Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Congratulations, Phil. Make sure she gets enough for the shoot. Op 16-mei-06, om 06:26 heeft Phil Swango het volgende geschreven: > For those here who commented on my daughter Juliet's new Pentax DSLR a > couple of weeks ago, there's a little follow-up story that might be > interesting. The pictures of her that I posted to Smugmug (taken > with the > Pentax) found their way to photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, who > called me > last week to ask if she would be interested in posing for a fashion > shoot > commissioned by the NY Times Magazine for publication in the fall. > She was, > and they are planning a shoot for May 23. Pretty exciting for her, > and > she'll make a few bucks to boot. The Smugmug pictures start here: > http://tinyurl.com/zj6l6 > > Then right after that, Rolling Stones Magazine published their > 1000th issue > and their online edition listed the editors' pick for the best > songs of each > of the 40 years since the magazine's first issue in 1967. Their > 1999 pick > was a song Juliet wrote and performed for her now defunct band "The > Rondelles." That was a *big* surprise, since probably less than .01 > perecent of the RS readership has ever heard of the band, let along > that > song ("Shanghai Surprise"). I have no explanation, other than that > one of > the editors was possibly a Rondelles fan back in the day. Juliet > wrote the > song in her high school history class, so if your teenager seems > bored with > it all and daydreams of rock stardom during class, it just might > work out > fine after all. The RS list is here: http://tinyurl.com/zh6rm > > I'm posting to both the LUG and the Rollei group, so apologies if > you get it > twice. > > > -- > Phil Swango > 307 Aliso Dr SE > Albuquerque, NM 87108 > 505-262-4085 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >