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06.22.09

Procrastination is the mother of all repression ... or something like that.

Three shoots in 2 days ... and more on the way. I have had a busy weekend and I will be continuing this trend for the next couple of weekends throughout the summer. With my 'day job' moving to a 4 day work week, I now have Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays that I can do other things without the overlap. Most days however, I have been in the yard or in the house getting things 'just so', since I can be so OCD it is amazing that my wonderful and beautiful girlfriend has not poisoned my lemonade yet.

but I digress ...

The Taboo Girls geared up for two sets of photos for their upcoming and much anticipated (...you perverts) 2010 Calendar. We shot a little card game ... and a soapy carwash ... and I sweat my ass off in the heat, but what else is new?

I also shot promo and possible album shots for the music group Ellis Uniques. You might remember the previous shoot I did for them with the floor of compact discs and the dreadlocked hair. We also had a set with them singing in the middle of Richmond City traffic. Well now they have streamlined their sound, streamlined their look, and are coming out with a new album in the very near future. Check them out in my friends list. (There are also rumors of a music video in their future for the single 'Really Really')

As June winds down (and so do I most evenings) I am starting to ramp up with more of the creative shoots for July. I am limiting my TFCD shoots and such, to focus on paid gigs, or shoots that I want to do for my (hopefully sooner than later) upcoming book. 'The Digital Art and Photography of Carlton K' will be available in both physical and digital versions ... I just need to get on the stick and make these shoots happen. As is the issue for most people now-a-days, putting the cash into the sets and the look is what slows me down, but I am scrapping those pennies together and trying to make it work.

On a sadder note ... I will not be entering the 48 Hour Film Project this year. It really isn't that I can't swing the cost of it, or that I can't donate my time to it ... it is really just that I don't like what it is turning into. So many 'pro' and 'semi-pro' teams are getting together to make the films in 48 hours. When we were standing up in front everyone at the Byrd Theatre last year for the Q&A and they had us say who we were, and how many people we had work on our film, my answer was 4. This was including the principal actors. Many of the other 'almost-but-not-quite-corporate-sponsored' teams had 20, 30 and even more people working on their film. To me that just took the fun out of it. Yeah you are competing to make the best film, and the prizes are cool, but when the people that you are competing against can go out and just buy that equipment on a whim, or have it already, it is time to move on ... so I am. (I might help out with one of the other teams this year as promised, but I don't want to put my money into the machine that it has become. But my time might just be ok.)

More blogs will be happening more often. Sorry about the long delays in between (I know SOOO many of you just HAVE to know what is going on with me. Hehehe) but I suppose as I get older and find more and more silver hairs (yes, it just jumped strait over gray) I am slowing down a bit … but you are only as young as you feel … and damn it, I am going to bust my ass like a 20 year old again!