Currently pretending to be working.
I think I am gonna check out this discussion you mentionned... seems like you made a few comments under the influence of alcohol Ben, so it should be fun.

only one.. tonight i am sober.

hang on, i just need to make a record of that.

It's 10:37 am in Adelaide, Australia. My younger brother's just come home from hospital. I'm currently annoyed because my D70s is not working too well, and is getting looked at today. The printer's also playing up, so I can't do a lot of photo stuff at the moment.

Trying to work... Talking to Frenchie, looking at pictures and reading occasionally articles on three newspapers... and counting hours to leave!

Stuck at work finishing an article at 7:15, now done, and making a last Flickr check before I head home.

moved onto 120 scanning now.

reeds and forests.

so not street.

In 30 minutes, Ben is scanning 8x10...

onto more 'tribes' now. getting eclectic.

its 00:45 in Edinburgh, my pregnant wife is crashed out on the couch and i'm back here to confirm arrangements for a new 'street'ish project.

I've just been offered (based on my bus project) full photography access to a great live entertainment venue called Bannerman's in a cool part of town called Cowgate. I've actually just set up another Flickr account as part of the share-what-i-collect arrangement. The venue is in a massive cave-like, rabbit-warren so I should be able to produce some gothy, drippy images.

Watch this space :-) www.flickr.com/photos/14727688@N00/show/

they have 'mixologists' in bannermans now? christ, what is the world coming too?

does it still have edinburghs most competitive pool table?

how long until you're Father Joe? or should i rephrase that - how long until your brief but meteoric fling with street photography comes to a premature yet enforced end?! hahaha!

HA! She's due June 3rd, and i've convinced her that this is all just training to capture those 'candid' baby-growing-up moments in the most timeless and pleasing way! I think she does see through it, but is just letting me live that illusion a bit longer :-(

No idea about the pool table reputation yet, but it does seem like something out of Dusk to Dawn in there so far.

just returned home from very minor foot surgery...

and no, not a street photography injury. i should be back in the mix this weekend...

benny you have a nose for those type of discussions methinks...

congrats joe! how many months until your retirement?

peace.

I'm currently freaking out about money, and rent, and bills in New York City. In between panic attacks I'm editing a wedding I shot over the weekend...

cheers Brian, i suspect i have about 3 more solid months, then you'll all be saying, "remember that bus guy, wonder what ever happened to him!, you don't reckon he got hit by one do you..." :-)

Bonny Scotland Signing Offf, Good night,

Michael

i'm currently freaking out about money, and rent, and bills in London town. In between panic attacks i'm supposed to be editing a wedding i shot 4 weeks ago.

editing weddings.... painful...

'isn't £900 expensive for a days work'?

if only they knew.....

Its 12:42 pm in Sydney and im sitting in the police rounds room of the Sydney Morning Herald listening to the police scanner and browsing flickr.

Its 30 degrees outside, i finish in an hour and then i have the whole arvo of shooting ahead of me.

Ahh sydney in summer!

Scanning photographs from the mid Nineties while listening to Andy Kershaw streaming over the internet from the BBC. Wait...
I just had to pick my nose.
All of this in boring ol' Omaha, Nebraska, USA

ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

he he he.

1.51am.

posted reeds and trees.

showered.

scratched a bit at some of the remaining sunburnt peeling skin on my back from recent australia trip.

realised that i will soon be pasty white pom again.

thought about next holiday.

started thinking about tax lawyer.

bed.

i'm thinking of quiting work and taking photos for a year.

6:00pm in San Jose. Zibi just freaked out reading the above post. Tense dinner to follow...

Trying to work out whether to take a great job traveling to israel or go for a job with a local newspaper for a bit....

i should have got an interweb degree...

instead i decided to spend my college days at the bar...

At home in NYC at 10:52pm ET. Girlfriend is watching Family Guy on the TiVo and I'm reviving my Canon DSLR gear which hasn't been unpacked since I got my R-D1s. All day I've been vacillating between getting (1) a Summicron 35/2, or (2) a Leica M8, or (3) a Canon 5D.

Then I saw my credit card bill for January and decided to wait...LOL.

I'm looking at a very strange Flickr. For some reason people in China are currently unable to access Flickr's button images and style sheets, or something. It is butt-ugly.

