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5-20-08

5-20-08

Day 648 of 365 More.

"Now keep in mind that I’m an artist,
And I’m sensitive about my shit…"
-Badu

Let me let you in on a little secret. I’m not really a photographer. I never even wanted to be. I never took a single class for it.

What I wanted to be was an artist. It’s what I dreamed about when I was seven years old. It’s what I went to college for. I wanted to make comics. A childhood fantasy, sure, but its what I dreamed of.

That dream got ripped right out of my brain during school. I gave up. I became a writer, and later when I started seeing that being a writer was no more realistic than being an artist, I became a web designer.

Then I found photography. All the same rules of being an artist applied, just with different tools. And since I was doing it on my own again, there was no asshole faculty members telling me I was doing it wrong. I grew to even think I was kinda good at it. Sometimes I was even happy.

I got even happier when we started doing Hellcats. Lookie there! I was making a comic. The seven year old boy in my brain was shitting himself.

Max and I had this idea of doing a special edition of the book after we finish the second issue (which we still haven’t really started since we’ve been so busy with the comic strip). It would be four shorter solo stories, one for each of the girls. Each by a different artist. Max wants to write one of them as well as draw and it got me thinking that maybe I’d like to draw one as well as write.

God, I’m out of practice with freehand drawing. It’s been years since I’ve really given it a serious try. I totally suck now.

Now I have to decide if I want to retrain myself in the next few months (I don’t know when the hell I’d find the time) or just give up.

*sigh* There are just not enough hours in the day.

365 days

5-13-08

5-13-08

Day 641 of 365 More.

I think I’m going to have to kill Jack Scoresby.

Anyone who’s viewed my stream for a while probably realizes that Jack and I have an ongoing friendly rivalry. I’ve always respected him as a photographer. Sometimes we’ve collaborated on a friendly photo. Sometimes less friendly.

Jack is currently off being all he can be. Or whatever teh equivalent of that is in the Navy, anyway. But from time to time I get a chance to speak with him on the phone or over instant messenger. Today, we spoke for a bit and he informed me of his intention to steal my two favorite models, Amaya and Sarah.

Now this means war.

You know what the best part of having a battle of the bands photography style with Jack is? Since he’s away in the service, he doesn’t have access to his studio and pretty much just loses automatically.

Point, Maverick!

I should have killed him when I had the chance.

365 days

4-27-08

Day 625 of 365 More. The last day of Pittsburgh Comicon 2008. Didn’t do quite as well as we did on Saturday, but we still did pretty good. Sold some books, talked to some fans, even did an interview for a web tv show (my second for this project). It actually made me believe for…

3-30-08

Day 597 of 365 More. "Once upon a time there were four beautiful little girls. All three enrolled in the Academy for Science Soldiers and graduated to join the Transuniversal Interstellar Tranquilty Squadron and were given very hazardous duties as part of the elite Science Ninja Action Team: Cosmic Hellcats unit. But I took them…

Private Dance 17

Private Dance 17

And here’s the end of the Amaya/Sarah lapdance photos. I’m quite pleased with how the whole thing turned out, and I thank both girls for shooting it with me. Their chemistry was great and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. They really are my favorites and I can’t wait to work with them again.

Private Dance 16

Private Dance 16

And here’s the end of the Amaya/Sarah lapdance photos. I’m quite pleased with how the whole thing turned out, and I thank both girls for shooting it with me. Their chemistry was great and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. They really are my favorites and I can’t wait to work with them again.

Private Dance 15

Private Dance 15

And here’s the end of the Amaya/Sarah lapdance photos. I’m quite pleased with how the whole thing turned out, and I thank both girls for shooting it with me. Their chemistry was great and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. They really are my favorites and I can’t wait to work with them again.

I especially love this shot as it works very well with the companion shot from when Sarah was still "in drag."

Private Dance 14

Private Dance 14

And here’s the end of the Amaya/Sarah lapdance photos. I’m quite pleased with how the whole thing turned out, and I thank both girls for shooting it with me. Their chemistry was great and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. They really are my favorites and I can’t wait to work with them again.