kcline touches it

TOO LONG!!!!

Well it started out as an annoying hacker stealing my old Hotmail account (which is what I used to log into this account with) and then it escalated to having to recover what the turd burglars managed to wrangle from me and do damage control, which lead to me hating on the internet for quite some time and trying to get my head back into work mode.  Certain things went neglected like my Vox blog (which I have been missin' something terrible)

Lessee...
How to catch my friends up:

• The Cookbook I shot for came out and is on the New York Times Best Selling list and was #1 on Amazon.com for cookbooks for a spell.
• I traveled from Seattle to Jacksonville and then back to Seattle... by car
• I survived Walking Pneumonia to end up in surgery for something completely different
  
• I have undergone surgery for tumors in my girl junk (still awaiting tests and crap)
• I have become the singer in a Rock Band band called Funkee & the People (as in Rock Band the game... no one would want to buy a record made with my sorry ass singing... besides my nickname would be Mumblina)
• Upgraded my entire computer system to Mac (mmmm Macilicious)
• Got assaulted by a Road Raging Truck Driver who promptly went to jail for said assault (btw he was raging because he made an illegal turn and ran me and another lady off the road and up on the sidewalk... yet came out all pissed off... dick)
• Got asked to speak on a Panel for the PDN Photoplus Expo in NYC in October
• Getting ready to launch a new food blog (better than the other ones I dabbled with) called nommynom.com
  
• Celebrating life in general

But with all that said...
it feels good to be back here.
I've missed it.

And anyone wishing to catch up with me... pop me a private message and I'll give you some alternate venues to keep in touch :)

Wahoooooo!

Yay 100,000 downloads finally!

So I had to do some backwards counting to find the 100,000th file, as of right now the iStock counter is sitting at 99,953 and it has been sitting there since the server update (I checked it at 6:30 and it was 99, 946 and at Midnight is was 99,954 and I had one refunded file with a "double billed" reason and this morning when I checked again it was at 99,953) so I am thinking that right around 6:30-7pm you will see the big number roll over wooooot!

I will show you guys and gals what file pushed it over, but first.... there is the contest winner to announce.

Now, to be honest I was thinking it was going to be right around my birthday (January 14th) as did Swalls, but I was being overly optimistic and not factoring in a December of Doom as far as downloads go.  As soon as December hit my downloads plummeted, I expected a small slow down but not THAT slow.  So my own calculations were WAY off thanks to everyone having to celebrate the dang Holidays... though not complaining Christmas was a very good one this year despite being lambasted with sickness, kidney issues and farked up old lady backs.

So the contest started to get REALLY tight

williv came in and I thought MAYBE he was going to get it with his prediction of February 7th 1am... to be honest I thought he was going to get it.
But then there is Acerebel who came in with a timeless prediction of February 8th which would put her at the default time of 12:01am.

This file downloaded on February 8th at 12:46pm is #100,000:

Say Hello to 100,000!

So a HUGE congratulations to Acerebel (who is now Rasmus' new hero) for winning!

And last but certainly not least, a HUGE thank you really needs to go out to everyone who contributed to the fun of this post and also to everyone who has purchased and who has commented on my photos.  You all give me the drive to keep plugging away at it.

WOOOT!
Now to celebrate... if my old lady back will allow it ;)

Wooooohooooooo!

31 bags of groceries, over 150 hours of Food Styling, over  86 set changes, over 75 hours of Shooting, 14-16 hours a day, 11.5 gigs, 2,217 files later.... the Cook Book shoot is finished!

It has been hard work, but I have loved every minute of it.  I am so excited for the release of this project.  It's a slight departure from my usual style of photography.  I'll be able to divulge more once it goes to print, but for now let me just say that these shots will make you want to gobble up some of this health conscious and delicious food!

It won't be long now before I will be able to give you all more details and start throwing out some linkage for ordering.  I've already seen the cover and it freaking ROCKS!  It's going to be a great cook book for sure!

And now to celebrate with a Zappa Plays Zappa concert with my main squeeze, Rasmus.

