Shoot Montage

Montage of experiments/lighting/idea test shots taken this afternoon in the setting autumn light...

The Metroliner Special

Uncle Terry ///

The conversation that inspired this is way to silly to rehash on here so i will simply post this for your viewing pleasure.
Another Alorx+MissHlavac production...

Almost Six Months

Hello again dear friends. I have been a bad person. This will change very very soon as some new stuff gets up and running. In the mean time here is some stuff since my last post.

Since then i have been to China, Gisbourne, Auckland, Golden Bay and Dunedin. We have had a devastating earthquake and i have effectively become unemployed. But that means more time for photography right ?! Yeaaaa you know it...


Yonghegong Lama Temple, Beijing 2010.


Model: Natalie Pastoll

The DoubleWalker Project

I have a new project/idea:

...Doppelganger...

After being queried about the actual definition of this word i followed some links in the google-webs and found a really interesting article from 2006 written in 'Nature News' about how scientists had managed to trick the brain into playing weird tricks on itself:

"Doctors treating the patient, a 22-year-old woman with epilepsy, found that when they stimulated a brain region called the left temporoparietal junction, the patient sensed the presence of a sinister figure behind her who copied her actions. They suspect that the effect is due to the mind projecting its own movements onto a phantom figure conjured up by the brain, an effect that is seen in some patients with serious psychiatric conditions."

Not to mention the creepy-ness of inserting electrodes into the brain! I like this idea. There was some more stuff on wikipedia (I know, I know its not a source!) about the idea of Doppelganger (the term itself borrowed from German - Doppel meaning Double and Ganger meaning Walker) as an omen of bad luck or when seen by others even as a harbinger of death!
But the term that really got me interested was this word being used to desribe that moment, that fleeting glimpse of someone/something that looks exactly like you out of the corner of your eye, in a situation where it is not possible for it to be a reflection. A sense of bi-location if you will. I have long been interested in this idea as i seem to have this feeling sometimes and it is always a creepy and sometimes un-nerving experience even if it over in a second. Enough to raise the hairs on your neck...

There is a lot of crap out there about celebrities and their "doppelganagers" and the facebook viral profile picture changing thing a while back. But im not interested in that schmuck that much. Although it is interesting to note it has become a commonly used word due to this need we seem to have to constantly compare ourselves to celebrities...

Thoughts/links/references would be choice...Bladerunner?

Image Search Results got me this far:

Check out the dude in the background and hit the photo for the story...this is the kind of thing i am interested in.

Interesting...photo is link...


Link to the facebook phenomenon. And the best image.

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The Branch Presents...

Canon EOS 1 Wall

I have a brief:

"Perfectly Imperfect"

"Flare, camera movement, obstructions, underexposure, overexposure, cropped off heads, and skewed horizon lines are just some of the things we are taught to avoid..."

Sounds good. Entry must be before the end of the month.

Get on with it...

Right. So this post is an official call to myself to get my SHIT TOGETHER and get this thing running properly as a blog of my ideas/state of mind/thoughts/rants etc.

I have been slack. I have been lazy. I am going to change this. I am also going to get a real working professional website up and running in the very near future.

That is all.

And now, an image...