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bassnectar

I photographed a cool dj bassnectar aka lorin ashton a few months ago for urb magazine, just came across the images. cool guy, great sounds. more images on flickr. hes pretty anti- president bush, held up a sign that said arrest Cheney. thought that was bold, shock value yes tho bold nonetheless. I like anyone who is willing to be authentic especially in front of the press. nice... fight the power bassnectar.

epson is not green.

today i had to print out a bunch of invoices. i recently bought a used, discontinued Epson r200 printer mainly because my friend gave me a stack of inks that work with this specific printer. the current version of this printer (i wanted this series to print on cds/dvds and docs) takes totally different sized ink cartridges. why?

why if i am printing black and white to i need to refill the magenta and cyan cartridge? and why can't i use cartridges that have an open seal and plenty of ink left swapped from another printer? why do i have to trick the memory chip (turn printer on and off, etc) in the cartridge into thinking that this is a new magenta and cyan cartridge so that i can print my black and white document? and why are they packaged to death? My God, it's like those Russian dolls to reach the actual ink!

Come on Epson. The products are good but your ink cartridge racket in this green day and age has got to go.

each cartridge, in this 7 cartridge pinter goes for $12.34. $12.34 x 6 + $17.09 (black is more) = $91.13. buy here:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/j_ShoppingCart/j_ShoppingCartView.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&Delete=Delete&DelItem=T048120

oh, incidentally, one can buy knock off Epson cartridges for this printer for $1.64 each. They work just fine (regardless of what the Epson manual and techs tell us), been using them without a problem.

$1.64 x 7 = $11.48
here's where you can get them:
http://www.globalimagingsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=12950

here is epsons environmental product corporate responsibility web page:
http://www.epson.co.jp/e/community/environmental_dev_prod.htm

Just met with my pal Rob yesterday about the web, blogs, etc., and decided to return to my blog. There are so many cool things going on right now that I want write about that there. Meeting with a client next week about a big shoot in India, meeting with a writer next week about a few large projects in Jaipur, my India workshop is happening, am gearing up to dive into stock photography and it is amazing weather here in Seattle. A few other projects are also brewing and this is where I'll write about it.

I am psyched about the possibilities of stock, I have just signed with Getty and Corbis and am working with some very cool editors.

So much more to come.