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• random print

  Monday, Feb 11, 2008 4:22PM / Standard Entry

  Print work is a weird thing.  Very weird. 
  
  I've been doing a lot of it more than anything else it seems in the last 6 months or so.  It's always welcome.  Sometimes I get to go to places like Rome, or Ossining, NY (this past week I went there for an IBM shoot at the IBM think-tank headquarters, kinda cool, kinda weird), or usually, it's just somewhere about town here in NYC.
  
  Always though, always, it's a trip as to where on Earth these things ultimately show up.  And always, always, it seems that a friend finds it somehow and sends it over to me as I'm the last to know when/where/why it shows up where it does.
  
  I remember once, over 10 years ago, before I even lived here, a friend of mine said he saw me on a billboard in New York City for Pacific Sunwear!  They never told us anything about being on a billboard in the big apple!  A different friend saw the same ad while in med school at Columbia during that time when he was eating fried chicken, putting the bones on a copy of the Village Voice, and noticed mid-bite that he was sticking the bones down on my face!
  
  These days, I'm hearing about ads online, on billboards in Asia, signs in Canada, or condo complexes in Burbank.  Usually, the ads never turn out the way I think they will.  A couple of times, they've taken liberties to photoshop things in rather odd ways.  Once, I was given extra hair in a Samsung cell phone ad and in another, they put a backpack on me when I don't recall wearing one that day.
  
  And still, sometimes, it's the ad that is just plain weird.  Like this one.  I'm eating a chinese donut while thinking of.....?
  
  
  
  randomness....
  
  
  I like this one.  I captured it off my computer when it was turning images, so no, the ad wasn't designed this way and you're not seeing things.
  
  I don't even know what this one's for....
  
  
  
  my feeling is that the 2 flanking me are actually from the asia region.  i was standing somewhere in nyc, i think.
  
  
  
  this isn't an ad, just a photo of me in the mad scientists' lab at ibm in upstate new york.  some crazy smart people up in here:
  
  
  
  
  

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• scanner

  Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 3:22PM / Standard Entry

  Wow, it's been awhile since I posted anything here...well, I've had good reason.  I was in Hawaii for the last month and just got back to NYC.  There's, no joke, a 60 degree difference, and that makes me want to scream.  Bad.  I can't go into how good Hawaii is here.  I'll get mad cause I miss it so much.  I'm here in NYC now where it's so cold outside that no one wants to go out.  Thus, I'm sitting around here on a Friday night installing my brand new printer/copier/scanner/fax machine I bought a week ago.  This is how lazy I can be (or busy, I'd prefer to call it).  I got this thing last week.  It came in a huge box.  And I just let the box sit, unopened in the middle of my room, for the entire week.  I just stepped around it to avoid it and just let it sit and sit and sit and sit.  I think most people would rush to rip it open and put it all together.  I used the box as a table and put my food, paper, clothing on it whenever I sat at my desk.  It was actually really handy.  It's taken a crazy cold weekend evening when I'm at home to finally get around to opening the puppy up and installing it.  And...I love it!  Just tooling around now and scanning some photos of stuff to see how it turns out.  It ain't perfect, but it's better than nothing I guess.  (Incidentally, when I got an iPhone a few weeks after it came out, I didn't open it for 2 weeks.  I had a trip lined up to LA and decided I would open the box and activate it once I got there.  Wouldn't you know it, when I landed in LA, I had a voicemail from a friend telling me Steve Jobs had lowered the price on the iPhone $200 and was giving folks $100 store credit if they had already bought one and started using it.  Well, since I hadn't even opened the plastic off the box yet, I went into the store in Pasadena and sho 'nuff,  was able to go one step better.  I got to get the full price adjustment on it since I hadn't opened it at all yet.  So see, it pays sometimes to wait a long long time to open your cool new things).
  
  Onto my scans...
  
  My friend Amy Dunn and I have been getting good mileage with some random photos we took a couple years ago now.  They're popping up all over the world as friends from Canada to Hong Kong to Taiwan (like this one) keep spotting stuff and sending it to me whether by picture mail, or in this case, stealing it off the desk of some bank worker and mailing the actual thing to me.  Thanks, Crystal!
  
  
  
  This photo is just an old photo I had sitting around (when I still used a film camera) of Joan Chen, myself, Lynn Chen, and Michelle Krusiec from the Toronto Film Festival in 2005 when we were there for Saving Face.  Ah, Toronto, I love Toronto:
  
  
  Man, I gotta seriously figure out how to just scan photos without all the white space (as well as not make our faces all just white-washed out!)  Or, I guess crop the image to eliminate the dead space.  Oh well, another day.  (I realize I look like a tool as I'm sure there's some way to scan it all nicely and not idiotically like I did).
  
  This last one was from a gig I did in Rome last summer for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.  My faux wife from the shoot, Jennifer Takaki, hounded the agency for the actual copies of the catalogue (I'm bad at that stuff, I can't even open boxes of new toys) and mailed me some.  Thanks JT!  That's us in front of the Coliseum.  Sometimes I wonder why they didn't just photoshop us in front of it instead of flying us all the way out to Italy to shoot  the real thing.  These days, who could tell?  Hmm, I hope this post isn't going to be read by any ad agency decision makers! 
  
  
  
  
  

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• yaaawn

  Friday, Dec 21, 2007 3:45AM / Standard Entry

  This JC Photo Exhibit AnD is throwing looks hawt!  Wish I could see it...
  
  It's been awhile since my last post but I've had good reason.  Or I think I've had good reason anyway.  Things got kooky busy in new yawk/la the last few weeks and now...I'm in hawaii!  For a month.  Yup, I said one month!
  
  With my family going to China this year for the holidays, I decided to take myself out to the Aloha state and while I didn't really intend to stay out here that long, after thinking about it to myself, I said, "Self, why not?"
  
  My good friends are hosting me, I've got lots of self time of which I'm going to use to attempt - I said attempt - to start to write something.  Maybe a screenplay, maybe just mush.
  
  I've only been here a few days and already I never want to leave.  Last night, I went on a run with the Niketown running club around Waikiki.  While we were going by the ocean, I thought for a second that I'd died and gone to heaven.  I mean, could there be a more serene scene?  I could run forever here.
  
  
  

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• a thousand words

  Thursday, Nov 29, 2007 2:40AM / Standard Entry

  My friend and a talented UCLA Film School grad, Ted Chung, put this together.  I'm waiting for the sequel.  Ted, who I met through an East West Players acting class one summer, is another one I've got my eye on. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• silent beats

  Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007 11:18AM / Standard Entry

  I've got my eye on Jonathan Chu.  He doesn't even know this, but I worked with him when he was a little kid and I was in college, acting in this short in San Francisco.  When he re-emerged in recent years, getting tapped by Steven Spielberg to do the remake of Bye-Bye Birdie, I knew his name and face all sounded real familiar.  Seems that project stalled, but he's gone onto do some other things including his first feature debut coming out next year Step Up 2 the Streets.  Looks Honey-esque.  Not generally my cup of tea, but good for him.  He's got crazy talent.  Check out this short:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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