Bet you all thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you?

I hadn’t. But a couple of days after I first posted about it, they started digging up the road. They finished digging it up a couple of weeks back, but I was busy with stuff at work, and other randoms stuff, and didn’t really have time to think about it. And anyway: the weather’s improving a bit. And while I do want some shots in the rain, my general preference is likely to be for sunlight. Of some kind.

Those of you wondering what the fuck I’m talking about, by the way, should go here, but the brief version is that I have a number of friends who belong to one or more subcultures that involve dressing up, and I want to do a series of photos with willing people of two shots each – one in normal clothes, the other dressed up in their finery, in identical poses at the bus stop.

I’m planning to get groups of 3-6 people in at a time – that should give me enough time to get decent photos of each person, and mean that we’ve enough space about the place for people to get changed, apply make-up, and so on.

So, for those of you interested (and if you didn’t say you were interested last time, you can always say so now), please indicate dates that you would be willing/able to lug a costume to my place in Tooting, and have a few shots taken of you, in exchange for all the tea and biscuits you can consume, and hi-res digital copies of the two resulting images.

I’ll then drop people emails trying to sort out specific dates/times/groups. I’ll probably want a range of daytime/evening/night shots.

NB: like I said last time – this is a moderately busy bus stop, on a main road. You won’t be out there in your costume very long, and it is literaly outside my front door, but still: it will be pretty public. That’s the appeal of the project – the very ordinary context. So if you’re nervous about being seen in public in the outfit you want to use, do say – we can always try and arrange a night shoot, when the street is emptier, but I would like *some* day shoots if I can…

Everyone follow that? Good. Please to be ticking the boxes.

If anyone of this parish happens to be the sort of person who might pick up a copy of Bizarre magazine now and again, then you could do worse than pick up this month’s issue, as one of my photos is in it, alongside their review of the Amanda Palmer gig I was at the other month. I sent them a choice of photos, so naturally, they’ve used the one I like least, but still, that’s one of my photos in print that is. I am now an internationally published photographer. (I’ve previously been published in Sweden, some years ago.) Which is nice.

I’ll be in your town, drinking your booze from the 7th to the 15th of May. Suggestions for places to eat, drink and take photos of neon signs are required.

No, really.

Anyone want to confess to having my copy? I haven’t seen it in a while, and I kind of miss it.

I am not a fan of either of them. But put them together, and there is a very special magic.

A meme, lifted from budgie_uk for the purposes of providing me with distraction in between my Friday night programming:

Ask me a question, any question, and I hereby promise I’ll answer it dishonestly. I may prevaricate, I may stall, I may just simply flat out lie. But I’ll not answer the question honestly and straight-forwardly.

Note: neither the questions nor answers are screened. However, I reserve the right to screen any questions if, y’know, it’s funnier.

Go!

Little bit of research help, if you can spare a minute: tell me of your favourite blogs with a minimalist design. Don’t care what the content of the blog is, just that the design be minimalist.

(This entry is mostly a note to self, so I can find these specific links again, and cross reference them with a slightly shoddy shopping cart system.)

While I like XKCD, it is a very hit and miss comic. It’s often cloying, trite or sentimenal, or even just a little nerd-creepy at time. But when it hits, it’s superb. I note this, because yer man there is now selling signed prints, and specifically, it’s possible to buy three of my favourites. Exploits Of A Mom, Duty Calls and Cat Proximity. Of the three, the first two are definitely going on the “buy” list, and the third is a maybe, if I have the spare cash.

If only he’d do a print of my all time favourite, the only comic strip I have ever printed out and pinned to my space at work, Goto, I’d be a very happy man indeed.