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You live in Brook­lyn and you use Ver­i­zon to con­nect to the inter­net. Creepy, right? Reveal yourself!

I know that it’s taboo to talk about gear. Focus­ing too much on this stuff misses the point of what mak­ing pho­tographs is all about. Richard Ave­don used to require his stu­dents make their final por­traits for his class in a photo booth, which is a rather extreme way of mak­ing this point and Richard Ave­don, of course, was cor­rect. How­ever, Ave­don didn’t use a photo booth too often to make his por­traits so it’s not alto­gether unim­por­tant either one the sub­stan­tive view is there.

I have some thought I would like to share about about dig­i­tal equip­ment for new com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­phers, some­thing that’s on my mind because I’ve been think­ing about how to make my com­mer­cial stuff look bet­ter now that I’m doing more of it. But if that’s not your thing, then by all means, no one is going make you read the rest of this entry. Read the rest of this entry »

I dont think I was on my A-​​game, though it prob­a­bly went well on the whole. All six peo­ple on the com­mit­tee were wel­com­ing and friendly, though it was still fairly intim­i­dat­ing. Of course, now I’m scru­ti­niz­ing every­thing I said, and while I’m cer­tain I could have artic­u­lated a cou­ple of things much more clearly and effec­tively if I was less ner­vous, I’m also pretty sure that it wasn’t as mud­dled as I feel like it was.

The pro­gram seems amaz­ing, even more so that I know that they only take 4 peo­ple. Though every­one in the School of Arts has cer­tain classes together, the level of instruc­tion you get when work­ing in your dis­ci­pline sounds phe­nom­e­nal. It makes for a won­der­ful pro­gram that’s almost impos­si­ble to get into! So I’m guess­ing it’ll be a cou­ple of weeks before I find out what the deal is, but I’m excited and ner­vous, and even more so now that I’ve been there and seen it all.

I just woke up and I’m sit­ting here in a daze of exhaus­tion hav­ing got­ten up just a lit­tle too early after going to bed a lit­tle too late. I also have the hick-​​ups. My inter­view at Colum­bia is this after­noon, and It would be nice to go to school there.

oh la dee da they must have made some mis­take I mean don’t they know who i am?