day 077

today was another kittery day. crate & barrel had power and we went to pick up the desk. decided it was too small so i returned it and we shopped about a bit for another piece for the home. found some neat things but decided we needed a couch first.

back to the homestead and we had just enough time for me to clear the ice off the old jetta, install the new battery and snap a few shots of it so i can post it on craigslist and try and sell the damn thing.

then off to steve's b-day dinner and drinks with friends.

ain't a damn thing creative about today. but i was productive.

day 076

the first word for the day: Kittery - where nicole and i ventured off to first thing to pick up a desk my mom bought for me last time she was in town. remember that ice storm i spoke of in the last post? well, it also hit kittery, an hour south of portland. crate & barrel was without power when we arrived, as was the rest of the town.

back to portland and to the mall. i was needing to buy a new cell phone because i had just about had it with my current one.

second word for the day: iPhone - a little over $300 later, i had switched from sprint to at&t and bought a shiny new 18 GB iPhone in black. oh, what a shiny object!!!!

nicole also purchased one, so the rest of the evening was filled with her and i both playing with our new toys.

i did get some creativity going though. i was able to run a print of the Delta piece. i finally got it to print. i ended up having to use photoshop RAW to convert the image. it is done and it doesn't look that bad. now all i need to do is finish the goody box for pat and add the print and i will be done.

sorry for the belated b-day gift my brother.

day 075

i am 3/4's of 100 days old with this blog now!!!! isn't everyone as excited about that as i am!?!?!?, i mean fuck, who wouldn't be?!?!?!

but what everyone really wants to know is what did i get done creatively? well, not a heck of a lot. first off, i am posting the morning after, that says something. secondly, it was a crazy day in the studio. the southern maine area was hit by ice and sleet the night before and it made for a tricky drive in to work. it also knocked out the power to the hotel where the talent was staying. so everyone had a late start to the day. i also had a conference call scheduled for 11 am. i thought it would only mean that everyone would take an early lunch and it wouldn't really interrupt the day. which that would have been the case if there had been power to the hotel, and there had not been ice all over the roads. basically, had it been a normal day, my logic would have fallen true. so one conference call leads to another, then another then it is 1:30 pm and the first shot is on set. so we are working now, then the lights flicker, then they flicker again, then again. and i am talking about the fluorescent light fixtures in the room, not my strobes. then there is a puff of smoke and a fixture goes dead. then we are not shooting, then we are evacuating and i am scrambling to get the computer shut down, the camera in lock up and the hard drives out the door into the hall way in case the extinguishers decide to extinguish.

after my scrambling, and lock-away-ing and rolling my entire computer cart with external HD's out the studio into the hall do i realize that if the sprinklers spinkle in the studio, they will also sprinkle in the hall.

that all happened at 4:30 pm. that happens to also be the time we called the shoot.

fun day. but it did offer me a few brief moments to make jpegs of all the food images i have to date. grand total was something around 60 images. pretty damn spiffy for only shooting food for the past two years.

now i need to get the all saved off in a format that is appropriate for web viewing and laid out on the internets. so there is one thing of creative value for the day.

i also received a good critique of my book from my boss who recently showed it to a food client. when i say good, i don't mean the review was completely glowing. i mean that there was an actual critique there. something i have not had in a long time. i also got to hear about how a client responded to it while viewing other food portfolios and also without me looking over them. i need to input like this. i have to have a new portfolio made by the end of january so i would like to make it really pop. i guess i need to set aside some time to devote to the book creation as well as a good solid edit of new work, and also making prints.

so my goal will be to post all new work from the pas year online by next weekend. everyone (all 6 or seven of you) who read this can take a gander, and help me edit it down to the final images for show. when i post the link i will post all the other data stuff. like how many i need to cull it down to, etc.

the one thing i ask is that if you say to not use a shot, tell me why that shot does not work. i don't want to know that a shot isn't good, i want to know why one works and another does not. basically a critique.

the other thing i worked on yesterday was making a print for my madré y padré for x-mas. that part is done and i am ready to ship it out to them.

here is what i would like to get done by the end of the weekend:

• edit through the images of Lisa from too long ago

• finally finish and print the delta piece and send out to pat along with some boots and clothing.

• possibly pick out some frames for a series of pieces i bought about a year ago that i still have not framed and hung...i said hung!!!!!!!

time to clean the crack and head out the door.

day 074

i am getting really pissed at my delta art. i was able to print the file when i opened the RAW via photoshop raw. but when i processed it out from C1 pro it would not print. this is really ticking me off. i guess i just need to work the entire thing via photoshop and it should be fine. the only itch now is that i have spent all my time i have free and now i must sleep.

oh, and i also posted on craiglist.org under creative gigs that i was looking for a food stylist or a chef to work with for new portfolio images. my post was flagged and removed within a few hours of me posting it. i don't understand why. kinda pisses me off.

to be honest, there is very little right now that does not piss me off. i am just in one of those moods where you kind of want to be the asshole at the party. that isn't really you, but you are so fed up with being pushed around that you just don't give much of a fuck anymore.

sadly, the party is only in my head, but the people around me still s the asshole but now only out of context.

day 073

two things i want to share first and foremost:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUWONUpeTEw

http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/1C3840E03193D8298525751B00619509?Opendocument

i'm kinda important

day 072

about the only thing worth mentioning from today is that i finally reworked a contract and sent it back out the door. hopefully that will come back with smiles and i an proceed to billing.

oh, and i did send off some images to Travel & Leisure today. so they will hopefully let me know which ones they would like to use.

worky worky worky.

day 071

just a busy boring day. i went straight from work home long enough to grab a new sweater then head back out the door to dinner with my mom and jerry. back home by 10 and straight to bed.

nothing bad, but nothing creative. i need to get some work out of my head and onto paper. i need to try out some new prints for all the blank wall space in the house.

i did realize that pulling out my books from the garage and pulling them out of the box and onto a shelf was inspirational. seeing the literature that i have, the art books and the images really inspired me. i need to dig back into them and start playing with the new studio space in the back of the house now.

on to sleep time.