your thoughts, your work...

i think it might be easier if you post your suggestions for an assignment right here, along with a link to your work...of course, i will also be reading the comments  and your suggestions on the previous post...i think i have seen all of the links sent so far, but i will double check...in two or three days i will finish making all assignments for this month,  but will be  out there ahead thinking  about future  projects all  the time...i look forward to your ideas and your new work....please remember: keep it simple, doable...

 

Comments

[Chris Hinkle]

David -

more than anything, no matter what the subject is, I have felt the need to move beyond the "image"...in other words I want to explore a looser less-literal look at the world and the photo essay...perhaps something along the lines of Trent Parke's 15 min till Midnight, or Pelligrin's work, or Kratochvil, or Christopher Anderson, and your own work in the way that it has that magic that lifts the image beyond the everyday scene...I'm not intersted in mimicking any of the aforementioned photogs style but feel I need to tap into more depth...anyway just some thoughts...

~ chris

[Katharina]

Hi David,..just sent you a message with a proposal.
katharina

[Paul Treacy]

Thank you David. That means a lot to me. I'm a little tired of the cuteness too and struggle getting past it sometimes. My new site will show a curtailed version of this material. Shooting a little video helps me to get past that cuteness and make better photographs, funnily enough.

Audrey's work on Rose blew my mind. Wow! Rather exquisite and sumptuous. Very secretive.

[david alan harvey]

KATHARINA....

yes, please tell me your idea...i only want to have a few per month, but i am not going to turn any good idea down..tell me, tell me...

ANA...

i am not sure if you have been to Senegal before, but if not, you are going to have so so so many things to think about...Senegal is rich in "picture material"...when do you go?? how long do you stay?? maybe you should wait until you get there and then tell me more specifically what you might be interested in photographing..anyway, you and Senegal are a good mix....let's just keep talking and we will come up with the right idea for you.....

cheers, hugs, david

[Katharina]

just did !

[david alan harvey]

CHRIS HINKLE...

yes, good thoughts...and good for you...

when i look at your portfolio it seems like you are trying to be all things to all people....all of it fairly well done, but you really need to do exactly what you said you wanted to do..get loose, get in, get "down"..

so, anything specific to turn you "on" right now???

Trent's work is all everyday stuff...at home with the kids and the dogs etc etc...Paolo is in conflict situations...so the imagery is "loose" but the subject matter very different...

so which way would you go????

david

[audrey bardou]

Thank you very much...
I would be delighted to have an allocation(attribution) of your part... if it does not disturb you, I would like to finish this month this my Rose's editions, I need to enclose my work to be able to pass in the other thing(matter)... I let you choose the subject which seems to you best...
Kind regards,
Audrey

[audrey bardou]

Paul,
thank you... I have just visited your site a lot of humor in your images, I like "woofers, plastic people, quirk street...!!
Kind regards,
audrey

[Michael Kircher]

Audrey and Paul...

Outstanding work from both of you! I am humbled...and truly inspired.

Merci!

[david alan harvey]

SIMON....

this is a tough one..and subjective...taking on the Vatican might be a big bite!! your first four pictures certainly symbolically drive home your point...but, i am not sure how you can take this forward....it is one thing to be symbolic as per some of your pictures, but to be specific is much more difficult...

let's stay talking about this one Simon..i am not so sure...but, i am also totally up for letting a photog run with something he or she truly believes in....so i am not discouraging, just asking you to think a bit more on how you can actually make this work..

ANDREW...

my first inclination would be for you to continue with jazz in Harlem....new pictures, but adding to your already significant body of work...again, i am always thinking book, book and book, and this could eventually be one...the other story on the teenage brothers is also good, but has a limit to it i think...sounds like a good newspaper picture page, but maybe cannot go beyond.... i would forget the "forgotten neighborhood"...for some reason those stories generally tend to fall flat...of course, you should shoot your dad's birthday no matter what!!!

cheers, david

[Ana Yturralde]

Oh yes, I have been in Senegal a couple of times in the last months and all my latest work was done there. I am now in charge of a big cultural project there in exchange with spanish artists...
And now I'm going for the presentation of that project during the biennial (DAK'ART 08). I will go to Dakar at the end of the month (may 25th) and will stay for a couple of weeks just to attend the presentation, to have a couple of exhibitions of the work I did there before and to manage several artistic workshops with spanish and senegalese artists all together (they will create something all together sharing their cultures). Besides, I also have plans to shoot a new work but still have to do some formalities to get the permission.
Thanks for thinking that Senegal and me are a good mix. There I have access to very interesting subjects, music, health (aids, malaria...), poverty, art, cinema, fashion, religion, talibes (kids from the street).... as my project is involved with all of it...
Un abrazo!
Ana

