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  • WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY You can see a little windows desktop behind and open Macintosh window. This is so cool because I have started to make use of a lot of Windows applications and I even use a Wind…

  • I am not a member of friendster and I have no idea how they got a virus into my email list and sent out to anybody on my email list to "join" my friend list. I wonder how they did that? When I clicked on the link …

  • I HAVE MOVED INTO MY YACHT! YAY! (click here to see images) Well the deal closed and I am now comfortably laying in bed in the aft stateroom of this beautiful beautiful yacht. I normally have massive buyer's remor…

  • WELCOME TO OUR WORLD SEBASTIAN BUISSINK Joe just called and the happy couple are exhausted but early this morning they gave (well Marilyn) gave birth to a healthy boy. You can wish them happiness by email at jbu…

  • ANOTHER MOULTON FAMILY CHRISTMAS This is my 20th year of doing photos for the Moultons! I did Don and Sandy's wedding 19 years ago and I've photographed their Christmas card photos every year since. I remember…

  • WELL THE GOOD NEWS IS, IT IS BACTERIAL Do you know how you can tell? If you have an elevated temperature and colored shall we say, "output" (when u blow ur nose) then it is bacterial. And it can be fought with antib…

  • I MUST TURN AWAY FROM THE LIGHT I totally forgot that I have to close escrow on the yacht tomorrow and I have a portrait session with the Moulton family at 430pm tomorrow in Long Beach so I must turn away from the lig…

  • GOODBYE WONDERFUL WORLD I am so sick i cannot really type all that well i just wanted to say goodbye you have all been so wonderful to me i have a bad cold and i do not think i will make it this time somebody said …

  • I THOUGHT THIS WOULD LOOK COOL! At my Discovery Bay condo, the entry to the theater was missing something. It had two french doors with a single pane in the middle with gold like, trim. Expected when visiting G…

  • TODAY IS HAUL OUT AND SURVEY DAY AND I HAVE A NAME (click here) I am really sick with this cold. But today was crazy day because I had to do the survey, engines inspection, haul out, insurance, documents etc. …

  • WE DON'T MESS AROUND HERE AT GARY FONG, INC Pictured here is the new Floating Dome. This floating dome makes the Lightsphere Photojournalist now suitable for high-quality indoor OR outdoor portraiture. It creates e…

  • YAY IT IS JANEY'S BIRTHDAY! Happy 27th Janey! This is one happy girl - how come you are always so cheerful? Anyway anybody lucky enough to meet Mary Jane has a great friend because she is just SO nice! Why is sh…

  • I AM SICK, THEREFORE I TIDY CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES I have become a treadmill freak. I overdid it two days ago. See I play tennis a lot, and I ski a lot and stuff and so I thought running was no big deal. I…

  • MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH - LITERALLY This is Nicole's parents Jack and Deb Peach. They are an awesome couple and awesome parents to three kids. I am so jealous of the Peach family. Anyway they are super talen…

  • NAMES, NAMES NAMES Joe and Marilyn Buissink are due to have their son arrive tomorrow! I'm gonna be Uncle Gary!!! Everyone is naming their kid after me so that's easy but... what to name my yacht? HMS BUNNY (t…

  • ENTROPY AND PERFECTION I just woke up at of course 2:12am with the answer I've been seeking for decades... the unlikely link between entropy and perfection in living things. What is entropy? Basically entropy is t…

  • 11/11 THE BIG DAY IS COMING CONGRATS KRISTEN! Kristen's wedding day is coming! Melissa and I saw Denis Reggie in NY and he didn't know Kristen was getting married, so I figured she was doing a bad job of like gett…

  • I SURE DO MISS YOU. I was just going through some of my images and I ran into this one. We weren't dating each other back when her friend took this photo, but we talked on the phone every day. I never thought t…

  • HI FROM THE BOAT HARBOR BECAUSE OF THE EARTHQUAKES I am staying on my sailboat tonight - there were two hefty earthquakes in L.A. - no damage but some seismic activity. So I am safely floating in the boat harbor. …

  • CRASH IS COMING - IT'S SO FREAKING OBVIOUS I'm not nervous because my idea is to buy and hold forever. But I just looked at the L.A. Real Estate ads in the L.A. times and little 2 bedroom tract homes in Westches…

  • MY NEW YACHT (click here to see images) My offer was accepted this afternoon for this gorgeous yacht. It was so weird, I just got back to L.A. yesterday and was talking to my yacht broker John and told him…

  • PART TIME ASSISTANT NEEDED IN MARINA DEL REY I need somebody local to Marina Del Rey, CA to help with at my office here with personal assisting and errands. If you have any knowledge at all in boats / boat charter…

