Mate, I hope you don’t feel offended if I pass (you look too hairy for my taste and my wife may not agree with it…) :-)
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Hey jason, glad to hear that I’m not the only one whose life is a total mess… After 13 years of marriage my wife decided to call it quits. So the only things I own at the moment are my canon gear, my Apple Dual G4 and the clothes on my back! ooh, she left me some knives and plates too… Not ready to date yet, though :-/
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Hahah… Photographer are not the best of dating material ! all said and done i wouldnt date a photographer.. Most photographer i know(moi included) are terribly self absorbed …being with another sociopath is not the best of solution !! :D
unless they belong to the all emcompassing mutated versions
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Try me!...I am not a sociopath!...then again, maybe a little bit…but I am not so far from Den Haag…and yet, not too close…haha!
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Jason, you’re a funny guy, could become a little incestuous don’t you think? I’d imagine some female photographers may have a minimum focal length requierment… I can just imagine the posts, ” Looking for a photographer…. funny, confident, no smaller than 400mm…” Or maybe some of the guys, boasting massive telephoto lenses.
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Take a leaf out of this book from a previous thread:
“Mike, i think you’re right. fuck wars, i’m going to find a rich little activist, marry her and lay by the pool in beverly hills. if anyone needs a place to crash while in rich-bitch-town, you can use my pool house.
i’m donating my gear to science.
by Guilad Kahn”
Remember the character Bill Murray played in Lost in Translation? He meets up with and scores on Scarlett Johannson, whose husband is a snapper who is too absorbed in his job to notice just how much of a babe his wife is and that some old timer is manhandling her.
Take a hint….
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All photogrpahers should be made to swear an oath of poverty, chastity, and disobedience. It’s a vocation after all, kind of like monks and nuns. Can you imagine 2 photgraphers as parents? (Shudders.) Won’t somebody just think of the children!
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Jason, you’re a funny guy, could become a little incestuous don’t you think? I’d imagine some female photographers may have a minimum focal length requierment… I can just imagine the posts, ” Looking for a photographer…. funny, confident, no smaller than 400mm…” Or maybe some of the guys, boasting massive telephoto lenses.
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John, I’m not sure I agree on the chastity oath… But I fit in the disobedience and poverty profile!
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Jason my man, aren’t we getting a little desperate in our old age? the main problem with the Israeli girls (middle eastern girls in general, except the beirut girls) is the G.P.S disease.. (or the GP Syndrom) once you learn how to contour that, you should be fine, even in Israel. come by Istanbul if you have a spare weekend, it’s GPS kingdom but usualy a good laugh. G.
p.s- i’m so happy my wisdom is being quoted! (4posts up)
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Ok J, i’ll take you up on that. let’s start a thread: 30 y/o photographer / cameraman. based in Istanbul (where i spend about a week every month) incredibly frustrated by my boss (ex boss if he read this) my widest is 15 and my longest is 200 i travel constantly between war-zones and conflicts, and love it. (with the ocasional election, event or political crisis) nowadays doing mostly Video (long story) but still love the stills. (do i get boos for that?) what else am i suposed to write? help me. G.
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Yeah great idea!
I am looking for an intelligent, funny, good looking, kind hearted photographer for romantic assignments around the world!!!
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Yeah great idea!
I am looking for an intelligent, funny, good looking, kind hearted photographer for romantic assignments around the world!!!
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this is begining to look like an Indian Martimonial add ” Wanted, Slim , fair, homely , educated ( preferablly doctors / Engineers) girl for Indian boy settled in somewhere out side of India” Hahahah ..
you guys should look at those for some guidance !!!!
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30 year old photographer. Currently based in the miserable prison that is small town England. Incredibly frustrated by huge, entirely self-inflicted, debts. I like rangefinders. Hmmm…stubby lenses. Not sure what that says about me. Canon 5d soon. Bored and planning to get the fuck away from here and back to the middle east sharpish. Badly in need of a haircut and a shave. How can i fail with a bio like this? J.
