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Nikki submitted a post that we thought essential to the top entries – family. When I created this contest I wanted to emphasize that your element did not only have to be a some THING your passionate about, it could be someone, in hopes someone would talk about another person, someone they love and admire greatly. Even better, it was family, one of the most important things in my life. Nikki’s post hit the spot.

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When I read your blog and you asked “What is your element?” I had a difficult time trying to figure out what it was that made me happiest. Then I realized it wasn’t “what” but “who”.

That was the easiest question in the world to answer, Lizzy Thornton, my little sister.

“Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person that will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you’ll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding but there’s also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself, is the same person that’s been standing beside you all along.” (Bride Wars)

That quote made me ball like a baby because it describes our relationship perfectly.

When she was born I immediately fell in love with her and despite our 10 year age difference, we have been as thick as thieves ever since. When we are together there is piece of childhood that reemerges in me and I am at my happiest.

So needless to say, I am in my element when I am with Lizzy, my best friend who just so happens to be my sister.

I was reading through People magazine and stumbled upon a picture of Carol Burnett and her sister laughing together on the floor looking through records. I ripped out that page and have wanted to take similar pics with Liz. Our photos need to be able to translate our real laughter, our affection, our love.

In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.  ~Author Unknown

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Luis’ entry was the only photography entry that I received so it automatically had a one up in my list, but can you blame me? Its photography! Luis has a lot of really impressive ideas and I’d love to make some of it happen. I really like his work, some of his which i’ve posted below. Best of luck Luis!

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My element is fashion photography. I feel alive, and like it’s what I was born to do. I cannot see myself pursuing anything else because this is the only thing that makes me feel alive. I love making women feel beautiful, and that’s what makes this job fun and easy. I was born to do this.

I have a variety of ideas, I want to have a shoot with a coffin surrounded by black roses, and a pale girl with black hair and a black lace dress inside the coffin. I want to cover the ground, in colorful powder, and have the model lay in it. I want to have a black set with Christmas lights to make it look like there are stars behind the model. I want to shoot a girl in white, and pink roses. I would like to shoot where a girl covered in butterflies cover a girl in black paint, do a pin-up shoot, one with TONS of balloons, a with colorful cupcakes, one in an old worn down building, one with girls with a colorful background, with bubbles floating everywhere, and the girls dressed in tons of color, with colorful wigs, and make-up, another where a girl in black is holding a skull, and the skull is on fire in her hands, and a similar one, but the skull is covered in paint, and lastly one where I hang diamonds from the ceiling, and a model is among the diamonds.

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My team read this entry and we were laughing the entire time, Marc and James are two of the funniest guys I’ve met and I’m glad I can put them on the top 5. They are partners in Youtubes hit show Lexationships! They’ve made me laugh countless times and I’m glad to have an entry from them. I hope you enjoy this as much as we did!

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We here at Lexationships wanted to say our element was “fire,” but after realizing how much of a douchebag that ginger was to the rest of the Planeteers, we instead decided to go with what we knew — ties. And when we realized how absolutely lame that was for an entry, we opted to go with something we pretend we know, and that’s comedy. Comedy, for our money (the piles and piles of it, we’ll have you know), is without question the most important performance art in the world, bar none. You teach people with comedy. You can make people angry with it. And if you’re really good? You can heal people with it. And that’s our job here at Lexationships, especially since none of us can afford med school. But more than that, we want to bring something new to the table. We don’t do accents. We don’t make fun of our parents. But we do like bringing people together — and if they have even a third of the fun watching us as we do performing for them? Then everything’s worth it.

Now, how’d we use comedy in a photoshoot? Well, aside from posing like we’re telling jokes, and telling some poor stranger to hold a laughing pose while you snap away, we want to come across just as classy and entertaining as one of our main inspirations at Lex: the Rat Pack. They were the epitome of entertainment, guys who could make you laugh, cry, and sing along whether you were an average Joe, or the Hollywood elite. Look at Frank, Dino, Sammy, etc., in the decades worth of photography dedicated to them, and you’ll see consummate entertainers — the best in the world at what they did. And regardless of their personal problems, their issues with each other and their families… when that spotlight hit? They were the coolest men on the planet. Singers. Actors. Dancers. Comedians. That’s what they did. But who they were? Well, that was something else, entirely. Both on and off the stage, on film and in pictures — they were best friends.