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  • ENJOY AN INTIMATE WORKSHOP WITH JOE BUISSINKIN OREGON (LIMITED TO 15 STUDENTS) A lot of my friends are wedding photographers, and around this time of the season they're feeling pretty battered, especially creatively. Wo…

  • BEFORE AND AFTER WITH THE PUFFER DIFFUSER! The puffer diffuser is being produced in the factory right now, and it will be on the e-store in a few days. This awesome $19 item is going to be so great for the photographer …

  • A HUMMINGBIRD'S LIFE HE SAVED!DJ has the most amazing video on his site. He saved a hummingbird. If he would've gotten there an hour later, there would've been a dead hummingbird on the floor and that would've been so …

  • WHAT A REALLY GREAT BOOKToday it was so beautiful in L.A. - I went down to the pool and curled up with an amazing book. It is called, "The Glass Castle". The book starts off when a successful Manhattan author goes to d…

  • WOW! IT WAS AWESOME!This movie was so refreshingly, delightfully silly. The audience loved it. It was so weird watching the Simpsons with a real-life laughtrack in stereo. I saw it with my dad and we were busting up.…

  • I'M GETTING LONELYHi everybody. Rabbit is shooting a wedding right now. She calls me every few hours, and I really miss her a lot. Today I bought flowers to make myself feel better, and brightened up my condo. It's w…

  • MY MOM Today I visited my mom. It took me about a dozen years to be able to go to her resting place and visit. It took that long before the whole subject felt less like pain, and more like memories.I don't know why it …

  • THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDEThanks to Jesse for putting up images of the landscaping final touches to the ranch. I took four of the images and composited/blended them together to make kind of a wide-angle shot…

  • HOW DO YOU FILTER THE WORLD? - THIS ENTRY IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGEOne of my favorite features in Maxim magazine is a column they run every month where readers submit their findings of unintentional porn. It is hilarious.…

  • PHOTOS FROM JESSE AND LINDSAYJesse's blog is awesome because they send us photos from the ranch, but rather than email us messages, they put it on a blog. There's like this whole blog, and Jesse will say "Melissa - gues…

  • GRACIAS! DO YOU GET ITToday they laid the turf at the ranch! Thanks Lauren (aka foxyroxy) for emailing us the photos! When you need a lawn in an instant, they bring the turf in big squares and lay it over the irrigatio…

  • I AM BACK TO USING THE MOTOROLA Q, NOT THE EYEPHONE Those of you who called my super secret cell phone number got a message saying, until August 10th while I am still in the U.S. please call another number. If you calle…

  • DISCOVERY BAY CENTRAL BUILDING FLOORS 3-6OCCUPANCY PERMITS REISSUED Discovery Bay issued a notice that the Central building, floors 3-6 have pretty much been completed and the occupancy permit is in the process of being …

  • I'M SORRY I'm not trying to be negative, but I think the economy is about to be hit with the most massive collapse, starting with real estate values plummeting - which will strike fear in consumers, who will owe more tha…

  • BEAUTIFUL DAY IN MARINA DEL REY AND SANTA MONICA Today was beautiful in L.A. On the left is a photo of my neighborhood. When I'm in L.A., I stay on a boat, but it's 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, kitchen, laundry ro…

  • SOMEONE ASKED ME WHY MY POSTS ARE DO DEPRESSING About the economy and if I have any suggestions. My suggestion would be to prepare. If people knew Katrina was coming, they'd stock up on supplies, they'd head to higher …

  • SICKO WAS ABOUT 75% ACCURATE We saw Michael Moore's latest movie and it was really funny. I think that is where he shines best... raising awareness using really whimsical bits. That probably helps stem some of the ange…

  • A HOUSE OF CARDS BUILT ON A MYTHIf you think about the economy in recent years, so much of the driving power in purchases were made from home equity loans. The home equity loans and lending policies in the U.S. got so …

  • These photos were taken with my iPhowne. It's pretty handy having a pretty high quality little camera in a phone. The weird color cast is because I'm shooting through the plane window.Tonight I had our first ever staff…

  • INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT PEOPLE WHO LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF!click here!

