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Boy, SNL, you and Lady Fatale are quite the suhweet sig and avi creators! So seamless and beautiful. . . Both of you have great starts to the week!

What a team! There's no I in Team, but there are two T's in Tori's Team. 59! Suhweeeet! Maybe with a little cheating below (Greek myth and art history pics) 60 will arrive in time for the New Year! Thanks for the award pics. Y'all aren't kidding. Tori's legs are soooooooooo long and lean and strong in every pic, lying, sitting, or standing but especially walking. SNL, you make me laugh with every remark and even emoticon! Thanks for the laffter, welcome anytime . Devoting your life to Tori's pages isn't a bad thing! I asked myself the same question while writing my long post yesterday. But a muse is a muse is a muse! The Nine Greek Muses, daugthers of ZEUS & MNEMOSYNE (and the latest Hawaiian inductee, the 10th muse), who represent inspiration for all fine and performing artists are: KLIO: history EUTERPE: flute playing THALIA: comedy MELPOMENE: tragedy TERPSICHORE: dance ERATO: love poems POLYMNIA: sacred music URANIA: astrology KALLIOPE: epic poetry (Kalliope is the "top-ranked" Muse, but there is always a new #1 ready to take over in any type of ranking! ) TORI: cosmopolitan beauty and grace anywhere, any place (On 1.1.09, Tori will replace Kalliope as Mac Muse!) 2009 MUSE OF THE COSMOS AWARD WINNER: Tori Praver, inspiration to designers, photographers, artists, musicians, thespians, Bellazon fans, and everyday people. Happy New Year 2009!

You are the bestest, SNL! I remember when you posted all those Gorsuch photographs, I wondered how many pix/words it takes to make a BZ page. So maybe my babble helps to lengthen if not share with Tori's fans the wonderment inspired by her images. Your last posts reminded me that Tori is getting to see the world from A to V (Aspen/Australia to Venice). That in itself must be amazing for Tori, a COSMOPOLITAN girl by actual definition and by her Cosmopolitan covers! In fact, she is IN the dictionary, but not her picture, yet! COSMOPOLITAN: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. 3d DEFINITION: So sophisticated as to be at home in all parts of the world or conversant with many spheres of interest: a cosmopolitan, worldly traveler. 4th DEFINITION (added): Tori Praver, Super Model, IMG, Maui, Hawaii. Most amazing perhaps is Tori's signing with Billabong globally as their "it" girl in a recession that has no foreseable end generally or in retail clothing specifically. With their 10% year-end loss, Billabong is placing their hopes of maintaining and hopefully growing their business in a dismal economy squarely on Tori's strong shoulders. Using Tori to "pull the brand together" globally is quite an honor to add to her recent awards. Tori's global appeal for Billabong and her fans became local for me last week. It happened as accidentally as my finding her Gorsuch catalogue when recyling. Still on crutches, I was bumped into one of many calendar racks in Barnes and Nobles. When the last rack stopped swiveling, there was the Tori SI cover calendar I'd only seen on these pages with her looking super cute. I continued to Bed, Bath and Beyond and found myself in a relatively empty area with a lone calendar swivel rack with mostly home and cat and dog calendars. Walking past it, there was the same Tori SI cover calendar, I'd seen a short time before. Upon leaving the store, I saw Tori and Danny walking down the sidewalk. Roight! With SI coming out soon and more recent exposure posted by Tori's BZ fans above, Tori will be even more visible but by no accident or even near disaster with tall calendar racks or ghosts of Tori and Danny in Christmas present. Tori will increase her visibility just as she has been doing by representing herself to her clients, her agent, and her photographers as well as she can in person and by looking great in print, and on the runway regardless of what she's wearing. In the New Year, here's to Tori's increased visibilty and to her continued mental and physical fortitude in a tough industry. Tori is definitely UBIQUITOUS and not just on calendar racks around the globe! UBIQUITOUS: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. ...at the same time; omnipresent, universal--ADJ, u·biqui·tous·ly--ADVERB, [added]; u·biqui·tous·ness--NOUN... When I see the latest photos you posted, SNL, I see once again that Tori is a triple threat if not more: swimsuit, ready-to- wear, haute couture in print and on the runway. Wowee! Thanks again, SNL, for your enthusiasm and especially your humor (to offset my pictureless posts) as well as your efforts finding such not especially visible items as the program for the film festival. Your discoveries still beat my babble and today's dictionary dorkiness! Happy New Year's Again to Tori and Danny, and her friends and BZ fans and their friends while I'm at it!

