max s. gerber(the latest shot)

jenova is a different kind of video game designer. he’s not interested in shoot ‘em ups, or dragons and treasure. jenova chen designs games that are intended to invoke emotional responses in players. the cofounder of that game company, contracted with sony (he makes games for the playstation 3) his games are more atmospheric. as [...]

mark’s been one of my dearest friends since we lived in the same suite in college, nearly fifteen years ago. true, it took a while to warm up to the guy as the first thing he ever said to me wasn’t “hello”, but rather “i heard you’re loud. you better not make too much noise.” [...]

i was really sad to find out late last night that forrest ackerman died earlier this month. i was also kind of shocked that it took me almost two weeks to hear about it. forrest was the original sci-fi champion, the most prolific and enthusiastic supporter and collector of memorabilia ever. according to the quick [...]

helen and i went to high school together. the high school of the stars, though she was more of a star than i was. i first met her in my US history class in summer school, between 10th and 11th grade, and i was immediately scared to death of her. at crossroads we did summer [...]

the latest shot recession special: two CEOs in a row, now that these have both finally gone to press. jay flaherty is CEO of HCPI which, as far as i understand it, invests in real estate. you’d think that’d be a recipe for disaster right about now but jay didn’t seem too concerned. they build [...]

i don’t meet many CEOs who share my encyclopedic knowledge of 80s movies. if fact, with just a few rare exceptions this encyclopedic knowledge has mostly been met with derision from my friends. it’s not really my fault that i memorized the entirety of legend, it just seemed to be on TV every fifteen minutes [...]

the nice thing about living in los angeles is that everyone i know eventually comes through here at some point, so i never really have to truly lose touch with anyone. a few weeks ago trillium came to town to visit her godmother, mary lambert (also pictured below). trillium and i went to college together, [...]

last week i had a shoot that took place in a zoological laboratory. i’m not sure if the place was really appropriate to the subject, or if it was just available and really cool to be in. maybe a mix of the two. it was more interesting than any of our other options at the [...]

today winona lost a long fight with kidney failure. i’d been giving her subcutaneous fluids every other day for a year and a half, but over the last month she deteriorated quickly. this morning i made the difficult decision to end her suffering. it was impossibly sad to see her decline so much, she could [...]