It still doesn't quite have it, but it's getting better.

Well, okay. Turns out the break did me well. I'm editing  the text like crazy. I still need to polish the tunes of relationships, it is still a bit precious all over the place, I will have to tame it just a little further (I have, for example, thrown out every single adjective from the scenes that take place in Marowit's mind), but I can't wait to come back from the doggie walk and continue.

.. And now I think I'll go and start writing Goose after half a year of pause.

Julie Harris photies

I can't stop looking at this lady's photos... There is just something sow raw and honest and intimate in her shots, most of her shots, that strikes just the right kind of note with me at this point ... maybe because not many people like it when these are the photos I make. But mostly because I should really listen to myself more and not the clients. 

Did I mention that in my continuous loser streak, I got paid 75 bucks for a photo and after all the transfers were made, the bank account was left with 17 euros of it? I made 17 dollars for an internationally successful photo. Go me. 

Anyroad. Here's the link to her site. Like I said, I can't get enough of it these days..

http://www.julieharrisphotography.com/

Tim Curry a long time ago..

Very fond of Ridley Scott's Legend and of course there was a lot of touching myself going on regarding the Darkness, because that's just the sort of a big bad wolf that I get turned on by, but I think my favorite performance by Curry, in all his 222 actor credits, is his very first movie role in Rocky Horror Picture Show... Something that Ridley Scott - who cats him immediately afterwards - calls really brave, but mostly people, not just fans, call really unique. The part that gets to me the most is that although later generations will maybe recognize Curry as some B flick sadistic villain to be quickly disposed of (Charlie's Angels and so on), this is such an odd, sad little person: he never married, has no children, in his early interviews he reminds me so much of Freddie Mercury - this really shy, too talented, oddly really handsome, used-to-his-marrow young guy... There's a line in an backstage interview of the Rocky Horror stage performance, in which he says that after the two or something years of performing, wearing a pound and a half of make-up every night, once you take it off, some of it stays in the creases every time. I'm thinking they really used the actors up back in the day. I know it's art, but I suppose the one reason i will never be great at it is because I don't think it's worth the suffering. 

Stargazer mode 2015

Drove my dumpy little car (very slowly, because the breaks don't really work and I really never want to kill some idiot animal like a bunny or a hedgehog that just right then decides it's a good time to cross traffic) to General's sister's place and joined her family on their annual astronomy night event thingie. I love those, because my old professor, same one as who wrote the intro to Gorgi, has this long and really cool lecture on some subject - this time it was life in space - problems that astronauts face and how some things are happy to be bothered and some thing just won't grow... Later we watched some videos and when the night got dark enough, she pointed out constellations and I made an effort to remember a few additional ones. She tells them in a story sense, so they're more easily placed and related. The telescope show wasn't as good this year - most showed Saturn and some clusters. I remember seeing an awesome sight of the Cigni twins, the swans, (triplets, as it turns out) and a cluster that was really impressive, don't remember which. But I love this event and I always look forward to it. If I was any little bit more of an aficionado, I'd invest in a telescope. Alas, I live in a really luminescence polluted place, so driving to adequate locations would be sticky with my car. Funny thing, though, as I drove back at midnight, alone and going even slower, a car in a distance never really gained on me. So I am not the only super slow driver out there. 

Mary Ellen Mark - powerty is photogenic as fuck

Only just found her official web page ... I knew of her work for a long while, but didn't find her page beforehand.. I think her concepts are really cool, although of course for this time, terribly passe. And I can't imagine going to a mental asylum to photograph people at their most vulnerable. I would find that to be deeply unethical. Same as it would be to shoot bums and junkies - deeply unoriginal. She rocked that scene, though. And these are some good artickles, for future reading in case anyone gets turned on by cool street photies :D
Website:
http://www.maryellenmark.com/index.html

Article:
http://jezebel.com/my-favorite-photographer-mary-ellen-mark-has-died-1707018377?utm_campaign=socialflow_jezebel_facebook&utm_source=jezebel_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Coverage:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/27/news/mary-ellen-mark-photographer-new-orleans-cnn/

Notice, and this is really funny (in a serious way), that she bounces the point of the photo from the golden section right to far left and at that exact moment the story kicks in. Awesome eye, really.

Shot Anja and Robi today for two different portraits - her in a surreal, kind of a pin-up-bride mood and him basic test shot. Got Lumen shots out of both of them, too :)) The energetic girl and the disillusioned poet. :)

... and their Lumens...