Uploads are still (touch wood) working.

1:36 Tokyo, between jobs, Just ate Cup Ramen, Curry Udon actually, with a little tobanjan (chilipaste) and some cheese, totally bachelor style shit food. You would be ashamed. And am looking for a new house online, and realizing I can't afford to live where I want to, thumbing through flickr and contemplating Bitmapr's thought..,

Just came from seeing the movie Stomp the Yard. Too sappy, not enough dance offs, thinking I haven't had a good dance off in a while.

it's 11:51PM in Los Angeles right now and I am finishing up with a editing session on a short film I co-wrote and co-directed with my friend and fellow director (known as Truckstop on Flickr). I think in the middle of that I found a little time to shoot a Polaroid SX-70 shot and scan that. Eat half a cheesecake, gripe to myself about my little belly that is forming etc etc. otherwise my eyes are feeling like they are about to bleed.

Benny, the digital discussion is sooooo tempting for me to pipe into but I am actually going to refrain as I want to try and get a little bit of sleep

Please, if not today, jump in the discussion later... sounds like fun.

that is well cool....

up again. off to work. lets make this the longest thread ever on hcsp. it's far more fun than that fucking image critique thread that i foolishly started.

marja - your son probably LOVES you right now. forget about being manic and go skiing in the sierra nevada!!

a little treat for y'all before i leave the house:

ridiculousness

it is 1:29 am in LA and I am fighting my insomnia with good company and pussy cat's pictures... WTF!

It's 10.25am in north London and I've just been laughing at the david shrigley photographs while my eight-month-old daughter drools on me as she tries to hit the keyboard.

10.40 am London

I just had to pay the Inland Revenue (the UK equivalent of the IRS, the income tax people) £1300.

That's the equivalent of:

a Nikon Coolscan 9000 scanner
OR
half a Leica M8
OR
a brand new Hasselblad 503CW chrome body
OR
a Wista 4x5 folding technical camera
OR
a bloody good holiday

I feel ill...

It's 12:42 in Rotterdam(NL).
* trying to finish a difficult project which has been around for too long
* drinking strong coffee
* looking at the dream stuff I shot this morning, and not sure what to think about it.
* getting on with the project.

I love the way there are huge billboards everywhere reminding you that you must get your return in by the 31st (tomorrow), and then they go on strike that day...

"I just had to pay the Inland Revenue (the UK equivalent of the IRS, the income tax people) £1300"

At this moment I am on this flickr discussion page typing a message about how I am on this flickr discussion page typing a message aannnnnnddddd I feel like I have to ppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

procrastinating

@shveckle

yikes...

just unwrapped my new camera and waiting for it to get dark so that i can cut up some paper negs to try it out.

What am I doing right now?

No specifics, but... the wifi works in my bathroom.

(also working on overhauling my universities photo society webpage

wow bringing your laptop into the bathroom. Dudes need more things to do in the bathroom while doing no. 2 in order to take even longer. (what? geez Mikey why did you say that, get off of my computer.)

Just sat down to respond to this and found that my seat is wet.
Has a strange ammonia like smell. How odd.
Wait... I'm not alone. I just heard someone in the...
Whoa! Check out the honey walking out of my bathroom!

19.03 London. Idiot checking kit for charity gig shoot in brixton later.

off to football training. kick arse!!

11:34 in Los Angeles. I'm at work doing some final testing on a problem before considering it fixed, watching flickr for new comments, tracking down some free art supplies on Craigslist and drinking two cans of Dr. Pepper.

two cans? does one of them have vodka in too?

Hey Ben. I'ts 4:28 a.m. here in Asia. I'm blogging and Flickring and I'm hungry. I keep smelling my thick hair. Hair that is part of my head, okay. Hah. Will go to bed soon.

@ bennybedlam:

LOL...not unless someone's been tampering with the vending machine!

12:53 pm. writing annual focal/peer reviews. jeez, what a load of crap this is.

1:08pm, Wondering how long this thread will continue for.... drawing streamlines in the desert.

22:10 in Rome, trying to figure out how to get my pictures awarded.

