Friday, August 29, 2008

Miss America 1949?

“The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”
 - Gerald Earlye

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Quitters never win . . .

“I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter”.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

What it takes . . .

Apparently someone wishes that Bush’s crimes against the constitution would reach the level of what the Republicans considered to be an impeachable offense during Clinton’s second term.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The first time . . .

I scanned some negatives yesterday from one of the very first rolls of film that I ever shot.

My photos back then were made of passion and inspiration combined with a total lack of technical knowledge . . . and, actually, it worked better that way.

Here is Paulina Rudklint from Sweden photographed in Milan.

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Today’s photo shoot . . .

I photographed Judy today here at the house.

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Stars . . .

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Oscar Wilde

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Now I Wanna Be Your Dog . . .

Yesterday’s photo shoot, where Minnie climbed into the frame with the model, adds a new dimension of meaning to the old Iggy and The Stooges song.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Lifetime Acheivement . . .

Here is the video clip that I put together for this past weekend’s IFBB Tampa Pro show. They played it on the jumbo TV above the stage right before presenting Chris Dickerson with the Ben Weider Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Squirrel watching at the park . . .

Minnie watching squirrels at the park today . . . and hanging out with Stacey . . .

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Get me to the church on time . . .

Below is a snapshot that I took today of Stacey right before she left for a friend’s wedding . . .

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