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Anyone who can aesthetisize even the most grotesque of this world – definitely get an extra 20 points in my book. Kitra
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hey jason i am dreaming of a 5d as well… wow we have something in common!!!!!!
Suchitra I have seen those ads in India and Sri Lanka and I have to admit that I got my inspiration from them…..what amazed me is they all looked for fair skin!!!
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Oh, forgot to mention, i’m also a dickhead. An English one, not Italian, but a dickhead all the same.
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jason, how old are you ? got any pics ? muahhh
angel
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Kitra, anyone who knows you would do anything to get 20 points in your book. i promise another bike ride if we meet on the next assignment. (any points for that?) G.
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Great! I love dickheads, they are my favorite! now we have 2 things in common…..
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This thread is reminding me why I avoid other photographers for most of the year!
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Diane and Allan Arbus were married photographers, and that ended well. Or why not marry a hot young thing who doubles as your model as did Stieglitz who married Georgia O’Keefe, 23 years his junior, or like Steichen, 80 years old, wife 28 years old. Gotta stay motivated creatively, right? Honestly, I think 2 photographers have a better shot at it than 2 painters, or 2 musicians. It’s worth a try.
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Diane and Allan Arbus were married photographers, and that ended well. Or why not marry a hot young thing who doubles as your model as did Stieglitz who married Georgia O’Keefe, 23 years his junior, or like Steichen, 80 years old, wife 28 years old. Gotta stay motivated creatively, right? Honestly, I think 2 photographers have a better shot at it than 2 painters, or 2 musicians. It’s worth a try.
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Yeah too right Erica! also Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Frank, right?
I have to admit i met enough photographers that live up their on bums though….. they are the ones to avoid!
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I already mentioned Lost in Translation. There is also a similar theme in Before Sunset where Julie Delpy complains about her war photographer boyfriend being away too often and being too involved with his job.
If anyone here wants me to look after their wives and girlfriends or daughters (minumum age 18-max 50) while they are away, then send me a couple of indecent pix and I will see what I can do. I’m very busy at the moment and I don’t come cheap, but if you have the money, then I can assure you that they won’t be lonely and won’t have the time to worry about you when you are off in far flung places.
Serious offers only please.
:-)
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Diane and Allan Arbus were married photographers, and that ended well.
Yup, in a divorce after 20 years of marriage… (not to mention her self-inflicted demise some 12 years later…)
Just splitting hairs here… (20 years and two daughters later is a lifetime, really)
:-)
L
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For any ladies who haven’t seen Mike in the flesh, he’s not a yellow dog. It’s just that he can’t reveal his idetity for fear that enemies of the fake sheikh will come after him. Ah, to live the life of an international man of mystery. Anyway, I’m off to work now, where drunken people will offer to take their clothes off if I get can them in my magazine. That’s an insult to my journalistic integrity!
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Chiara, I have TWO 5D’s…will share!...Kitra, I told you your colours were great…congrats, ;-) ... and I am romantic…
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Bruno now you tell me…... I was in Brussels for ages!!!
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Jason: Let me get this ball rolling for you… Fit, Furry & Fun SWM, 30, seeks BWF & BBF & BAF (any F but an SIF) for evening of RAW capture and experimental photography, all inquiries welcome…It’s bound to work for you man. You can thank me with a pint next time I’m in the UK ; )
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To quote Lightstalkers member Rita Leistner:
I rent a 3,500-square-foot New York loft with four other (male) photojournalists.
I share a bedroom with one, but there is no boyfriend.
Since 1998, I’ve dated photojournalists or journalists.
But they’re all a bunch of lying and cheating dogs, so it just hasn’t worked out.
(Want to read more about this subject? Get a copy of Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan)
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Sure why not. Photographers are some of the most adventurous and fit people you can meet. . . there have been quite a few women whom I’d like to meet just based on their portraits here on Lightstalkers! Bruno: how is it that you are relaxing?! You are always “working like mad” I thought! Davin.
