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Again, For The Win – Bonus Deluxe Version

Chris Lin — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:04:26 +0000

Again, For The Win released its album, Bonus Deluxe Version, and celebrated with a show at Red Eyed Fly in downtown Austin.

Crawfish season!

Chris Lin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:39:31 +0000

It’s crawfish season, at least back home in Louisiana.

This is a photo I took in 2007 at a crawfish boil my friend Bruce had at his house in New Orleans. Like the mannequin photo, it’s in my desktop wallpaper rotation.

Mannequins in black and white

Chris Lin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:58:57 +0000

A long time ago I rented another lens, the EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM from rentglass.com. Here is one photo from walking around with it at Perkins Rowe, near my apartment at the time in Baton Rouge.

This is through the windows of the then-unopened Levi’s store. The mannequins are not yet set up and dressed.

It’s on rotation as one of my desktop backgrounds. After fellow photographer Christine Tremoulet saw my laptop desktop background and asked if I had taken the photo (it was a Mac one included with the OS) I decided to actually use photos of mine instead.

Kareena, model shoot at Auditorium Shores

Chris Lin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:46:05 +0000

While William Bay shot the white dogs for his Caponigro homage photo, Kareena and I waited in a gazebo at Auditorium Shores with all the water-sensitive equipment and borrowed dresses. Kareena was excited to have the chance to wear a wedding gown. And I was more excited about a wedding dress than any guy ought to be. It was a pretty sweet dress. While we waited, we got a few shots.

Model: Kareena
Dress: Antonio from La Chatuise
Bouquet: Flora and Faunas

Cummings Farm

Chris Lin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:59:46 +0000

Cummings Farm: Three couples get together on a farm in rural Louisiana to have an orgy. They have no business getting in an orgy. It’s awkward. But funny awkward. And despite the main plot point being an orgy, there is surprisingly little nudity.

Herpes Boy

Chris Lin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:34:00 +0000

(Not a lot of times you get to use the word ‘herpes’ in a blog post, are there?)

Herpes Boy started as a web series and got picked up into a feature film. Most of the screenings I covered I was able to see the films. The Shorts 5 screening overlapped with the Herpes Boy Saturday screening. Thanks to Britt Moody at Alamo Ritz, I got in the back of the theater right as the Q&A started.

Shorts 5

Chris Lin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:31:27 +0000

Short films are fun. The short films at AFF seemed to be somewhat grouped by topic. Shorts 5 could be called “nerdy love”. Or maybe “strange/awkward/offbeat love”. I can relate.

Two of the shorts in the set won awards: Love Bug, Narrative Short Audience Award Winner, Writer/Director: Kat Candler

Adelaide, Narrative Student Short Audience Award Winner, Writer/Director: Liliana Greenfield-Sanders

Warrior Champions

Chris Lin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:13:38 +0000

The first screening I attended at AFF was the documentary Warrior Champions. It follows four American soldiers, wounded in combat, as they try for the 2008 Paralympic Games. It’s pretty intense.

All four soldiers were at the Q&A, along with filmmakers the Renaud brothers.

Thank you for your service.

Caprica

Chris Lin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:49:22 +0000

Battlestar Galactica was lots of fun. Good television. But wait, the show is over and reached a end of story? Uh-oh, can’t make a spinoff sequel. What to do… Let’s make a prequel!

Caprica was one of the screenings at the Austin Film Festival I had heard of prior to signing up to photograph events.

Actor Esai Morales (Joesph Adama) and director Jeffrey Reiner attended the screening and did a Q&A session afterwards.

Esai was funny, in marked contrast to his quite serious character. At one point he channeled Edward James Olmos’s glare:

BBQ FTW

Chris Lin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:20:49 +0000

My friend Carter has a new project: Again, For The Win. To celebrate their formation and Megan‘s birthday, Carter, Paul, Wayne, and Travis threw a barbecue (really, just grilling some and partying).

Since most of the members of Carter’s other project stumbledrunk were there, they also gave an impromptu performance. It was fun times.