[david alan harvey]

ANA...

can you send me a link to the work you have already done in Senegal??? you mentioned so many different subjects and i am just trying to imagine the best one for you....

never mind the link...just found it on your site...let me look and think..

cheers, david

[Herve]

David, you may have missed the post where I explained my situtation right now makes it impossible to devote all the energy and thoughts to such a project I will give a thought to shooting what keeps me tied down in SF, but frankly, it falls under long time, 4+ seasons assigments).

I hope to be free of responsibilities by next fall. To be honest too, I am, thanks to the richness of this blog, in a constant state of flux, ie delightfully conflicted, as to what I can propose and how to go about it.

Maybe Ross's answer confused me yesterday, with another or 2, it seemed whatever they will do for the next months, or already started would be their "assignment" when you'd call them in.

My understanding is that you are going to play editor, but not out of a vacuum, having talked (e-mailed) to "your" photographers, knowing their work a bit, and telling them "Ok, I want you to work on this, this month", rather than "interesting idea, why don't you add a few pix to what you shot already and send"...

[Jeremy Wade Shockley]

David,

I recently had the opportunity to photograph the Hozoni Days Powwow in Durango. Native American culture has always intrigued me, it is "another" culture, almost a "foreign" culture within our own. I want to take this further. I have been invited, along with my camera, to another Ceremony, another Powwow. It is still a few months out, but I see this as the perfect opportunity to "Push" myself on a short assignment. Who better to critic "Powwow" photos than DAH! Here is a link to my recent work.

http://fedoraphoto.blogspot.com/

I look forward to hearing your thoughts! -Jeremy

[david alan harvey]

PETE....

clearly picture number two is the strongest....the first picture is a picture of water and sunset sky, not even any fire...could even be a training excercise...the second picture shows "reality" with smoke, fire and a "tie in" to people...

[david alan harvey]

HERVE...

ah, i see maybe why you were confused....yes, i will "play editor" , and i am interested in work already shot, BUT the work presented to us here will be all new work..so the "past work" is reference and commitment and the new work will be the assignment...some of these lines will be a little blurred of course as they are in "real assignment land"...the whole point here is to show good work by members of this forum just as the whole point of a magazine editor is to publish a good story...period.

hopefully by me guiding a bit and critiquing a bit the flow of the photographers story will change and/or improve even if they were working on the story anyway...also, some photographers need one kind of guidance, others need another kind and others just need a "green light"....

for a "real world" example, my assignment for Cuba from Natgeo came after i was already working on my own in Cuba..NG had my reference material....this led them to correctly believe that i was seriously interested in Cuba.. they then gave me an assignment... financed another several weeks of work...editors love it most when a photographer is committed to a subject...conversations like the ones we are having here right now are realistic mini versions of the conversations between editors and photographers at magazines etc ...by the way, several of the pictures published in the Cuba book (NG) were pictures i had shot down on the island on my own before i had an assignment...so it all rolls together when thinking of a photographer's body of work and when publishing that photographer's body of work...

[Pete Marovich]

There were some people who felt the back of the kid's head partially blocking the firefighers was distracting. It doesn't bother you?

[Anna Boyiazis]

DAVID,

I would like to further develop the AIDS orphan story I've begun. What I've accomplished so far is just the tip of the iceberg... simply a few days of shooting... I already have the access and a clear set of plans laid out for this work (what I intend to shoot + how I intend to exhibit the work). I could begin as early as October, but think November/December is most realistic. I've been working my butt off on this project by working to secure it's funding. This hasn't happened yet, but I'm determined it will.

A second idea is to photograph the relationship btwn my cousin's three daughters (ages 11, 12, 14) in Florida, the oldest of whom has Down's Syndrome. As you describe from personal experience, she is the glue. My window for this project would be June.

Here's a link to some of the AIDS orphan pictures:

http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/11163

Anna B.

**********

ERICA,

Hope you received my «thanks» to you on the previous post...

Anna B.

[tom hyde]

Hmmmm .... crickets. Not good.

