Thor

I need to photograph boys.  I know.  But it is more than that.  I want to find out if they are as unreliable as girls.  I've worked myself into a stupor the past two weeks.  Feast and drought.  I have been lucky.  And then the luck ran out.  I had three cancellations in the same day.  I got pissy a bit which I never do as you know if you follow the comments section of this blog.  I learned long ago that there is no use to it.  You cannot tell anyone anything that they don't want to hear unless it is couched in art, and that is the hardest thing to do.  So I just agree or redirect.  I can surely call you an asshole, and I am pretty good at making my point in the public arena which has kept me from a great amount of success in factory meetings.  Once, I was a Golden Boy.  Then. . . well, I was good at it.  So I learned that if there is nothing much at stake, it is best to dodge it.  Especially in relationships.  Measure what you want to gain against what you are about to lose.  Usually winning isn't much good at all.

But as I say, I got pissy with a model, and it did just the amount of good I knew it would do when I was feeling so good doing it.  None.  Worse.  So I did it twice.  So rewarding.  So nice.

I shouldn't feel this way, though.  I have been luckier than I deserve.  I don't pay models anything, and many of them make their living modeling.  Very lucky, really.  More.

But I will try shooting guys in the same series on the same set.  What do we have to lose?  But you must let me know.  This is a social experiment.  A test.  I want to know how the thousand or so of you who come here each day react to boy pictures.  O.K.  It is not the same thousand each day.  So maybe the fifty or so out of that who do come each day.  Oooo, I've given the trade info.  My stock probably just went the way of Facebook.  It could be more.  I can't capture people who come in remotely.  Hell, we could be in the millions.

I've taken some days off to make a five day weekend.  I will grill with mother on Memorial Day.  It is quite exciting.