Current location:	a Motel 6 in Salt Lake City
Current mood:	hungry

road trip!
So, I've been doing most of my (rare) blogging on my art site, but not everyone on my LJ friends list reads that (you can add it to your RSS feed here!), so I might start cross-posting those posts here... Starting with today's:

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So thing have definitely changed since my last post. The place I was going to stay at in LA fell through, and I also ran into money problems. All this happened in the last week. Yayyyy... Thus, I have to put off the LA move for a couple months. My lease is up in SF though, so I'm moving back to Michigan probably until February '09... to save up some cash and help my parents get their house ready to sell.

I'm pretty bummed about it, so I gave myself a consolation prize. Instead of heading straight back to MI, I'm going on a leisurely road trip, visiting friends and family, and doing a bunch of photo shoots on the way. So far, I've hit up Ventura CA, Los Angeles CA, Las Vegas NV and Salt Lake City UT. Tomorrow - after a shoot in the salt flats - I'm heading to Denver CO to visit my uncle, then on to Omaha NE, then Chicago IL, then finally Michigan. I've already done 5 photo shoots since I left, and have a few more scheduled, so I'll have a bunch of new stuff to showcase over the next few weeks...



The trip has been fun... two bad things happened though.... First, I got a call from the data recovery lab. They can't salvage anything on my hard drive. Thus, I'm basically going to have to start over. I can recover some of my work through friends, and through hi-res scanning of prints, but some is lost forever, except for the small-size images you can see on this site. Thus, I'm going to have to put off the "buy prints" section of my site a little longer, until I get new stuff to sell. I had a couple weeks now to prepare myself for this outcome, but I thought they'd be able to recover at least some of the data, since the hard drive was at least responding somewhat. Shows me to trust a hard drive (even though it was only a year old).

The other bad thing that happened was tonight in Salt Lake City, some guy came up too fast behind me at a stop light and rear-ended me...



This picture doesn't quite do it justice. I'm going to have to get a new rear bumper and hatch door. Sucks man... I just got the car last year, and it's my baby. This picture pretty much sums up the trip so far.

Anyway, off to sleep. I have a very bizarre, interesting shoot in the flats tomorrow, which will later be turning into an illustrated-photo piece. It's an idea I've been wanting to shoot for two years now... More updates later!