  • WE GOT BUSTED! So we were walking into the trade show at Javits Convention Center for the big photography trade show and we got inside about 30 feet when we got surrounded by people asking for the new LS2PJ. We brought…

  • WE SAW "RENT" ON BROADWAY A lot of people said this show is really great and sure it's ok. The vocal performances were great, the music was excellent, etc. But honest to goodness we had no idea what was going on …

  • HI FROM THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING! (CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES) We had so much fun tonight. I got an invite from Lina Jang (click here to see her website) - an awesome photographer who has been a student of mine at Weal…

  • THANKS FOR THE GREAT PHOTO RACHEL PRIDDY! Rachel Priddy writes: Hi Gary, Otis (Nicole's new dog) inspired me, so I went to get a puppy. Once I got there, I came home with TWO! Anyway, the Ls2pj arrived today an…

  • THE DELTA SOFTLITE DIFFUSER - NOW IN TWO FORMULATIONS We keep improving the prototypes of my point-and-shoot diffuser, and I've just come up with a new formulation that creates almost Lightsphere-like quality in a …

  • SOLITUDE IN NYC Melissa is hilarious. One thing that is hard to get used to about NYC is all of the honking. So one thing I love about NYC is getting the refuge in your room from all of the noise - but there has …

  • THIS IS THE FUTURE OF MY E-STORE I can only imagine how amazing it is going to be, to be able to put the video/sound directly into a product description - or get this - an EMAIL and have it show you why you are goi…

  • THE NIKON COOLPIX 990 IR IN MANHATTAN Here's some trippy images from five minutes ago. This is one cool camera! click here

  • I MISS THIS CRAZY CAT AND MY FRIENDS Looks like Jessica and Mark Strickland got a new Canon 5D and shot photos of their crazy cat Mocha. I love these photos! Hey I miss you guys sometimes I just want to like mo…

  • HEY LOOK WHAT I WROTE IN OCTOBER OF 2004! " I think that Apple is going to take their tremendous itunes concept (where you can buy songs online for 99cents) and expand this to DVD movies. I mean they already own P…

  • BIG WHITE SKI RESORT IS ALL I LIVE FOR There is early snow on the mountain! YAY! Except I am here in NY! I want to be THERE! I cannot wait to go skiing. I live for skiing. Sleeping too, I live for sleeping. And s…

  • OK I'M SELLING MY EXCESS GEAR ON EBAY http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZhonestgavelQQhtZ-1 I cannot believe how fast and easy ebay is now, they've really sped up the listing process with a buncha shortcuts. So now, I…

  • STEP INTO MY OFFICE This is my office. It is all I need. It all fits into a small Brenthaven backpack and wherever there is an internet access, I'm super effective. I have a little trick too. When I am at a ho…

  • NYC IS REALLY WHAT I LIVE FOR. Fall in New York is always my favorite time here. In the summer it's a ghost town as everyone goes out to the Hamptons or something. Winter - forget it. But in fall, bright orange …

  • MY PILLOW IS REALLY ALL I LIVE FOR There was a comment in an earlier post about how awesome Tempur-Pedic beds are, and if I liked the Tempur-Pedic Pillows. They don't make them thick enough because I have wide sho…

  • APPLE'S ITUNES IS ALL I LIVE FOR I cannot believe it. I just downloaded the first episode of the new season of "Lost" because I haven't seen it (the one where they go down the hole). I can't believe I've misse…

  • SLEEPING IS ALL I LIVE FOR I'm converting my Marina Del Rey condo to a vacation rental. It makes no sense since I am in Los Angeles just a few weeks per year now, and I have this ocean view condo sitting here empt…

  • MELISSA LAPOINTE - A HISTORY OF THIS CUSTOMER We have a customer that had been posting since Wednesday on my personal blog, and so I had to block her... She sounded so angry that I had to look into what the heck…

  • GOOD MORNING FROM MARINA DEL REY It is so warm today already. And unlimited visibility. I can see the Hollywood sign from here but it's really small so it looks like: HOLLYWOOD

  • FALL CLEANING Since my internet was down and I just arrived in Los Angeles, I figured it would be a good time to go ahead and rearrange the office to make it more efficient. I am probably going to rent out this co…

  • I PAID $79 FOR THIS UPS Bar Code Labels are completely unique and on some like major worldwide database so that your product will have a unique number. In fact, what the thing on the left says is the manufacturer'…

  • WE DON'T MESS AROUND HERE AT GARY FONG INC (CONT'D) It was such a bummer when the fan broke on my Apple Powerbook and completely melted my logic board. Thank goodness I got AppleCare protection. So I wanted to el…

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  • STORY BEHIND THIS LATEST VIDEO Nicole's birthday is actually tomorrow, but she has been lining up parties all week long. You'd have to know Nicole and then you just accept it. So Melissa made her a cake, and I wa…