I want to say a huge heart felt thank you to Rasmus.  He was instrumental in motivating me on the days when I felt I had nothing left in me.  He washed my prep dishes... mountains and mountains and mountains of them and never a word of complaint.  Thank you Rasmus, you are the bestest in the whole wide world.  Love you bunches for keeping me from going insane and moving forward!

YAHOOOO!

Jerk

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I am venting.  I am not going to air what I am venting about but I will say that I am highly pissed off in a way that is beyond comprehensible measure.

One thing I can not stand is people who assume and make accusations on their assumptions.

Do not make assumptions about a situation before you have all the facts in front of you, and certainly do NOT make defamatory character judgments and accusations before you have explanations and/or facts before you.  People that do this are insensitive, untrusting, accusatory, non-fact knowing Assholes.

A big fat middle finger to people who jump to conclusions.

I'm not a bad person.
But piss me off and I am a Jerk.

So what in the World does that number up there mean??

It is something special.

It is something I have been working towards for a while now.

It is.......
*drum roll*

9888 until I reach 100,000 downloads on iStockphoto

Golden Camera!!!

I am so excited about this, I thought it would be kind of fun to try a guessing game that all my friends can play! I'm only leaving the window for guessing open for one week, although I will reach 100k sometime between now and February 2008 so that gives you a nice big window to pick from.

So here it is, for lack of a catchier name:

Guess When Kcline Hits 100k

-Only one (1) guess per person. You can not edit or redo your guess, so think carefully. No Do-overs ;)

-Guess entries must be posted in the comment section of this Blog Post.  Anything posted elsewhere will be null and void.

-Winners must be iStockphoto members (you can join for free by signing up HERE)

-Guess Entries can be made through the week of October 29th, 2007 to the deadline of midnight PST on November 8th, 2007 (all entries received after the Nov 8th deadline will be invalid for the prize, but you are welcome to guess anyway for the fun of it)

-Please be precise - Month/Day/Year - Hour:Minute (oh yeah... time too folks) Guess Entries without a specified time will be counted as 12:01am of the date guessed.

-The person with the closest guess without going over wins.

-Only one winner (sorry)

-Contest will end the minute I turn over the 100k mark and the winner will be announced.

-Winner must be willing to provide a valid mailing address via email to claim prize, don't worry I won't sell your information or stalk you... well maybe I will stalk you but that's the risk you are going to have to take.

Prize?  Oh yeah... you think that i am going to have a sweet Guessing Game of a hard earned milestone and not give a prize?  You silly people!
The Prize will be a $50.00 Gift Card to B&H Photo.

I know it's not a million bucks or a car or a vacation but it can be seed money to buy yourself or your camera something sweet.

***Family members of KCline are excluded from this contest as she will be unfairly counting down giving those family members an unfair advantage.  Sorry Rasmus... I'll make it up to you :)

This is a silly little contest, it is not endorsed by iStockphoto.  It's for fun and a little sumpthin' sumpthin' courtesy of Kcline.

Okay not really... I LOOOOVE it hahahaha ;)

So I have been given the thumbs up by Lisa Lillien (who is an absolutely awesome gal) who is the creator of the Hungry Girl website to blab about the current project I am working on with her right now.  I have the honor of styling and photographing the recipes produced by Hungry Girl for her upcoming cookbook.  In fact... I am taking a break while the very first of the images are downloading to my hard drive as we speak to blab to you all hehehe :)

I can not share the images or the recipes, you know since it is a book and all that good stuff we are keeping the contents under wraps until St Martins Press puts it on Bookshelves in Spring 2008.  What I can tell you is that is packed with some really tasty dishes and amazing desserts... and get this it's all guilt free eating.  So as far as contents go... I am bound to utmost secrecy until the release.

I will keep you all in the know as the project comes to a close and as the time gets closers and closer to release :)

Sooo exciting!

...that I am doing the photography for a Cookbook, would you be interested in hearing more about it?

What's the best late-night TV talk show?

The Colbert Report
and
Craig Ferguson

What's the best music documentary or concert film you've seen?

I can't just pick one so I am giving my two faves:
Decline of the Western Civilization  (NOT the metal years one though... the shining star is the punk one... ahh the good ole days)
and
X:The Unheard Music

By and far my two favorite music documentaries.