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fit? you haven’t seen some of our friends in the middle east… (ooh.. i’m gonna get shit for this one…) any cute shutterbabes in Istanbul? my CF needs some emotional support. G.
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Oh common Jason!!!! what about our romantic nights in Jerusalem with Mike? How the hell was called that bar we used to go? I dont know what is worst to date in Israel, your Israeli girlfriend or a black listed ISM activist (in my case). the best girl(friend) is the one who thinks that a “stop” is a trafic sign, “memory card” some Sony PS2 stuff and athe only pictures that she have seen are the ones from their sister holidays in Ibiza. Then she will think you rock.
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Hmmm…Roger, had an activist girlfriend for a bit and (referring to Guilads previous post) she wasn’t rich, just bloody annoying. Swapped her for a rich Israeli girl who then subsequently swapped me for a rich Israeli boy. Ah well, such is life. Roger, you ever hear from Mike at all? Since i got back to England all i get from the fucker is silence.
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ummm… if a romance actually breaks out of this thread soem one mail me .. and let me know :D
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You will be the first to know…the very first, haha… ;-)
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just realised !! there are more men taking part in this discussion than women !! ..may be if you appealed to a wider audience .. there might …just might be a silver lining
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I have don’t really have anything to add, except to say that this is one of the most interesting thread that I have been following since I signed up in LS. I am just posting here so I get an email update each time there is a new post. :-)
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ok, it’s time to get serious. girls! where are you? why are there barely any posts from the shutterbabes? Kitra, you were here for a second and disapeared, we need you here. Jason, are you scaring the women away? (the place in Jerusalem you are reffering to is Mona? or Joshua?) i think we should start something related in the travel forum. instead of just looking for places to crash and travel partners, we could start a thread with places to meet photographers in different countries, travel dates, maybe even rate the best looking activists by geographic location… G.
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Yeah, spent a fair bit of time in Mona, and Bar Rood, and the Colony, and Putin (love that place, very dodgy Russian bar with pictures of Vladimir Putin all over the wall), but i think Roger is referring to Stardust: grubby dive on Rivlin Street, popular with art student girls from Bezalel.
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...and ‘best looking activists by geographical location’? Think that belongs in the resource section actually. Could be an invaluable guide to help people decide which conflicts to cover.
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this tread is great, its making a dull day a lot more interesting. i like the idea of places for photographers to meet. any suggestions for places in london?
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Been having fun too… lets have a party for LS photographers…
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I second that. A Lightstalkers Easter gathering in London anyone?
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sounds good. why not just pick a place to meet and then find a conveniently located bar.
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Stardust? i hate this hippy place! some people really need to discover the concept of shower. Putin is too weird for me, and mona has too many photojournalist.. (oh, that’s what we want..) but Colony is cool. you should try Joshua next time. Chiara: a party for LS, now you’re talking. i’ll be there. for istanbul i propose: 360, taps, leyla and touchdown if you like it noisy. any other ideas? G.
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just thought, a bar in old street (london) could be good. hhow’s that sound?
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Mmmmmmmmmm any ladies interested in coming? ?
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Spring fever! Well, you guys are cute but, I don’t see it happening in this lifetime. I am not a modern man, nor a mano-mano, and the girls are only showing us these posed headsots. I like this post, but so many guys to pick from, it’s like the back page of the Village Voice. Happy Landing! JPN
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Ha! This is a great idea, but a recipe for chaos…
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Old Street? Too close to Magnum… But my wife and I would love to throw a party for you loners out here in Phnom Penh…
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Phnom Penh? Now we’re talking…
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mmmmhhh, i enjoy this post, so here I am, one more woman in the thread: sounds like there can be chances!!!!¿?¿?
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come on folks it can’t be that difficult. i think it would be very cool for people to meet and have a few drinks. john if every you’re in london we can avoid being close to magnum.
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You are right Jason we are starting to behave like 5 years old… I go for drinks all the time as most of you, i am sure.. so lets get it together!!! no big deal… Cambodia does sound nice though….maybe we should meet there or we could all be on the same flight from London in fact…..
