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| Wednesday, September 8th, 2004 | |
| 1:45 am | NO DRUGS FOR YOU, ONE YEAR!!! Stupid lj, get off the crack and send me my comment notifications!!! |
| Tuesday, September 7th, 2004 | |
| 6:51 pm | American Pi "One time at band camp I was calculating the names of God while shoving a..." Someone should so make that as a parody. |
| Monday, September 6th, 2004 | |
| 1:43 pm | I'm so gawth, part the second... click pic for larger version photo by ![[info]](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20040909102117im_/http:/=2fstat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} darkdecaymanipulated by blackdhalia |
| Sunday, September 5th, 2004 | |
| 6:43 pm | What the Hell is up with most of the ads for available rooms on Craigslist looking for people to move in immediately? Don't these people plan ahead? Roommates usually give notice before they leave, so then is the time to start looking for a replacment. Waiting until after they've done so to try and find a replacement is just stupid. It's past Sept 1st, and people generally move on the 1st, so I figured now would be a good time to look for a place for Oct 1st, yet most of the ads want you to move in before that. I hope that doesn't mean I'm going to have to wait until the end of the month to find a place, because that will be really nerve wracking. Speaking of which, anyone know of a room available in the city on Oct 1st for $600 or less in a place that allows cats? If so, please let me know. |
| 4:49 pm |  Avalon, live-action players in virtual-reality war game from the dircetor of Ghost in the Shell. Pretty good, definitely worth seeing. Also, anyone used lj's new picture hosting service? How is it? |
| Saturday, September 4th, 2004 | |
| 6:14 pm | |
| 4:39 pm | So what do you think were the effects of the disruptive protests at the Republican Convention. And by disruptive I mean like the people sneaking in and stripping down to pink lingerie, or the protests that didn't have permits and led to clashes with the police, as opposed to the big one the first day. Maybe I'm getting cynical in my old age, buut I think there were 3 mains ones: 1. Entertaining those of uus that are fanatically anti-Bush. 2. Providing a sense of satisfaction for those involved based on the sense perhaps illusionary accomplishment at hurting Bush. 3. Convincing some undecided middle of the road types to vote for Bush, since they now equate Kerry with disruptive rowdy freaks, just as happened after the 68 protests in Chicago. The protesters were right that the whole world was watching, but polls also showed that most of the world sided with the cops and thought the protesters desreved a bash in the head for their actions. See I myself might fall into the "rowdy freak" demographic, but I also realize that there aren't enough of us to get Matt Gonzales elected mayor of San Francisco, let alone someone as president of the United States. Doing so takes the support of the normals, so we have to avoid scaring them off, and too often I don't think we take that into account. Sure plenty of us thought the woman stripping down to pink lingere was hilarious, but I bet a lot more people, including those desperately needed "swing voters", had their sense of decorum offended. What it comes down it, I've never understood how pissing people of is an effective way to get them to support your cause. The perfect example of that is the Critical Mass bicyclists here in San Francisco. I don't know if they still do it, but on Fridays at 5pm they used to ride in mass through the Downtown/Financial District, causing huge traffic jams. Now I'm very anti-car, especially within SF, but by as jamming up busses I was on, or just preventing me from walking across the street while there blocks long group rode by, pissed me off to no end, and I wasn't alone in that feeling. Plenty of non-car people I know also hate them, and thought they gave bicyclists a bad name, and that they mostly hurt their cause by their actions. So honestly, I think most protests are at best pointless. "what, people in SF are opposed to the war, there's a shocker", and at worst completely counter productive. And even worse, by giving the people involved a false sense of accomplishment, it prevents them from more effective, but also much more boring activities that actually work, like get out the vote campaigns. And lastly, I think you could actually argue that in many cases it's completely narcissistic, as it seems to be more about "look at me and what I'm doing, aren't I special?" than about actually making a positive difference. p.s. I don't think all protest tactics are counter-productive. The one argument I do accept is showing the world that many of us don't support Bush. But that was amply demonstrated the first day with the relatively problem free mass march. I think a large group of people coming together and behaving well is much more effective and convincing that a group of people in black wearing masks breaking the windows at Starbucks and setting trash cans on fire. |
| 1:46 pm | Okay, this one is interesting... ( Okay, this one is interesting... ) So apparently my friends list is primarily made up of tattooed goth photographers and models who have cats. That's not a big surprise, but how did they determine that my friends are 63.19% normal? |
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| Friday, September 3rd, 2004 | |
