Bond. Nude bond.

Daniel Craig said that he's willing to pose nude in his first Bond flick (yechh). Dude! You're ugly and no one wants to see YOU nude.

We want to see the Bond GIRLS!


Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole


Diana Rigg as Tracy Di Vicenzo

Some Bond Girl links:

JB multi media

Rejected Bond Girls


Ursula, Oh Ursula. Trying to find THAT iconic shot of Andress coming out of the water, the one that Halle paid homage to in Die Another Day, but not finding it. you'll have to watch her her clips from Dr. No.


Halle as Jinx

I love that Dame Judy was "M" and John Cleese was "Q". That was actually a rather fun Bond flick, now that I think of it. Pierce Brosnan was such a great Bond, he was very handsome and could be quite filippant and foppish as well as being a killer, though Connery is still the best. He was more of a stone cold killer and his pork pie hat never came off when he was fighting.

Of course we can't forget the Bond cars. My fave is still the DB5, though the Vanquish is growing on me. Some people near me used to have a silver DB6 in their driveway and it would drive me crazy because it was just sitting there. I went up and rang the bell once and the woman there told me that the car was not for sale. It had been in an accident where the undercarriage had been ripped out. Her husband was going to have it fixed. It sat there for years. I don't know what happened to it. I think it died a sad, rusty death, under a tarp. For a long time I thought that Bond drove a DB6 in Goldfinger. I like the 6 more than the 5.



Yeah, the Vanquish totally kicks ass. Especially the rocket launchers. It goes without saying that Bond drives a fine British motorcar.

The Official James Bond site. All photos are from there and are copywrite 1962-2005 United Artists and Danjaq.LLC. Thanks!

So far, the only good thing about Casino Royale is Eva Green. Ouch! Teh Hott!

Busy

Hi y'all, running errands today.

I'll try and post some photos later today. I'm also investigating online albums. Flickr has been suggested, but since I use Photobucket, I'll see if their albums are easy to use. I also want people to be able to see larger versions of what I post here.

Here is some poetry at Heretical.com to keep you occupied.

UPDATE: Wrong url was posted, so here is the correct address for soem nice poetry

New Sony XDCAM HD

Sony's CineAlta family has two new XDCAM cameras out, the PDW-F330 and the PDW- F350. The link at the bottom of the page is busted. Are the cameras busted too?

Side view of the PDW-F330, looks cool, I like the two tone plastic.


3/4 front view of the PDW-F350 Variable frame rate camcorder.

PDF page for the F350 variable frame rate camcorder. It has a 1/2 inch SuperHAD chips with 1.5Mpixel resolution, rather than 2/3 inch chips and will do 1-60FPS. 60i/50i, 24P,25P,30P capture, 4 channels of uncompressed 16bit/48kHz audio, 60 minutes of recording time @ 35Mbps on an XDCAM Professional Disc (<$30MSRP), SD/HD switchable, time lapse, etc.

Other links: Creative News

Do searches for PDW-F330 and PDW-F350 and you'll have plenty to look at, also there are a couple of other XDCAM cameras that are std def.

It's early and I have to head out for a gig, but that's all for now. -M

tomorrow

It's 9:05pm and I'm eating Golden Time flute wafers, listening to Boards of Canada and procrastinating. I'm supposed to be cleaning my apartment.
UPDATE - I've added photos this morning!

Mat

Today (Monday), I helped Joel and Erica, friends of Mat move into their new aparment in Brooklyn. A lot of lifting and walking up stairs, but nothing seriously strenuous. Then we had yummy Malaysian food for lunch. Since Mat is Isadora's Godfather, he kept her occupied, while the rest of us unloaded the UHaul truck and walked everything up to the third floor. I can't think of any Godfather jokes at the moment.

Joel

Erica

Isadora

I'm too Goddam lazy to photoshop the pix and post them. I'll do it tomorrow. Yes that sounds like a fine idea.

Monkeyface!

underexposed photo

Night II

Here are a few more photos from the Queensboro Bridge.

Night

I'm in a night photography mood tonight. I'm too damn lazy to actually go out, but luckily, I do have a few pix from last month when I made my intrepid trek across the 59th Street Bridge a.k.a. the Queensboro Bridge. I was ready to fight, face down big killaz, thugz and murderers. Instead, I came face to face with cyclists, joggers and a granny with her folding shopping cart. Whew!


I could have TOTALLY kicked her ass.

Sitemeter

Within a few hours of my arrival in BTV, Bill had set up Sitemeter for me so that I can see if anyone actually visits my blog. Apparently people do. This is good news.

I made a passing comment about finding out of people are reading my blog and Bill was off the couch and typing away at his Mac, showing me all the different stats, ways to see who's checking out the blog and the wonders of Sitemeter.

