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7-23-09

Day 1077 of 365 Again. I’ve been meaning to process my hair for like two weeks now. Finally got around to doing it tonight. Honestly, this is probably of no consequence to anyone but me at all, but I thought it made kind of a cool picture. Mostly just because it gives me a chance…

7-14-09

Day 1068 of 365 Again. Been trying to get a lot done. Reevaluating life choices and all that. Doing as much artwork as possible, and dreading the days where I have to work my real job. Not because of the job, but because it takes me away from the art. I know I’ve talked about…

7-2-09

Day 1056 of 365 Again. Oh thank god. I’m now on vacation. Here’s to a nice refreshing four day weekend. I did pretty much nothing but work today so I don’t really have an interesting story to tell. Went out for drinks after work, came home, did laundry and took a nap. Nothing terribly exciting.…

6-28-09

Day 1052 of 365 Again. I like this picture. Actually I’m having a pretty good picture editing day. Got my first photoset of Miaa sent in to Zivity and accepted (I’ll post teasers here once it goes live) and this was just a snapshot I took of myself, by laptop light while I was working…

6-24-09

Day 1048 of 365 Again. I’m almost starting to get caught up on stuff. I’m a couple shoots behind, but I got the done early and my crazy all day meetings at work are finally done, so maybe I’ll not be as worn out soon. I was looking through my stream and noticed that I…

6-8-09

Day 1032 of 365 Again. Is it poker day? No, that can’t be right. It’s Monday. Actually this was an elaborate set-up for a shoot with Sarah one of my most favoritest models in the whole wide world. Sarah is moving to Philadelphia this week, so we spent the entire evening together trying to do…

6-2-09

Day 1026 of 365 Again. Really wanted to take a cool shot today since I "phoned it in" yesterday, but really, I just didn’t have anything in mind, so it was back to defaulting to mean looking shots in the studio. I kind of like this one. Note how I am titled in panel to…

5-28-09

Day 1021 of 365 Again. Guess what I got today? My replacement 50mm lens This time I figured I ought to try it out right away. And what do you know? Works like a charm! Yeah, fascinating, I know. Also, I really need to shave more often. I look like hell. 365 days

5-26-09

Day 1019 of 365 Again. I live in Pittsburgh. If you live in Pittsburgh then you probably know that there was sort of important hockey game on tonight. They even won. You’re probably pretty happy. But even though I’ve lived here nearly half my life, I was actually born in Cleveland. I’m a Cavs fan,…

5-22-09

Day 1015 of 365 Again. Something I used to use my daily shots for a lot was testing lighting techniques. This one is something I want to use for a tarot card eventually, but haven’t found the right model for yet, and really haven’t perfected the style the way I want. I should definitely work…

5-14-09

Day 1007 of 365 Again. There’s this guy who promotes his anti-identity theft company by posting his social security number on the web and announcing it in his commercials. It’s proof that he’s secure that his identity can’t be stolen. I have no such belief. In my case, it’s more that I’m just not sure…

Two of Coins

Two of Coins

The problem with taking years to complete a project like my Tarot Deck is that as time goes on I realize how unhappy I am with some of the earlier shots. This means I have to redo them, which means that the project takes even longer to complete.

The old Two of Coins has been on my list to reshoot for a long time, but it wasn’t actually my intention to use Lizz for the reshoot. In fact I had her pegged for the four of staffs, which wasn’t done yet at all. But after we shot that, she ended up liking one of the dresses in my model closet a lot (I have a wardrobe full of outfits for shoots) and once she tried it on, I decided she a great look for this card. Once I had edited it, I really felt like this was totally the way to go. I’m glad I did. Of course now I have to shoot the four of staffs yet again, but I’m pretty sure its worth it.

4-16-09

Day 979 of 365 Again. Do you know what I’m thinking? I bet you’re wrong. You know why? Because I’m not even sure myself. Today is day 979. There are exactly three weeks until I hit picture #1000! I’ve been phoning in a lot of pictures lately, but I kind of feel like 1000 days…

4-12-09

Day 975 of 365 Again. I wish I had started trying to get back in shape sooner. I got email last night asking me to come for a call back for the most recent movie extra part I went in for. They’re casting "fighters" for a scene involving a mixed martial arts tournament. If I…

4-9-09

Day 972 of 365 Again. Spent the evening trying to catch up on photos. Usually I only ever post like four or five photos at a time, and try to stretch things out, but I’m so far behind at the moment that I really need to just get through things. So as a special treat…