[tom hyde]

Pete, tried to register to comment on your blog but didn't work. For me, real human emotion and impact in a crisis situation trumps anything else. Composition, focus, even telephone poles sticking out of people's heads are secondary considerations for the secondary edit. Between the two, no question, number two. The second child's head is a bonus not a detraction I think.

[SF Jason]

Monsieur HERVE!
Put together a photo essay idea for DAH. Doesn’t have to be complicated.

Those of us who don’t have a portfolio/ body of work are rooting for you!
Use some of that gargantuan cranium of yours and dazzle us with a few
Concepts. Eh?

For instance, I might do a CHILDISH EMOTION essay on my own since I can’t find time to get out and shoot like I used to.
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/4872976_f7v3u#290842553_Nj58w-M-LB

Some day, I will have time to do a real essay on The Underground Catholic Church that upholds the Traditional Latin Right and how some traditional priests who are not underground have been suppressed.

peace out,
j

[david alan harvey]

PETE....

no, not at all...i mean , do i wish that maybe maybe the kids head was just a little over to the right??? well, yes, but i wish things like that for almost all pictures...

again, the first picture has no fire, no billowing smoke, no real people....just a nice cliche silhouette...

the second picture has the fire and smoke,visual layers, people and is just flat out a better picture all around, esthetically etc etc...

[erica mcdonald]

ANNA,

just went to it, I am glad.. and went to your LS link on the orphans in Uganda..stunningly beautiful and of course I see why they have stayed with you. I wish I could buy you a ticket and cover you expenses right now..Do see the Klich book, it's more, perhaps, toward my visual aestetic, but the beauty and truth move beyond taste and style.

ALL..

Your ideas and expressions are beautiful. I confess I sometimes move into the 'what for' about photography..but I am moved by all the desire and willingness to create written before us here.

LE GRAND DAVID

(Who was the magician in my neighborhood growing up)

Do you see the length of time given in which to complete an assignment to all to be equal? Or decided case by case?

(and keeping up to speed I ask, this time a la Cat Stevens..

When you comin home, I dont know when,
But we'll get together then,
We're gonna have a good time then..)

[Herve]

Ok, I want to tackle an essay having to do with one of the myriad issues cambodians are confronted with, or simply living with, since they have long learnt to make do with them for decades now.

So, not before next fall or winter. Not reneging, Jason, just not physically possible now, and that goes along with Bob's wishes too, and the fact that at 3 to 5 a month, we indeed have time to work on our synopsis.

[tom hyde]

Erica ... Harry Chapin, often mistaken for Cat Stevens. :))

[tom hyde]

... And Chapin started out as a documentary filmmaker, nominated for an academy award ... but switched to music.

- Cliff Clavin

[erica mcdonald]

ah! I'll have to listen to the original version, only have known Cat's to date, thanks..

speaking of doc films and filmmakers, and thinking of desire and dreams and projects, if ever you feel you won't be able to make your own manifest or need a kick in the pants, watch Burden of Dreams about Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo..."Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or I end my life with this project."

sorry for the diversion..

[Chris Hinkle]

David -

My portfolio definitely has the feeling of "everything to everyone", partly borne out of trying to survive and make a living as a photographer...and much of the photography was assignment driven, thus the look that it has...the reality is that someone else has been at the wheel driving my portfolio - not the images - but the overall look of my portfolio, certainly...I'm ready to move on though, so...

I think July would be a great time for me to work on something...I am taking the month to drive from Tucson to (home) MI and have a few different ideas in mind.

1. I would like to explore the drive - perhaps Highway 191 that travels from Douglas, AZ on the Mexico border North, transecting the West, through the Navajo Nation, various geography, National Parks, small towns (perhaps a look at Main St America, West of the Mississippi, along the Continental Divide), and multiple geo-political borders including the polarized Mexican and Canada borders.

2. Upon arrival to MI I have been feeling the need to explore my past. I left home when I was 19 and have moved about 20 times since then...I grew up in a small town and was more than happy to pack my bags when it came time but most of my family and people I grew up with stayed and still live within miles of where they (we) grew up...granted I have not kept in touch with anyone really but still feel the need to "visit" with my camera...perhaps its the death of my Grandpa 8 years ago and the recent death of my Uncle that lingers in my mind and had created some desire to go back and explore, somewhat selfishly, with my camera...maybe its the image of my Grandma alone, not sure...anyhow this could be something...

