In a (New) World of My Own

This represents the output from my very last photoshoot in the United States of America – Raj and his awesome family at Town Center and the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas on the cloudy afternoon.

Susan and Emi joined me at a small park in North Las Vegas this morning for (literally) a last-minute photoshoot with mother and child.

I call this ‘the progression of a smile:’

This started off as just a (really) Photoshopped photograph of Caira, but it has turned into me turning people into zombies electronically. I’ve put out the word on Facebook, and even had takers!

Herein lies full set of images from Leah’s mini-photoshoot at Cottonwood Canyon Park on Saturday last, as part of our Halloween photoshoots.

Here is another sampler from yesterday’s photoshoots at Cottonwood Canyon Park: Anita’s two angels. They spent an hour being thoroughly shy (except when distracted), running…away and being terrified of, for and because of the grass. It was cute.

After 19 years I still have this fucking advertisement stuck in my head. I’ll worship Nintendo’s marketing as advertising gods for creating a meme that is still lodged in my hippocampus two decades after the fact, but I still want to be…unpleasant…to all of you, all the same.

So holy non-existent childhood memories, Batman. The Grealish family never owned a SNES. I remember when it first came out in Ireland, when I first laid eyes on its aesthetically-pleasing goodness, the console cost £350, or $628/€445 in today’s currency. Welcome to Ireland, where electronics costs twice as much as they do anywhere else in the world, which still continues today. I’ve known more than one person in Galway (Frank?)who went to New York to purchase high-end electronics (laptops, professional camera bodies and lenses) and used the savings over Irish prices to pay for a weekend stay in the Big Apple. As it stands I firmly believe that could have trekked across the Sahara desert from Casablanca to fucking Timbuktu and bought a SNES there for less than what it would’ve cost from Smyths Toys in 1990.

And, as happens, at the tine my dad tended to drink most of our free money. Go dad. Hmm. I also remember Magic: The Gathering arriving on our windswept shores at around the same time, so consoles and Mario were forgotten in favour of playing strong open Green/Red. Turn 1: Drop a forest, cast Tinderwall. Sac it, drop two Kird Apes. Turn 2: Drop another forest, cast Tinderwall. Attack! Turn 3: Sac Tinerwall, cast Ernham Djinn (haha, I went searching for ”Ernham Djinn” and found this by the card’s artist). Turn 4. Win the game!

Blah. Distractions.

So I never had a SNES, but thanks to the I get to experience it all from the comfort of my own laptop!