Thanks for posting! I shot this engagement session for my awesome friends Juliana & Ben. Here's a link to my tumblr. It's not as updated as it should be. :) http://amandarynda.tumblr.com/
@asylum @ angela Thanks you guys!!! It was Ben's idea! He wanted to make sure his manliness wasn't lost in an engagement session. :) Juliana styled it, I staged, shot & edited it. It was a super fulfilling & creative day for me thanks to Juliana & Ben and their unique view on love.
I'm sorry, it's just not feasible that you would have a shovel ready and waiting just in case of any attacks from the undead. And clearly your friend who was taking the pictures was more interested in getting the right shot than saving your life. Plus it's clear to see that neither of you are carrying a shovel in the first shot.
But I must congratulate you on your fighting skills - wielding those tools and still having the composure to hold on to your glass of wine. Very impressive.
What I don't get is... who was taking the pictures? Why didn't he help? I'm no expert, but it would appear that perhaps your cameraman set you up?
And what's with the switch to sepia? And the changing f-stop? Is this guy using one of those old tripod cameras where he has to put his head under a black sheet and hold a single use radium flare? "Say cheese and don't move for 45 minutes."
I don't know... if this is real then you better not open whatever engagement gift Ansel Adams got you. But if this isn't real, if this is staged, then are you making a social commentary? Capitalism manifest as undead white American guy, relentless and insatiable, consume, consume, consume, at odds with the Asian ethic of hard work and savings? A twentysomething zombiefied by debt and envy, decapitated by two who are willing to do the job but not spend all the income? "Yes, President Obama, this project IS shovel ready."
I don't like it.
Perhaps in this photoessay the real monster isn't the zombie. If zombies have taken over the earth, i.e. you two are in the minority, then the zombies might see you as the scary monsters, unwilling to conform to the existing society of brand identification and the religion of retail. Perhaps you secretly wish all zombies dead, you're angry, because you have dollarized your own economy. You can't borrow in your own currency, and so you print your own currency but hold US dollar reserves and the result is to drive your own country into an inflationary death spiral even as zombies are able to kick the can down the road indefinitely-- they have the unique luxury of being able to borrow in their own currency. "Mmmmmm, how much did you say we owe again?" he says as he bites through some confused hipster's skull, "mmmmmm, no problem, I have plenty of ink for the printing presses." I get that would make you angry. But it won't help. Oh, look another zombie.
"MUST MAKE ASIA MOVE TO A CONSUMER BASED ECONOMY.... MMMM... BRAINS..."
But I must congratulate you on your fighting skills - wielding those tools and still having the composure to hold on to your glass of wine. Very impressive.
What I don't get is... who was taking the pictures? Why didn't he help? I'm no expert, but it would appear that perhaps your cameraman set you up?
And what's with the switch to sepia? And the changing f-stop? Is this guy using one of those old tripod cameras where he has to put his head under a black sheet and hold a single use radium flare? "Say cheese and don't move for 45 minutes."
I don't know... if this is real then you better not open whatever engagement gift Ansel Adams got you. But if this isn't real, if this is staged, then are you making a social commentary? Capitalism manifest as undead white American guy, relentless and insatiable, consume, consume, consume, at odds with the Asian ethic of hard work and savings? A twentysomething zombiefied by debt and envy, decapitated by two who are willing to do the job but not spend all the income? "Yes, President Obama, this project IS shovel ready."
I don't like it.
Perhaps in this photoessay the real monster isn't the zombie. If zombies have taken over the earth, i.e. you two are in the minority, then the zombies might see you as the scary monsters, unwilling to conform to the existing society of brand identification and the religion of retail. Perhaps you secretly wish all zombies dead, you're angry, because you have dollarized your own economy. You can't borrow in your own currency, and so you print your own currency but hold US dollar reserves and the result is to drive your own country into an inflationary death spiral even as zombies are able to kick the can down the road indefinitely-- they have the unique luxury of being able to borrow in their own currency. "Mmmmmm, how much did you say we owe again?" he says as he bites through some confused hipster's skull, "mmmmmm, no problem, I have plenty of ink for the printing presses." I get that would make you angry. But it won't help. Oh, look another zombie.
"MUST MAKE ASIA MOVE TO A CONSUMER BASED ECONOMY.... MMMM... BRAINS..."