Oh my Gawd! What a way to end the year: with Tons of Tori. Babble Boy is silenced. For now, anyway. . . SNL and the all of those who posted in this latest barage have been so prolific with these posts!!!!!!!!!!!! Tori, as usual, looks so gorgeous and so cute; I cannot stand it! She looks simply happy, the most important thing ! This was such a wonderful surprise when I was doing my routine daily check of her BZ pages. She and Danny do look so cute together: same height, similar hair, great cheek bones and surfer skills. I think he modeled, too, at one point. SNL, you deserve the research award for all these posts. Thank you so much again and again! 60 pages sounds great, nice and round!

Listen, SNL, I know a remark about babble when I see it! But I can't help it with Tori's pics. I know: TRY HARDER. POST MORE. My goal for the New Year on Tori's site is to emulate your pic-finding ability, your creative sig/avi's that are gorgeous and creative, and be a steadier responder as you are. I think, however, I am close to your enthusiasm level for Tori's pics! Hope you're having a great weekend! Succinctly, Babble Boy :>) PS Here's to page fitty-8! And 60 by 1 JAN 09?!

Thanks, lbliss! Boy, lbliss, the pic you referenced below reminds me of what EVERYONE has said about Tori since she first appeard on these pages: flawless skin, covering long limb bones and strong leg, core, arm muscles, "topped off" by perfect facial bone structure, including great chin, jaw, and cheek bones, complete with eyes that are brighter and more exquisitely shaped than the Hope Diamond, a ho-hum circle. This essentially blue, ridiculously huge jewel, originally from India belonged to kings of France and England and eventually a Washington, DC socialite. Winston's and Cartier worked on the Hope Diamond, and now the Smithsonian displays its 45 carats, originally 112 carats (uncut) in a simple, isolated display. Real Bling! There's no forgetting Tori's hair. . . worn or cut anyway, even colored--dare I say it--black, red or brown--is always a perfect frame for her face when worn long. When worn up or held behind her ears, it highlights her facial bones. Just as Tori maketh the clothes, her face maketh the hairstyle. You can tell from Tori's "freeze frame" below and others that Tori has the balance (again, probably from surfing), powerful stride, and confident gaze that makes her a vision of fluid, effortless motion on the runway. We or I need to find or create new adjectives (eg shimmering instead of flawless/perfect skin) to describe Tori's amazing attributes. She definitely deserves it. Thanks again, lbliss. Have a great weekend and New Year! STRIDENT SWIMSUIT SUPERMODEL: DIAMOND IN THE SURF: PS NOTE TO THE SUPERSTITIOUS: The Curse of the Hope Diamond only SUPPOSEDLY applies to those who owned it or worked on it, not even to those who only wore it. The Smithsonian has never had a problem with it in 45 years of displaying it. Maybe an amazing designer will ask Tori to wear it with his or her latest creation. WHEN he or she does, Tori will cancel the curse, and her eyes will out dazzle perhaps the most sparkling diamond of them all! .

