3402icq w/Zenrhino

[evile]

Aug. 3, 2005

 

 

evile: happy hump day :)
Rhino: =)
Rhino: hows your humpday so far?
evile: boring. But tonight I'm going to dinner with the polys so it's
cool.
Rhino: excellent. fringe festival starts tonight so its balls to the
wall for 14 days straight
evile: That's going to be so much fun :)
Rhino: Yeah. I love getting to be a part of it.
evile: Yeah. It must be awesome to spend time with so many creative &
talented people. Inspiring, even.
Rhino: *nod* Seeing their work always picks mine up a notch.
evile: I feel the same way at times.
Rhino: Ive signed up to do almost all classical (greek and
shakespeare) theatre or physical performance art (so I can get lots
of shots wihtout the shutter noise being a problem)
evile: performance art--you're a very brave man :)
Rhino: its like anything else -- some is good, some is horrid, some
is outstanding. Ok, most is horrid.
evile: *laugh* YUP!
evile: But ya know...once you've been to some 'out there'
performances, the typical musical happy ending stuff just doesn't do
it for ya anymore.
Rhino: the problem with performance art is the same problem that most
storytellers have -- theyre performing for themselves and not the
audience.
evile: That is a very good way to say it.
Rhino: I took a storytelling class from one of the worlds best and he
kept drilling that into us over and over. Stop telling YOUR story --
start telling THEIR story with YOU in it.
evile: hm. that is a nice paradox with 'write what you know' :P
Rhino: Write what you know is bullshit. Write anything, but write
with authenticty.
evile: all the same, I don't think I could write authentically about
having a penis :P
Rhino: No, but you could write authentically enough to convince
someone you did, just from having been around (and on) them long
enough.
evile: maybe.
evile: I don't want to write anymore. I just want to be a giant
traveling Id.
Rhino: heh
evile: I have been wanting to go somewhere for AGES. But now I am a
little better, knowing I'm going to New Orleans in October. Whee!
Rhino: sweet! Im trying to get to mardis gras next year
evile: eeps! mardi gras is CRAZY! You will probably have a lovely
time, though. Make your hotel reservations now. :P
Rhino: Yeah, theyre already made. The group Im going with has gone
for about 10 yrs now.
evile: that's awesome!
Rhino: Yeah, they rock. =)
evile: My friend Squeak inherited a house in NOLA, on St. Charles
somepalce, but I don't know if she kept it.
Rhino: Hell yeah. Thats how to do it.
Rhino: PARTY PALACE
evile: Well, she's in Korea someplace now, teaching English, or some
crap. She is not really much of a house-owning type. She is always
traveling someplace.
Rhino: *nod*
evile: She's the one in the middle
http://fnord.org/~squeak/gallery/view_photo.php?
set_albumName=mudfestival&id=MuddyGals
evile: Ok, so I have a wierdo etiquette question for you.
Rhino: Answer - Yes, use lots of lube and always ask permission.
evile: *heehee* almost. But let's say you have a friend and you
say "Wow, you would be great to photograph. Let's get together and
take pictures sometime"...and then some amount of time goes by
without following up. Does the person come to you and say "so, let's
take pictures next week sometime" or do they wait for you to suggest
a day?
Rhino: You say "Hey, you and I had talked about doing a shoot. When
do you want to do that? Let's pencil something in so I can budget
for film and processing. Do you want your prints glossy or matte?"
evile: OK. That works :) I am never sure how polite it is to push
people who offer to do something nice and then dont' follow through.

evile: then again maybe it was a pickup line and I should just let it
go.
Rhino: Oh, he asked to shoot you. Got it.
evile: she, actually.
Rhino: Mrowr.
Rhino: I want pictures of that shoot.
Rhino: Yeah, just email her casually and ask if she's still
interested in that.
evile: *nod* OK.
evile: she has her own naughty website. I told her I wasn't
interested in being like...100% nekkid on the web, so maybe that's
the holdup.
Rhino: *nod*
Rhino: Once I get a house and can have studio space, I'm going to do
that.
evile: Yup. I think they have a spare bedroom that is their
backdrop/costume/photo room
evile: ampleapril.com (not work safe)
Rhino: Rock on
Rhino: The infrastructure will be zero problem (I work for an
ecommerce company). I just need to find models that fit my vision and
get the right lighting equipment.
evile: sounds like some fun shopping :)
Rhino: *nod* I've met Jen Marie from CurvyCats a few times, and I
can do work better than hers by orders of magnitude.
evile: Don't be modest, now. :P
Rhino: Oh come on. 50% of her models are...less than stunning. Plus
she uses really cheap lighting and post processing that makes her
site look...well, like a bad amateur porn site.
evile: Well...beauty is in the eye of the beholder & all that, but if
you say her technical stuff is lacking, I will go ahead and believe
you there :)
Rhino: =)
Rhino: Time for me to flee. Ive got a shoot tonight. Sadly, neither
curvy women nor bare women.
Rhino: Have a good night. =)
evile: you too *hugs!*