21:31 in Portugal, starting to do some architectural plans that I should have done 3 days ago ehehe... I spend too much time with photos and Flickr! :)

1:00pm in Tokyo, I am on the toilet typing about what I am doing right now.

number one or number two?

i should be in bed.

a train just went past my flat. when trains go past my flat, the windows shake, the walls rumble and my monitor wobbles on my desk. one day the whole building will fall down and i'll just be left there staring out at the street, mouse in hand.

17:20 in Wellington NZ , @ work compositing a boy onto the backl of the loch ness monster for upcoming film, Bad bluescreens arrrrggghh , so instead i'm reading this. Only 1 hour and 40 minutes till BEER-O'CLOCK

10:52pm i've come to realize a more appropriate time to do annual coworker reviews is after 3 glasses of wine. i'm saving my self appraisal for when the bottle is done.

Just poured espresso from the pot on the hob and mixed with a generous amount of chocolate milk and a bit of boiling water.

Delicious.

I'm not sure anything else will happen before I drink the last of it.

9:14 coventry uk
having a flickr fix while gearing myself up for the morning swim!
fixing a couple of PHP errors on my site before it goes live!
contemplating toilet time (im so vulgar)...

PS: bennybedlam: this (www.davidshrigley.com/list_photographs.html) was amazing BTW

12:04 london uk - at the office
debugging a few jsps for work
organising 20 pictures for an album to give to someone special as a present
writing a flash slideshow
fixing a friend's blog database after hacker intrusion...

should do less at the same time

Well, I was sitting here pondering why all the photos produced with my new camera were so low key; so dark. I mean REALLY dark in composition. Turns out the lens had this defect. Some idiot in camera production left this plastic disc-like clippy thing attached to the front of the lens barrel. What kind of cruel prank was that, huh? Now that I've got that off and thrown it in the trash, my pictures have brightened up allot.
6:12 AM. I need meth...er...caffeine.

14:58 in Paris, gray and cloudy. No work today. I' having a coffee and a cigarette, and then will leave to spend an obscene amount of money on a new camera :-)))

14.22 in england smoking a cigarette. waiting for skins episode 2 to download and thinking about making lunch and wondering what camera hugo is going to buy

15:37 Reading this thread, and wondering about Hugo* is going to buy. Can you fill us in on thet Hugo*?

14.45

London. just spent 2 hours in the launderette, washing pants and writing article to accompany new project.

it is in fact my birthday today, and my first present was completing the guardian quick crossword (i normally have 2-5 unfinished clues) in about 4 minutes.

off to the bank now. ho hum.

15.00 London. Going through a home video license agreement template making amendments to the terms regarding channels of distribution and licensed formats.

That and watching the clock, praying for the weekend to arrive.

benny, is the pant washing a birthday ritual..? you kids in london know how to live!

wicked! thanks marja!

@ten8 - pant washing, nah just thought i'd treat myself. this isn't chelsea you know...

8:44am in LA, getting my car towed in front of my apartment... LA stories...

Happy Birthday Ben!!

18:00 in Paris and I'm 3800 euros poorer BUT I'm now the proud owner of a D200 with a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 and a Nikkor 17-55mm f/2.8 :-))) (I could probably fill the page with that smiley !)

all these 'happy birthdays'. sod going out, i might just stay in, drink half a bottle of havana club and pretend i'm having a party with my internet friends.

then i'll head off to the bathroom and slit my wrists.

what do you mean pretend, ? we are all very hurt by that....

im in manchester, its 18.33. my feet are freezing as ive been roaming through hulme park with a borrowed medium format camera. spent at least half and hour trying to reload it with film before realising i was trying to put the film on the wrong side of the film back all the while getting freezing fucking cold and worrying someone might decide to come and "keep me company" on the park bench. doh.

No tax lawyer for your B-day, Ben?

hey majra ! fancy meeting you here !

ah i see. im sure no one will have noticed.
all i'm saying is Burning Bush. that's bound to work.

tuesday mate. late birthday present. tonight i get fucking hinius instead.

jesus christ.

@Ben:
Oh god! Good luck with that man.
Well, try to drink at least a few pints though, I know you both always have to force yourselves...

god homework on a friday, life for kids is tough eh ?!

20:00 in Paris, getting ready for a big poker night. Maybe it'll ,repay my camera :-) Maybe I'll have to sell it tomorrow :-( Sure thing is, I'll be drunk and coughing nicotine in 12 hours !

