Written on December 15th, 2009 by sempireno shouts
Funny enough, I’ve noticed in that in the last few years, that I now know about 1000 photographers. I think every second person that I’ve met in my life is now a photographer.
When I was younger I used to be an avid photographer. I used to buy the books, subscribe to the magazines, and spend all my money on film and camera stuff.
It was fun to take pictures, but it was a hobby. It was something to do.
Welcome to 2009. Where everyone hates their jobs, can afford to buy a 500$ camera.
Here are the steps to becoming a professional photgrapher:
Hate your job.
Have enough money for a decent camera.
Have a printer at home to print your own business cards.
Have someone that can pay your rent (parents).
Add ‘Photography’ to your name (ie. John Smith Photography).
Spend your weekends taking pictures of stuff.
Carry a camera around with you always. Every shot is an award winning shot.
Use craigslist to find models to take pictures of.
Become friends with a Starbucks barista, hoping to get your picture on the wall.
Have a dream.
I really like #10. Because you really need a dream to succeed. out of those 1000 photographers I know, maybe…2, and thats just pushing it..2 people out of those 1000 probably make a very uncomfortable living from being a photographer.
I have a few hobbies that I was I could quit working so that I can do them full time. These would be:
Play video games.
Ride my motorcycle.
Eat.
Sleep.
Hang out.
You know. Honestly I will not make money from doing any of that. I might as well become a photographer. I wonder if I was to add these hobbies to my name and make my own business cards, would it work out?
Shaun Empire Gaming
Shaun Empire Riding
Shaun Empire Eating
Shaun Empire Sleep Technology
Shaun Empire Professional Hanging
Who knows.. Probably not.
Maybe I will just pick up a Camera, quit my job, and see where it takes me.
Yesterday while I was pumping gas at an Esso gas station I watched two white guys get into an argument.
This was not the argument that you would think, the argument was polite and the reason they were arguing? The white guy walking out of the Esso held the door for the white guy walking in. Then the one walking in said no after you….. and the white guy holding the door for the other white guy said… no no after you sir. They stood on either sides of the door with one white dude holding the door the other standing on the other side back and forth saying no after you. This went on for about 5 minutes while this was going on a whole family of Indians walked in and said nothing …seconds later a Indian women walked in said nothing all the while this retarded white man is still holding the door open and the other white guy is saying thank you … but after you .. LOL.. I laughed my stupid ass off.
Look, while it is nice to see some people still have a caring heart to think about the next person and hold the door for them, this is just stupid after the guy coming in said no after you .. just walk through man. The Indian family that walked in while this was going on didn’t even notice this was happening never mind they probably thought the white guy holding the door was doing it because it was his job. No one gives a shit no more, people in general are ass holes they don’t care about you and they don’t care about anything around them. If you cant change them….be like them. I see someone coming towards the door I make sure it slams in there face, why? Because if they had the same decision it would be slammed in my face. I learned after a couple of years of holding doors for people that no one gives a fuck. You look like a bitch holding the door some stupid ass mother fucker walks in and doesn’t even look at you never mind say thank you. You walk out like a bitch … your that mans bitch .. he owns you.
I have waited for a guy once just as he ran at the door I pushed it shut. When he walked in he looked at me and I looked at him .. like that’s right your a bitch I slammed the door in your fuckin face .. fuck face. I know its not nice and in a perfect world people would hold doors for people and say thank you. But we don’t, we live in a world of people that will cut there mothers throat for a buck.
Its the same when your trying to get off a bus or a train .. I push as many people as possible. I shove my way out like there is a fire and who ever is last is gonna burn a slow death. I shove my way through the door like its a fuckin Olympic race and I’m going for the damn gold medal bitch. Your Michael Johnson and I’m Donavan Bailey .. Because if you don’t act this way you will get stomped on. I’m in a train and I’m hopping over seats and babies to get to the door. Your in my way the elbows come out. I don’t give 2 fucks.
Driving your car on the streets? You should know how it is you either get through the lights or you sit behind everyone who will constantly cut around you no signals no brake lights .. in and out of traffic and pass you on the turning lanes. Pass you down the center median. So now I do the same, I see you trying to pass ill do the same .. shit I was going 140 along Mavis the other day and climbing because one women wanted to pass me even though I was doing like 90 in a 60 .. so as she began to speed up I did the same. Until we both were doing 140 and then she slowed down got in behind me and made a right turn. Crazy? Maybe .. but in our world of the careless and fuck you to get ahead this is the norm.