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You are right Jason we are starting to behave like 5 years old… I go for drinks all the time as most of you, i am sure.. so lets get it together!!! no big deal… Cambodia does sound nice though….maybe we should meet there or we could all be on the same flight from London in fact…..
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cool Chiara, combodia would be good. although, it could prove to be a very expensive night out. so where and we are we doing this?
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Dont mind…. east is good for me, I live in Brixton but I go ‘everywhere’ all the time.. the only thing I am not too sure about is if i am around next weekend (Easter)... what is everybody else’s thoughts? Bruno you can come for a drink it is only 2 hrs and a bit by train….. Dana it would be great to have at least another girl there or… well I will manage!!!
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east/central london is good for me. i can be pretty flexible at the moment when it comes to where and when.
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so where were we? the site was down for a while right?
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yeah, no problem…then again, 900+ local beers in Belgium, and the best chocolate in the world…maybe we should delocalize London to Brussels for a while…and it is far enough from Old street for John (and much closer to his family home ;-) )...So all LS, welcome to Brussels!
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next time i’m in town i’ll pop round for a drink then.
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if it’s Phnom penh, then i vote for Sharky’s. not the fccc! except for good pizza this place is so stuck up i actualy believed i was part of the club for a minute… (and as groucho said: i wouldn’t want to be a member of any club who accepts people like me as members) i’m getting a new apartment in Istanbul next week, great view in Cihangir, so you’re all invited to the house warming. (if it gets too crowded, we can always invade leyla, it’s the next door) i think, to be more realistic, we should make our first gathering (if you guys are serious) somewhere more central… like europe. unless the shit hits the fan in cambodia again, then i’ll get my boss to pay for the flight. g.
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London, Brussels, Cambodia, house warming in Istanbul: a busy social life beckons, but very doubtful i can persuade my new agency, or anyone else for that matter, to cover this. I vote London.
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Brussels is pretty central and, as Bruno mentioned, the beers are excellent! And what about Amsterdam? The Dutch got lousy beer but it’s a great city…
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“Can you imagine 2 photgraphers as parents? (Shudders.)”
Wouldn’t 2 photographers as parents = shutters?
Sorry.
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I throw in Paris… I mean it’s the capital of love. What do you want more? Okay they don’t have 900+ kinds of beer but great wine. Well, it seems hard to get people together so maybe just set up a time and a day to think of each others.
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What’s wrong with Perpignan in September? It should give all of you plenty of time to plan ahead. Or Germany for the World Cup Final (or riots). Find a place that all the cheapo airlines like Easyjet, Ryanair etc all converge on.
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This is the funniest and most ironic post I ever read on lightstalkers….......
Alessandra
Rome
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Perpignan is the center of the universe, Salvador Dali said…there you have it! Ryanair flights, direct from London…
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I won’t say “try me” as I’m happily engaged at the momentbut whoknows ‘bout the future? ha!
Alessandra again!
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And i thought Berlusconi was the centre of the universe…
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Jason….but I’m not engaged with Berlusconi!!!!!!!Ha ha ha!!!
Hope that Italy’s relantionship with the poor christo will end soon!!!!...I’m not sure about that 100% ..........I mean even if he will lose I think he will still keep his feet planted in Italy’s politics uhm…..we’ll figure out very very soon…
Alessandra
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He’s lyka da Jesus…and nobody F *s with da Jesus (see da Big Lebowski)..... anyone up for a pint when he hopefully will loose?
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I’ ll be up for it!+ u mention one of my all time favourite movie!!! Finger crossed!
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Chiara, more than one pint, if that’s ok for you! Power to the dickheads :-)
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Perpignan sounds good, we should talk to shinji about throwing an official LS party down there. maybe we can borrow Garry Knight’s amazing apartment… but that’s september.. i need a beer! i vote for brussels or Paris soon, and Perpignan as a second party. the problem with the world riots in germany or some other world event is that some of us will acutally be busy working… how about a weekend in morocco? i can borrow a friend’s house on the coast, he has something like 9 rooms. G.