RE-VISITING TORI PRAVER: FROM MAUI SURFER TO MANHATTAN MODEL MAGNIFIQUE At this time of year, there are a lot of year-end countdowns and summaries. Tori definitely deserves a summary not just of the year but of her career during which she has gone from surfer girl to runway rocker. In addition, her fans on Bellazon deserve so much credit for putting up all of Tori's videos and photographs so we can see her move from the Hawaiian Islands to the Isle of Manhattan over time. I think I found one new pic after Googling. To find more, I decided to re-visit all 57 of Tori’s pages here on Bellazon, admittedly scrolling fast as there are so many awesome pics throughout, with amazing ones on the earliest pages. Going at full-appreciation speed would take me all day. I also tried to summarize Tori’s qualities at year’s end. While I re-visited Tori’s pages, I saw a few comments that said she is only an all-American swimsuit model. You cannot deny her “all-American” swimsuit model beauty, although in theory nowadays “all-american” has a wider range of looks. In fact, SI’s choosing Tori regularly for their best-selling issue only proves her swimsuit appeal. As ALL her editorial, runway, and catalogue work show, Tori is truly multi-faceted as clichéd as that word sounds. “Multi-faceted” literally applies to her: Tori has countless “faces” to show the camera and a body that at once exudes health, strength, and beauty. During my time trip tour of Tori, I thought of these categories; feel free to add/delete pics and/or categories: ALL-AMERICAN SWIMSUIT SISTAH: GLAMOUR GIRL: ATHLETIC ANGEL/SURFERGIRL: ARTIST'S MUSE (avatars/signatures, too): FUN GIRL: CUTE GIRL RUNWAY ROCKER All pics from Bellazon past and present except Cute Girl (2pm.com) Whether you add or delete pics or categories, Tori is no one-hit wonder but a model who has transitioned from the beach to print and to the runway with quite a bit of grace; with her hair done right, she looks like Princess Grace. While swimsuits fit Tori perfectly, and haute couture clothing drapes beautifully on her long and lean frame, her editorials and catalogue photographs are worth many more than one look for expression and clothes. Given the variety of clothing and settings in which we see Tori on Bellazon alone in the past few years, we will see Tori continue to refine her craft in 2009 and beyond if she so chooses. I missed wishing Tori and her fans a Happy Winter Solstice (21 DEC), one of the earliest celebrations that has marked the shortest and darkest day of the year for cultures in the Northern Hemisphere. It is political- and religion-neutral, and it has been part of a regular and natural cycle since the earth and sun began their dance around each other. Most important, on 22 DEC, the days get longer if not warmer! Many cultures celebrate holidays at this time to brighten up the long nights with lights and song. Anyway, I wish Tori and her fans and their families and friends happy holidays. Hopefully, I have hit some of them: Eid (belated Islam), Deepvali (belated Hindu), Chanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and Happy New Year's to follow!

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Woweeeeeeeeee, Sweetnlow! I have the hardcopy of Gorsuch catalogue in hand and peeked at the website as you know. I knew there were a TON o' Tori but not this much! Thanks soooooooooo much for the effort! Whether she is inside or outside or dressed in something simple or glamourous, Tori looks gorgeous in each of these photographs. Her fans know I could go on and on about each in detail, but I'll spare them my babble. In short, Tori looks amazing whatever she is wearing and in whichever setting she is photographed. Words can't really do her different looks any justice, anyway. Tori's photographs have spoken for themselves from the very beginning (eg the pic below with wet suit, wet hair and surfboard on the beach). I hope these help her receive even more notice from photographers and designers, and we see her whenever we pick up a magazine or catalogue or see a television or billboard ad! Posting all those was a real holiday treat. Hope you got some lunch! Tori's beauty apparent waaaay back in Outside Magazine, June 2005 in Cocoa Beach, FL:

Thanks, Sweetnlow! You are the truest Tori Angel on this site among many loyal admirers of her. It was such a miracle that that catalogue didn't go straight to recycling as usual. I don't even know why I get it as it is way out of my price range I found out upon further inspection, but they send them by zip code and association (eg if you get Neiman-Marcus you get Gorsuch) or some other marketing theory. Gawd! I only clicked on the price of a men's shirt for a comparison price after realizing how amazing the clothes were and noted like an expensive restaurant the prices weren't on the menu. $348 USD for the first men's standard, button-down collar shirt I clicked! A comparable Brooks Bros. men's shirt that is custom-made not essentially off the rack as the Gorsuch one I checked is three-fitty! Guess the economy isn't bad for everyone to take the fancy shirts off their backs! My knee is still the bane of my existence and every time it locks I've had a short stay in the hospital, hope that doesn't seem maudlin but matter of fact. As a result, I've had to keep up with only the essential stuff. I have, however, kept checking in to see what Tori bear has been up to and have seen ALL of your posts. Then, as a computer illiterate, I couldn't find my Bellazon password and couldn't retrieve it for weeks till yesterday, patiently waiting with all those pics of Tori. It was a pain to retrieve as easy as it appears on the retrieval screen. But Tori's fans must have enjoyed the respite from my babble. Anyway, thanks, especially, for taking on the posting task! I still haven't gotten through all of them on the site. Have a great weekend, too!

