Are you good at math? What is the answer to the above stevarian equation? The above (and below) is the result of my rain-induced cabin fever.
No, the answer is not a Speedlite salad, or electronic-gizmo pasta dish. Tis:
I like shadows (my nickname was once The Shadow, but (as the narrator used to say on Hammy Hamster) that’s another story.
I wanted to take a cool self-portrait. From my past postings you will I know I engage in such behavior when bored (see posts here, here and here). I pulled out my remote flash trigger, Phottix Cleon wireless shutter release, and set up my apartment studio while it was still dark outside, and the sane slept until a reasonable hour.
I won’t tell you how many photos I took before getting something useable. All trial and error, baby (and a cheap remote flash trigger that doesn’t support ETTL).
It looked like this. All I needed (other than time) was a chair, tape, strainer, flash, and poster board. Art sometimes isn’t lovely.
Sometimes the life of an expat in China is about filling your time. I find inventive ways.
First! (See my comment on Amiurin’s blog for explaination…)
That self-portrait reminds me of Apocalypse Now.
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Nice tag, Jay.
^ first.
It’s almost scary. But in a cool way.
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4th…
I’m surprised you didn’t try it with pasta in the collander…
Nice job Stevo…
R(etc… )
amuirin: If my novel is ever published this will be photograph on the dust jacket. Ya, good kind of scary.
LA Ron: Next time. I have my eye on a studio lights set up. I might buy just to have something to play with.
Shouldn’t that be multiplied by boredom, not divided?
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Kathleen: Probably. Most likely. I’m not a math guy. Unless there is a dollar sign in front of the number I have problems with relevance.
You don’t look bored, you look pissed. Are you pissed because you’re bored?
I’m not sure which is scarier: the pic, or the amount of time and resources spent in creating it.
You could be spending that time getting me fried chicken and cigarettes, is all I’m saying.
Wanda: I was pissed after spending three solid days in my small apartment. Does it show?
Jax: I told you, move here and I will be your slave.
I agree with Am. It’s almost scary, in a cool way.
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That’s pretty brilliant. Almost as good as Ed Wood making flying saucers out of hubcaps, or Frisbees covered in tinfoil, or whatever that was.
Robin: I always wanted to be cool.
Baron: To have you mention Ed Wood in connection to my work makes me glow.
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I thought the collander was a laundry basket, so my answer was going to be “Procrastination,” since it seemed you were torn between going out and taking shots versus staying in and folding laundry, and being too bored to decide which one to do, you’d end up putting it off all day. Hmmm….
ybones: I should give you a prize for such an inventive answer.
Looks like something Tim the tool man would have put together.
Are you wounded?
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