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:) I’m going to go to Perpignan this year so it sounds great! :) Let’s do LS party! :)
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Morocco 9 rooms..? now we are talking!!! still would like a pint b4….london is the easiest option! (4 me….)
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yes.. 4 you. i vote for the beers and mussels of brussels… or the Paris wine and cheese. but now we are completely leaving the original idea of this post. so we have a party. but what about the LS dating agency? Chiara: fancy a drink? G.
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I’m currently somewhere off the west coast of Africa, will be in the Canaries sometime soon. After that… Dublin. After that… who knows?
With or without fellow lightstalkers of either sexual persuasion, I’ll be having a beer. Or several.
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hey dave, this is not AA. ;-)
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According to my MUM is very dangerous meeting guys off the net…........! London then?
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You haven’t had enough rejection, Mr. Kahn.
I tried that line and all it got me was: “I really like you, but I’m afraid that you will go and get yourself killed, so I’d rather date someone who is always here and has a nice, sensible job.” I got this kind of thing everyhwhere except brothels. One of my girlfriends even dumped me for an accountant whose idea of excitement was, yes, trainspotting (I am damn serious about this and it’s no laughing matter). I can only imagine that his bank account was bigger than my piggy bank.
I even tried the chat-up line that went something like “Hey babe, do you want to date a war hero?”, but then they would call for their big boyfriends and I would have to run like hell from the bar shouting “I do wars, not bar brawls!”
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I think there will be a smattering of female photogs at my opening on Thursday..ny LSers are welcome to start the experiment there. I am always wondering where the female photogs are, for solidaritiy purposes, not for being able to set you guys up with them. We seem to keep a low profile… (p.s. Luis, that was my attempt at sarcasm :))
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okay hers what we do. everyone in london who wants to meet can meet in london, if you’re in paris them meet in paris…etc, etc. hows that sound.
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Hey, the last few posts have vanished. I know this isn’t the most serious of threads but… Anyway, London drinks: Jon Perkins, who was involved in this thread a little higher up, is having a show in Putney near the end of the month. Seems like the natural time and place eh? Or if anyone’s really thirsty then there’s always the Easter weekend. And then, as i am really thirsty, a bash in Istanbul, then Brussels, then Perpignan, and then, if our livers hold out, maybe even Phnom Penh.
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Yes, sorry about that—we had to do an emergency disk swap and we lost about 6 minutes’ worth of data. Won’t happen again if I can help it…
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Guilad – I’m very thankful that this ISN’T AA. There really should be a ‘nowhere’ or ‘at sea’ option for LS travel…
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why does the site keep doing that?
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so who do i meet? there’s something like 3 LS photogs in this town, and none of them are taking part in this thread. and don’t tell me they don’t know about this thread, it’s been on the top for the past 4 days. Chiara: chill, we understand you’re not going to move anywhere, you can stop saying: so london? / let’s do it in London? / London Then? i promise, as soon as something big blows up in London, i’ll be there. Mike: did you try this line in Paris? or Jerusalem? it works. unfortunately, never for long term. maybe you’re not using the right tone, you have to say it with the under-the-moustache-indiana-jones-james-bond tone. not the donald-duck-completely-drunk-desperate tone.
G.
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I am soooooooo chilled Guilad! I wouldn’t mind meeting anywhere as i love travelling as much as the rest of us on this site….but I guess a london meeting for the locals and whoever else is around is a must! Wish you all a great week end x
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Hi guys, Following this thread for a while and just loving it. Sounds like a good idea to have a LSparty in Perpignan. Count me in. Have a great weekend. Wendy
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Hey John I think your oath of poverty, chastity, and disobedience is catching on
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Haha.. I have exhausted my possibilities dating photographers. I am thinking of trying publicists.