3. I live in the desert, everything is dry, dry, dry, and soon to be hot, hot, hot...I crave water and am very interested in exploring some B/W landscape photography of the Great Lakes with lots of open space, negative space, open airy, loose but precise photos

4. Bike culture...I was a bike messenger for 3 years in Minneapolis...I've thought loosely about digging into the bike culture here in Tucson as well as a deeper investigation into it in other cities...I think this is longer than a month, however...

5. I will be in Guanajuato in Nov/Dec, I think July would be a great time to learn something here from you and the other bloggers and use my new "skills" to my favorite city in Mexico : )

-- the most important concept that I want to work on with an essay in the above topics or something completely different is not an essay about the "subject" that I have chosen but an essay about the feeling of that subject, about what is there underneath it all, not where I grew up but the feeling of where I grew up, then and now, not the Highway from here to there but the emotion, feeling, the abstraction of the path...

this is a big bite to chew in one month, I'm not sure I can get there from here, right now, or in July, but this idea of abstraction is exactly where I would like to go...

If there is something here that you feel is worthy let me know, otherwise I'm sure I can come up with others...

~ Chris

[david alan harvey]

ALL...

i must now get in the car and drive...listen to Cat Stevens "Fathers and Sons" and, well, i am still sad about Harry Chapin...anyway, a
family awaits me several hours from where i am...and i see proposals are flying in here faster than i can handle them this afternoon..so, please be patient, i will get to them all as soon as possible...

cheers, david

[erica mcdonald]

come and get in the car..we're on the road again family, sit back and enjoy the ride

..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlGLuRlhW3c

[bobblack]

DAVID:

sent you an email with Kyung-Hee's email :))...cc'd her too :))...

PATRICIA: yes, sure, no problem...will write you tomorrow :))

HERVE: great!...you know that land as well as you do analytic dialogue, and i, for one, would be thrilled to see a story from your work there too :)))...

AUDREY: C'EST MANIFIQUE...it's tender, sad, insightful work, especially the sequence and relationship between Rose, her surroundings, objects and clients...it's really about the way each of us measure ourselves against seen and unseen things....beautiful and humane work...encore :))

ana: :))))))))...THOUGH, i've THOUGHT that for a while :))

ERICA: SHOW DAVID 40 DAYS (and cricket)...immediately!

ok, off for a few days..

hugs
b

[Gui Galembeck]

Hi David ! As an assignment, I would love develop and shoot a project with people and families extremely related to biodisel production in Brasil. They are called the "Boias Frias". As a family work, I'll be continuing my father's work in the 70's /80's so that's a honor if I can have it as an assignment, this or next month.

Unfortunately, I didn't start yet... I am planning to start very soon... this's my idea. What do you think ?

[Velibor Bozovic]

Hi David and All,

This will result in many assignments and will be interesting to see the results.
However, I already have an assignment so I don’t know if I would qualify for some creative exchange of thoughts within this community since it is not an assignment given to me by DAH. I will share the info nevertheless.

This summer I am going back to Sarajevo, to Bosnia, to work in collaboration with a professor from York University in Toronto on the Middle Ages cemeteries in Bosnia. These cemeteries are unique, they go back in time when Ottoman Empire conquered that part of the world and the tombs often have both Christian and Islamic symbols crafted on the same stone. The material will end up in a book. But since her work is academic and photography needs to focus on epigraphy it will be a rather limiting creatively.
Of course, as a fan of the world of the dead, I will use the opportunity to do something for myself. This is where I would be looking fwd to some exchnage with all the nice people here. Now, these cemeteries are all over Bosnia and it is not quite clear if all of them still exist, some might be bulldozed over and the neglect (given the recent past) is ever present. The living do not have much respect for the living not to mention for the dead. Dead is dead and I have to find a way to communicate with it. This will be a great challenge for me since my photography, mostly, is about nothing and nobodies. Finding nobodies in the Middle Ages cemeteries should not be a problem though. It is finding nothing that concerns me…
I'm leaving for Bosnia mid June and coming back in September and would be happy to share here what I have, if DAH agrees... BTW here is the link to my site, http://www.veliborbozovic.com/ where you can see my work...

I’ll use this opportunity for some shameless promotion. The Lazarus Project, book by Aleksandar Hemon, is out now, it features my photographs throughout the book (as well as the photos from Chicago Historical Society). It is a wonderful novel and I really recommend it to anyone interested in displacement, immigration, identity, creative process, love, war, life and death and literature; and good laugh. The reason why I mention this book here is (since we are all photographers here) that photography has a very important role in it, since one of the main characters in the narrative is a photographer and photographs stand for him. The reviews are coming out all over the US papers and here, http://vebahood.blogspot.com/, you have some of the links if you are interested to find out more.

