Living legend

Not every day that you have dinner with someone who history will remember as the pioneer of an art form.

Si Chi Ko and I got to talk a bit about the change in media from film to digital, and the how that removes about 75% of the "control" of the art form - film development, enlargement, and paper development are all areas of control and change, and with digital they're gone. Please, no lectures about Photoshop. I've been using it since version 3, and it's never going to be the same as an in-enlarger Sebattier effect.

During the "photo op," Si Chi Ko looked up at me... then up at Wendy... and began JUMPING. William Wong, the photographer, was good enough to get the shot - way to go William! What an excellent shot showing the character of the artist! Fun guy! I loved it when he was showing some of his portfolio to the conservative (mainly) Taiwanese folks, and he pulled out this outrageous nude of a man and a woman, facing each other, so the shot was from the side, angling angrily toward each other, backlit so ALL their body hair was just glowing, and the woman was about 8 months pregnant, and holding an antique movie camera.
He held it up, and the room went... silent.................. LOL!