blog ~ brilliant is all I can say!
April 17th, 2012You kill me. totally. xo
April 17th, 2012Oh my gosh that was THE funniest!! I still laugh when I think of how hard we laughed! My partner in crime- shenanigan pal! I love you!
April 17th, 2012YOU NEED A SPIT WARNING on this!!!!! Make a cute button for all of us to use… SPIT ALERT… SPIT ALERT….
April 17th, 2012Famous quote from one Lav gal to another, “I’ve got you covered.” My sides are still hurting. Must try this at work tomorrow…
April 17th, 2012Ok, I now wish you were my next door neighbor.
April 18th, 2012hahaha- tears were running down my leg I laughed so hard! Sometimes you just gotta laugh & BE SILLY!!!
April 18th, 2012Your ‘potty portraits’ are just too funny for words! How I wish i lived in your area and could join your sewing circle.
If you have any thoughts on creativity, how yours is sparked, how it is fueled long-term, I invite you to post on my brand-new blog, Creativity Check-in.
Warm regards, HapiStitcher
April 19th, 2012LOL! This is seriously the most fabulous idea ever. You crack me up… I guess you can’t stop at just one
April 19th, 2012One questions, you peed your pants, right?
April 19th, 2012Laughed til I cried! You have made my whole week.
April 19th, 2012That looks like so much fun! You may have just started a new fad! Thanks for the many laughs! Girls, they just wanna have fu-un!!(Cyndi Lauder/1980ish … I think)
April 19th, 2012It’s official, we need to be friends. In-depth convos about zombie films *check*
Love of potty humor *check*
Willingness to post potentially embarassing photos online *check*
Yup…I think that’s about everything…
April 19th, 2012AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! That is hilarious! Oh, my gosh- you do have the most fun! :)
April 19th, 2012Bahahahahahaha!!!! That’s world class Monica. But funnily enough when I showed this to my 13yo boy he said ‘No comment, I don’t get it!” LOL…no sense of humour at all. Oh well, at least someone gave me a good laugh today!!
April 20th, 2012There’s something wrong with you…
That’s why we’re friends and I love you! :) I’m heading out there on Wed (driving Baby out) for another househunting trip…by myself, so hopefully this time I’ll get to see you. Keep your fingers crossed that I find a house quick so I have time to play! :)
April 20th, 2012in a word — fabulous!
April 20th, 2012I am laughing myself silly!! I am so going to do this. I don’t need much encouragement to make a fool of myself, so I am off to do the potty paper do. You are the best!!!!
April 21st, 2012Nadine
Thanks for the giggles…..I’ll never look at toilet seat covers the same way…….
April 22nd, 2012omg!! you are the absolute best!! your potty pics (and the ones w. you and Mo) made me laugh so darned hard! keep making the fun happen (and sharing it with us)!! love you, monica. xo
April 22nd, 2012Are you going to do a contest for “best” potty shot? I *may* have come into possession of a few liners, and my husband *might* be replacing our toilet this weekend. I have grand plans for a picture, but no real reason to do it other then pure fun.
April 23rd, 2012ROTFLMA… Do you ever wonder what to do with the uvula shaped thing?… I’m inspired to use one as a base and string quilt it…
April 24th, 2012this is just to funny. i can’t believe you were able to stop laughing long enough to get the shots.
May 2nd, 2012I just stumbled on your blog via Sew Can She, and I have to say, you crack me up! A great new blog to add to my daily reading! And I rejoice at finding a craft blog that I feel a kinship too! (even though I’ve never sewn in my life….I’m still working up the courage to turn on my brand new machine!)
May 14th, 2012I love this so much. So much. I forwarded this on to people then my cuz and I talked about it at a family dinner. My mom was trying hard not to laugh and said, “Who does things like that?!”. My cuz (a sculptor slash quilter) and I (photographer slash quilter) say in unison, “An Artist!”. Huzzah!
May 20th, 2012