| 8:19 pm | I did a shoot today at Grace Cathedral with velvetgarden and darkdecay. As usual I shot both 35mm B&W; and color digital pics, but this time I'm going to treat the digital pics differently. The reason is that usually I end up posting the digitals right away, but then I get the B&W;'s back and like them better, and I always feel that by having posted the digitals already that when people see the B&W; ones there's an element of "I've already seen these". So instead I'm going to give blackdhalia a few to do manips of, which I'll probably post, but other than that I won't post any until I put up the B&W; ones, and possibly not even then. Although I am going to give copies to Alison and Jen, so they will probably post some of them in their journals.Regarding the shoot itself, I again don't think I was completely successful in what I was trying to do. But I'm starting to realize, or at least hope, that that's not completely a bad thing. While I would like to of course be more successful in what I'm attempting, it's not artistically healthy to be completely satisfied with your work, and if you are your standards are probably too low. Really, the only pictures of mine where I think I was even close to getting what I had planned is this one of Lori and this one of Amber and Kaia. What's funny is I'm not sure these are my best photos, although I think they're close. Photography, even more so than other art forms I believe, is often about happy accidents, and the best photos can be just as much the result of catching an unplanned moment. I love this picture of Rachel, but it was in no way pre-conceptualized. I was shooting her backstage at one of the Fantasy shows, and just told her to start crawling up the steps. And many of my other best photos were the result of just taking the model to a location and seeing what we could get. But honestly I don't want to keep working that way. For one thing it can be a bit nerve-wracking, to the point of practically causing me panic attacks, although I think I've managed to hide that from the models most of the time. But really I do want to do more planned conceptual type pieces. Even though it wasn't technically a complete success, I do love this pic of Chastity, and it is closer to what I want to be doing, as hopefully will be some of the pics from today. |
| 7:39 pm | Just one little tid-bit... In a chart prepared by the White House Council of Economic Advisers in February 2003, the administration predicted that nonfarm payroll employment would climb by more than five million people by the end of 2004 - an average monthly gain of about 300,000 jobs - and that the tax cuts would specifically be responsible for more than one million of those new jobs. The administration's forecast has fallen well short: since last August, when employment finally began to rise, the nation has added 1.7 million jobs, or an average of fewer than 150,000 a month, barely enough to keep up with the number of new people entering the workforce every month. |
| Thursday, September 2nd, 2004 | |
| 6:30 pm | I'm sensing a trend... Over half the respondents to this post seem to think my thoughts about them center on their bewbies. Am I really that shallow? Wait, don't answer that. |
| Tuesday, August 31st, 2004 | |
| 4:53 pm | Hero good. Jet Li cool. Ziyi Zhang hottie. |
| 11:17 am | So here was my quandry... As I've said before, as a staff memeber I get to take one class for free at the Academy each semester. The problem is there are 2 classes I really want to take, Advanced Final Cut Pro and Photoshop For Photographers. The FCP class is a bit more important, obviously, but the thing is some of the MPT profs will let us techs sit in on their classes without signing up for them, but it's not a guaranteed thing. So I had 2 choices, just take the AFCP class, or sign up for the PfP class and hope one of the AFCP profs will let me sit in on their class too. Since there's a couple of different sections of the AFCP class that fit my schedule, I took my chances and went for the later choice. |
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| Monday, August 30th, 2004 | |
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| Sunday, August 29th, 2004 | |
| 9:49 pm | Poor Four... My roommate has only been gone to Burning Man for 1 day now, and his cat Four is already flipping out. He's not gonna be back for 10 more days, poor little kitty. |
| Saturday, August 28th, 2004 | |
| 11:10 pm | Okay, all I want is a nice single Canadian girl in her mid 20's to mid 30's who likes cats, knows graphic design/web design, wants to model for my photography and act in my films/videos, dresses rivet/cyber/goth, likes a wide variety of music but especially Industrial/EBM & Metal, is politically aware and pro-choice/pro-gay marriage & socially liberal in general, likes both obscure foreign/arty films and good Hollywood ones, likes art in general, is a good cook, is financially responsible, lives in SF or wants to move here for 5 years before moving to Vancouver, and maybe wants kids, but not anytime soon. Is that really too much to ask? Okay, I don't really expect to find anyone who fits that entire list, but it would be nice to find someone who fits a fair amount of it. Hell, someone who fits half the list would be fine, the only deal-breaker is if they aren't single, as I'm not looking for a poly relationship. I'm fine with non-exclusive dating in the short term, but in the long term I'm looking for one of those monogamous "in death till we part" kind of relationships. |
| 6:11 pm | I am never fucking attempting to do my own nails again. I'll either pay someone to do it, or I'll just not wear nail polish. That's why I was never a proper Goth, because I suck so bad at doing any kind of my own make-up type stuff. The only times I looked good as a Goth is when I had a Goth girlfriend to dress me, generally in her clothes, and do my hair and makeup for me. |
