SWANKY WESTSIDE
I went to party at the soho grand last night (I've never been) for a exihibition of a sixties photographer who shot a lot of warhol. I met people my age for a fucking change. Soho grand was cool and so was west soho. I haven't hung out down there since college. Now that I have some money I need an excuse to buy some more nice clothes. As noted at my high school reunion I've been wearing the exact same clothes since the 8th grade. Some wimpy shithead was commenting here that I'm trying to be indie rock. As if a hooded sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers is some kind of fashion statement. I was lazy in 1990 and I'm lazy now. Not much has changed.
I hooked up with good people and it seems like I'll be making some decent extra money doing freelance programming, video editing and internet marketing. Plus I might tag along with a good photogapher this summer who's shooting in russia. I'd like to learn how to light and take a plane to russia while I'm at it. That's all sometime after next week when I have a huge admission to doctoral candidacy exam where these famous scientists can ask me really hard questions and I have to try and answer them and still look good. Kind of like a senate hearing. I'm almost done with this PhD thing though.
I bought a wireless slave flash for my little crappy camera. Only 100 bucks. Amazing what you can get for so little money now. It works up to 10 feet. Translated into simple terms, it's a tiny little flash I can hold or place somewhere to bouce off walls or add diffused light to the picture. Good for portraits. So I'll try to teach myself better flash techniques. I only tried it on ben so far while we were out for saint marks yakitori at oh-taisho (we're both addicted to the giant liter-size cokes and chicken skewers so we go there all the time) . Anyway, not bad for a piece of crap camera. And here's some pictures from last night after I got back from soho and went dancing with the fashion girls.
Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005, 06:26 PM