Sixto Franco No this isn't a Cliff Notes version of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece. But the man did get it right. We're all gamblers at the slot machine of life. For some it's a career or business, maybe it's your family and children, personally it maybe that New Year's...
They stood there like chess pieces across a crowded board. The board, the Queens bound R train. His back against the subway car doors, averting eye contact with his partner. Seated, she glared at him over a crowded subway car. The onlookers missing the pathos in...
We're going to the Moon." "Oh yeah? Cool. And pray tell how are we going to do that?""Well...$hit. No frills on this one. No distractions, pulled punches or fancy bells and whistles. Just prose. Let's face it, humans can be awful managers. There's just so much going...
Master Retoucher and Printer to Avedon, Penn, and Vogue. 2pm on a Tuesday and I'm getting weepy listening to Strauss in my Studio. Yeah, Art makes me weep and getting lost in a live recording of Don Quixote, waiting for the last 6 minutes with Rostropovich, Berlin and...
Vicky Chow Who's ready for a massage? It's Monday, July 1st and my hands ache. No, it's not arthritis. The last few months feel like a blur. A handful of fashion shoots, gym and composer portraits, concert shoots, photo editing on steroids and business expansion have...
Daydreaming is underrated if you ask me. Remember when you were in primary school and just drifted off into space every now and again? Or you're older and still do that at the office? You'd get into trouble because you weren't paying attention. For us creatives, that...
It’s that first date. Frankie’s singing in the back of your mind … ...That sly come-hither stare that strips my conscience bare, it’s Witchcraft. You lean in over the table. You want to get as close to her as possible. She hesitates. Holds herself back ever so...
Let's be honest here...I'm in this for the snacks, the juicy tidbits... face it, the stories. Not to mention a few one-liners to boot. 😉 I'm constantly blown away by everyone that I have the pleasure of capturing. It's a privilege getting to work with my clientele...
A brief note from the Editor... In my future, there is a Karjaka Column out there waiting for weekly publication. Who knows, maybe this will lead to it. In the meantime, I'll continue in first person prose. 😉 I'm sitting, or more like melting into my couch in...
"Fill the frame", he'd say in that Ukrainian accent of his. "Allllleks, look at this photo you took. The action, the story is over here, (pointing to the upper left hand corner of the photo) yet you chose to fill your frame with grass and nothing. Get in closer. Fill...
