The Adventures of Daniel Kwan

My scary sister, Fred Dumpling. Photo shot at my forest studio in Massachusetts. Happy Halloween!

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake just happened in my area! The epicenter was about 7 miles east of Milpitas, so maybe 10 miles or so from Fremont (where I’m at). Don’t worry. We’re fine. We’re all fine, here, now, thank you. How are you? Wooh that was fun.

Update: The San Jose Mercury News article says the “preliminary magnitude estimate was 5.6, making it the most powerful quake to hit the Bay Area since Loma Prieta, Oct. 17, 1989.” I remember the Loma Prieta quake. I was a little kid, and my mom and I ducked and covered under a glass table. Yeah, I know.

Okay kids, the photos from Saturday’s Done Deal Productions party at Vivid Nightclub in San Jose are up! Photo set, slideshow.

Congratulations to “Eve” on winning the $1000 $500 costume contest!

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Come back tomorrow for photos!

In the meantime check out last year’s pics.

I have no idea how to pronounce Genevieve. I just call her Genn (like “Jen”). Since Halloween is coming I wanted to do a shoot that was somewhat scary, or at least non-pretty. Genn was really cool about it. She showed up and did snarling faces for half an hour. What a trooper.

I was playing around with colors and effects and she ended up looking like a Night Elf from World of WarCraft.

And then she caught on fire.

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Last year I took photos of Done Deal Productions‘ two Halloween parties at Studio 8 (now called Vivid). They didn’t pass out any candies but still, the place was nuts. Click on the images below to see the photo sets.

October 28, 2006	October 31, 2006

This year I’m gonna do it again. For info about this year’s Halloween parties, go ask Thai, or look at these flyers: Saturday October 27, Wednesday October 31.

I thought Stan was gonna be one of those wannabe photographers who talk about their ambitions but never do anything about them. You can’t blame me. Look at his photography website, styled living photography dot com. It has been “under a little construction” for, I dunno, two years?? And its gallery is still showing the setup page. But recently I got a call from Stan and he was like, yo I got a studio. Now I have to take him seriously.

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Original battery capacity: 5500 mAh. Current batter capacity: 6773 mAh?! My MacBook Pro battery is on hyphy juice! Yeee!

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MacBook Pro, The Simpsons, and Jack in the Box.

This is why I don’t get out much.

Is it spelled canceled or cancelled? I did some googling and the answer is either way is fine, but the American way is actually canceled, without doubling the last consonant.

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