31 Jan

Starting Something New #TodaysWord #366Project

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I was waking on Bluewater the other day and Big Monkey saw a photography stand… They ahd a product there that was basically you go and choose images from a catalog… each of them resembles a leter… and you can form words from the letters you choose and frame them to give as gifts.

I thought it was such an awesome idea! And so did Tommy… he looked at me and said: “Daddy, you are a photographer, right? I think you should do that!”…

My eldest son is a GENIUS!

So basically… I shall be adding that to my list photography services… Only … I shall be doing it differently… instead of having a catalog of I will be doing bespoke artworks to fit the words and what the client wants to transmit with them message… and instead of simply framing it I will use some very intelligently awesome suppliers I have found… so watch this space…

This week I am going to put my creativity to the test: All of my 366Project posts will be fashioned like the one on top… LIFE… is a good beginning huh?!?!?!

And there is more… every night I will ask my Twitter followers what is the word I should work on the next day… I am not allowed to use photograph letters… Only forms and objects I find throughout my day… I am allowed to photograph street signs… as a last resort.

And THAT is my challenge for the rest of the week… And you are invited to participate… so… dictionaries in hands ladies and gents!!!! I will once again be taking requests… just… this time I won’t be photographing my belly!!!!

Carpe Diem!!!

04 Jan

The first of the year

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Last year was a year full of ups and even more downs… and I am not going to feel a bit guilty when I tell you: I’m glad it is over…

Page turned, and time to start a new one. I mark the year with a new step in the right direction. Or so I hope.

I am ready for 2010 mow… Bring it on! I am ready to make new mistakes (as long as they are NOT the same I’ve made last year), and to do new things right!!

I am not taking new year’s resolutions – although I do want to shed a few pounds, spend more quality time with my family, go on vacations, blog more often, Video Log more often, concentrate more into work and procrastinate less… – and I will take life step by step and take problems and opportunities as they come… the bad WITH the good…

In 2010 I want to take LOADS of photos and record hours of video – both in a private and a professional sphere – and I want to make full use of all the equipment I have… specially the bits I’ve never used…

In 2010 I will clear my to do lists quickly and efficiently… yeah… that’ll be a dream come true… LOL

In 2010 I will find myself again… and when I do there will be no stopping me…

OK… Looks like I DO have a few new years resolutions after all… and THAT’s the last you’ve heard of it!!

Now… let’s get this party started!!!!

zya!

23 May

I am absolutelly hopeless!!!

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Ups… I did it again!

Just got in another pickle of a project… well maybe this one is a bit less of a pickle, because my dad thinks a lot like me… And he actually accepts suggestions when I am developing something for him… hehehehe but hey… The fact is that I am still with way too much in my hands and got a new site to do… Well… At least I am being paid to do this one!

It looks like I am back into business. Back to photographing and designing, which can’t be at all bad. Some extra money coming in can be VERY handy. My next photography job is that of Giovanna (the girl on the photo bellow).

Tommy's Baby sitter

I’ve shown some of her pics to a friend of mine that works for an advertisement agency that was looking for Latino girls for a photoshoot or something like that, and they said she’d be fine, but she’d have to go through an agency etc etc. So, she’s gonna try her luck in order of going for a contract with an agency, one good enough to renew her visa status in the country.

All good and all… I will find it a bit weird taking the pictures on the style she’s going for… not that I won’t like it, as I said before, I love it… but the fact is that I will find it a bit weird… Why??? hehe… well first she is a member of my base group… … and second she is TB’s nanny… Which means… it will be weird seeing her in not a lot of clothing… Ok… I can handle it… but it will be at least interesting… lol!

I am so grateful that people can’t actually hear my thoughts as they vortex inside my head… which by the way… doesn’t stop for a second… I was observing a couple of girls chatting on the train today and I had to control myself soooo hardly not to burst into laughter… hehehehe… not because of what they were saying, but because of what started going on in my mind when I started analyzing their body language (Sorry… one thing you need to know is that I do this all the time… is second nature… worked for so long doing that that I can’t help it… heeheheh… ok… some times I do it in purpose, and some times I simply start giving them exaggerated meanings and mount lil theatric stories in my head … like what happened with that one up there… but my excuse is that I was bored from the train journey and it amused me so you can’t blame me! ).