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WHAT'S ON MY BRAIN: Friday, March 19, 2005 Happy Friday everyone! It's the morning after St Patrick's day, and I hope all you Irish (and all the folks that pretend to be Irish for the day) Have the correct and proper hang over. I'm guessing there are several of you that might even keep the holiday going right through the weekend. Good luck with that, be responsible (as much as you can) and drive safely--I need you all to stick around. I had another one of those nutty weeks, meetings, meetings, and more fucking meetings--then a ton of follow-up to all those meetings, and then a few more meetings to discuss the meetings and then more follow-up to the meetings about meetings. Some weeks I really hate Hollywood. Did do a couple fun things--my buddy Paul Jenkins was intown shooting a short film with his creative partner Rob Prior. Mostly it was a test showing what they can do as directors as they play the Hollywood game trying to raise money to do a feature. Got to hang out with them, and have a few beers after they wrapped, and toast the old days of Mirage and Tundra. I also dragged them to a film premiere of new low budget movie called the "Helix" a producer friend worked on. It's a bit of a parody film about the "Matrix" and had some really funny moments--overall a great first effort, I look forward to seeing what these guys come up with down the line. This weekend I'm heading down to the 'Wizard World Convention" in Long Beach, California to sign at the Golden Apple Comics booth from noon to three on Saturday the 19th. Looking forward to it, I did the show last year and they had a great turn out. I think it will be even bigger this year, I hear allot of my East coast artist buddies have flown in for the event, so I'm sure they'll be lotsa tearing up the local bars and tall industry tales filling the air. FYI, the next show I'll be doing, is the Big Apple Convention April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. I did one there in February, I think I mentioned it here in "What's On" around then--it was the one Simon Bisley had committed to, and bowed out at the last minute. Good thing he did, there was a huge snowstorm that weekend and the city pretty much seized up. People just couldn't get into the show. Well, he's committed to this one, we've got his tickets booked, and now it's all up to him getting on the plane. I'll keep you posted and give you more details about the show next week. Cool beans.
For this weeks selection of photos on "What's On" I decided I was sick of looking a silly assed pictures of me this week, so I thought I post some on my wife. The first two are lovely snap shorts just before we scooted out for a dinner date for her birthday--I think she cleans up pretty well don't you?
In the next two, she was doing a photo shoot for a local store called "Trashy Lingerie" (great place) and I popped by to say "Howdy" and snapped a couple quick shots of her and her girlfriends. Oh those nutty girls---they just want to have fun!
The next two are really cute. There is a big vintage car race in Lime Rock, Connecticut every Labor Day weekend and for years it was a big family and friends event. We'd all drive down and camp out on the track for the long weekend, cookout sign around the campfire, and watch my Dad race. One year my sister Maryann thought it would be cool to rent a golf cart to scoot the kids all over the place, especially to the outhouse in the middle of the night. Here's all the nieces and nephews and Julie the driver.
Paintball! Another fun family adventure we used to do once a year. Usually organized at my Mom's place in Maine, and currently at my sister Maryann's place in Massachusetts, we'd get as many family and friends together as possible and shoot the hell out of each other for the day. Julie didn't play, but liked to shoot at some of the targets, and pose. Cool beans.
The final two are fun--when we were making Julie's full sized costume for a series of FAKK 2 photo shoots we had to make a body cast. A friend of mine Wyatt Weed took on the job of pulling together the team to hand make every part of the outfit--including the sword, guns, belts, and body armor. There's tons of images of the final out fit on the site, check them out.
Lastly here's the little woman signing autograph requests that come through her web site. She's got allot of loyal fans waiting for the next Julie item to hit the stands and add a signed copy to her collection. She loves her fans.
Okay, once again, I'm getting to the end of the available space for my section this week and gotta sign off. Most all the regular updates will go up today, including about 24 new pieces of original art for sale. There's new books, mags, and videos added to the store this month, if you haven't had a chance to add something new and cool to your collection, take a minute to browse the store. Take care, see you in a week. Best, Kevin