RIP Kurt Horn of Kurts
Stolen Moments MM #
1321622, he was a good man
and a good friend, and a
Great Artist, faiwinds and
following seas Kurt. I wish I had spent more time in your company , I miss you already.
A quick note for today! Because I am that kind of Barn.
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. have a blessed sunday my dear friends!
My right wrist is healing up pretty well. Still have some feeling missing in the tips of my fingers but I can live with that. Please don't ask me if I tried to off myself when you see the scar!
Haiku from the lovely Artemis Bare:
Dirty sea stories
they smile with a small secret
Stop hurting yourself!
Hello! My name is Barn, I come in peace.
Many who come here do not.
Fiddler's Green is named after the mythical sailor's heaven, the place where all good seafarers go when they pass on, a paradise or Elysium where unlimited supplies of rum, women and tobacco are provided. Unlike Davy Jones Locker, the final resting place of sailors lost at sea. It is a place for sailors, over the centuries soldiers of various types, cavalry, artillerist, etc and even Marines have shown up and attempted to take over the place. Don't be fooled by these impostors there is only one.
my e-mail is theleveloftime@yahoo.com, I prefer you e-mail me there, it is for the best.
I couldn't wait for fame and success, so I went ahead without it. I have some work published here and there in books and magazines. I like selling one off works of art most. Like there is only one and there is only going to be one. Nice having a wee slice of my art hanging in someone's home or outhouse. I have been shooting since I was a wee lad so I have that going for me.
I am going to ask you if you read this before we shoot! In view of the current spat of puritan witch hunts and burnings at the stake happening on MM, I am going to ask you if you read this and looked at everything in here and understand what I take photos of etc. If you decide I am not your cup of tea that is fine and I wish you well. Go in peace.
I know it is a long bio etc - it is supposed to act as a gate keeper. Turning away the feint hearted and the feckless. I try to bore you to death before you even get to know me! It has certainly been doing a good job keeping the feint at heart at bay lately!
If you have no sense of humor and can't take a joke you should leave now!
If this dialog sounds a wee bit sarcastic, it is! I really don't care. No. I am not going to start shooting the prescribed regular crap regardless of the screwy preconceived ideas of how the universe works. Or to appease models and photographers who are the guardians of convention.
Models, if you want something to happen and a shoot to come about you got to stay at it! Call me, message me, e-mail me! It is what you need to do! Shoots just don't magically come together!
Hmmmmmm - some models are interested in equipment ( some photographers hold them in contempt) and want to know what you are shooting: Canon 7D with good glass, I have some great Elinchrom strobes and all sorts of other cameras including odd ball Sony and Pentax. I have a 4000 ft studio: Dayton St Studio at 529 Dayton St here in Edmonds WA. It is fantastic if I do say so myself. Come shoot in it! I have a professional studio at school and sometimes rent interesting spaces here and there. I also have an opera house I shoot in and can create almost any kind of set up there.
My photographs seek to delight the eyes and celebrate beauty. I am not trying for a prize in irony or join the ranks of "tortured artist". I am not here to suffer for art. Let us read that again: I am not here to suffer for art, that is not the same as not being here to create art. I (we) are going to make great drama free photographs that were fun to make and made by people who were / are having fun making them.
I am a retired Chief Boatswain's Mate, USCG, 30 plus years worth ( it was a hoot! - How many people can say 30 years of their life was a hoot?) and now that is history and it is on to other thingys. It is amusing to me that I am now an art school student. Got to admit I am learning a lot. I should be as it cost a lot of money to go there and it would be silly to go there and not learn something.
I enjoy working with people and bringing out their best (and mine). I am a personable, calm, and kindly gentleman so there is that, and you'll have a good time if you are capable of having one.
I am also dedicated to finding the true meaning of Callipygian! Let me know if you want to set sail on that sea!
I'll be the first to admit to an imagination problem, give me a chance with an idea and I may surprise you.
I like using props and creating artistic scenes. I like light and color. I take intimate photographs, I am an intimate person, I have an intimate world view. I am pretty unorthodox so if you have an ego larger than a house, an insane boy friend, pimps, thugs, managers, or a husband thats needs to be in your bizzness, lots of rules and newbie stipulations you should probably move along.
