Lamp Post Girl



Lamp Post Girl, originally uploaded by jasonstaten.

I was at Grant Park with my wife and I saw this little girl peering from around a light post.

When you see kids, do you ever wonder what they are thinking, what they are fascinated by, and why?

I always look at their faces and think that I saw some adult person that looked like them or that I remember a kid that looked like them when I was in school. I wonder will they be anything like those people I know or used to know.

Do looks define who you become? Are certain personality attributes and tendencies associated with certain looks?

Does society make people a certain way. Do their friends family effect who we become because they treat us a certain way? We always seemed a certain way and looked a certain way so they got used to behaving as if that is who we were.

I find myself wondering will this little girl lead a great life. Wondering if she enjoy the world she is in and have great experiences or will she be scarred and damaged by the horrible things that people sometimes do to each other because a person looks certain way.

Will she be alive 50 years from now to see the things that she imagines and dreams right now materialize?

Will I be around?

What will she learn?

How much time does she have to live in every sense of the word?

ONE SHOT



ONE SHOT, originally uploaded by jasonstaten.

Just after the TI video shoot at Digital Soul 5/24/2009 we were leaving and Hilena and Matt noticed a wonderful bug working its way out of some sort of cocoon. It was crawling around under my car wet from the rain. My camera was loaded with shots so I deleted one to make room for this!

Making Calls, Emailing and faxing potential clients and jobs
Making Calls, Emailing and faxing potential clients and jobs

It never feels like your working when your are trying to find more work. With Ryans help I have been in the Digital Soul office daily faxing every radio station within 300 miles, e-mailing and calling every film lead, and making a general nusance of myself. I am currently calling and e-mailing every AD, production manager, and line producer in the Georgia film guide!  I figure every NO I hear really does put you one step closer to a  YES, and any work I get and do well is one step closer to the project that will allow me to what I want to do consistently and make money doing it. 

Sometimes you just have to hustle harder and be more creative at finding opportunity.

I have heard that I am not focused!  Iwill admit… I do a lot of different things, but if all I did or said I could do was one thing, I would not be doing anything.  I would hoever be a lot more broke! (is that possible? – is that correct english?)

ANT GENOCIDE

Soul Survivor - ANTANT HILLTools of GenocideALL THAT REMAINS

Upon Walking up to the office our front wall at DIGITAL SOUL HQ, I notice our facade was covered with Ants. Thousands of ants. Immediately deciding the war against insects  needed to be fought now, I reacted.  They would not overtake us!

I went inside and grabbed three nearly empty bottles of insecticide. I sprayed along the outside and inside perimeter of the building leaving no crevice un-doused.  Finally I poured the final remnants on a pile of Ant building material that I swept from the front of the building. As I watched the tiny ants writhe in agony I thought wow, I wonder if and how I am going to pay for this… I just killed like Five thousand ants? Is that Genocide?

I noticed along the wall a small Ant crawling through the remains of the other ants, Then a few more ants were crawling near all that remained of the hole that was an ant hill.

Will those ants become immune to the toxins I used?  Will they return more powerful? Will they carry the toxins back to their associates and family and spread it?

Is this going to be added to the long list of things I have down to hurt and damage people and things?

One day will someone immensely larger that I am snuff me out?

hmmm (thinking)….

Well more importantly its lunch time and I need to wash my hands before I poison myself!

Marsh Road



Marsh Road, originally uploaded by jasonstaten.

This is a road that runs past a transmitter site in New Orleans. I left the shutter open for about 2 seconds. The trees and alot of the brush were dead and there were miles of them. Apparently the entire area I was standing in was under 10 or 15 feet of water. New Orleans reall is amazing but I am not sure I could live there… you can see more stuff on my flick page under Around New Orleans…

No Outlet