InYourSpace

No time to piss, as they say. Been very busy these days. Got a nasty chest infection the other day and the flu though i braved the cold air with sweat and force and continued to shoot these last few days. And tomorrow going to Newcastle to shoot a short film. For those who don't know, Newcastle is north of London, in the north of England and it is much colder than down here. One locations is a barnhouse in the hills. When i went for a recee, it- was- COLD, maily because of the wind. So I'd better get better very soon. Like today. I nearly coughed out my lung the other day and boy was it painful. Right after that short, will be going to Romania to help a friend doing participatory video with some marginalized teenagers. Then back here to shoot another short film. Heavy sigh... No rest for the talented...

Hm. I have been getting 'friends request' over MySpace in the past month from people i don't know. Which i know is 'normal' on MySpace but i find it dubious (normal being the operative word for a platform so fickle). I have never made a request for someone i actually didn't know in the flesh. Maybe i just can't be bothered with people i actually don't know for real. i dunno. Anyway. I got a few models requesting to be my friend. Woo. Hoo. Though it's weird because i think they think i am a photographer. Which i am, but my space says i am a cinematographer. Anyway. But my two strangest ones was one from 'Fans of ...' some czech model i had never heard of and one from a guy from Austin who owns a swimwear retail outlet... Why the hell would he want me to be in his list of friends? I haven't granted him 'friend' status yet as i am afraid of what it will do to my career. i shit you not. I am also procrastinating on wether or not to grant these models 'friends' status. I'm not into fashion photography and couldn't really care less about it so why should i have 'fashion' people on my page? Saying that, someone said to me recently that i was not typical of 'media' types. I don't consider myself a 'media type' so i don't have the benefit of being not typical of it. I have less than 20 friends on my MySpace page which must be a MySpace record. Despite being MySpace dubious for a while, I did eventually join, for work. And I haven't gotten any work from it! But I still am weird with it. I guess i never really will warm to it or think it has any use except for killing a bit of time and engaging in the little trivia of the new millenias internet 'global village' (though the ratio between normal folk and the village idiots/perverts is reversed on MySpace). Despite my overall cynicism, I think there are some fun pages out there, mine, not being one of them. And to prove how serious i am, heres a picture of me and Chris ( a few weeks ago) doing our 'after 3 years' pick up from the feature film Horace K48...


The Moustache is not real.

I will be back with pictures. Maybe from the weekend shoot. Maybe not.

- J