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June 30, 2003

Discoveries...

So in my always changing career as a bodybuilding and fitness photographer, I finally feel like I am somewhat 'legit' at what I do.

In fact, I was photographing Andrea Trent (above) when I realized that I think she may become a fairly known athlete in the industry within a fairly short period of time. If in fact, I know anything about what I am doing as a physique photographer, then it'll be interesting to see how her career evolves, and hopefully I'll be able to help her out in the process.

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June 29, 2003

kanashibari

Every once in a while I come across words that on an aesthetic or phoenitic level, are attractive. Sometimes, I don't even know what they mean, and once I look them up they are either more or less interesting.

Schadenfreude was one of the last ones, but kanashibari is my new favorite. I almost want to experience it so I can have a real reason to use it, but for now, I'm content not to have. Here's a bit more info on kanashibari.

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June 24, 2003

home...

i love my home.

it's very comfortable and warm...

and we have a kick ass landlord.

Posted by genex at 09:51 PM | Comments (0)

Hollywood plot...

Holy cow, this weekend was a crazy one. I haven't posted for a while it feels like, but I have to jot down some notes from this weekend's LA adventure. I was down there to shoot a bodybuilding show, but it was kind of a bust since there was pretty crappy turnout, but I made up for it...

I had plans to stay with two friends while I was down there to save on costs, and the first night stayed with a good friend who I found out was getting a divorce b/c she caught her husband cheating on her, which she had suspected, among other things... there's a lot more to it, but it's not something I'm going to go into now.

It was a bit of foreshadowing though, it seems, as the next night I when I arrive at my other friend's house, she introduced me to her boyfriend. We all chatted a bit and I got a strange vibe off the boyfriend guy, but whatever... I decided it was just that he was a different kinda person than me, which he is.

Well, he had to go to work, and my friend wanted to go check out the bodybuilding competition so we headed out for the show. Afterwards, we were starving and decided to go grab some grub. We chowed down at a tasty Mexican place and talked about all sorts of things catching up and all. Eventually it came up that she actually wasn't going out with the 'boyfriend' but that they had broken up a lot and were actually in another one of those periods. Well, we kept chatting about other subjects, and then we decided to jet and go check out a club where a friend of mine was DJing.

However, my friend first asked to stop off at her place to grab a drink before we headed out. Well, she went into the bathroom to change, and during the ride back and towards the end of dinner, I was sort of feeling a bit of good tension building between us.

When she emerged from the bathroom in a change of clothing that was less 'going out' than what she had on before, and with that look in her eyes, I knew it was 'on' and we ended up hooking up...

Well, just after we were resting and about to crash out in her bed, her 'boyfriend' guy shows up at the house, and I frantically was looking for my bits of clothing to put back on, but they were strewn about the room all over the place, so he busts in on us naked in bed - not good.

He proceeded to go off on us, and freaked out, and threatened me with various forms of unpleasurable violence, but luckily, some pushing and shoving was all it amounted too. He eventually stormed off and that was that, but the drama left us feeling a bit out of sorts, especially in relation to where we were just at.

Needless to say, it was quite an episode, and I felt like I was just in a movie or TV show... considering the fact that my friend is an actress among other things, I guess I should have expected no less... ah LA

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June 07, 2003

pow!

Being slammed is thrilling in a way. I guess maybe I am addicted the rush of being shot down. Last night I was pretty vanquished pretty hard core...

I just went up to a girl and asked her how she was doing, and she replied "are you actually asking me that?" or something to that effect.

I should have been shocked into stammering silence, but instead, I calmly replied "yes" and smiled back at her to which she merely turned away and that was the end of that.

Kinda reminded me of this interesting little animation that I saw at an animation festival before.

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