[Leica] When worlds collide: Dresden Dolls

[buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)]

That's funny...when my then nine-year-old son met Kyle at B.D.'s house, he 
wanted to know, "Who is the old guy with the big camera and the flash?"

Buzz


> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Date: 2005/01/07 Fri AM 11:25:21 EST
> To: LUG@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] When worlds collide: Dresden Dolls
> 
> My youngest daughter, home for Christmas from her first year at college, 
> was all excited by a musical act she'd seen in Boston, and wanted me to 
> watch some Dresden Dolls music videos. I was entranced by their number 
> "Coin operated boy" and told her.
> 
> She showed me that she had some pictures bookmarked on their website. 
> Dutiful dad that I am, I went to look at my daughter's favorite pictures.
> 
> The very first picture that she showed me, which she said was "the best", 
> caused me to think. "Hmm. That picture looks like Kyle Cassidy's style. 
> Somebody is plagiarizing it."
> 
> Then I squinted my old eyes at the picture, and realized that Kyle Cassidy 
> *did* take it:
> 
> http://dresdendolls.com/gallery/photo.album/gallery02/pages/25_dresden5.htm
> 
> I said "I know the photographer who took that picture! He's great!".
> 
> She said, "Oh, dad, that's the coolest thing over. You've actually *met* 
> him?"
> 
> "Yup", I boasted.
> 
> So I gained hundreds of parent points for having met Kyle Cassidy.
> 
> Thanks, Kyle. Keep smashing that brick wall. It'll come unstuck.