Catch me if you can

[figmo]

I was looking at photos various people have taken of Consonance and other cons I've attended over the years, and somehow I manage to avoid showing up in their photo albums. I don't know whether I'm that ugly or unphotogenic or what, but it just seems to happen.

I first noticed this trend in college at San Jose State. When I was first taking TV journalism the running joke was how folks were going to appear on camera. Most of my classmates were hot on showing themselves, so our teacher got on everyone's cases about not appearing in pieces. I took this to heart as well, not showing up in any of my pieces the first half of the semester. Finally Darla took me aside and said, "You know all that stuff about `not showing up on camera?' Well, it doesn't apply to you. From now on I want you to have stand-ups in all your pieces."

Despite that, it was still a running joke that I somehow managed to not show up in photos. It still seems to be true today. I was looking over photos from a Consonance I chaired a couple of years ago and I wasn't in any of them. When I went looking for photos for my LJ icon I had to scrounge.

So consider this a dare: Catch me if you can. I bet you can't get a good photo of me and that's why so few exist.

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

I think I got you in some, but haven't scanned those photos yet. I wonder if I should bring the Binders of Doom to a filkcon sometime and let people flip through, take dupes, whatever (I always get double prints for just this purpose).

[johno.livejournal.com]

I know I have several, just not online right now.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Will you be at LosCon? I must remember to bring the camera...

[figmo.livejournal.com]

No LosCon this year. My heater dying blew any chance I had of going.

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

You are neither ugly nor unphotogenic, but this thread reminded me of Lamont and Tonelli on 92 KSJO. The shock jocks were chatting one morning trying to warm up and Lamont comes out with a comment about one of the station's female staffers. Tonelli replies:

"Well, you know what they say about people who work in this business."

"What?"

"You have a face just _made_ for radio."

Dead silence. Cut to commercial. And Lamont snipes at Tonelli for the entire rest of the show . . .

[figmo.livejournal.com]

That's one of the oldest stock insults on-air folks in radio can (and do) fling at someone.