Today I was driving on my way to the mall, and some asshole’s car broke down in one of the lanes. So there is only one other lane with no one around so I put the nose of my Jeep into that lane. While I’m waiting a young kid with a Nissan pulls up into the lane that my nose is in and tries to cut in between the nose of my car and the guardrail. Well I drove right in as soon as traffic began to move coming inches from driving over the front end of his shit ass car. So he began to hold down his horn like the little bitch he is. First off the fact that he even had that nerve is unbelievable. Don’t fuck with someone then honk like its the other guys fault.
Lee will kill your whole family with his car.
As soon as we began moving this bitch kid gunned it in front of me at the lights almost taking off my front bumper. So I was just about to hop the curb and block in his car however my wife began screaming NONONO! Always have to have someone telling you not to do something that you really should do. Anyway so light turns green and I begin following him into the mall parking lot. He then slows almost to a stop.. so I slow down to get out but he kept moving so I figured, no problem gun it into on coming traffic and go around him almost driving right over his fuck car like a speed bump. We turn the corner and he guns it past me again ..haha.. so anyway I follow him and I stop in front of the mall to let out my wife, he parks but what he doesn’t notice is I see him and I see where he now has parked.
Equal rights. He'll punch the shit out of your girlfriend too!
Now this is where killing a mother fucker actually crossed my mind. I see him and his girl friend get out of there car and begin walking into the mall. He doesn’t see me, but I see him, and I’m seriously thinking.. I’m gonna run this mother fucker over.. Then I thought, nahh.. instead I’m going to go to his car and push it with my jeep into the middle of the fuckin parking lot. Well.. eventually I just threw an entire large cup of coffee all over the windshield and hood of his car.
This kid is very lucky because I really thought about killing this person. Like not just beating him actually killing him and his girlfriend.. like no longer breathing shit.. both dead chalk outlined and all. I really don’t know what to say at this point about stupid people and the thought process that goes through there fucking mind. Do you know who you are fucking with? I don’t think you do!
I take medication to calm me down mother fucker .. don’t catch me on a day when I forgot to take it. Anyway, hope people get to understand if you were in the fuckin wrong just admit it and everything is fine. But you wanna be a douche? Go ahead and just hope someone aint behind the wheel that will kill a mother fucker.
I was watching Chris Angel the other day and after he levitated and walked up the side of a building I came to the realization that Chris Angel is God. If not God then he is Jesus reborn, I mean Jesus turned water into wine. But Chris Angel walks on water. He can cut off parts of his body and put them back on. He can disappear then reappear like a fuckin ghost or some shit.
That brings me to the name, Chris ANGEL …hmmm… last name is ANGEL.. sounds like its right in our face for all to see but we are all blind like Ray Fuckin Charles. Chris Angel is an actual Angel and he can do all those things that Jesus can do but better. I know your saying what about David Blaine? FUCK DAVID BLAINE ! So now back to Chris Angel and Jesus Christ.
Chris Angel is amazing this guy first off is Greek .. and you know back in the day Greeks were people from Athens and Athens had warriors and big places to fight and watch soccer matches. Greeks were the first people on the earth and they invented Slovakia and Gyro’s. God and Jesus never invented that Greeks did. And while I’m getting on that the Greeks had sex with sheep’s. Jesus didn’t have sex with gods creatures at all actually he supposedly never had sex with anyone. How can you be the son of God and not have sex with anything. If I was the son of God id be telling everyone that I was the son of God and id be smashing everything because everything is spectacular and nothing is fucking boring.
So Chris Angel is Greek and he can levitate bring himself back from the dead and get run over by a fuckin Hummer. Ask yourself can God get run over by a fuckin Hummer? I think not .. and Chris Angel supposedly smells great ! Like cookies or some shit .. Jesus never smelled great .. he didn’t even smell bad .. he smelled like goat shit because he was a goat Herder and rode Chris Angels coat tails. He tried to be like Chris angel turning water into wine but Chris was like .. ha ha .. fuck water into wine .. I’m gonna turn nothing into something .. and he turned nothing into a great goat orgy from nothing .. FROM NOTHING. He just snapped his fingers and boom goats out of the blue .. in orgy positions for every one to have when they want. I think that was pretty spectacular, he was an entrepreneur and gave sandals to the poor. That’s how Sandals Vacations became wealthy. Because it has the name Sandals in it.