TORI MAKETH THE CLOTHES, whatever they are. Since I first saw photographs of Tori on this site and read and wrote comments, I have seen her described as all-American, THE swimsuit sistah, gorgeous, athletic, flawless skinned, and having striking eyes and to-die-for cheek bones. Among other adjectives. In addition, Tori has recently graced the runways wearing the clothes of such well-established, haute-couture designers as Halston, and as SweetnLow and others have pointed out she is certainly poised to move into more of such work and capitalize on her versatility. This afternoon while recycling of all activities, I randomly realized I forgot that "patrician" can be added to the above adjective list thanks her high cheek bones and blonde hair. Mixed in with my recycled catalogues was an unopened hoity toity Gorsuch catalogue (www.gorsuch.com) in which Tori shows this look and looks like she has always walked among the aristocracy of Europe or old money right here in the good ol' US of A. In Gorsuch, she appears in numerous photos in Gorsuch wearing a variety of clothes. But as usual, her long, lean body and her face that looks cute, glamourous, or downright royal depending on the photograph or even all in one photograph make those clothes look as the designer intended: aristocratic. Tori’s photographs in the Gorsuch catalogue once again show that Shakespeare got it wrong. “Clothes do not maketh the [woman] man.” but the woman “maketh” the clothes. Thanks to all of Tori’s fans who have posted, among other photographs, the amazing black and white portraits in the past few weeks and the cute color ones this week. I hope all of you and Tori have a great Channukah/Christmas/Kwanzaa season and more continued success in the New Year. PS If anybody can save the photos larger off of adobe flash player, I'd be much obliged. Or explain to me how to do it. . . I can do the posting work.

Boy! There has been so much wonderful activity on Tori's pages. As I have said ad nauseum, the latest photos show her athletic frame and beautiful muscles and flawless skin, gorgeous face--that can be so cute and striking, and her ability to wear so many types of clothing with equal ease. Thanks to Tori's fans who posted these great photos and all of her fans in general. As important, continued good luck to Tori herself, the muse for these pages. I'm sure, as Sweetnlow has said, we will have little trouble finding photos of her, and they will be amazing!

I simply tried not to offend anybody on either side of the issue. I also felt terrible about all the babble without one pic added though I have been looking. But it's posted pics that count around here!

Thanks for the new, recent postings. Boy, does she look good on the runway! Her shoulders are so strong. Anything will drape well on them. Her cheekbones look impossibly high, too. And her jawbone and chin give her face more great lines! Can you say chiseled facial features? And "Lips Like Sugah" (Echo and the Bunnymen) to boot! I keep trying not to repeat my objectifications of her, but all observations lead to her being beautiful with an amazingly athletic frame and sublime skin. GAWD! You are right, SNL, Tori can wear anything and walk on water. Thank you two for your super sleuthing, especially for finding the Tori pic in Doutzen's pics! Hey, I know it's not my business, but it's fine to say Tori is so beautiful if you are a girl/young woman/woman. As a heterosexual guy who played a "macho" Division I sport and then briefly as a professional, I have no problem saying a guy is handsome or even being on this site, a fashionista site at that, now that I think about it. Some guys in the locker room had a problem saying a guy was good looking, but if someone's looks came up, it usually was obvious anyway, and all agreed. Similarly, having coached that same sport for women in Division I, I heard women comment on women's beauty without much ado but as with many women's sports the topic of lesbianism came up, but maybe it is similar to women being able to hold hands, dance together, etc. while heterosexual men can't. Is that oversimplifying it? Humorously (well, sort of, depending on your sense of humor about this subject), a friend said people must have thought I was gay when I walked into a team dinner in a restaurant with 28 college-aged girls and female assistant coaches. When he said that, I realized some customers did. Oddly, beauty is so subjective yet paradoxically it can also be objective (eg Uma on the current InStyle's cover is beautiful for many men and women and therefore "objectively" so. Or Clooney back in the spring on the Esquire cover was handsome for many men and women and therefore "objectively" so.) In this day and age, comments on same sex beauty should be fine, though I know some sadly have a problem with it. If a heterosexual guy/woman can say a guy/woman is beautiful, respectively, then that guy/woman may just be relatively secure in him or herself. I am not being holier than thou simply because I have plenty of insecurities. Don't worry. I won't go into same-sex marriages, civil unions! This site should be apolitical! So sorry for the babble.