BOB, now that the thing is out, we got to get together again and talk about it…

On that note, I’ll be in NY this weekend to attend the reading in B&N Tribeca on Friday at 19h00. It features the slideshow of the photos from the book. Would be great to meet some of you.
Also, there will be an exhibit of my photos from The Lazarus Project starting May 19 in Madron gallery in Chicago, somewhere in Wicker park neighborhood.

DAVID, are you in NY this weekend, I would love to meet and give you the copy of the book?
And sorry for taking up the space to promote something that has nothing to do with this community… but then, it does, I hope...

[cathy scholl]

DAVID,

"do i wish that maybe maybe the kids head was just a little over to the right??? well, yes, but i wish things like that for almost all pictures..."

Good to hear that...This is the second revelation you have made in the last couple days (the first was about essays really being strong singles) that has made me feel I'm not alone in the world :))

BTW, I'm not confused any longer about what is happening here. Was only sharing that with Herve to let him know he wasn't alone. I originally thought you had something else in mind, something much less taxing on you, that didn't involve most here on the blog...but as usual you are GOING BIG TIME!!! Beyond anything I could imagine you doing.

Very interesting to read all the great ideas and see the links. The energy and enthusiasm levels are higher than ever here. Truly a "good idea."

[Jason Andrew]

David,

I've been away from the site over the past few months as I've had to take care of some personal business outside of photography but I would love to be a part of this. Please keep me posted and as always, it's a pleasure to listen to everyones thoughts on this crazy and addictive world we call photography

[Ana Yturralde]

DAVID,

In my blog there are only random pictures and only very, very few of them are the ones I included in my work. There is no website where I have the complete reports I did in Senegal. As I told before, I will exhibit them in Dakar during the biennial DAK'ART and that is the reason why I did not show them until now. Now I'm finishing the editing and in a couple of days will start printing and framing. In three weeks all of it has to be in Dakar!!

[Ross Nolly]

HERVE:

Sorry to be confusing, it wasn't my intent... I'll try and clarify what I meant….

I was always going to do my project; it’s been planned/booked for about 4 months. It is a self funded project for a cause I strongly believe in.

I was mostly seeking clarification from David as to the best way to work the project. His input helped me define my shooting style, and I’m extremely grateful for that.

David mentioned it as an “assignment”, not me. I’m quite happy just to put a web link on the blog for the members to view and critique the resulting work.

I don’t sit back & wait for editors to give me assignments; I believe I have to be self-motivated enough to get out there & get my own projects up & running. If I didn’t do that I would get no work at all. Sure I get some editors contact me with article ideas, but 90% of my work evolves through my own ideas.

I’m happy to leave all the decisions up to David.

I hope this helps a little….

Take care everyone.

[Akaky]

Mr. Harvey, I suppose I could give your idea a whack and see if it works out. I'm assuming this:

http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/12393

...is the sort of thing we're talking about here. Apropos visual humor in general, does anybody know if jokes in American Sign Language count as sight gags?

[Simon Griffee]

David,

I think you're right. The Vatican is a big bit—likely a project to be worked on over a longer period of time. I have to think about it more, explore ideas, something this forum is invaluable for.

Being specific is indeed difficult, a balance…too specific and maybe it begins to look trite…? Too nebulous and your point is lost…

And sometimes there are just beautiful images, with no specific 'point' to them other than to be looked at and pondered…Gotta strive to just get the most beautiful picture possible while staying loose, without thinking too much about the 'subject'…as Cartier-Bresson said, I think, photography is similar to zen archery… I like how you described how you are just looking for good photos when you are out with your camera and not necessarily thinking about what you need for the project…very helpful stuff.

I'll keep on the Vatican's case, but will also come up with another project that I can do in a shorter period of time even if I do it in parallel to the other assignments given out here. Got to give myself my own deadline!!

Thank you for looking at my photographs and for your comments!

[Pete Marovich]

David

Many of us are still sad about Harry Chapin. Such a waste. I will never forget that day.

[Anna Barry-Jester]

Audrey-
Incredibly beautiful...insightful, inspiring...

[Joan Gummels]

Erica,

I watched the Cat Stevens video...but then clicked on "Yusuf Islam Father and Son 2007." Incredibly moving to see him sing it once as young energetic "son" and next as decades further-on down the road "father," radiating calm.

