[Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal

[Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal We believe that people who love erotica are more than just faceless members sitting at a computer looking at photos of nameless models. We are a community, a cooperative, a society of people that are more than the dollar amount of their site memberships. Deviant Nation We believe that people who love erotica are more than just faceless members sitting at a computer looking at photos of nameless models. We are a community, a cooperative, a society of people that are more than the dollar amount of their site memberships. We are striving to combine community, subculture, artistic expression and erotica all at once. Deviant Nation satan@deviantnation.com Girls,Pinup,Tattoo,Pierced,Goth,Punk,Rockabilly,emo,Metal,Subcultures yes http://deviantnation.com/girls/xmikevx en-us Copyright 2003-2008 Deviant Nation, Inc. satan@deviantnation.com Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:00:00 GMT Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:07:08 GMT 60 DN Logo http://i.deviantnation.com/i/dn-logo-small.png http://deviantnation.com Deviant Nation 76 144 Lack of DN updates/ Motorpsycho news...... http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/83260 [Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal xmikevx So, I just wanted to put out something to apologize once again for my lack of involvement as of lately on the site. I have really cut back a whole lot on shooting now that it is too cold to shoot in many of my cool outdoor locations.  My home studio is pretty limited these days seeing as how I shot sooo much in it last winter,....it's kinda played out I feel. I really hate studio set ups anyway.  All in all I am just kinda stepping back from my work to re-evaluate myself as a photographer.  I feel I am getting stuck on doing alot of the same angles and shots with different models and I don't want my stuff to become too cliche' or something. I guess some people might just call that their "style" but I view it as a crutch. I think that it is kinda like if you don't re-invent yourself a little from time to time,....people will just get tired of you and worst of all you will just get tired of yourself.  I don't know,....I am rambling. Plus, to make matters worse,.....I am scared to death of trying to make any photo prints on my large format printer because a week or so ago these little gansta thug kids in my neighborhood threw a rock through my window because they didn't like me peeking out at them as they were walking by and exploded the window all over my my $600 Canon Pixma Pro9000 completely filling every working space of the printer with shards of broken glass. So, long story short,......I am did the most insanely meticulous clean up job I could,.....but I am scared to death to try and print for fear that a shard will dislodge from a crevase somewhere and shred my print heads or something.  To make matters even worse,..........I have to print about 20 large format prints for a gallery opening in Muncie on Febuary 5th. So, the last little side note here also kind of explains what I have been doing with alot of my spare time now that I am not shooting as much. Since this last summer (when I had to send in my camera to Nikon for 3 months!!!) I have been completely and totally obsessed with motorcycles. Mostly japanese ones, especially old vintage Hondas. I did a bunch of side work and saved up and finally bought my first motorcycle in September and it is a 1981 Honda CB900 custom.  For those of you who don't know much about bikes a 900cc motorcycle is NOT a starter bike for most people.......cause they weigh over 600 lbs.- which is a pretty good size bike.  But I'm about 6'1 -6'2 so I needed something big. I freaking love that bike though. I restored a bunch of things on it myself. I even rebuilt the whole charging system from parts off of ebay. I had never even so much as changed a spark plug before and I forced myself to learn as much about it as I could to rebuild it on my own. I also just bought a 1980 Honda CB 750 tonight that I am saving up money to take the engine out of and turn into a custom chopper. I figure the best way to really get "intiated in" to the biker subculture is to build your own freakin' bike.  I found a bunch of websites that specificly cater to people who try to convert 750cc bikes over to choppers so I am pretty set as far as where to find parts. Now I just need to train myself step by step on how to fully assemble my own chopper. I guess that is part of the fun........ Ohh btw if anyone you know has a set of old "Harley springer front forks" I would kill for those......... Here is a shot of me and my present obsession.................click the link for the photo to pop up. <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/xmikevx/DSC_0031B.jpg">http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/xmikevx/DSC_0031B.jpg</a> Blog yes
Plus, to make matters worse,.....I am scared to death of trying to make any photo prints on my large format printer because a week or so ago these little gansta thug kids in my neighborhood threw a rock through my window because they didn't like me peeking out at them as they were walking by and exploded the window all over my my $600 Canon Pixma Pro9000 completely filling every working space of the printer with shards of broken glass. So, long story short,......I am did the most insanely meticulous clean up job I could,.....but I am scared to death to try and print for fear that a shard will dislodge from a crevase somewhere and shred my print heads or something.

To make matters even worse,..........I have to print about 20 large format prints for a gallery opening in Muncie on Febuary 5th.

So, the last little side note here also kind of explains what I have been doing with alot of my spare time now that I am not shooting as much. Since this last summer (when I had to send in my camera to Nikon for 3 months!!!) I have been completely and totally obsessed with motorcycles. Mostly japanese ones, especially old vintage Hondas. I did a bunch of side work and saved up and finally bought my first motorcycle in September and it is a 1981 Honda CB900 custom. For those of you who don't know much about bikes a 900cc motorcycle is NOT a starter bike for most people.......cause they weigh over 600 lbs.- which is a pretty good size bike. But I'm about 6'1 -6'2 so I needed something big. I freaking love that bike though. I restored a bunch of things on it myself. I even rebuilt the whole charging system from parts off of ebay. I had never even so much as changed a spark plug before and I forced myself to learn as much about it as I could to rebuild it on my own. I also just bought a 1980 Honda CB 750 tonight that I am saving up money to take the engine out of and turn into a custom chopper. I figure the best way to really get "intiated in" to the biker subculture is to build your own freakin' bike. I found a bunch of websites that specificly cater to people who try to convert 750cc bikes over to choppers so I am pretty set as far as where to find parts. Now I just need to train myself step by step on how to fully assemble my own chopper. I guess that is part of the fun........