  • M,BATRM=Memories. I have to be in Los Angeles on a business trip until the first week of August - and then when I return to the ranch it will be completely finished! All tilework, pool will be filled, grass will be in,…

  • LAUREN AND JESSICA'S BIG ADVENTURE Technical info: images shot by Lauren Chapman, using mostly a Canon 85mm f1.2 on a Canon EOS5D

  • TODAY'S EYE-PHONE IMAGESThe IP is a really good camera! Today we had such a fun day - Lauren C is completely in love with Seattle... she wants to move here with her husband Robbie, and I'm all for it. We have had the b…

  • THE DAY AFTER A WEDDING This is Jessica and Lauren. They shot a really long wedding yesterday in Seattle. They left our place at like 8am, and they returned at 2am. I woke them up to do pushups. They said no.We had a…

  • MY FIRST DAY WITH THE I-PHONNE (complete iphone review) The misspelling is intentional because Xanga puts some kind of link whenever you use the word. OK here's my first day with the IP.I finally got it up and running b…

  • JESS AND LAUREN VISIT WITH MY FAMILYYesterday we had Dim Sum with my aunt, uncle, cousin Joe and his wife Madeline (not pictured). The girls had heard about my family for such a long time, so since we were in Seattle it…

  • CONGRATULATIONS REBECCA ROMIJN AND JERRY O'CONNELLAND JOE BUISSINK! Just got People magazine and there on the cover is the most beautiful celebrity couple. I've been a fan of hers forever - she is stunningly beautiful, …

  • BIGGEST REAL ESTATE PRICE DROP IN SEVENTEEN YEARS CLICK HERE FOR ARTICLEThe bulk of the mortgage resets has just hit affected homeowners, and as many of you know - more than two dozen major subprime lenders have gone und…

  • TODAY'S FLOWERS IN SEATTLE This morning, Jess, Lauren and I went to grab some coffee and there's a really cool florist on the ground floor of our building. As I was passing by the window yesterday - he had a collection …

  • ART LEATHER FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY ACCORDING TO IMAGINGINFO.COMThe forums have been buzzing about the Art Leather bankruptcy. Imaginginfo.com had the following information regarding this - click here.Art Leather Manufactu…

  • IPHONE AND AT&T ARE SO STUPID TOGETHERIN FACT, SO FAR THE IPHONE SUCKS. IT'S STUPID. I just got my iPhone. I'm with Verizon and they're great. I have a Cingular (the new AT&T) account and rarely use it because…

  • SEATTLE WITH JESS AND LAURENWe are here with two of my favorite people, Jessica Strickland and Lauren Chapman. When we all get together, we have so many stories to tell that we keep overlapping stories and not finishing…

  • BUNNY BOUGHT MONET Monet is a beautiful Fresian mix and she is so beautiful. I call her a beauty queen because she literally poses like she's wearing a swimsuit. She has the most beautiful eyes, long eyelashes and is s…

  • WHO WANTS TO PHOTOGRAPH THIS CUTE COUPLE'S WEDDING?This is Dan and Heather. Heather found my blog by researching wedding photographers, and she knows what she wants - a very photojournalistic style with an artistic touc…

  • THESE FEET ARE IDENTICAL IN SIZE BUT THEIR OWNERS ARE NOT One of the reasons I call Melissa bunny is because well she is sturdy when she is standing! She's about 4" shorter than Lauren, but we noticed today that their f…

  • MORE TRAFFIC THAN ELTON JOHN OR DIXIE CHICK'S SITE (lower numbers have more traffic)Our Alexa rating is artifically way underestimated because we have our site nested within Xanga. I've been trying to put more content i…

  • STATE OF THE RANCH REPORTWe are heavily into landscaping right now. Two commercial crews of 8 each are working 7 days a week, and the horses look so confused! Turf is being laid on Wednesday which will instantly create…

  • THE LATEST IN SECURITY CAMS Pictured here is one of our infrared security cameras. It records on motion in high resolution, then saves to a hidden box somewhere here on the property - but simultaneously broadcasts to a …

  • JUST LIKE A 1,200 POUND PUPPY I had no idea that horses were such wonderful creatures. I'd been on trail rides before, but having horses on my ranch is such a different experience. Whenever I walk outside the front doo…

  • CONGRATULATIONS LINDSAY AND BUBBA! Lindsay competed today with a pony! It's hilarious because when I see her ride Bubba, it looks so normal, and yet it doesn't! Bubba jumps, does all the fancy dressage stuff, but if he…

  • THE GARY FONG DO-IT-YOURSELF FLYSPHEREThe flies really love to bother horses eyes. So I had the pest control people give me some advice on how to reduce the fly population greatly, and apparently this method works great…

  • PHOTOS FROM TODAYActually the photo on the left was yesterday's. We drove back from lunch and it was hilarious - we saw Lindsay riding her pony and it looked like an adult riding a minibike. Out of scale, but did you k…

  • WOW!!!I was just on DJ'S Blog - and he had a link to this demonstration. It is phenomenal. CLICK HEREThe future looks good!

