Bartolomy’s Diary

Gonna be looking at our next location for our (Gilland and me) next project which will be a building site and big ball gown dresses all purchased on ebay.

L0oked at outdoor locations yesterday for the book cover shoot (The Alchemist’s Daughter) and will check some more (indoors) which will have to be done in a few wks time. I am trying to prep as much a spossible as I wont be able to do much while I am gone next wk.

Scanned almost all my flowers in and will post some real soon.
In the meantime here is a shot of me and the members of Venom lifting a pissed-up Timmy “grabber” Hansen of the mighty Mercyful Fate. In the background is John Kibble, M.F.’s ex-manager, this was shot in June 1983 @ the Aardschok festival………..

Well the trip to NL is booked, and I will be shooting at the Dynamo Open Air fest. on the 7th. Anthrax (old line-up) , Laaz rockit, Obituary and others are playing there, it is small scale compared to what it used to be 10 yrs ago….then again IMHO this is way better keep it small and “gezellig” (kushty….).

I have several shoots planned later in the mth, it should be a very productive period for sure…..meanwhile here are some Metallica, shot in Feb. (Aarsdchok Fest.) and June (on tour w. Twisted Sister) 1984.

N-joiiiiiiiiiii

Not fully recovered yet, but getting there, might even go out for a lil’ run….

Had quite a few meetings yesterday and Thursday for some real nice up and coming projects…… Shot Brian Haw again last Thursday and made some real nice shots, will add them soon, also scanned a lot of him and sorted the old digital files out. Been speaking to Ben Bruges (editor) and Joe Barnett (camera man) and we will meet early May to try and get a producer involved and get the final movie shown on the short film festival circuit.

Starting to like working with digital as it becomes easier to handle it all, the only thing that I need to sort out is the printing side of it……once that is sorted film will become the black and white of the biz……..sorry, but it is true. What can be achieved with digital is just amazing, you do need to train a little bit but it doesn’t take a lot of effort. The new Photoshop CS2 coming out next month should make things even easier.

Been knocked out by a stomach bug since Sunday and have lost 6 pounds in 48 hrs….not a good way to lose weight……
Have postponed meetings as I need a toilet at my diposal every 10 mins….. and also going to miss a lecture at the assoc. of Photographers tonight…which bums me out to be honest as I would love to witness this….oh well better luck next time.

Louie is his name, born 14-4-05 just b4 9pm a beautiful son for Kliff and Glynis Potasnick (my g/f is his godmother).
Here are two shots.

here are 5 shots of the 2nd character, Gillian’s idea was to have this character imagine the 1st character is stalking her and this situation is feeding her with intense paranoia….
I’d rather let them play against eachother……open ended……….you figure it out.

I also met up with Emi Takahashi from Japan, she used to run a mag. similar to mine, hers was called Silent Noise, we hang in Soho for a few hrs, and also have a bite @ a Thai rest., really nice to meet up with someone from such a long time ago. If my memory serves me well she published some interviews and pictures of mine of Megadeth, Kreator and Destruction, this was arround 1986…….

The shoot yesterday turned out to be great.

Here are some shots of the first character.

Toying with the idea of turning this into some slideshow, there are many images that could be used…….

Well, been a busy boy really trying to sort out two pc’s, managed to get them connected but had a serious problem with my old box, not only could I not connect to any secure sites/mail but also the latest reformat to the NTFS file system instead of the usual FAT32 proved to be a complete disaster. At some point I stuck arround for 4 hrs just trying to boot and install a few apps so I could format and change back to the FAT32 system,joy………….

Shooting with Gillian again, this time in Rowley Way near Swiss Cottage, this will be quite a dark themed shoot, not gonna say much for now you will see soon enough. The beauty stuff with Vivian turned out nice, some nice close ups.

Friday shoot some more of Brian Haw, only did a few shots 10 days ago………need it to rain, and also next week going to shoot some when it gets dark.

Well I had some serious pc probs, trojan/spyware and what not galore…coz I had to turn me fw off for a brief moment and all kindza rubbish invited and nested itself on my beloved computer….took quite some time to get rid of it and have also bought a router to keep this typo stuff out in the future……me hopes
I managed to do some shots of some flowers (more today actually) and been prepping a beauty shoot (”Fr0st”) for coming Wednesday

Also gonna go to the London zoo as well this week will try and sneak a few shots in.

I have been scanning quite a few bits, and still have not upped anything for the past 3 weeks, and the amount of goods to be posted is growing to 500 plus already……it will be a monster job………