Okay kids, contest time. This photo is an example of why flashes are NOT
such a good idea. The bright light washed out the facial features
of both
people looking at the camera -- no amount of digial retouching is going to
help. However, outright forgery will. The best faces painted/drawn into
this photograph will win an enlargement 8"x12" print of
resevoir.goths or any other photograph here among the four rolls of
film displayed on this website.
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I can tell this photo will get a lot of hits. People tend to get a little
exaggerated when they are drunk (and we pass out cold when we are
stinking rotten drunk). tebby's crotch was being put on display for
anyone who did or did not ask for it at the Marriott's bar for the after
party. Spanky is barely visible, spared the sight of seeing where striped
tights meet in the middle.
Gadzooks I'm tired. I've been at this for 15 hours now. Maybe a Sunday
deadline was a bit much to ask of myself. I mean, here's a shot of the
photogenic Stephanie, Aaron of the Jim Beam bottle, Brian the visible
and Brian the faceless (try c04.jpg for his face),
and all I can come up with for annotated text is some self-referential
monolouge. It's 5am Sunday right now and I'm gonna crash.
Okay, so I'm not going to stop until I finish this page. So sue me.
I don't know who these people are... I remember taking a photo of an
odd looking couple at the bar, but I have no idea if these
people are it
because I used the flash again and
their faces came off in the wash. Let
this be a lesson: don't draw your faces on with water-soluable ink.
My first well-done retouched photo. Someone said "If only such and such
wasn't there, then the photo would be balanced. So through the magic of
software I changed the image. Cameras always lie, but photographers are
even worse liars. Still, it's a much better photo now of [who?], Sonic
the Sage Head (actually just Sage with blue spikey hair) and
Spanky (of what I called "the Handsome Three") hanging out far from the
bar in the tabled cocktail wasteland of the Mariott hotel.
I was testing the light meter, which happens to use the same button as for
exposing the film. Don't bug me, I'm tired. Someone said this was
actually a good shot because it has the vanishing point of the
hallway,
and it makes the subject look really really tall in a bizarre way. This
art critic has never met Michael, and he was surprised by the next photo
which shows how really really tall Michael is.
Warm friendly person for whom I'm going to Hell for not remembering her
name is (Lil') Sara,
"tall goth and handsome" Michael, and Joe Colburn/Joe Tech
Joe is about my height, putting him at about 5 feet 11 inches. Sara is
5 foot tall.
Michael is not wearing elevator boots as far as I know. I'm certain
I used some sort of optical trick in making them look taller, but I don't
remember what I did.
I'm glad the camera decided to give me 38 exposures on this roll so I could
catch this. EdVamp and Nebelhexa hadn't seen each other for a year, but
unfortunately the photo looks like EdVamp is looking off into space.
Might have been the case, seeing as it was the end of a long night of
drinking. After Nebelhexa and Eriktik retired to their hotel room, EdVamp
and I did the responsible thing and cleaned up the bar. Since EdVamp is
a bartender back home, he knew where to find everything we needed to clean
up. Then I crashed in his room, taking Narnia's place for the night.
What, you want more comments? I already get complaints for being a verbose bastard, so be thankful I'm exhausted. It's 5:20am, I've been typing, and surfing for those cute images used at the top of each page, and testing html, for fifteen hours. The past five have been without caffeene. I'll test this page until 5:30 and then I'm going to try to sleep so I can get this done before I have to return to the real world.