2.AM Happy Hour in MACAU

##2.AM Happy Hour in Macau!

Come join me in Macau for the 2.AM Happy Hour where I will be selling and signing my photography book 'The Asian Male - 2.AM'

Thursday, 23 August 2007

8 - 11pm Happy Hour, party and dancing till late....

Performance by James Gannaban (2.AM model extraordinaire) and music by DJ Jomel (HK)

Sponsors: Tagus Beer (Yeah!)

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Personal integrity and the 'art world'

below is an email i received from another photographer in melbourne who would like to see my photography shown in an exhibition he is curating. following that is my response...

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dear norm,

i'd love to see you shoot a model at night, perhaps after clubing, looking like they are just on their way home. shirt off back allys. look for places that dont' have a lot of people late at night and are well lit. This sort of work could elevate you into the art world.

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Morning hell with the GA man...

Last night, I decided to update my newsletter email list by adding Collected Emails from my Thunderbird to my email marketing database server. By accident, there was one contact that I forgot to delete from the list. This particular person, who I business correspondence with him (and hence the reason why his email appears on my Collected Emails) happens to work at Giorgio Armani, had asked not be included in the newsletters/database. As a result, this morning, I got back the nastiest email I had ever received to date indicatin...Read more

No ordinary city for no ordinary people...

I have been trying to think about what it is about Hong Kong that I like so much. The heat and humidity is nearly unbearable, the streets have cockroaches, the people generally rude, fake and obnoxious, people butt ahead in cues, and the mentality of most are oriented to money, self-gain and image. People judge you on your looks and what you wear, where you live and if you're sporting the latest technotronic gadget. To survive here is probably one of the hardest and toughest of cities in the world. It is not for...Read more

hong kong police and the angry brothers . . .

Most of the time, I find myself meeting very optimistic people in Hong Kong, whether they be locals or foreigners. But today, I bumped into a couple of guys, brothers actually, near my Sheung Wan pad when I went out for some food. We decided to have dinner together and headed to the nearest food market nearby. What puzzled and annoyed me was the dinner conversation. The two of them were complaining about the legal system and about how the police harass everyone, and without right/due cause. Frankly, this was my 4...Read more