Well I just had a crazy week. And it ain't over yet! Wednesday my computer started giving me all kinds of shit after installing the new updates from Microsoft. So I decided to reinstall everything. I'm still working on the last touches of that fiasco.

I have gotten many responses from my Craig's List model search. More than I was expecting actually. Some a little "off color" (I think that's the term). But most seem cool. I actually had my first session with one on Thursday. A cool kind of metal looking guy. A real character. We did get some good shots, but nothing with any real wow!

Friday I was up at 4am to catch the 5:15am train to NYC. I got on the Brooklyn movie set by around 8am. And spent the next 3 days taking pictures of the final chapter of the Copsa Mica production. Once again it was an exhausting, painful, roller coaster of a good time. However it had it's pit falls. A Macbook they wanted me to upload my photos to killed about 400 pictures. Luckily just over 200 were already backed up to a PC. I will probably write a Mac rant about that later.

Then when I returned to my car at 1am Monday, I realized I had left my keys in Brooklyn. It wasn't a big problem. My father has an extra set just for when this happens.

Now I have to get my keys back, finish fixing my computer. Get my first models photo CD out to him Get the last photos that survived the Mackbook to Ryan. Get my keys from Ryan. And regrettably the photos that my last wedding client asked me to print are still sitting on my desk a week later, because I have been running at full speed practically since I got them from the printers.

I'm just a little stressed out. And though I know it will eventually, None of it is paying off yet.

P.S. Oh ya sorry but some how (I think I know how) comments are completely broken. Don't bother making any they never get recorded anywhere. I'll have to fix that eventually.

So I now have a date for the dates of the final chapter in the Copsa Mica short film opus. If you remember last September I had the opportunity to be the still photographer for a short film shoot. Well that was the second of three sections and the third section is being shot on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of this month.

This time it's not some crazy dancing out in the woods. Its a bunch of old men sitting in a darkened room talking. Sounds boring doesn't it. Well it not going to be. Two reasons reason number one is that it is being filmed in Brooklyn. Strangely I'm 27 years old, and have never been to the city on my own. I have been several times with my parents, and school trips, but never on my own. I'm actually really excited about that. The second reason is that I will get to meet a very cool actor. Mark Margolis has been making movies since the 70's and lately he has become a main stay for Darren Aronofsky, appearing in all 3 of his last films. SO meeting him will be cool.

The trouble for me comes in that they have a very thinly stretched budget. I was looking for reimbursement of lost work, travel, and a couple of lenses. All calculated the total would have been $450. Pretty cheep considering, any real photographer doing it for money, would be giving them a deal at 10 times the price. But in their case they may not be able to swing it. So do I do it for nothing? No of course not. I would at least need to be reimbursed for the train. $100. And I could simply go with one prime lens for $72 instead of 2 zooms for $150. So we go from $450 to $200. Of course I'm working for free in that case.

I think I have already made the decision. Now I'm here trying to understand it.