When I was very little I had a lot of pigeons living happily in front of my window. They always made those "guru, guru" pigeon sounds.
Whenever I hear them now I get this warm fuzzy feeling inside my belly, remembering my childhood days.
A few days back my son, who has a bunch of pigeons in our back yard told me that pigeons only do that sound when they are horny or actually doing the deed.
So basically it means that I grew up listening to fucking pigeons.
No wonder that I am shy around women.
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April 16. 2006
060416 Whoops Battle of the Bands
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I recently covered The Battle of the Bands sponsored by Whoops.
It was a great show and I had fun. All those young bands were really good and the guys who won deserved it. The evening was rounded up with a great performance of Bamboo. See a selection of my favorite shots here.
Or you can see all the pictures here in case you are looking for a particular performer.
I tried to shoot everybody but some I might have missed or the pictures didn't turn out well.
It is very difficult to shoot in my style on stage with all those lights on but I think I was able to squeeze a couple of good shots out of it.
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April 13. 2006
060413 Koko Crunch Narnia Launch
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It's a while back. It was the launch of Narnia sponsored by Nestle's Koko Crunch. Kids are just to much fun to shoot. No pretense here. A lot of suspicion though.
Once you reached a certain age you should drive a Prosche or at least have blue hair. At this moment blue hair seems to fit my budget much better than a Porsche.
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April 12. 2006
060412 That Look
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This will be a new series on my blog with the title:
"Ok, if you give me that look I'll put my pants back on."
A bunch of shots from a Brazilian party in Manila. The only thing Brazilian about that party was the location. It was in the house of the Brazilian Ambassador. The party was kinda weird and so are the pictures.
A Pretty Fly
A pretty fly was crawling all over my right hand. I let it, enjoying it's beauty although I couldn't use my hand for writing while the fly was there. It was a really colorful fly. Would it have been an ordinary fly I probably would have tried to smash it. But this was a pretty fly and you don't smash pretty flies. Everybody gives preferable treatment to beauty. I started to write down my fly thoughts and it flew away. For all I know it probably laid thousands of parasitic eggs under my skin while I watched. And I let it because it was pretty.
I am easily fooled by kindness, attention and especially beauty.
Our Earth
It might look normal but I tell you it isn't
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April 9. 2006
060409 Model Test Shots
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Some test shots of a friend of mine. What do you think, is she model material?
You don't have to be pretty to be attractive and
you don't have to be coherent to make sense.
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April 8. 2006
060408 The Family Man Series
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"As an artist, once you have finished a painting you should find out what it could mean. - Somebody might ask."
I usually name my paintings after I painted them. It's a way to avoid reducing the artwork to an illustration. It also is a lot more fun.
Once I completed an artwork I have to come up with a good title for it. One day I was on a row and came up with 25 good titels for one painting
I used one and kept the other 24 in a safe and dry place.
If you happen to buy an artwork from my new series "Family Man" you also have the right to have some fun. Choose one of the 6 paintings (only 5 left to buy but I don't know yet which one. The buyer is still choosing) and then choose an appropriete title for it. Or the other way around depending on your approach to art.
I never liked to talk much about it because I am shy.
I have a column in Manual magazine.
Finally I got around to put it online
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April 4. 2006
060404 As useless as a blues singer on Prozac
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"I woke up this morning, feeling good, and my girl was right next to me. That just doesn't sound right. You know what I'm saying?"
A typical complaint from an untypical source.
Last week hundreds of rather cheerful blues singers gathered outside the office of Eli Lilly USA to shed light on what they consider a worrisome development. Originally hailed as a wonder drug for some, one anti depressant drug has apparently turned out to be a threat to others.
"Prozac has helped millions of people to a better quality of life." a spokesman from Eli Lilly said, "Although we sympathize with our friends from the blues genre we think the vast majority of the population sees the positive effects of Prozac. Is it me or do most of those demonstrators look rather content?"
The agitated, but happy blues singers are complaining that Prozac puts them out of business. "Ain't nobody going to sing the blues no more. Who wants to hear you singing about you being able to pay your rent on time?" says one jolly demonstrator with a big smile on his face. "My raspy, blues voice is gone because I don't want to drink no whiskey no mo'." added another in a rather pleasant mezzo soprano.
The bluesmen, although they admit that they are not really unhappy, claim that thanks to Prozac they can't work anymore. Interestingly none of them seems to be too worried about that either.
