BBQ Party at back alley, Vancouver
Labels: photographs, Vancouver, wandering
Not quite saying I won't. But at this point I'm not in the mood of signing up for Facebook even though I received gazillion verbal recommandations and constant email invitation. Not to mention we've all seen this whole trend before with Myspace......so sooner or later people will move on to other social networking site.
I remember back in the days when i first sign up for Friendster I thought this is a great way to connect old friends. But then Friendsters quickly fell apart when people discovered Myspace....which to my personal opinion is a great layout disaster. As much joke as it is Myspace was a huge success and was really popular among teens. Then facebook came along......started by a university student who had very simple intention - connecting friends. The rest is hisory.
So will I sign up in the end? Possible. But I probably not going to put down anything other than my name and weblink for this site so I can redirect friends here since this is THE place where I'm active.
Although part of me still want to stay away from social networking site so I can stay invisible to some of old friends.
Labels: Facebook, Notes and Thoughts
Little Boy, Perpignan, France
Labels: France, On the road, photographs, wandering
Pedestrian Passing by the street with French flag hanging in the bacground during the opening match of World Rugby Cup, Perpignan, France.
Labels: France, On the road, photographs, wandering
Lately there's a quiet a few well known photographer or people who had significant role played in the history of photography passed away. But on the symbolic level it represents an end of the era, whether you like it or not. However this one hits me particularly hard since she passed away at prime.
An statement passed out on Oct. 05 to the public about photojournalist Alexandra Boulat from VII passed away in the hospital in France. She had suffered from brain aneurysm back in June while photographing in Gaza and never recovered after surgery.
My condolences goes to Alexandra, her the family and her friends at VII Photos.
Labels: alexandra boulat, Notes and Thoughts, Obituary
Outside Cafe Restaurant, Perpignan, France
Labels: France, On the road, photographs, wandering
Like many people who chose photography as their career once in a while he/she take a detour just to make the ends meet or just out of curiosity. I for one took this job for both reason - photographing high school students who are about to graduate in months time. It's a seasonal job that pays OK but at the same time very demanding since in six hours time you have to shoot about 80-120 students.....meaning 5 minutes per student.
Stressful job aside, observing these young customers coming for their photographs that representing a crucial part of their lives are entirely different matter. As expected when these teens coming for being photographed for their grduation purpose they would dress formally. But then some of the dress these teens wearing are just down right irritating(specially girls - big pink dress and tiara - princess wanna be). Then there's a whole phenomenon of just being teenagers - loud, routy, never take direction well, trashy talks, always left the mess behind and endless complaining - All signs of hermon still running high. These all take customer service as far as photographer's end to another level which is more or less between service and prenting.
The most interesting with all thesse teenagers, however, is that they are reflecting a generation who grew up with the kind of pop culture in favour of glamour and self-destructive-like self expression(e.g. Hilton and Spears) which make all the ugly side of growing up as teenager much more visible. Adding to the problem most of the kids grew up here are from fairly well off family so in certain extend they are a bit spoiled.
Watching these kids running around the studio chaotically I wonder: what's teens gonna be like generation to come?
Labels: Notes and Thoughts, teens
