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Office

Well, for some of you this is the first view of the office… I’m not giving too much away,

yes there is a couch, yes there is a bowl, yes there is a robot. If you want to see more, you will just have to come up and see me! ( I was tempted to add the next line ‘make me smile’ but I would have hated myself for doing so)

Spiders A’Hoy

It’s the season for spiders… there is one behind me above the curtains, another smaller possibly dead on in the curtains, another just above my door and yet another is here somewhere… that’s the one I’m worried about. That’s the one that paid me a little visit today, I had contact with that one. While reaching to get a comedian file, which are in a heap of envelopes all stacked next to each other, I felt something soft and furry… at that moment I kinda dropped the envelope and the spider fell onto my desk. It decided to stay there for a while and when I tried to move it, I lost it, it was still somewhere on the desk but not in view… under some paper, in an envelope or somewhere else… after I picked up the courage again to do some work, I discovered where it was.. under the keyboard. I attempted to catch it, but it decided to scamper away behind the printer… I think it’s back on the wall now.. but not 100% sure.

I don’t like spiders.. especially the ones that want to be my friends.

In other news, I’m about to start the last chapter of the Diane Arbus biography I’ve been reading, not too sure if I want to read the last chapter… I know what is going to happen, and I don’t want it to.

Politicians, Weddings and Comedians

Did my first paid photos of a politician yesterday, had quite a bit of fun with it, learnt a tiny amount about politics and came up with the shoot needed. So that was all nice and fun… can’t really shoot politicians the same way as comedians… a certain image to uphold.

Been working flat out on wedding things the last couple of days, finalising albums, designing new albums having meeting to wedding about to come up and fielding a few enquiries… and this it’s still a quiet time according to what I’ve got coming up.

When you have a comedians publicist saying over and over “Oh My Fucking God” to you over the phone, you either have done bad, or done good. Seems like I have taken the best shots of Danny Bhoy ever taken (according to publicist). So that means they will probably be used all over the place again, I’m hoping for a tram, taxi, bus and billboard… not too much to ask… but it will probably be taxi or the bus. Might have to shoot someone else to get the bus. But you will all have to wait, the images are being kept under wraps till the main Edinburgh push starts in July (yeah… I want you to see them now too dam it!)

I’ve also been keeping up with the portrait of the week, which for me is quite something. I always have them shot, just rarely have them up online. Wonder who will be up there this week…

Hmm… .Falls-ing

a total of 43 portraits of different people from the falls, not too many famous faces either… i like that there is a guy who is a volunteer, another who is filling up pot holes, photographers from various papers, website people, a guy i went to highschool with, another guy who was in the uni review, a tour manager and maybe one rockstar.

Now to get to work on them.

the new year… begins now.

It may be just over a week into 2006 but I’ve been ignoring that. Kind of like my last week of doing the old kind of things.. you know, running off to Melbourne to take photos of comedians, spending almost every cent on new clothes and generally having a good time. In fact, I had a really good, cruisy time to start the new year. I even had a lot of fun and added at least 30 new images to my folio of shots I like… here is a highlights package.

Jan 1, wake up on the ground, it’s raining and I’m sleeping under a fly on a ground sheet and am quite dry. Had Sarah there with me who had kept my company through the whole Falls Fest (where I managed to get some great shots in my lack lustre “over it” mood).
Catchign up with Janet and Gavin and doign coffee, breakfast, dodgem cars and king kong.

Jan 2, hanging out with Sarah and John, attempting to CD shop with no luck, flying to Melb and catching the lovely Aidzee and Benne.

Jan 3, breakfast with Frog, Coffee with X, shopping, bumping into Danny Wallace and the lovely Greta aka Lizzie, buying a shirt in a shop where they offered to have the sleaves shortened to fit, large amounts of wine, hot green peas and burgers with Danny , Gretta and Ian a popular UK radio presenter. Got invited to a wedding. Some jacket shopping, more wine and then catching up with Tori and off to do a shoot with her and her sister in an amazing apartment building on the Yarra, made in a spanish style out of old manions from Toorak, dinner with Tori at the Jam Factory.

Jan 4
Lazy morning, reading book on Brunswick St, hit the outlets for some clothes, the Kubrick Exhibition at ACMI, Danny Wallace shoot, catch up with Jo, dinner with Kristy and Mark, they book me for their wedding. Early night.

Jan 5, Sarah’s Birthday (yay), Danny Bhoy Shoot, Lunch with Annthea, Pick up cool shirt with the newly shortened sleaves, Danny and gretta’s wedding, drinking lots, getting complimented on my photography, taking some playful shots with charlie and danny, russian bar with tom jones playing in the toilet.

Jan 6, Hungry Jacks for breakfast at 12.30 while running to catch a plane. Sarah’s birthday party, lots more to drink, taking some photos of sarah’s family. catchign up with old friends.

Jan 7, do a bit of cleaning up after party, late breakfast with Ness, coffee with Benny and discovered that we were close wo winning the lottery ( we had a ticket). Drive to Home and crash on couch with new Hitchcock DVD.

Seems like I did alot… but it was all nice and fun and most importantly I spent alot of tiem with friedns in 2 different states, made new ones from over the waters and was there for one when she needed me… which probably was the most important thing I did this week.

Tomorrow… work.
Might even blog about the Falls in more detail, but to keep with my lack lustre approach to it this year I probably won’t. Lets just say some new portraits taken of some famous musicians, and the most famous of all was an egotistical wanker who didn’t get many new fans from his performance… or from his photography pose.