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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!