So Chris Angel can disappear into the sand and walk on water and all that shit .. that’s crazy .. there should be a church called Angels of Chris church for me to go to and eat ice cream wich by the way was invented by Greeks and Greek the word actually means Angel in English. Besides you know Greeks invented Greece .. and Greece is really oil .. and oil makes the world go round, and that’s why Chris Angel is a God .. or he is God .. or more powerful like Voltron in space who looks over God .. and tell God .. look God .. I’m Voltron / Chris Angel I want you to get me a coffee and God is like no problem sir right away.
Do you think that Chris Angel vs Chuck Norris? Chuck Norris is like Jesus ..but just old and shit.. but serious .. Chris Angel would kick his stupid ass hole. I think Chris Angel would just turn Chuck Norris into a nute .. and then eat him because nutes are delicious. then he would burp and a earthquake would follow with death and disease. I know I know your saying David Blain .. FUCK DAVID BLAIN… if Chris Angel were to face off against David Blain .. Chris Angel wouldn’t even show up .. he would send Chuck Norris and Chuck Norris would fuck David Blain like a rabid fat goat in heat. By the way Greeks also invented heat.. have you ever been to Greece? Its hot there and that’s why Chris Angel created Star Trek because Star Trek and Tupac are HOT ! Paris Hilton didn’t even invent that word Hot .. Chris Angel did but because Paris Hilton is one of Chris Angels bitches .. because Chris Angel is a pimp .. hes Greek and has a giant heard of roaming goats and sheep remember. Anyway he invented Hot .. and Greek spelt backwards is Keerg and Keerg is like Keg wich is full of delicious beer and Chris Angel Invented it.
Look Chris Angel is higher then god or anyone like that .. and he does what he wants and that’s why he has a TV show and you dontso you cant even claim that im wrong. shhhhhhhh just zip ..zip it.
I’m LeeRoy and Chris Angel is the Voltron of the universe and God is his bitch.
Maybe a month and a half ago I ordered a new car stereo, it was one of those double sized ones that have a touch screen, GPS, and all that. I figured since I spend a lot of time driving it’ll be a nice upgrade.
I had this stereo sitting there dying to be put in, however since my car isn’t your typical every day car, I wanted to make sure I can find an installer that has some experience with install on this car, and can provide me with the perfect install.
Anyhow, I wake up this Saturday, and take it to this place that does installs. the guy assures me they have worked on this car before, and it should be no problem, he will even do it himself. When I go to bring my car around, there is this young guy that tells me he is going to install it, and instead of bringing inside, he’s going to do it outside in the back of the building.
This kid pulls out my radio, cuts up my console, cuts out my screw points, and THEN looks at the stereo, which at this point doesn’t fit. He tells me, “this isn’t going to fit sorry”. He get’s his boss, his boys says he will get it to fit. His boss looks it it, and then goes outside. The kid says to me, it’s not going to fit, jams everything back in the console and goes inside leaving me with my cut out console pieces, and a bunch of mess. I said to myself, why did I take my car to Hi Tec Audio Video in Brampton and let them butcher my console?
The problem is that now-a-days, no one knows shit about anything. People get jobs that they are not qualified for and have no experience in. The kid at the stereo shop said he has done over 10 cars like mine. Well then why didn’t you know it was a shallow bay in the console, and check the stereo size before you cut everything up? Then you tell my my stereo was longer, then we measured it against a Kenwood, and it was the same size.
You go to Best Buy, and the people in the computer department don’t know shit about computers, the TV people know shit all about TV’s, and you trust these people for advice?
I took my car into two shops recently, the first guy didn’t know shit, because when I asked him for quotes on doing work, he expected that I would be stupid enough to leave my car there for the whole day, and he would tell me at the end of his 10 hour day how much it was. Are you serious? The other guy just got out of college, and his other mechanic was probably his brother from high school. I thought I was back in my grade 12 shop class.
It has come to the point where I don’t trust anyone working on my car or motorcycle unless they are old guys (40+) with years of experience in the field, and years of experience on my model. I will find write ups and reviews on the internet before I go to Best Buy and have some kid tell me about shit he doesn’t know that he read off the box.
Don’t get me started on customer service either. Half of these people do the jobs for the money, and don’t care about going a quality job, or making you happy. I recently paid 2 hours worth of cash for doing something to my car which took them 20 minutes. Because they had no clue, and quoted me wrong. Instead of charging me the right price for the amount of work that was done, they knocked of $20, and said it’s a standard rate. They should have knocked off the other $40, and even just charged me for the hour at the most. Mind you I had another $1000 worth of work to be done, and they aren’t going to get it. It’s too bad that making a quick $70 off of me was a better idea for them than keeping it fair, and making $1000 later on.