Joan

[erica mcdonald]

I'd love to see Audrey's piece, but the link plus name audrey b and password 15 minutes isn't getting me in..thoughts?

[erica mcdonald]

I'd love to see Audrey's piece, but the link plus name audrey b and password 15 minutes isn't getting me in..thoughts?

[Simon Griffee]

Erica,
The password should be 15minutes with no space I believe.

Audrey,
Beautiful black and white images! The one in the café(?) with a window separating the booths is a favourite of mine.

[erica mcdonald]

Simon, thank you..

AUDREY..

ca fait longtemps que j'ai vu le travail qui me parle comme cela de La Vie Comme Rose..c'est dommage que votre amitié est cassée..mais le travail existe at ca c'est important aussi. Les images que je trouve la plus fortes sont celles qui sont tres près de son corps, que me faisait penser a vieux travail de quelques maîtres..votre engagement et votre intimité m'inspire vachement..merci..et pardon pour mon Francais qui est moins que parfait!

[Thomas White]

DAVID;

I'M CONFUSED:
In your first post you suggested that you would give the assignment based on your knowledge of us. Here it seems that you want us to create our own assignments. (After two workshops together you know how terribly I over complicate my personal projects and self assignments.)

Either way count me in.

SUMMER PROJECT IDEA (maybe you can help me simplify it):
The US Army is looking to expand a training base a couple hours south of here. To do that they will have to take away all or part of several small family ranches. The Army already used eminent domain to take portions of these same families' ranches during WWII. Now they are back asking the same ranchers for further sacrifices.

I want to shoot a series of images that would help the ranchers win sympathy for their fight against the Army. (No pretense of neutrality here.) I would need a couple of weeks for research and making contacts.

[Herve]

Hey Erica, I like the Park slope series, and have to watch the rest of your site, but just now: is it my screen or are some of your whites blown out and losing relief from over-exposure? I am intrigued because I see very few pictures without at least a stark white feature, and the greys and blacks are so aptly exposed to great effect and expression.

[erica mcdonald]

oh herve, I don't quite understand the question and am not sure we should take up too much space here..but quickly.. are you looking on photojournale, and saying I need more detail in the white areas? my real website will be ready in a couple of days, maybe wait and look there..

[Panos Skoulidas]

PEOPLE OF THIS FORUM...
I'M BACK... ( i never left ).... Two sweet people emailed me today,
just checking... if i'm still alive... DAVID A H, and ANNA...
THE ONLY REASON I'M HERE IS TO "SHARE"... so let me reveal what i wrote to
David and Anna...

"...Im in a frenzy ...
I need to give "birth".. I work around my Venice katharsis from the demons..
I'm creating a story...about
"THE INSIDERS"...
For me to do more accurate work..
I had to "get in"... To be "accepted",
and guided by the "VENICE INSIDERS"...
That required trust, friendships, enemies, addiction, luck,..
Being Greek and naive also helped..

Now, the INSIDERS THAT I CHOSE:

4 VENICE PERSONALITIES..

Not the easy ones, not the homeless or the whores..

I found a HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER,
Bob D, the guy he produced the movie "FLIGHTPLAN" with Jodie Foster..

I also "followed" two ROCK STARS..
TONY HERNARDEZ aka. JIM MORRISON,...

And RAZOR the lead singer of the
"hair metal" band,"THE METAL KNIGHTS"...
And last but not least..

A CON MAN, a CON ARTiST...using the fake name
"Stephen Lynch"... Pretending to be the legendary guitar player from the eighties rock metal band "THE AUTOGRAPH"...
I wanted to see Venice through their senses..
I followed them everywhere...
RAZOR , for example worships SATAN.. But I also followed him in a catholic church...
Etc...
I'm trying to make all that visual and worthseeing...,David..

Thats why I wasn't posting..
I was struggling trying to write a ", script",
Trying to stay in touch with those "real" characters.. Even the names I used for them are their real ones..
I will, hopefuly start introducing those characters tonight in your/"our" blog...
I'm working a little harder.. These days..
I need to give birth to that "Venice baby" ... It needs to see the light...

SO I STARTED DIGGING VENICE AGAIN...
I'M READY TO SHOW YOU A "PRE-VIEW"...

http://web.mac.com/innerspacecowpanos/VENICE/VENICE_BEACH_PREVIEW.html