  • ELTON JOHN'S "YELLOW BRICK ROAD""goodbye yellow brick roadwhere the dogs of society howlyou can't lock me in your penthousei'm going back to my ploughback to the howling old owl in the woodshunting the horny back toad,oh…

  • LAUREN IS DEATHLY AFRAID OF MICE, SO....To desensitize her, we're going through a phobia recovery program. Part of it is to take baby steps to rid her of the phobia - and this includes removing dead mice and helping to …

  • POOL PROGRESS AT THE RANCHThe concrete decking is now being formed and poured around the pool. It will be the color of the top left photo, those blocks on the left, kind of a warm sand color. The pool will be completel…

  • GREAT SHOTS BOB! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Bob Davis was Eva Longoria's wedding photographer as you all know by now. I don't have my copy of OK magazine yet, but I think these shots are beautiful!Earlier in this blog, I went …

  • NEWSLETTER BLAST HAS BEEN SENT OUT!58,000+ people around the world have opted into my newsletter announcements. Good thing because the exciting newsletter just got emailed out. If you didn't receive yours, something is…

  • TODAY AT THE RANCH We just filled the rodeo arena with this really cool sand that doesn't kick up dust - kind of like cat litter. It makes for really good footing for the horses. Here are some quickie photos I took tod…

  • 24 HOUR BLOGATHON JULY 9TH AND 10TH STARTING 6PM P.S.T. My friend David Hessemer came up with a great idea to raise awareness for all of the people in Africa who are dearly in need of aid. 1) he's having a first-i've-e…

  • JUST LIKE A BIG PUPPY!This is Rodain. He is part fresian, and he's huge. His head is like the size of my whole torso. Fresians are such beautiful animals I could just look at them all day long. He and Abigail seem to…

  • EVA LONGORIA'S WEDDING Paul from garyfong.com just emailed me and said, "Hey I saw the Whaletail at Eva Longoria's wedding on the news". Well, did you see the photographer who was using it? I am not supposed to say who…

  • GARY FONG PRODUCTSNOW IN AVAILABLE IN SOUTH KOREA AND ISRAEL!!! I'd like to welcome two new countries to Gary Fong products, Israel and South Korea! We have new official GF distributors, www.fotofilm.co.il and slrshop.c…

  • 7/7/7 - THE BIGGEST WEDDING DAY OF THE YEAR!All the buzz has been about 7/7/07. Our friends are shooting Eva Longoria's wedding tomorrow! We just want to say CONGRATULATIONS on getting such a primo gig and I wish you t…

  • JOE BUISSINK RECOVERING FROM HEART ATTACK #3Joe Buissink is such a good listener. So today I had a toothache and I called him because I know his calm, soothing spirit would make me feel better. This is why we chose Joe…

  • OK HERE'S THE VIDEO PIANO LESSONSo we aim to please at Gary Fong, Inc. You asked for a video of what I mean, so here it is! Maestro?

  • HOW TO PLAY PIANO INSTANTLYPiano is an easy instrument. Here's why. The whole instrument is based on an area of keys about a foot wide, and then it just repeats itself. Figure out what that one foot of keys do, and yo…

  • KATHARINE MCPHEE IS ON XANGAI'm a big fan of xanga. I got onto the Blog idea super early - July of 2003 - way back when the term "blog" was still unknown in the minds of most people. The reason I joined is because it f…

  • LIVE HARD, AND DIE FREE!Just wanted to chime in and say the movie was really good!

  • RETAIL PACKAGING FOR PUFFERCool job reddoorcreative! They came up with this concept, "A breath of fresh air for your pop up flash" What do you guys think? Neat or confusing? I'd like your feedback before it goes into…

  • IT'S GOING TO BE 80 DEGREES TODAY IN KELOWNASometimes people go, oh you're in Canada? Is it snowing? (they'll say this mid-summer). It's ok people don't know. The forecast is for the 90's later this week. The weat…

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