safeguy

So here I am. The old blog is back. I wish I could say that I have some grand plan for how I’m going to reinvent things here. Maybe at some point I’ll come up with a reason why you should stop by.

Right now, I got nuthin.

As it happens, I revived the blog almost by accident. I used to host my site with mediatemple. Despite the sweet UI for their admin section, their services sucked. After a year, it was time to leave. Well, as I switched over to inmotion, access to my tumblog at tumblr has been temporarily shut down. So, I figured rather than leave nothing here, I would put up the old site.

Notice my feeble attempts at updating the look. It’s called “Make everything that was white, black. Change all your blues to greens. And find a new self-portrait to hang in the sidebar.

Truth is, I’ve been tremendously busy at work the past several months, so I haven’t really felt inclined to write. But you don’t care about that. What you should care about is that most of my creativity (not associated with my day job) has been focused on taking pictures.

This is the moment I really wish I could reveal that for the past 5 months, I’ve been exploring the life of an amateur p0rn photographer. I would then link you to a free 30 day trial to my web-a-site.

Unfortunately for you, I pretty much just take pictures of my friends, my dog and people in costumes. You can see what I do on my flickr photostream.

This actually happened sorta by accident too. You see, I used to be quite the photographer. I shot for a few years with a fully manual Pentax K-1000. I developed my own film and made my own prints. I worked at a camera store for 2 years. I was pretty serious about it. I guess at some point I discovered beer, cigarettes, and girls and decided I was too cool. Or at least that I’d rather spend my energies on other things because I haven’t really shot much in the past 6-8 years.

As it happens, a friend ended up with an extra Canon XTI through a somewhat shady ebay deal, I became the benefitor, and now I have a new relationship with an old hobby.

It’s a whole lot like hooking up with an ex-girlfriend. You already know all the old tricks, but you’ve matured and grown more patient while she has gotten much more advanced and confusing, but that makes her more exciting, more alluring. You experiment; making old mistakes again, but watching the reactions and outcomes and how they play out just a bit differently this time. Just when you think you’ve got her mastered again, you turn the dial or take her into a different lighting setup and you’ve got to start learning all over again. Do I buy her a flash? Or are we better off in the natural, darker light?

Wouldn’t that be funny if it had anything to do with anyone or anything?

So here it is, my grand re-entry. Don’t expect to hear from me as often as before. Once my tumblr is back up and running, I’ll be posting videos, funny pictures, and links there as usual. This will probably be my diatribe space.

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Thanks for stopping by.