King's Horses

Book: Photographers' Market Guide to Building Your Own Photography Business, by Vic Orenstein
Music: "Bring It On Back", Jet

Out the gate, I have to mention that my Cardinals won the World Series Friday night!!! Alot of people will say that they don't deserve it, but I think that that particular demographic consists of people who are either statistical purists (who have beef with a team with such an inconclusive reg. season record), or fans of another team they feel should be standing in their (St. Louis' place). Go Cardinals!!!!

I've been giving serious consideration to defining my photoographic style and technique. I think I'm going to try working more on my b&w portraiture, and trying to get more of a nostalgic, slightly desaturated look. Try to capture people's personalities more in an impersonal setting (i.e catch them unawares). I want to evoke a nostalgic atmosphere that is both raw & powerful, while remaining grounded & unassuming Think mid-'70's and early/mid-'90's. That's a mouthful, and it probably doesn't make any sense to anyone but myself. Hopefully I'll be able to show you what I mean soon.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend. Fall is here, and actually, winter is so close. I personally detest cold weather. I'm convinced that, contrary to popular belief, Hell is 32 degrees with constant flurries and 15mph wind gusts. I digress. I'm abotu to start my spare-time project of putting together a photo "journal" of the list of things I want to do before my litetime ends. Look for me to link it here soon.

I've got alot of thoughts in myhead, but I'm at a loss for articulation.

Nov 17 - G. Love & the Special Sauce
Nov 19 - OK Go
Nov 22 - Citizen Cope
Jan - RHCP & Blue Oyster Cult (not together)

I'll tak to you again soon.

Good night, & Good luck...

Things to Consider

Snitch for good cash? Or go home everyday broke (but still cool)? What do you think? Let me know.

Candidates showed up this last weekend. Actually picked up with the staff today. I just got back from that shoot. I'm taking some time to wrap up some loose ends and I had some things on my mind that I wanted to get out before I lost them (which is why I'm here!).

This lady in PA used her infant son as a clubbing device during a fight with her boyfriend that apparently turned physical. Needless to say, shes in jail (keep her there, please!) and the baby is in serious condition. This isn't new news. The new news is that now she's claiming it was an accident. She said that she'd been drinking a little (like ya do when stupid shit happens), and she got into an argument with her beau. She then, in an obviously unhinged fit of anger, started grabbing everything she could pick up and throwing shit at him. One of these "things" happened to be her infant son (some news outlets have stated that the child is about 8 months old). I think the ladys full of shit. Who the hell uses their baby as a weapon?! It's unacceptable, no matter what your excuse is, or how much you drank! I hope she gets a nice long stay in prison to rethink the perceptions she has of children, infants especially. Chytoria Graham, you are a fucking moron!!!

Check out the whole story... Here

My Pops said something to April while he was here. Apparently in observation of the way I tend to be, he told her that I seem to be a "perfectionist". It kind of made me laugh, and then quickly shutup as if it were an insult I didn't catch for a few seconds. I thought about this again the other day while I was putting away my laundry in the drawers. I ended up reorganizing a couple of drawers to make more room for things. After I was done, I called April over to show her;

me: "Here's what I did. That way you know where things are if you have to put away any laundry."
April: "Yeah, I'm never putting your laundry away again!"
me: "What? Why not?!"
April: "It's way too organized for me. I think now that your dad is right; you are a perfectionist."

and now I wonder why nobodys hit me with a MACK yet...

My friend Taylantis is a supergeek. Besides being all-knowing in the technical world of computers, he gets excited over wierd things. Things like the new water-cooling system he got in the mail for his computer, and the declaration that he was going to "put it together tonight and then bring it to work tomorrow to show it off!". 'Nuff said.

Things that make me seem geek;

• I like to jam like a rockstar at Woodstock when I listen to music at home. Seriously. If there were ever a video of it, I'd die a million deaths in embarrassment.
• I like words. Not just big words, or little words, or foreign words. All words. The way they sound, their origin; it's all intriguing to me.
• A million of other small, nameless things that I enjoy. We'll weed them all out later.

If there were a biography being written about you, what would be a potential title be?

How would you suggest fixing alot of the things that are wrong in our world as is? Would you change anything? To narrow it down more, just name one thing.

I'm out of things.

Good night, & Good luck...

Just give me what I want...

...and no one gets hurt.

New look... and a new feeling to go with it.

There's this couple that lives about four houses down from us. Young couple; maybe younger than April and me. They have a baby boy, a little older than John. Well, they don't have a car, and my impression is that they're struggling to get their family on track, at least financially. I feel for 'em. My heart really goes out to them. I saw them last night walking up the hill from the store to their house with a couple of bags and the stroller. It's a couple of miles up & down hill from our neighborhood to the store. throw in the earlier sunsets, and it's a long night going home. So I have them a ride home. Left our stroller by the road so I could fit theirs, let their little boy use John's carseat, and drove them to their home. Then I went back and picked up our stroller. And you know, I'll keep doing that whenever I see that they need a ride, because I know ther were a lot of people doin' that for me in my hours of need!

It made me feel a smile inside myself. I don't know if I'd really been myself in that way lately but it doesn't really matter now. Doing things like that for people who need help gives me the hope that maybe they will "pass it on" when the situation is reversed for them. If more people thought like that, I don't think we'd be in as much trouble as we're in.

With no real good place for transition, we'll just move on...

Kudos for my Cards!!! Third straight LCS. I know, they're not the powerhouse they've been the last couple of years, and a lot of people think they don't really deserve to be in the postseason. Nobody seems to be saying that about the Tigers, who actually did blow their division lead. I digress... the fact is, they're there, and they played good baseball to get to face New York. You have to give these guys credit for working with what they have; Izzys gone for the season, Mulder (the number 2 starter on the staff) has been out since August. Edmonds and Eckstein have barely seen the field, let alone been able to contribute to their potential. Plenty of guys have stepped up and done the job that needed done. I want to see this "new look Cardinals" team play Oakland/Detroit in a week and a half time.

N. Korea tested a nuclear bomb earlier this week... I won't even touch this circus tent. It's too much. Frustrated is the word that comes to mind. And a lot of it.

Only 28 more shopping days 'til Election Day. There isn't one person on the ballot I checked out that inspires me. Campaigns have become recycled food fights. The only thing that changes are the names. It saddens me. Robin Williams is right; the whole thing is just a really sad joke...


There shouldn't be an "upper hand" or "power struggle" for government to really work. Talking shit and trying to outwit your opponents with insults and vicious barbs just shows that you don't have the integrity or respect of the people's interests to do the job right. I've had it with all of that bullshit.

Anyways...

in my tiny block of the world, John is getting better at the act of crawling. He's also taking steps when we hold his hands and walk with him. He started eating meat the other night.... I can't believe how big hes gotten. I'm such a proud Papa!!! I wish I could take him with me everywhere.

I'm still in the planning stages for my studio. Working on a forecast budget and expenses for the equipment. If anyone has any input, or guidance, I'm all for it!

I talked and rambled uncontrolled for way too long. I probably used too many parenthesis commas and way too many words. I'll try to start doing better.

Good night, and good luck...