The many faces of Rob Yang

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We had the privilege to shoot with the ultra talented Rob Yang today. When we were done he let me take some pictures of him.

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I was copying a painting by Jacques Louis David. I'd like to do another, more pop style.

Bruce Lee

I've been preparing a shoot that we're going to have on Wednesday. It's the final showdown between the protagonist and his sensei. You think they're about to fight but they end up having a dance off. I was just watching Fists of Fury, a Bruce Lee pic, to get some inspiration. I really can't handle violence but man! those cats knew how to rock a fluid head! (tripod) Meaning that I liked their camera moves a lot. I definitely saw that Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet was very liberal in ripping these kung fu guys off. That's all I have to say.

This is what the Griffith Gaunt DVD looks like.

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I must sound like a packrat

I want to use the trophies as a prop for the new movie. Griffith Gaunt is done. Let me know if you want one. I'll sell it for $5.

I was lucky enough

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to get a lifetime's collection of trophies. Her name is Geri Golden. I got three crates full. I had a lot of fun tightening the screws and gluing the old plaques on. Unfortunately the dust really got to me.

Rant-My stupidity

I just put a rant on craigslist about how the worst people are attracted to the Hamptons. (This is a theme I revisit every summer.) How they can't think for themselves, stuff like that. This guy responded talking about how I'm a pathetic loser/pauper who lives in Hampton Bays. He was very attached to the concept of Hampton Bays as the other side of Hades. As much as he LOVED Southampton he HATED Hampton Bays. Who are these people?

lovely girl

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The squirrel saw and opportunity and he stole them

This was on craigslist rants and raves:

OK, I live with my parents, and share a bedroom with my idiot older brother. So, when I made my latest batch of pot brownies, I couldn't stash them anywhere in our room. Either my mom, the White Tornado, or my brother would find them. If she found them, she would blow a gasket and start peeling off Novenas and start self-flagellating in the scabby-kneed tradition of our Catholic family. If my brother found them, he would become even more of a masturbating zombie and would deny ever taking them.

So, I stashed them on the ledge just outside our bedroom, wrapped up in Saran wrap. You couldn't see them from either the backyard or the window. The perfect hiding spot.

I'm in the backyard this morning, taking out the trash, and I notice this squirrel running purposefully across the yard and up the tree that sits outside our window. He pauses for a moment, and I swear to Christ that he had a psychaedelic gleam in his eye. He pops almost vertically up in the air about two feet and then, in a contradiction of the laws of physics, moves seemingly horizontally onto the ledge - right where I stashed my brownies.

"Oh, shit, no..." I ran into the house, bolted up the stairs, threw open the window...crumbs. An entire half-lid of the most lovely, ancestral-trip provoking, love-inspiring ganga I have ever had, and it was all gone in a morning.

Somewhere in my backyard, there is a nest full of mightily stoned squirrels sleeping it off. "Wow Dad, this is the best tasting cheese you ever brought home. Got any Pop-Tarts?"

I hate you squirrels. If I ever catch you, I'm going to make you all into a pair of mittens.

The frodog

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is fine today.

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Puff

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My puffer is an eccentric who, as you may know, I desperately hope to keep. (I've had bad luck with puffers.) Now he/she goes in and out. Sometimes the fish is off duty, nowhere to be found. Sometimes puff's gnashing his teeth against the glass. He splashes and makes gulping noises. So I'm feeding the little bastards and no puff. So there he is in the backseat of the gi joe jeep. AND PUFF'S GOT THAT LITTLE FIN TUCKED IN. To what, the gill?

I'm selling this on ebay

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It hurts to let this go.

As you may know

I've turned into a camera maniac. As I mentioned in my last post there was something lacking in the picture that I took with the digital rebel kit lens. Now I'm trying to get some sort of Canon L lens. I love the pentax takumars but they're manual focus and sometimes the computer on the camera jams up with them. And it's weird with the flash. These L lens are REALLY expensive so I'm selling one of my most prized photographic possessions: a mammoth Hasselblad lens. It's on ebay right now.

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I was testing two lenses back to back. This is the digital rebel kit lens 18-55mm. The following picture was taken with the 125mm takumar lens from the 70s. Can you see the difference? Man, I can!

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This flower was at BJs.

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One more picture from the wedding . . .

Puff

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Just had to post this shot that I just took of Russell Seacow. He loves his algae disks so!

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I loved this guy!
He says to me: "I have zat kamera. It's attaccched to my meekroscope.
I say: "Why?"
He says: "I'm a dentist."
I say: "Wait a minute you're German AND your a dentist?!"
He goes: "Ya, I know . . ."

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I've been scanning some negatives from a wedding I shot. I figured I'd post some of my favorite shots here. There are more at flickr.com if you'd like to see them. Just click on the picture.

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There's something wrong with my fish. If anyone out there knows what's on his face I'd appreciate the info.

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Another digital rebel came in the mail today. I was testing it out on russell seacow.

RETRACTION!

The talent read the post below and he takes issue with the suggestion that he wasn't cooperating. I was forced to admit that he had been most obliging (under the circumstances). The picture says it all.

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Today

we're going to shoot the cross dressing scene in the Narcissist. Zack will be shown as a teenager and as his own mother. The talent isn't being totally cooperative but it's a lot to put a bra and a wig and makeup on a guy and to tell him to act all girly. I'll try to take a still shot and I'll post it here later.