  • SOME PROUD PHOTOS FROM UNCLE GARY AND AUNTIE MEL When you have a cute new nephew, you - as Uncle Gary and Auntie Mel - will take a lot of photos and videos. So here are some more photos of Otis. The photo of me a…

  • LIGHTSPHERES COMING TO AUSTRALIA AND U.K. We would like to welcome my hand-picked distributor for Australia and we will soon have shipping from within the U.K.! We have a small quantity of product in the U.K. r…

  • A BEAUTIFUL FALL DAY ON THE LAKESHORE We just found out that they are building a billion dollar lakeside development a block down from the Castle. That's going to be great because they're building all of these coo…

  • CANADIAN THANKSGIVING ONE-DAY SALE In celebration of the Canadian Thanksgiving, people who opted-in to my e-cart got a mailing for a special one-day sale. If you did NOT receive the mailing AND you opted in, please …

  • THEY HAVE TRIPPY FOOD FROM CHINA Growing up as the grandson of a chinese chef, I was exposed to the most interesting food. Chinese people eat really great stuff, but some of it is an acquired taste. Life the stuf…

  • THE REACH OF THE "BLOG" PHENOMENA LOL Jim. I know I run into people all the time that read this blog. This kid on the golf cart is going to read this... how funny is that? A few days ago Melissa and I were at …

  • HAPPY 25TH BDAY NICOLE Nicole is turning 25 on Wednesday and this is the one year anniversary from when I hired her. You know I didn't even have any work for her to do last year when I hired her, my friend Debra P…

  • FALL AT THE CASTLE ON THE OKANAGAN (CLICK HERE) The leaves are changing color and it is so beautiful and SO lazy. Yesterday we went hiking up the 2.5 acre piece of land that I have behind the castle for the first ti…

  • HOW DESTINY WORKS AS SEEN BY STEVE JOBS The man on the left started Apple Computer. He also owns the largest movie animation studio since Disney creating huge blockbusters like "Toy Story". So one wonders, what d…

  • I WONDER HOW THEY CAN HAVE KIDS? A friend of mine told me something that made a lot of sense about the mysterious reason why Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman suddenly broke up... Nicole Kidman, if you'll remember, had …

  • YAY! FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE LIGHTSPHERE II Do you know how I got started in the Lightsphere business? I was flying somewhere and was reading an inflight magazine. After going through Sky …

  • A COUPLE OF E-CART ANNOUNCEMENTS We had two software glitches that affected orders taken on Friday and Wednesday: 1) Lightsphere2 Photojournalists ordered on Friday did not make the transfer between mycart and my di…

  • OTIS WORKS THE CHICKS The life of a dog. Nicole got him a bunch of really cute t-shirts ("I'm tougher than I look, etc) He got to meet auntie Mel today and he was a total hit. Everybody loves Otis he is so freaking…

  • WHY ALL THE FUSS ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS? Because whoever is nominated can stay indefinitely, and it is the last court that rules how laws are interpreted, leaving a legacy far past the administration th…

  • HIGH END REAL ESTATE PRICES DOWN 26% IN NEW YORK IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS I just watched on the Today show that real estate prices suddenly dropped an average of 13% in NYC in the last quarter. Anderson School of Bus…

  • A FEW E-STORE ANNOUNCEMENTS! 1) Mycart.net made an error and sent an email originally meant for only yesterday's orders to everyone in the database. So you did not place an order recently - do not worry. 2) LIG…

  • HOW I WASHED MY HAT WITHOUT DESTROYING IT IN THE WASHING MACHINE. To the left is my favorite baseball hat in the whole world. I got it at a sporting goods store in Nice, France. So when this one started to look l…

  • EDITED BEBOP ON THE PIANO ENTRY (and cool discussion going on in the comments below!) I just love listening to John Coltrane on the piano. Bebop Jazz is so amazing, the chord structures just seem so random and rich…

  • THANKS FOR YOUR SAMPLE IMAGES MJ WILSON! MJ Wilson of tampaphoto.com (click here to see their website) just sent me some cool images from her first wedding ever with the LS2PJ. Yup I recognize the look! She wrote: "…

  • NEW AUTORESPONDER! HOPE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA! When I look at all my emails, I spend a lot of time forwarding emails to someone else, or repeating the same answers over and over again. Either way, it is not efficien…

  • WOW INSANE ADDITION TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD Last year when my friends from L.A. the Kiefers (Jason is C.E.O. of Pictage) purchased their spectacular chalet near my Raven Creek Estate, there was this massive construct…

  • PROTOTYPE OF WALL-ART DECO PRINTS I really like prototypes. They're like toys that I can twiddle around with and see how they feel in real life. It's also taking a concept and turning into a 3 dimensional objec…

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