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Life as it happens ...

Maybe you didn't know, but we're a group of homeless Uber-friends collecting thoughts, ideas, rants and all here. Here's a short story I did for the local paper last week. I was in the Queen Marrgrethe of Denmark II's garden (year, thats a mighty long name) the other day, doing archive shots of the place, when the local kindergarten came by.

"I'm going to steal apples from the queens garden," this young fellow said, "I got permission!" And in fact he does. Story is that back in February they went into the garden and stole some apples, but when back home they felt so guilty they wrote the queen to confess their sins.

So the kids got a nice letter from the Queen, stating. "It's okay, you are free to take as many apples in my garden as you wish."

Now, that was a real fairy tale from the little Kingdom of Denmark. Hope you are all well, and we'll be speaking soon. Let me know if you have subjects of special interest I can entertain you with.

/Thorsten Overgaard

teach a man to fish...

dunno where i was going with that but ... it's like give a man a fish you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish ...

anyway ... waiting to go shoot my first of two assignments today.  very stoked to be shooting my friend and client's wedding today ... but ... whilst waiting ...

i saw this video.  give a wank a still camera with video capability and you get that kind of video.  um ... nice focus, pal.  nothing like the what laforet did.  as much as i've not really minded theluminouslandscapes' opinion ... i now see that he's the same as theonlinephotographer and ken-the-wank-rockwell.

they didn't have any lawn furniture to shoot in canada, mate? ;)

is there a huge market for old men who can't shoot writing for other old men ... who can't shoot?

just wondering. ;)

hope you're all well.

and, yes, still sad about uber's demise.

cheers from somewhere near lake mead but feels like arizona.

and, no, thorsten, i'm not fronting you money to gamble by proxy. ;)

is it me ...

or do these two people have about the same speaking skills?

i mean how goddamned dumb do you have to be to say that shit ... on national t.v.?

then you have this tool ...

"when putin rears his head?"  are you fucking kidding me?  you're already making fun of foreign leaders?  you fucking donut.

this is the woman -- who sounds mildly similar to a dumb-ass miss america hopeful from a red state -- that half of america thinks is qualified to run the country.  you're fucking kidding me.

and perhaps you thought there were going to be photos. ;) there are.  promise.  but i had to set up flickr.  and ... facebook ... um ... it's pretty friggin' good.  my napolitano bitch was right. ;)

i'm surprised that i've found flickr is actually ... not bad.

and then i see something like this and a lump kinda develops in my throat as our president asks for US$700M in unmarked bills or the baby looses a limb.

very sad. hope you're all well.  we're gonna go see choke.  it'll give us motivation to send chuck our picture book we made for him.

Class of September of 2008...

is what our little m is part of ...

yes, this would be the first time i've ever photographed a dog in a "cap and gown."  he's done so well.  j works with him much more than i do but ... he can sit, stay (for an extended period of time), speak, play dead and play with the clicker-wand-thing.

our trainer steve is amazing.

yep, the first real post ... even though i'm still a bit melancholy about uber's demise.  it really had it's own personality ... the community members are/were great ... the people behind uber are/were amazing ...

and it's weird to start over again.

hopefully, my little friend will help with some css. ;)  she's happy about some news today. ;)

*gotta go to a swimming lesson with b*

back shortly! :)

okay ... doesn't look like typepad likes photobucket photos.  f*ckers.

can i say f*ck here?  dunno.

i know i said f*ck when i saw this asshole on t.v. last night ...

amazing that it was the best one i could come up with when i had a 5d next to me. ;)

so ... yeah ... i have some new photos ... gotta get a hang of this shit on typepad.  it's different.

fyi ... there's a distinct possibility that something my "rise from the ashes" of uber.  i'll keep you guys posted.

suits f*ck everything up.

some suits are nice.

some suits are alright.

but they fuck it all up. ;)

kinda like the suit that's in that video-cap-via-5d-and-processed-in-photoshop.

don't have my external drive with me right now so i couldn't use aperture. :(

so ... again ... thank you all for sending the emails with your information ... you all live in a very nice little contact list.  it was cool, actually, putting that list together because, well, you guys fucking rock.

also, i've joined flickr. i even have a pro-account so now, as darren says, "i shoot for money." ;)

i think i'm going to review flickr. ;)

i think it's time for dinner.

hope you're all very well!

 

yes...

you have reached the right place.  i've gotta get a feel for the typepad interface and controls before i start doing regular posts...

but ... yes ... you've reached the right place.

as much as i'm sad about potential demise of the other place ... i'm excited to see something else take it's place ... and ... see what evolves.

didn't want there to be nothing posted when you clicked and landed here!

cheers from los angeles!