random print

Print work is a weird thing.  Very weird. 

I've been doing a lot of it more than anything else it seems in the last 6 months or so.  It's always welcome.  Sometimes I get to go to places like Rome, or Ossining, NY (this past week I went there for an IBM shoot at the IBM think-tank headquarters, kinda cool, kinda weird), or usually, it's just somewhere about town here in NYC.

Always though, always, it's a trip as to where on Earth these things ultimately show up.  And always, always, it seems that a friend finds it somehow and sends it over to me as I'm the last to know when/where/why it shows up where it does.

I remember once, over 10 years ago, before I even lived here, a friend of mine said he saw me on a billboard in New York City for Pacific Sunwear!  They never told us anything about being on a billboard in the big apple!  A different friend saw the same ad while in med school at Columbia during that time when he was eating fried chicken, putting the bones on a copy of the Village Voice, and noticed mid-bite that he was sticking the bones down on my face!

These days, I'm hearing about ads online, on billboards in Asia, signs in Canada, or condo complexes in Burbank.  Usually, the ads never turn out the way I think they will.  A couple of times, they've taken liberties to photoshop things in rather odd ways.  Once, I was given extra hair in a Samsung cell phone ad and in another, they put a backpack on me when I don't recall wearing one that day.

And still, sometimes, it's the ad that is just plain weird.  Like this one.  I'm eating a chinese donut while thinking of.....?

randomness....

I like this one.  I captured it off my computer when it was turning images, so no, the ad wasn't designed this way and you're not seeing things.

I don't even know what this one's for....

my feeling is that the 2 flanking me are actually from the asia region.  i was standing somewhere in nyc, i think.

this isn't an ad, just a photo of me in the mad scientists' lab at ibm in upstate new york.  some crazy smart people up in here: