I’ve been reading Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris and it is doing a wonderful job of making me feel totally inadequate. He talks about his oddball family and some of the oddball things that they do. I can kind of let his voice whine through my mind, as I have listened to him on NPR enough to have him in the sound effects library in my head. But really, like any book that strikes a cord with me, I think in my own voice. . I am not gay, but I did have a mother…
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When in doubt read USA Today
It comes free with the room, which is why I read it at all. I remember when this little bright and cheery newspaper first started, it was a bit deal to have all that color in a newspaper. The fact that it covered the most germane and boring news it could find seemed to be a bit of a side issue. Hey, it’s got big color charts in there!The front page today covers a nice gamut from pills work as well as angioplasty-yes, I had to check the spelling-to the goal of most Gen-Xers is to get rich. Hmm, isn’t…
Thoughts on an old blog
My old blog had a handful of readers and the usual mob that passed by for an occasional glance before moving on to the NEXT BLOG. But it was the comments and the sharing of ideas from the regulars that was kind of fun and lead to obsession. I talked about life, the universe and everything, as most bloggers tend to. We tended to bounce ideas off each other and inspire posts in each others blogs. It was a bit of fun, but now that its gone I don’t dwell much on it. My blog is gone, while those I…
Dealing with the Public
I’ve been in the discount and not-so-discount photography business for about ten years now. In all that time there have been a lot of changes, film to digital, instant proofing verse three to six weeks, being able to see the images at once and correct minor flaws-like closed eyes or tongues sticking out.But there has been one constance through it all, the idiocy of the general public that shows up to have their portraits taken. You can put a sign three feet by four feet that says Portraits Enter Here and then later wander around and find people in a…
Time Waits for No Blog
Work, as has been noted elsewhere, takes up a lot of time. I have been running around the state, looking at lakes and trees and fresh blow bluebonnets. But I have had little time to spare for my poor little blog or my writing in general.My photography however, has been pretty good. I have been working on my lighting and posing and backgrounds, the stuff that I have the most direct control over. The expressions, well, that is another story. I can catch a few goods one now and then, but most people just have this set idea about how…
Cherry 2000-I’ve seen the story before. . .
I watched this turkey on Showtime the other day and it must have been the full twenty years since I first saw it. This was a prototypical 80s movie. It could have been filmed with the cast of Miami Vice, or had a musical number from Flashdance. The lighting and the makeup and the dayglo red hair. By the way, I watched this movie and would have sworn that it was Molly Ringwald in the female lead and not Melanie Griffith. I guess bad actresses from the 80s all look alike to me.Ok, normally I will go back and watch…
On being a Photographer
What do you think of when I tell you I am professional photographer? Do images of scantily clan young women pop into your mind? Or maybe someone hanging out of a helicopter as a herd of wilder beast thunder below. Or maybe one of those tortured artistic types with gigantic prints hanging on the wall behind them as they talk about the hard years it took them to get to the top? Or maybe you know someone who makes a living taking photos, that is, someone that just gets by taking photos for a living. I’m one of those.I started…
What is it about the Shower?
Being the creative type that I am, I write, make photos, make digital art, draw when the mood strikes me, have all these ideas about all kinds of cool stuff. But of late I have been struck my inspiration while in the shower. I know that there have been silly inventions like waterproof pens and pads for jotting down those great shower ideas, but that seems a bit much. These are mainly little blog ideas, little rants about one thing or another that I think would be kind of cool to prattle on about for a few paragraphs. But then,…
Anna Nicole Thoughts
When Elvis died it was a big deal. Ripping of hair and gnashing of teeth and a general moaning of lose among a lot of tubby old women that were shown over and over again in the streets outside of Graceland. There was a two hour tribute show after the news went off. Tabloids devoted entire issues to The King of Rock and Roll.Much the same thing happened with John Lennon was killed. To me the most amazing part of the story was the common knowledge that John Lennon walked back to his apartment every night around midnight and you…
Time, time, time-clutter, clutter, clutter
There are days when I want to do a lot. I look around and want to get rid of the trash that seems to grow exponential around here. But that leads to sorting a bit of the clutter that is mingled in with the trash. Which leads to thoughts about the stuff left over from my vast eBay Empire, that is vast now only in the amount of crap I have that didn’t get any bids. Which, eventually, leads to the floor which might need a bit of vacuuming or maybe just a big pile of stuff that I am…