Thanks, SNL, for your insights on Tori's career. I hope she continues on her ascent ! Here's a pic I found randomly at vogue.es, a similar but smaller site to this. As hopefully people can see, she looks magnificent from head to toe. Those facial bones, those eyes, and lips. Whoa! Not to mention her flawless skin and long, lean, strong limbs. Unfortunately, not much info. But there should me more of her on this runway somewhere. I'll search the earth and heavens above for more pix of Tori--for her fans and so she sees them in this fan forum!

Thanks, Sweetnlow, for your efforts! Those pics show Tori's amazing facial bone structure and her amazing core as well. I've been meaning to ask. Do you know why Tori switched from Ford to IMG? I thought Ford for a long time was not pushing hard enough to get her out there. I think you agreed some time ago. I checked IMG finally and thought the pics they used for her card and her portfolio were not as representative of her qualities as they could be. Lawd knows both are amazing, established agencies with plenty of luminaries in both camps. Anyway, thanks again. I was just a wonderin' if Ms. Praver were getting the best out of her current agency after perhaps not get the most out of her prior one. I did do a couple of searches this weekend but found nothing new. I will, however, try, try again!

I realized, Hyperion, I probably should be writing this to your personal Bellazon acct for the sake of Tori's fans. Next time. Funny, the Sox were swept down there. I live 10 mins. walk from Fenway so I have to deal with pedestrian and vehicular traffic and never leave home without checking their schedule. The trains get jammed, too. Coincidentally, when I'm on the computer, I listen to WPOI in Tampa, an 80s station for the fun of it. But I can get faked out by weather/traffic reports. It might be 40F here, and the DJ announces 70F there. Boy, the Baroque period could be perfect to manipulate a painting using one of Tori's pics. Because the period is all about motion, I can only think of her incredibly athletic look and of course a few clips of her being athletic on her surfboard. If you take Bernini's "David" that epitomizes Baroque motion, maybe you can use your line drawings to create a tall, strong, female "David." Artistic license, and it makes up for the few women depicted at the time. Caravaggio is much tougher because his paintings are so dark and use biblical stories of chopped heads, etc. I recall his famous Medusa from Greek myth. You could make a fair-haired Medusa who won't turn a beholder to stone but could make him/her swoon! Talk about artistic license; the "Medusa" below is a self-portrait! Bernini's "David": Caravagio's "Conversion of Mary Magdalen": Caravagio's "Medusa": All right. Enough babble for poor Tori fans. More pics of actual Tori are probably in order. Good luck transforming Tori into pop art and "high" art with Christian and Greek themes. In all cases, we're talking "classic" beauty. If Tori fans and Tori, choose to, I hope everyone has fun with Fireworks on the Fourth. If not, hope you all find what you need at the moment. OH GAWD! I'M SOOO SORRY to continue the babble. On WED, I saw a huge Jackson Pollack in a doc's office. It looks easy to splatter away, but upon closer inspection (even on this poster), it looked harder actually to do. Puh-eace!

