peace

ah .... i'm almost done with editing my "own edit" of fashion week.  not answering the phone when the designers and "their people" call as ... i just don't want to be bothered.

yeah, that ... and scanning over a hundred friggin' images.  did you know that weather and atmospheric conditions fuck with film scanners?  whatever.  i hate film scanners.  well ... no i don't ... but right now i do.

and ... instead of figuring out how to clean this bitch ... it's been a couple years ... i'm buying a new one:

konicaminolta.com/products/con…

supposed to be the shit.  don't need multi-formate capability any longer.  i'll just stick with 35mm.  if i need to go bigger, we have an imacon at the office.

here's a photo reportage posted by the king of putting shit together, patrick kahn:

www.bookla.com/eventsfdr/2005/…

it's always interesting to send someone a hundred friggin' images and see which of them they pick.

can you believe the right-to-life idiots?  as much as i try to get away from the news ... it's all over the place.  they're trying to save some poor lady that is probably better off in a better place.  i mean ... i'm against the death penalty.  isn't it better to have someone rot in a cell than to take their life?  i think so.  don't the 10 commandments say, "Thou shall not kill?"  i don't see any sub-categories saying, "well, you can, but it must be in time of war" or whatever.

these right-to-life idiots.  like ... get a life.  a job maybe.  try a fucking blue state for a while.  they're all for saving this poor vegetable and unborn children but they want to kill anyone convicted even under the most dubious terms.  really, are they God?  

song change:  damien rice - woman like a man

bush says the other day that erring towards life is always correct.  what about that fucking law the idiot passed in texas in '99.  something like the compationate termination of life act.  

i see no difference in the fundamentalism of the muslim terrorists and the right-to-life-reborn-creeps.  well ... except our domestic variety don't usually accessorize their fashion with explosives.

i feel like our state (cali, for those that don't already know) has been moved north.  all we get are clouds, coldness and fucking rain.  this is fucking so cal.  where's the fucking sun.

i'm sure it's bush's fault.

positive.

i really think he hates us.  we're like the fifth largest GDP in the world.  our taxes buy all stupid war toys and ... he hates us.

on a positve note ... i was able to pick up several bricks of Agfa APX 25!  so happy.  i've been scouring the earth to find this film.

no ... digital cannot replicate it.

i know ... the "digital-only people" will say ... "here you go again with the digital vs. film bullshit."

shadow detail.  i'll put my negs against your file anytime.

especially the apx 25!  film from God.

the new website is now done.  probably tomorrow.  i hope it'll permanently reside at:

www.chrisweeks.net

chrisweeks.com was taken by a british mathematician.  of course a fucking mathematician.  he's an expert on crop circles.  i really don't like math.  especially the kind they're teaching in our local school district.

i really want to see the sun, dammit.

thanks again, guys and girls, for all of the nice comments, devwatches and fave's.  

hope -- if, per chance, you celebrate it -- you all have a great easter weekend.  if you don't celebrate it ... hope you have a great weekend.

mine's going to be chill.  very very happy about that.

cheers all,
chris