I was a bit worried that no one was reading, but according to Sitemeter, I have readers as far away as Singpore and Kuala Lampur, Lithuania and around the U.S.

I encourage everyone to please leave comments. While you do have to jump through a couple of hoops, it's not a huge deal. I have the word verification turned on because I was getting spam in my comments, so this is a small step so that real humans can make real comments. I don't care what spambots have to say, it's all crap. Death to spammers and spambots. If that makes me a bigot, well, so be it.

Music Video weekend in BTV

I was supposed to leave Queens Friday and drive up to Vermont, for a weekend of music video making with Bill Simmon, shooting a Blammos vid with our old pal, Arthur Adams. I was busy trying to get a gig for this week and a few other things. I didn't get the gig.

I, of course, didn't end up leaving until Saturday morning, but I made pretty good time, being able to do about 80 most of the way. I like to drive fast, especially on the highway. I did have to slow down a bit when I encountered snow squalls. I drive fast, but I also drive sensibly. I really don't want to kil anyone, nor do I want to die. You don't speed when you are in a white out. Gradually drop your speed by letting off the gas completely and put your flashers on so that hopefully some idiot who IS speeding sees you and doesn't rear-end you.

Many years ago, while covering a multi car accident on I-89, in S. Burl., I watched as my car got rear ended by some stupid driver who wasn't paying attention to the road. She hit the same patch of ice that caused the initial accident, slammed into my car, pushing it into a woman's car with enough force to wreck my car and the third car. My car was way off the road, on the grass. Moron. I used part of my monopod as a splint for the driver's boyfriend, who had broken his leg. This was on a clear sunny day.

I keep a sharp eye out for bears and anything that may hamper the progress of a vehicle moving at a high rate of speed. I have to move into the right lane to make way for someone going about 85, or 90. I always like it when someone drives faster than me, because then I can let them be bear bait. I'll hang back a bit and match their speed. That way I have enough time to react and slow down if a cop sees them.

As I mentioned before, I took a different way to Vermont and it was much quicker, course it might have also been the fact that I didn't pull over fifty times. I only pulled over twice.

As one of the snow squalls was clearing, I drove past a minivan that had gone off the raod and was on it's side. It must have flipped, because the roof was dented pretty badly. Luckily, everyone seemed okay and someone was pulling suitcases out of the vehicle, while another person stood by the side of the road, waiting for the cops to come. I had thought about pulling over, or saying something to the guy standing by the road, but already, there were several other vehicles puled over to the side, so I thought it best to keep moving and not add to the problem.


Shooting was pretty mellow. Bill hadn't really done much pre-pro. He had kicked around some ideas with Seth and I assume Arthur, but we hadn't spoken much about it other than we'll make it up as we go along. The basic concept was Arthur relaxing at home, playing video games and generally slacking. The song is Bye, Bye, Bye.


The best part, for me at least, was the Fly Girls: Alex, Ashleigh and Emily. The Fly Girls are Arthur's imaginary backing chorus as he sings in his jammies.

I'm back

Got back from VT, last night, er, rather this morning at about 2am. Got a late start, leaveingBTVat around 8:45 after dillyinh and dallying. Mat McD told me a faster way to get from NYC to BTV by going up I-95 to I-91, to I-89. That did the trick. I made really good time and was able to go at a pretty good clip. Usually I go down VT22A to VT4 to I-87 and that seems to take about 6-8 hours, depending on how many gas, food, or pit stops I make.

I have to go and get something to eat, but I'll be back to post photos and write a bit more about my trip to BVT and the music video and the fabulous FLy Girls that were on hand to help make the vid a hit.



Fly Girl Emily, reflected in the VCAM studio control room window, practices her moves. Emily asked me the color scheme of my blog, so that she could wear the right poutfit. Teh Hott.

Friday

Still busy. This has been on of the best months since I've arrived in NYC, almost two years ago. I have been working either shooting, or gaffing ten days out of the month, so far. The rest of the time I've been driving to, or from jobs, or in meetings about jobs. There have been a few days off, but not that many. I may be DPing a short film next weekend, but I'm still waiting to hear back from the Director. I've also been traveling a lot, driving all over the place. I was suposed to wake up early and drive to VT this morning, but I decided to go back to sleep and make sure that I'm rested, before heading out.

I'm looking forward to going to VT, I haven't been there since I went back to vote in 2004. Trying to get all my business squared away before leaving.




After a thirteen hour day, I was bored and sitting in the White Castle parking lot, killing time before meeting a director about being the DP on her short film. I shot a bunch of pix, plus some video of the 7 train gliding by on the elevated tracks. This is the Sunnyside area of Queens Boulevard at around 9:30 at night.