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If all goes well, in about 7 months you'll see me competing on TV in The Amazing Race as I try to win a million dollars. They had an open casting call in Austin today, so me and my friend applied to get on the show. And my teammate is my ex-girlfriend Candice, which we figure will let us have a better shot at getting on since hey, that makes for interesting dramatic TV right?
The 13 page application is pretty intense in itself, and then we basically ad-libbed a 3 minute video there at the casting call. And even though we got there at 1:30 (30 minutes before they started accepting applications), we were the second to last time to get taped, over 4 hours later. We didn't hang out around the mall for those 4 hours, as we had to drive all across Austin to pick up our passports which we had forgotten. So we had our own little Amazing Race in the meantime. It was a pretty cool experience even if I never hear from CBS, and if you don't watch the show, it's one of the very few reality shows I actually enjoy for the content, and don't just watch for the guilty pleasure of it.
I Netflixed a film called Cashback and I recommend checking it out. It has it's story flaws, but the cinematography is gorgeous. I am a sucker for beautiful looking movies though, as evident by my two favorite movies being Amelie and Requiem for a Dream. And I wasn't at all surprised when in one of the extra's they mention that the director has a background in photography, as many of the scenes in the film would have made great photographs. It also uses some unique scene transitions, and extensive use of "freeze-time" shots, including a spectacular one at the end in the falling snow.
Last night I got to shoot my first "real" concert with one of my friends, who let me borrow his fast prime and wide angle lenses. Which produced these photos. Unfortunately it was in terrible red lighting, so basically everything showed up as bright red. Hence why most of the photos were converted to black and white. The other problem is I now have a major case of lens envy (I loooooove the 85mm f/1.8), and this only leads down the dark and expensive path to more lens buying. What have I gotten myself into?!?!!
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