I remember interning at Magnum and one of the young photographers announced his engagement. Two older photographers huddled near the traffic desk (my post) and started listing off their (past and current) wives’ complaints about being married to traveling, self-absorbed, needy, emotional wrecks. They contemplated sharing this information with the younger colleague, but decided to let him enjoy it while it lasts. Both gave the marriage three years.
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Alex, does his robe have ceramic plates?
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I don’t think it would be as much the dating a “photographer” that would be nice, just someone that ACTUALLY understood when you have to call and cancel at the last minute, or would rather go work on a project than go to a movie, or have to take random detours to take pics, or can’t make plans any more than a day in advance, or doesn’t care that I don’t have a set schedule, or doesn’t mind listening to the ranting and raving about the copy desk after a bad day at work…god we’re a pain in the ass. no wonder I’m single;)
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I join with the Perpignan meeting, but if someone like to step in madrid, wellcome
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I was quite serious about the sway that a strong aesthetic vision can hold over a girl. It definitely adds to the level of “fitness”, at least when I consider a potential mate. I am also very excited to attend my first ever Perpignan and meet many of you aestheticizers there. Kitra
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I don’t believe in god but i think “The Gods Must Be Crazy” Why don’t you guys post your handsome, beautiful and sexy photographers from LS world Who is your favourite? ??? ??? :)))))) Holy f What am I doing?
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Canada
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haha.. and I think – photographers (male) thinks about ourselvs to much, they are egoists, bigheads and likes to much womens ;) – but not all of photographers of course! :) I don’t think I will have relantionship with photographer but… I think man with office work will not inerested me becouse he usually are borring… hmm… maybe jurnalist! :) or… I (photograher) will be old maid.. I hope not! :)
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Kitra, I like the way you write…hahaha, see you there!
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call to all lightstalkers! lets meet at the end of the month as the other jason suggested, the show in putney sounds good. jason can you post the details for the rest of us?
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At 5 in the morning the smokefilled bar is as dark as the man sitting in the shady corner. Catlike youwl of Jonsi the lead singer in Sigurros streams from the speakers and dose nothing to the set but increase the mans sighs and sink his shoulders in to the body. Sitting on the barstool like a bag of beans he sips on his lager and stares empty eyes out in to the crowd that is left at the other end of the bar. Beside him two domke bags look like they have been stuffed in a hurry. On the table next to the astray a big black pice of metal. The bartender shrugs and lets air from his lips in a low whistling tone when this guy puts out his cigaret, drags out a piece which looks like a handkerchief, and starts stroking this old metalpiece. From the dark mans mouth the bartender can detect these words: ”...love.. your my life… my love… my understanding….world”.
“Christ.”: the bartender thinks Yet an other worldsaving maniacal, how may of these does the world have to put up with>
He grabs a dishcloth and starts cleaning this pint glass.
“When are these morons going to learn. Stop trying to save the world and start saving your self”: he mumbles towards the black dressed man.
For a while the two of them are like in a vacuum midst the crowd, both cleaning their act.
The dark mans eyes start traveling the room and stop when they meet the bartenders.
His hands stop and he brakes out in a laughter as he realises, maybe he is not so much alone.
“Has he now gone totally bonkers”: the bartender thinks.
The dark man puts down his metal piece picks up the pint and finishes it in one sip.
Raises it towards the bartender and dangles it to signal his needs for an other.
Then suddenly he mumbles: “Hey mate, any chance of getting a date in this area”.
“Arghhh one of those”: the bartender thinks while he fills the pint.
“Well I must be able to take one more of those “Nobodyunderstandsmethingstory”. It seems to help.
As he walks towards the dark man and puts the pint in front of him he says
“So whats your story?”
The dark man looks up at him with these sad eyes, then suddenly grabs for his metal piece and shouts out:
“Hey hold that pose fore a while,
Wow what a beauty full light.
And the piece of metal starts singing Klick, klick klick…..
“Well my story” he says Klick..Klack…Klick…
“same old,...
klick…
same old”...
Klick..Klick….
Nobody understands …..
Klick…....
me…..
.Klick….Klick…..
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Here’s the link to Johns London show: htt |
