: So ... when I saw all the comments about only being open to US residents on the give away
i told the sponsors my concerns ... and ... i've received clarification that THE GIVE AWAY
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90028's pretty nice!
So is 90027!
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I move. Havent done that in quite a fucking while. Didnt want to say anything about my other little milestone. Its kinda like being an expectant mother and speaking too soon.
Havent done that since I started sleeping with my mother.
At least I didnt link to meat spin, right?
Not even one instance of cheating.
On the cigarettes.
Not the mother-thing.
Add to that Ive been working the entire time Ive been moving.
And picking out curtains.
Thats a fucking bitch
let me tell you.
Who the fuck knew.
my beloved WireImage has now been purchased by the eighty million pound gorilla.
had a monumental birthday as well.
Oh il mio vitellino
she actually surprised me on my birthday night. Thats a rough task for anyone to undertake with me. I dont miss much.
I was still 30% suspicious
she still got me.
Moving was cathartic. I was amazed what Id amassed. I threw away. I gave away. I sold. I destructed with a sledge hammer. twas fun. I suggest it.
Furniture only, though.
I discovered how valuable my time was to me. The chances when I can actually just chill with my someone on a couch or driving somewhere
I love those. I love the time I get with my daughter. I like having more of it.
I thought about my online activity. A blog. Fucking myspace notes. Emails. Personal and business. FTPing. Writing whilst FTPing.
I always hated myspace. The site sucks. Its ugly. Its slow. Its built for aol-idiots with dial-up dialing-up from some fucking holler hoping to hook-up with an underaged girl. Okay, I dunno about that
it sucks. And those fucking people with custom fucking backgrounds and a music player and multiple videos and five fucking slideshows.
Even my fast machine on a lightening quick connection
ground to a fucking halt.
Cannot wait to dump the myspace page completely.
Then theres the fucking fucking blog
. Have any idea how many times Im asked to help Mr. Simpson from Nigeria to get funds out of the country per day? How many people think my dick is limp and need to sell me Cialis? Who thinks I care about a penny stock which is sure to go big tomorrow? or
the ever-famous Anatrim ads?
Just because I quit smoking doesnt mean Im sitting round eating fucking donuts! Goddamit.
Then theres the backing up and re-installing new versions of blogging software.
Seriously, fuck this shit.
Because I always wanted a place like myspace to blog but found most of it repulsive
I didnt do it there. I went my own domain-route.
Sorry B if youve googled your dad and found out I talk like the ruffians at your school.
And there was this thing
there was my blog
there was my journal here on dA.
It seemed repetitive.
Almost not right.
But it was what it was when it was.
On the crispy lizard I could say and link to anything I wanted I mean I didnt espouse Nazi beliefs or anything and here on dA
lets just say I could say what I wanted
to a point.
I could link to what I wanted
to a point.
Honestly, I never wanted to be a role model.
a divorced ex-heroin-addict.
I never did heroin.
role model for fucking-15-year-olds?
Dont care to be.
I just want to shoot and think and observe and write and share.
And maybe link dickheads
to their appropriate definitions for the moment.
But no spinning meat.
As funny as that was.
To me, of course.
not so fucking much.
I dont deny the existence of the holocaust
linking a funny fucking link
I think that honestly put a bad taste in my mouth.
Not literally, of course.
Thatd be gross but if thats what youre into
go for it.
I even wear a selt-belt now.
No smoking and a seat-fucking-belt.
Perhaps my someone saw a bigger picture.
And perhaps she made me aware of certain things.
I thought about things a bit differently.
I dont live in a cave or a lair any longer as my friends wives called my place.
We have a grown-ups house.
Except for my b.
Shes not grown up
shes doing so well
And shes got such a good heart.
Grazie a dio!
in the spirit of my consolidation of clicks and time in general
youll find my blog posts and journal entries yeah, the dA-ones at their new home
I like the vibe. I like the creatives behind it. Theyre far from being Toms. I mean
Im doing this shoot for a foreign edition of Vogue yesterday
A behind-the-scenes of a very wealthy Italian socialite and fashion designer viewing contemporary art at galleries and museums in Los Angeles
And one of the sculptors
is someone I know from Uber
J tells me that petmeds.com just sent her a dog bone for her dog and catnip for the snake with fur.
It was an odd moment seeing someone I knew online
to meeting them in real life.
They are two separate things.
Thats not to say that I havent met amazing people in real life who I first met on this site.
I talk to `red5
... maybe not often
Im so happy to have met them
and so many damn others.
People in the 1800s didnt have this kind of ability to network.
I think were better for it.
So many people of so many different cultures and mindsets
and theyre all there
A click away.
isnt that what people really want
in the end?
Contact with other humans?
How many happy shut-ins do you know?
they have an internet girlfriend theyve known via chat for 2 months.
Enjoy that subscription to some sex site.
Im not leaving dA.
I probably wont have the time to be what a lot of people expect
Im giving away
my new M7
living in the bucolic suburbs of Los Angeles is much different than being in the dirty-shoed Eastside
One doesnt hear gunshots and helicopters.
I actually dont mind helping pick out curtains.
And all sorts of other shit.
Why am I helping give away a camera Im pushing some film through onuber
and not here? Well
I did that once and got a lot of whiney little notes from whiney-ass sore losers.
And this time its a give away or sweepstakes
, if you will. No talent. No subjectiveness as to talent or content
give away or sweepstakes
or whatever attorneys call them to make them legal.
That isnt to say that I wont do another
To showcase talent.
Which I plan on doing.
Talent that I find on uber. Talent I find here.
Talent I find anywhere I find it or am told to look.
I think my lab hates me. They havent seen me in about a month.
That and the fact Im evaluating a new M8 again
This time I have the IR filters to compensate for some shit
But, honestly, I used both yesterday, hence the reason I went to the lab to drop-off, and
I love both for what they are.
youll see a complete review of the M8.
Ive used her in so many different situations.
Even with flash.
Leica with flash.
Im not a hater.
Unless, of course, youre 626 or 909.
Looks like the helicopters got calls about the three gunshots I just heard.
My music is loud and reverberating.
And I still heard the fuckers.
Lots and lots and lots of work in the next couple weeks.
I get to come up for air after 5 July.
Then I want to go somewhere.
Again, Im not abandoning dA
you just wont see me as much as usual.
Which, of late, admittedly, hasnt been all that much but
for different reasons.
If youre tired of myspace and the self-fucking-portraits
its myspace but executed better
with a much much heavier creative slant
Both on the user-side and the people who run it.
I like that.
thank you all for the faves, the devwatches, the print sales
I may not have responded as much
I did, in fact, read them.
Hope someone from dA wins the M7
thatd be cool.
is also helping with my consolidation of clicks
No more application jumping! In fact, I think Im ready to be Aperture-only very soon!
I think Ive clicked too much in one sitting
Im sure J would love it
if I came out of the studio and sat on the couch with her and ate
peppermint stick ice cream
I know Ill love it.
Hope this finds you all very very well.
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