I have a policy of not shooting with models that have boy friend / husband imposed restrictions. Get your boy friend to shoot you and give you money. Sorry but that is that. If I have some shot that is fairly simple I may make an exception because I am that kind of Barn! Exceptional ; )
Energy will be released some explosive and some subtle - the results may be unsettling and wonderful. If you have grave emotional problems seek help! Of course I know grave emotional problems may be driving you to seek fame and fortune and do modeling gigs. The Catch 22 of the photography world! Some of the things models want or feel entitled too! Wow! It hurts my brain!
and here:
http://www.thenewfiddlersgreen.com/
and here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-New-F … 0708989721
oh, and here too:
http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/fiddler … rtandphoto
You might want to go back and read the last paragraph again especially the "if you have an ego larger than a house, an insane boy friend, pimp, manager, thugs, or a husband thats needs to be in your bizzness, lots of rules and newbie stipulation" part. You may simply think you are the cat's pajamas and even the cats meow and every photographer who has ever breathed simply has to have you etc. Guess again! You are having delusions!
I am no longer shocked by the number of responses I get that include "My man, my manager, or My BF etc" spare us both please and go away. You don't have to go away mad, just go away.
You should like your job if you are doing this for a living. You should be pretty excited if you are doing this for kicks. Being of good cheer is about the most important quality in any model, photographer, or anyone else for that matter. I like working with models who bring the whole body and mind to the shoot. So be happy and present please!
Hmmmmmm I don't talk all that much because I am busy thinking, it doesn't mean I don't like you.
Escorts are welcome. However I do ask that if you bring more than two divisions of Marines you do consider car pooling. For the children, of course!
I am not sure what professional means but when it is bandied about in these quarters it almost always means you have a stick up your ass! Please check (for the stick) before you decide you want to shoot with me! You will have to take it out and it may be painful putting back. Possibly impossible! I am surprised at the never ending number of photographers and to a lesser extent models who have sticks stuck up their sphincter - they seem to looking for bigger ones too. Give it up people! The future belongs to the stick less!
Here is set of stipulations that are completely laughable: "Prior to the shoot, you must sign a release that gives me the right to examine and approve all nude photos. Any pictures I do not approve must not be posted, published, printed or sold in any form for any reason. You will have full rights to any pictures I approve & can sell/publish them in any way you like". Wow! How generous of her! Where is my camera!
Or this one!
"I have a licensed, very professional, Personal Security Specialist that attends all shoots with me..."
gives me shivers just thinking about it! I am still trying to figure out what sort of person needs one of these and where do they get one?
I can be contacted at theleveloftime@yahoo.com
Just for fun go here and listen to Elmer Fudd sing opera with Bugs Bunny.
http://wiseacre-gardens.com/index.html
Here is some fun, from a recent critique:
David Pollack wrote,
there are over 18 swords on you page so here goes
GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW GWPW
(GWPW = Guy With A Paper Weight)
I through in a few extras becuase I am sure you are alread hard at work on more vulgar crap with swords
Charles West wrote:
You have some very cute and fun work, but, you are 100% GWC, there isn't a soul who'd think otherwise.
In fact, you could run for the GWC National President. Maybe the GWC International President.
It does look like you and the models are having fun.
Recently promoted to KING of the GWCs!
Another described him as: A bastard yes, but a magnificent bastard!
Some other fun!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3mFVl5RXQ
My very own cute little cyber stalker seems to have gone into retirement. It makes me feel sort of sad and a little lonely - like I am not good enough to attract crack pots or something anymore. I could be wrong about that ... there seems to be some more psycho activity going on out there!
"I’m not an indiscriminate rake, you see; I like to be interested in a woman in a way that is not merely carnal, to find out new fascinations in her with each encounter, those enchanting, mysterious, indefinable qualities, like the shape of her tits."
Col Sir Harry Flashman, VC, OBE
"Any photographer who says he's not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar." - Helmut Newton
A girl should be two things... classy and fabulous.
-Coco Chanel
"Pretty....is everywhere.... there must be something more...or don't bother me !"
- D.E. Kincaid
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
-Michelangelo
Remember! You can get a lot more with an ass and a smile than you can with just an ass!
(a barnification of the Al Capone quote "You can get a lot more a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile")
A few of thoughts:
1. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
2. If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,
try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
Some words on "Retro Limits"
Retro Limits are limits that models discover they have after the shoot and photos are posted (or not). They develope after they have been paid and then after their boy friend (s) and so called friends see the photos. This is followed by an IM or e-mail saying something like "............you have to take those downs, I never whatever like that etc". Or even ". I've been contacted by other photographers, concerned about those photos," ( I love that one- it means - " hey, you never did that while I was shooting you" or "Dam, I hate that guy".
