"....I like girls that wear abercrombie and fitch... I'd take her if I had one wish...."

Have you all seen this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/abercrombie-and-fitch-homeless-brand-readjustment_n_3272498.html

So I saw this link for the first time last night, and while it's unique and interesting... I'm not sure it's really that great of an idea.  While this is saying 'screw you' to A&F, it's also saying, 'let's give their clothing items to the opposite of the pretty people/cool kids'... and why would you want to say that?... It's sort of de-humanizing.

I'm all for sticking it to the man, especially that man... but perhaps there is a better way.

Perhaps we should make A&F products into baby diapers... because then they'd be covered in shit :).

-mrp-

#3/30

So part of this 30 before 30 is pushing myself to take not only 30 self portraits [which is a feat in itself], but to also make them interesting.  I'm going to assume that people don't actually want to see 30 selfies of me.... [boooooring].

I'm hoping that as I'm thinking, and the months go on, that I'll push myself to do things that are not traditional portraiture.  That are more art.

So today's image was created with that in mind.  I'm not 100% satisfied with it [I wish there was more space between my feet and the ground], but it's a start to better art portraits in the future.

*click the image above to see it larger.

-mrp-

ps: this was taken at New Buffalo beach.  I love the emptyness of the beach.  There will only be a few more weeks of emptyness I bet.