Ohh btw if anyone you know has a set of old "Harley springer front forks" I would kill for those.........

Here is a shot of me and my present obsession.................click the link for the photo to pop up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v664/xmikevx/DSC_0031B.jpg]]> xmikevx Blog http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/83260/#comments 3 http://rss.deviantnation.com/comments/journal/83260 http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/83260 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:47:26 GMT The Nikon nightmare is finally over..... http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/75788 [Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal xmikevx For those of you that I haven't talked to lately I have been kinda "DN antisocial" because I have not had a working camera  since the beginning of JULY!!!!  I had to send my camera into Nikon to have the main digital sensor replaced,....little did I know at the time it would turn into the worst service experience I've EVER had. I sent my camera in on July 3rd and didn't get a "working" camera back until August 17th. The deal was they took forever to fix my camera then when I got it back from them I come to find out that they broke the shutter while "fixing" it which disabled me from even testing the camera or taking one picture. So I had to send it back in and even after they promised me immediate service because of their fuck up, it still took them almost 3 weeks to fix it that time and I had to go to one of the heads of the company in California to get it resolved and get my camera back, then after all that,.... they ended up sending me back my camera completely unfixed and broken for the second time. So,...long story short, I ripped some people a new asshole and they gave me an entirely brand new camera. Which I just got and tested this weekend so,....everything is back to normal for me and I am happy to start scheduling shoots again. Also, an update as far as new shoots in the works for the site. I have already shot 2 shoots with the model named "Jay" on here and she should have to first one posted shortly so be on the look out for that. I have also scheduled a shoot with the model "Ducky" who I have had to hold off shooting for some time now due to her breast augmentation surgery,....which I hear is all healed up now. I am also in the works of shooting a couple other models (to remain nameless) that are going through submission processes. Also, I will be revamping my "skimpy" portfolio on here soon as well and uploading some of the million shoots I had done this summer before my Nikon fiasco. So, don't forget about me,.....I'm still here. Blog yes For those of you that I haven't talked to lately I have been kinda "DN antisocial" because I have not had a working camera since the beginning of JULY!!!! I had to send my camera into Nikon to have the main digital sensor replaced,....little did I know at the time it would turn into the worst service experience I've EVER had.
I sent my camera in on July 3rd and didn't get a "working" camera back until August 17th. The deal was they took forever to fix my camera then when I got it back from them I come to find out that they broke the shutter while "fixing" it which disabled me from even testing the camera or taking one picture. So I had to send it back in and even after they promised me immediate service because of their fuck up, it still took them almost 3 weeks to fix it that time and I had to go to one of the heads of the company in California to get it resolved and get my camera back, then after all that,.... they ended up sending me back my camera completely unfixed and broken for the second time. So,...long story short, I ripped some people a new asshole and they gave me an entirely brand new camera. Which I just got and tested this weekend so,....everything is back to normal for me and I am happy to start scheduling shoots again.

Also, an update as far as new shoots in the works for the site. I have already shot 2 shoots with the model named "Jay" on here and she should have to first one posted shortly so be on the look out for that. I have also scheduled a shoot with the model "Ducky" who I have had to hold off shooting for some time now due to her breast augmentation surgery,....which I hear is all healed up now. I am also in the works of shooting a couple other models (to remain nameless) that are going through submission processes. Also, I will be revamping my "skimpy" portfolio on here soon as well and uploading some of the million shoots I had done this summer before my Nikon fiasco.

So, don't forget about me,.....I'm still here.]]> xmikevx Blog http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/75788/#comments 12 http://rss.deviantnation.com/comments/journal/75788 http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/75788 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:31:39 GMT Sinclair's debut set up now,....and shot by ME!!!!! http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/60049 [Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal xmikevx <div style="display: block; padding-left: 6px; padding-bottom: 8px; vertical-align: top; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 4px">So, the Sinclair set I shot finally is up on the site!!!! Please go check it out and let me know what you think.......I am still kind of a newbie on here so any feedback is good for me! I'm just very appreciative of this site and hope that I can serve them well with many good sets. Long live Deviant Nation!!!</div> Blog yes So, the Sinclair set I shot finally is up on the site!!!! Please go check it out and let me know what you think.......I am still kind of a newbie on here so any feedback is good for me! I'm just very appreciative of this site and hope that I can serve them well with many good sets. Long live Deviant Nation!!!]]> xmikevx Blog http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/60049/#comments 14 http://rss.deviantnation.com/comments/journal/60049 http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/60049 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:08:07 GMT New photos posted- NEED comments BAAAAADDDDD!!!! http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/55933 [Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal xmikevx So, I recently started to fill up one of my albums on here with some recent work I did this summer. Kinda new to the site and I'm just trying to see if my work stands up for itself amongst the miriad of incredible photographers on the site................let me know what you think............... Blog yes xmikevx Blog http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/55933/#comments 5 http://rss.deviantnation.com/comments/journal/55933 http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/55933 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:54:50 GMT New Member http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/55059 [Deviant Nation] xmikevx's Journal xmikevx Hi! I'm new here Blog yes xmikevx Blog http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/55059/#comments 11 http://rss.deviantnation.com/comments/journal/55059 http://deviantnation.com/members/xmikevx/55059 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:16:26 GMT