11:44 am in Orange County, CA. Wishing Benny a very happy birthday!!!

4:41 a.m. SE Asia.Looking at group photos. Reading this. Giggled at Drue drue's answer. Envious of Hugo-- about the camera. Not the coffee and cig.

Happy Birthday Mister.

london 1am

back home at a remarkably civilised hour. thankyou to all the LADIES for the birthday wishes.

just read the 'criticisms' shitstorm. what a bunch of arse.

a bit of retouching (yawn) then bed.

until tomorrow my friends...

Los Angeles - 5:00 pm

30 minutes of work remain (surfing the web)

plan for the rest of the evening: groceries and booze.

thankyou to all the LADIES

5:05pm in LA: I'm taking my "happy birthday" wishes to Ben back.

ha ha ha

raoul, i'm sure you understand!!!

:-)

15:21 Paris. Early morning. Went to bed at 8:30 after 10 straight hours of poker, and just woke up an hour ago. Will spend the rest of the day watching France beat Italy rugby team and reading my new D200 manual (and recovering from hangover).

Los Angeles - 10:43 am.

hungover. a mix of red wine, amstel light and coors light. plus...

forecast for Los Angeles.

Today...Mostly sunny...except early morning patchy fog near the coast. Highs in the upper 60s to mid 70s.

perfect. don't know where i want to shoot. will probably stumble out the door and see where it takes me...

forcast for chicago,

mostly cloudy, high of 9, low of -4 F.

still recovering from going out at dawn to take pictures for a project/exercise i do every week. why did i start doing this in the winter? it will get easier, right?

Mexico City, 5 days later, planning to leave the city for a few days to shot some good pictures...

just got in from playing football on the legendary hackney marshes for the mighty surreal madrid. (i'm one of 5 photographers in the team....)

a 1-1 draw against the usual bunch of scallies. on to the pub...

Are any of the other four photographers on Flickr?

1:20AM Tokyo (Though I keep my clock on SanFran Time, so 8:20 AM)
Just finished a 12-hour shift and am wondering if there's anything to drink in the house.
Took ten framed 11x14 photos over to a bar this morning where I will be doing a show. Hung them, though it was damn hard to get all the nails straight and the hanging strings on the back strung at equal tension. They're crooked, but nobody will notice.

Sunday 1:45pm NYC time. sitting on the couch writing something here on this discussion while my son is sitting next to me chillin' as we watch the cat go up and down the stairs and my husband prepares for a full on number 2 sit down.

2pm, my dog is pretending he hasn't been feed already in order to get me to feed him again. It is not going to work. Hubby still in W.C. doing his daily reading. my son and I on the coutch whatching the dog land sharking the apartment for crumbs.

@scribeoflight

no. they're got much more productive things to be getting on with!

16:45, portland, or, usa

reading flickr photo threads and uploading scans instead of watching the superbowl, despite being at a superbowl party

(btw, i hate american football)

working on my second roll of cheapo drug store color iso 400 through my new baby, an ebay-ed olympus sp. finding it rather difficult to shoot animated football fans with medium-speed film in low light.

10:58, Vancouver, Canada.

Sitting here with a yogurt, espresso, an ocean view, a throbbing headache, and photos of Mexico. Four out of five ain't bad . . . .

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someone elses photographs.....

eyes about to fall out.

@bennybedlam

O, shame. But I guess the idea of five photographers playing football on Hackney Marshes and being on Flickr was too good to be true.

It is 3.07am here and I am listening to music, drinking bad coffee, and trying to get through a load of RAW files so I can feel guilt-free tomorrow when I go and shoot some black and white film.

I'll probably be shooting a new Chinese emulsion I've found, but by a stroke of luck (and some badly pronounced Chinese), I've managed to find someone in Xi'an who can supply me with Ilford Pan 100, FP5, and Delta 100. So, a few more options.

eating lunch and uploading pics on Flickr.

Los Angeles

12:45 pm...currently 88 degrees. took a ten minute break from work to walk to the lab. they said my rolls will be ready by 3...although the last two times they haven't had my b/w rolls ready til 8pm. i'm skeptical.

want to complain about the heat...but it's -1 in Minnesota so I'll just enjoy it...