Retro Limits; don't let this tragedy happen to you!) (surely some of them must come here and use this as a template!)
Some of my fellow photographers like to talk smack about me and try to poison my well. I don't talk about them because I could care less about what they do or think. Yeah you know who you are. Wow! I really attract the sanctimonious, sometimes I can feel their hate right through the screen. The cyber lynch mob is often out on patrol, and in force lately. I am sure some of you have come here to see the beast for yourself now that I have my very own "Barn is filth, unclean, and must be destroyed thread" never thought I would so so honored. I never knew I had so many fans!
The drama department:
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
No drama queens here please! If you live a life of drama, high drama or low drama, I don't really need any thank you! Just keep going, feel free to contact me after you get it out of your system!
Look... If you're under 25 and not fat... you are Hot! You could be fat and still be hot for that matter! You could be over 60 and fat and be hot as unlikely as it sounds! It just can't be helped! There is a lot of hotness going on out there! And there are thousands of you. When I have a budget and time to shoot, I have no time for drama. BTW I will not pay you 100 dollars an hour.
Everyone gets respect (even me). Manners matter to me. Snobs will be happier elsewhere.
Oh yeah about flakiness, I may forgive you once but not twice - everyone gets cold feet sometimes. That is not an invitation to flake.
Retouch-ers: please don't contact me with praise of how much you like my work and tell me you can fix it all. I despise the current computer virus known as Photoshop beyond the limits of time and space. I am sure you are good at it and I do use it a bit but well .........
Unsolicited critique: thanks but I can live without it. First you have no idea what you are talking about and only an odd idea of who I am and what I do colored by your own ideas. When I get these I go and look in the port of he or she who sends them and I am almost always confronted by dismal failure writ large. So look in your port ask yourself: "am I really so qualified and so fantastic I get to hand out advice to this magnificent bastard?" I think not!.
Unsolicited advise: Most people wisely avoid the forums. I get told this by a lot of MMers, If you have an opinion that differs from the status quo or goes against the herd you are going to be harshly attacked and if you don't roll over or just go away the next step is the antagonist will look for a way to get you banned. Whoever is mad at you will no doubt have a couple of MOD friends and you will get at the very least a raid on your port to find photos "that aren't up to code". They do this because it works. It is a small clique of the small minded. If you want a real opinion send me an IM and then we shall talk elsewhere and I mean elsewhere. I really need to start taking my own advice. I have taken my own advice - the forums are beyond redemption - a mine field of hateful, ignorant, and resentful, and dangerous people, screw 'em! I ain't going there no more.
Another notice: 27 Jan 2012.
4 photographs were removed by a mod that have been up and on my page for over 4 years. Suddenly they were bad, "they had complaints" : cyber stalkers got nothing better to do and they do it all the time. This happened after I posted a death notice about a friend and fellow artist. I don't go on the forums, I don't post casting calls anymore, I seldomely make a dam peep and they are still abusing me.
I am a steady paying customer and have been for years - with out being bashed everytime I get a mod message I would have quietly paid my money and encouraged models and photogs to buy into and use this site. Now I don't know what to do with it.
Notice:
On 20 June, 2011, a model (I will be kind and not mention her name - no need to thank me Robin) whom I never met started an attack on me, my work, and my character in the forums - as I always predict - this was followed by a raid on my port by a MOD who removed a photograph. I was not involved in the forum discussion in anyway. Works every time. My crime against said model: I pressed the friend button!
a new footnote in the annals of the unreasonable:
I got a "we've had complaints message" and in order to avoid problems I removed about half of my port on here. I would be remiss if I didn't add some information to any of you who might be interested. The following is a link to the American Society of Media Photographers:
http://asmp.org/articles/member-code-ethics.html
rule no. 2 reads: Oppose censorship and protect the copyrights and moral rights of other creators.
rule no. 5 reads: Never engage in malicious or deliberately inaccurate criticism of the reputation or work of another photographer.
That is what they did to me right here on MM at all levels. Not ethical, in the least. If anyone can show me where or how I have violated any of these I would be pleased to see it.
Anywho..........I will just keep flying like a B-17 with its tail section shot up or ship with compartments flooded but staying ahead of the water. The creative mind will navigate around the ice bergs of intellectual and artistic confinement!
I just had a very interesting chat with several moderators: there is a cycle of absue on here and they are part of it and have no clue how to stop it, end of story. Great!
Are you still smiling?
Hey is that a stick?
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