I went back to some photos from earlier in the year. I originally turned an entire shoot for a friend from NXP into black white high contrast things for a Sin City type portrait. This time I decided to take some of those and make different color versions.

The concept was for rap album covers. What do you think?

It's simple. I live in New York, Poughkeepsie actually. I get more calls from Texas and Florida. Mostly wrong numbers, a few telemarketers who don't know that my business phone is actually a cell phone on the Do Not Call Registry!

Alright rant done, I just had to get that out.

Yes I'm still alive... for now. I may not survive the next 20 hours.

Last weekend I assisted with shooting 2 weddings, Friday and Saturday. Same goes for this weekend. But this one will be a little more rough. Today's wedding starts at 4pm and runs to about midnight. Tomorrows wedding starts at 7:30am... in Rockland county almost 2 hours away. So I have to be on the road by 5:30am. After I only got to the house a 1am.

I have done the marathons before, it doesn't mean I have to like them. I'll check in with a progress report later.

Update: Oct 5th, 2008 1:43pm

I'm ok. No damage done. The shooting the second wedding on only a couple of hours sleep was easier than I thought it would be. I guess I should have expected that. Many nights I go with only a few hours of sleep. When I ran the 28 hour paintball games, going like that wasn't too hard. I effectively slept till noon today, and now it's all good.

Apparently many people are less rational than I thought was possible. Yes apparently when people are misinformed to support their ideology, correcting that misinformation actually makes them believe it more.

Now as crazy as it may seem, I think this does make a kind of sense. When two contradictory pieces of information are presented to a person, they will tend to believe the one they like the best. That is absolutely understandable, in a no duh kind of way. Now we combine that with another point. When somebody tries harder to convince a person their view is wrong, the person will think they are being lied to, in order to cover the truth. Those obvious observations combined, are exactly what this study finds. And it's the reason it's so hard to have people think across party lines.

So yah, it may look insane (and it is) when viewed in the larger picture, but it seems pretty obvious when you break it down. It still makes me shakes my head in disbelief.

Doctors say you should read when you can't sleep. By 3am I didn't feel like reading.

Or putting a lot of work into making myself beautiful (stop laughing). I setup my camera on a tripod, a Speedlite on the floor. I took 3 exposures, decided to put two together.