There are just too many idiots that think that they went to school for a few years they know everything about everything, which they know shit all about jack shit.
I remember working at this new company a few years back and meeting one of my co-workers for the first time, I introduced myself, and when he did a return introduction, he said, “you can call me JT”. Definitely different from his real initials of, well, we’ll say SG.
Of course I am curious, some people of different backgrounds use more westernized names and nicknames sometimes (he was white though), or perhaps you go by your middle name(s), or what ever. This wasn’t the case. He said “Well I look like Justin Timberlake, so you can just call me JT”. He looked like Justin Timberlake just as I look like Dr, Manhattan in The Watchmen.
OMG...Cher? WTF? Try Bram Strokers Dracula..
Sometimes it’s OK to think in your head that you look like a celebrity, but when you need to start trying to convince people that you look like, are related to, or are that celebrity, it’s going a little far.
Funny enough I see this happen more with guys. I have met people that have had a habit of telling other people who they look like, and it’s almost always guys. We go to a bar, they walk up to a girl, and tell them straight out that they look like Jude Law, or Brad Pitt. The icing on the cake is cutting your hair like that person and trying to dress like that person. How many Brad Pitt movies must you rent before you think you pulled it off?
I don’t want to know who you think you look like because that’s a really sad existence. Celebrity impersonation is for drag queens..
Because you know this was probably a woman driver on the phone..
Anyways, you know “she” got caught. believe it or not, this happened in a suburb outside of Toronto, Canada. I though this stuff only happened in the US..
You know that asshole in the fancy car that his parents bought him. The expensive car that he never had to lift a finger to get, never had to pay insurance on, and will never have to pay maintenance because Daddy will pay for all that.
You know that feeling you get when he rides your ass, cuts around you, and drives like a jackass. You have that one wish…
OTTAWA — Canadian travellers have been told they’re not welcome in Libya, in an apparent reprisal for Canada’s near tongue-lashing of Moammar Gadhafi.
Gadhafi cancelled a planned stopover in Newfoundland last month after the Harper government made public its intention to scold the Libyan leader over the hero’s welcome Libya gave a man convicted in the Lockerbie bombing.
Since then, Gadhafi has made clear to officials within Libya’s travel visa offices that no visas are to be granted to Canadians wanting to enter the country. That has left some Canadians who were part of recent tourist groups travelling in the Middle East and North Africa in the lurch.
Canada’s Foreign Affairs department says it is aware of the problems, and that Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon raised the issue when he met with Libyan officials last week in Tripoli.
Gadhafi drew international rebuke in August for throwing a huge welcome-home party for Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.
The national fete for a convicted terrorist outraged many, especially the relatives of the 270 victims killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the action “constituted an insult to all the victims who died, including Canadians.”
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Come vacation in beautiful Libya!
(se: The interesting part is that it never seemed like there was a big tourist draw to go to Libya in the first place. I could understand people wanting to go to Dubai, or Lebanon, but Libya? Terrorist Gadhafi and his weird country are not really gaining much by not letting Canadians visit, and Canadians aren’t missing much by not being able to visit. I guess this a a win/win situation.
So Chris Angel can disappear into the sand and walk on water and all that shit .. that’s crazy .. there should be a church called Angels of Chris church for me to go to and eat ice cream wich by the way was invented by Greeks and Greek the word actually means Angel in English. Besides you know Greeks invented Greece .. and Greece is really oil .. and oil makes the world go round, and that’s why Chris Angel is a God .. or he is God .. or more powerful like Voltron in space who looks over God .. and tell God .. look God .. I’m Voltron / Chris Angel I want you to get me a coffee and God is like no problem sir right away.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=051395aa-0001-4bd7-b9ca-0de11bb24df5)
This kid pulls out my radio, cuts up my console, cuts out my screw points, and THEN looks at the stereo, which at this point doesn’t fit. He tells me, “this isn’t going to fit sorry”. He get’s his boss, his boys says he will get it to fit. His boss looks it it, and then goes outside. The kid says to me, it’s not going to fit, jams everything back in the console and goes inside leaving me with my cut out console pieces, and a bunch of mess. I said to myself, why did I take my car to Hi Tec Audio Video in Brampton and let them butcher my console?