Whoever started Hillary's thread gave her the title of "The Next Big Thing" and thought big! She has always been gorgeous but look at all she has done since the thread started Given pages and pages of amazing runway photos, eds, etc, this amazing, versatile, healthy/athletic-looking, chameleon of a model may need a new title to reflect oodles of success in every aspect of modeling. I may have written this before, but it is great to see her fans posting great pics and discussing her in a positive light. There were periods during which her pages were filled with hateful, inappropriate gossip, rumour mongering and the like. I know at least one person who claimed to know her through school, etc. Great. But most of us don't and probably never will so such negative comments will never really be directly "proven." Ultimately, one would hope she uses her relative celebrity to do some good, but the cliche that how she photographs is this industry's bottom line. I would hope she is a "good egg," but whether she is I will never know. Her photographs show she does her job in exquisitely. Here's to Hilary "The Here and Now Girl" or "The Archetypal Model" and her fans who post all of these great photographs, each of which shows her in almost completely different lights, and all beautiful. Happy Independence Day Weekend!

Boy, Hyperion, I am thanking you every day! Those larger pics came out great. I love the first one in a dress and the last one in which she is jumping; the latter reminds me of Tori's athleticism. Sweetandlow is right: bigger is better. Among other things, Tori has such great skin. Maybe it's her healthful vegetarian diet. She seems, in pics, to have such a summer look for the ATL summer catalogue and a summery personality. Hmmm. She did grow up in two sunshiney places! Two art history courses? Hmm. Tori in Renaissance painter Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" could be good. In that one, Venus looks tall and blonde and has great abs as Tori does. Someone may say don't turn her into a Rubens figure, but you and she could probably find someone in any period to have her transcend the times. I'll leave the creativity department to you! Renaissance Italy's Abs of Steel: Venus shell reference in model pic:

Thanks for the Sunday night treats, Hyperion and Sweetandlow ! Sweetnlow, your pics reminded me of the larger-than-life posters of Tori I saw in ATL a few weeks ago. Thanks for the memory jog! Hyperion, again I have to comment on your creativity. Your line drawings of Tori are great. The time you put in paid off. They reminded me of pop artist Roy Lichetenstein whose WASPy, glamourous women appeared in frequently in his work. I don't know if he was an inspiration. Maybe Tori would have been a muse for him, too! Here's a link to a site that sells some of Lichetenstein's work: http://www.allposters.com/-st/Roy-Lichtens...ers_c26145_.htm I hope you two, Tori's fans, and Tori have a great start to the week!

Tori Towering over the big wigs! Go, Tori! They love you as much we do!

Hooaaah! Thanks, AlbaForEver! Fitty, 50, Five-Oh !

Boy, Hyperion! What a Midsummer Night's Dreamy bunch o' pics and day dreamy, too! If Sweetandlow loves your contribution, then it has to be good! The different outfits really show that Tori has always been able to wear a variety of styles and clothes. I'm sure I can speak for the rest of Tori's fans as we look forward to your next work of art, be it your model element chart or presentation of Tori pics. I do remember your creations prior to your departure, and I am as glad as Tori's fans and Sweetnlow to have you back ! Thanks again for sharing your creativity!

Wow, Hyperion, your creativity is always amazing! I absolutely love your elements chart, especially with Tori at #2 and the fun descriptions of all the models you chose. Any time soon, it seems we may be celebrating our Muse's five-oh, not necessarily as in Hawaii Five-Oh, but five-oh pages for Tori's growing presence here on Belazon that reflects her growing presence in the fashion industry. Congrats to Tori and the fan whose post brings her to fitty, 50! A Model Milestone indeed. . . Thanks soooo much! While the thanks are going out, I must say and may have said at some point, the comments on Tori's pages are quite positive. Just as each of you has, I've been through many of these model pages and more than a few have such venomous remarks about the model herself!?!? And, of course, comments that denigrate other models work their way in, too. It's always refreshing to come to Tori's pages to see her amazing self and read good stuff about her, her fans, and even other models. Thanks, Tori fans, especially, for making it fun to visit these pages!

Have a great start to the week, Tori fans, and hope you had a great Summer Solstice weekend!