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So what's been happening. Lots of broken things!
Last week my newish Canon 10D died. Well, the LCD died, and I'm just not that good enough of a photographer to not preview what I am getting without a quick LCD check for every photo I take. I don't light meter so I rely on this instant feedback.
It was $200 to ship it to Canon, and 5-6 weeks before it comes back. I loved this new Canon. I think my work has really jumped a notch or two since switching to it. I have new "Recipes" for lighting, and I know its idiosyncrasies.
I knew I was gonna have to replace it, and looked at a couple other cameras (including Canon's new Mark II 8 megapixels and 8 frames per second camera - uh..what could happen 8 times in one second that I might miss?!?) It was $4500 bucks, and it was bulky. Nope. Couldn't do it.
I bought the exact same camera. Another $1500 down the drain. My poor credit card!
But I had to do it. I didn't want to muck with my flow.
When my other one comes back I will have a backup camera that is exactly the same. So it was an expensive week, and had I not had this camera available I would have missed out on dozens of good shoots..including this shoot with Aaron.
Other big news. The garbage men destroyed my Fort Knox mailbox. Lucas my roommate called on Tuesday, “Uh Bryan, I have bad news. Your mailbox is dead.”
“What?!”
“Yeah, like there are a half dozen guys milling around it and taking photographs of it like they are on a crime scene.”
“What happened?!”
“I guess the guy crushed it with the giant metal claw that picks up the trash can. They either crushed it or knocked it over, but man, it looks like it exploded.
Ok, so the mail box I have is encased in a two foot by two foot column of limestone. Many of the residents here have resorted to this tactic as shitty little twerps drive by in their cars throwing beer bottles, swinging baseball bats, or I suppose bowling balls at them. My neighbors with mailboxes on a pole will end up replacing them once a year.
Not mine! I thought I was immune! Then the City of Austin took it out with one shot.
They say they will pay for it. In fact, I had a company come out and rebuild it.$900 bucks. Geeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzuuuuuuuuus. The City better cough up that money (The guy who rebuilt it said he does 5 of these a month…it's an epidemic he says. He says the city pays up to 1200 for these things.
So we will see what happens.
The other big thing this week was Lonny Stern's Mommie Dearest Roast. It's a fundraiser for the KOOP radio station his show OutSpoken is on.
Attendence was lite this year as the rain has really been pouring. I don't think anyone wanted to venture out. Not a lot of costumes, but these two troopers got decked out.
But when the lights came up, the theatre was almost filled. So people must have been running late.
It was fun. I'm still not keen on this movie. But I do see the silliness of it all, and having a 100 queers shout out catty remarks does make it enjoyable.
Ok, so that's it. Its to late to go on with much more.
CYAIN7
I also went to see Matson Belle play at Flipnotics. I met Faith and her boyfriend Tom there. I think Faith is as addicted to their music as I am! The show was a litle unplugged, and the were on fire. Loved it!
We sold 11 orders last week! This is the last entry I will put the CD ordering buttons up. So buy now. We sold out of XL right away, and still have 6 Larges left, and they are well, pretty Large. So if you are on the fence on the sizing, chances are the Large will fit ya!
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