Making Friends

This past Sunday was fun. Shot pictures downtown in the Arts District with my brother. We took a break at a coffee shop and ran into 3 interesting people. One is the brother posing with my brother above. That is Drevon Cooks for those of you not knowing. He is an up and coming actor/comedian who stars in several online mini horror clips called Blood Zoo. He was totally cool! He even did part of his comedy act for us. I think he's going to be big because he's funny and he can act. Definitely going to keep in touch with him.

The next guy we ran into was Crazy Gideon. Click here to see his videos. He yells loud during his commercials and throws TV's around. I remember watching him when I was a kid staying up late nights. Looks like he's done selling electronics. Good for him. He made it from nothing 35 years ago to now being a successful business man. He is very interesting and a lot of fun to talk to.

The last person we ran into was Luther Gerlach. He is a photographer who shoots a camera that he hand made. Instead of film he uses glass plates which are 20" x 30" in dimension. Before he actually shoots the glass plates, he coats them with different chemicals and then sets the glass in the camera and takes a picture. Its a very intricate process and takes a lot of mental thought and experience to get the shot right. Below is what the picture looks like on the glass. Amazing look. I love it.

Here's a picture of his camera.

It was really cool meeting all three of them on Sunday. They spent time telling us about their lives and what they do and they asked the same of Dave and I. Hopefully I can meet more interesting people like this in the future because it made my day.

_Vince