Meet the Men

Maybe I should "advertise for a tutor to give me a refresher course and 
pray my teacher gives me lots of homework round at her place"
Mr Whatever You Say Miss

"The law of nature decrees that I have to grow old.
There is no law that I know of that says that I have to grow up"
Mr Big Kid

"Catch me if you can"
Mr Too Good to Miss

"Looking for a woman"
Mr She's Out There Somewhere

"Am I droning on a bit?
Mr Opinionated

It's "even better to stay home on the sofa watching TV, 
maybe with a glass of wine or two"
Mr Reserved

"Now that all the tall dark and handsome ones have gone"
Mr Man Catalogue

"Dante said 'to be is to do'
Sartre said 'to do is to be'
Sinatra said ' do be do be doo'"
Mr Educated and Laid Back

"I have performed open heart surgery using a fork"
Mr Exaggeration

"I'm just as happy on a city break in Munich as wandering at midnight 
in a Finnish forest beyond the Arctic Circle"
Mr Adaptable

"There is nothing better than a walk in the moonlight"
Mr Howler

"BTW: I don't dance"
Mr Good Guy

"I am not the first to the sunbed and
 I don't complain about how much it costs."
Mr Comfortable in His Own Skin

"Trying to enjoy every day and smile along the way" 
Mr Having a Bad Day

Maybe I could do women next. Then I could move on to men looking for men, and women looking for women. It could be an interesting comparison.

Postcards

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was thinking about having some postcards printed. The initial plan was to try to bind them into a book somehow but this evolved into printing the quote on the back of the card and leaving them as a loose set. A book is sequential but this project is not of a sequential nature. Each profile is unrelated to the next. Cards could be laid out on a table in whatever order, or pattern, you wanted.
I could not find an on-line company that was able to print a different image on the front of each card with a matching quote on the back of the card so I decided to use moo.com They can print a different design on each card. I had used them before and I was happy with the quality and service but I would need to find a way of printing on the back of the cards.
I then dug out an old HP Photosmart 230 that we had tucked away which can print on the back of the cards and I am happy with the results.

Good News and Bad News

The good news is that my book arrived exactly when they said it would. Yippee!


The bad news is that there is a page missing. Oh no!


Thought process (without the expletives):
"Hmmm. Problem. It took two weeks for ubyubooks to print the book and my assignment deadline is in one week….. 
I’ll give them a call and see if they can get another one to me more quickly….. 
Oh no I won’t. They don’t have a telephone number anywhere on their website. Not good. 
The only way to contact them is by email. Right, well I’d better send an email straight away….”


Then this:

I'll crop in a little closer so that you read it:

Two BUSINESS days!!

Tune in again next week for the next exciting episode.

Jehad Nga

I’m still waiting for my book to be delivered. It feels like I have been waiting for more than two weeks but I haven’t. 

I did order some postcards. They have come through and I’m quite pleased with them. I used moo.com They can print a different design on the front of each card but not match it with different text on the back of each card. I know other publishers can do it but at the moment this is a low volume production run and I’m trying to keep the cost down by doing it myself.

While I have been in limbo with this project I have been reviewing some of my research. Jehad Nga is a photographer whose work I first saw at Paris Photo in November 2010. His style is often chiaroscuro and I think he does it very well. In his Turkana project he uses shafts of light to highlight the faces and the vibrant colours of the Turkana tribal outfits.

In Pirates, Inc-Somalia he balances different light sources beautifully. Take a look at it here - Jehad Nga.com

Newspaper Article

I spotted this article today Guardian online . It was published in The New Review section of The Observer and on guardian.co.uk on Sunday 1 May 2011. It appears that I'm not the only one who has noticed the shift in dating habits.