User talk:Vid2vid

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Welcome! -- Hello, Vid2vid, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. ...[chop]... Again, welcome! John Vandenberg 13:50, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] SpamAssassin

Please stop making useless edits to pages as you have done to SpamAssassin [1], [2] and [3]. Please make constructive edits to Wikipedia ! John Vandenberg 13:50, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't appreciate being told my edits were useless, and I feel I contributed three important things to the SpamAssassin page on wikipedia. -Peter in San Diego, CA, USA = Vid2vid 23:22, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Peter

All photos I have put on Wikipedia and on the commons were shot by me. Thank you very much for the good words you sent on the Commons - it really makes it worthwhile. I'm currently in the midst of a drag queen series. So far I've only uploaded Miss Understood, but tonight I spent about 6 hours with Lypsinka and I'm scheduled to do Lady Bunny, Miss Coco Peru and Amanda Lepore, amongst others. I have about 1,000+ shots on Wikipedia, it's only in the last several months I have focused on portraiture. It makes me very glad to know you enjoy them. Yesterday I did Mena Suvari and Scott Caan. Dave --David Shankbone 00:19, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mena Suvari

I kind of lucked out with the Mena Suvari and Scott Caan - they were on 23rd Street for the premiere of Brooklyn and I happened to walk by on my way to a retrospective of Christopher Makos's work at a gallery (I apprentice with Makos). I don't watch television, so I didn't really know who they were at first; in fact, I know who nobody is: at the gallery I was talking to Calvin Klein with no idea who he was. Figures. I have a crappy shot of him, but I'm not going to put it up. But, hey, with Mena Suvari and Scott Caan you could take your pick as to who you'd do - ha! That's hot. --David Shankbone 22:53, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

  • This is also how I lucked out with Julian Beever - stumbled across him. hehe - his name's "Beever" - heheh.

[edit] New York

Hey Peter - I'm in New York City. I only do portraiture for a hobby, although I may be working with Christopher Makos...we are still in the planning stages. --David Shankbone 00:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia New York Meet-Up

NEW YORK CITY MEET UP!!
NEW YORK CITY MEET UP!!

Howdy! Please come to the First Annual New York Wikipedian Central Park Picnic. R.S.V.P. @ Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC
--David Shankbone 18:36, 20 June 2007 (UTC) {{{...."Sorry, I couldn't make it; I live in San Diego CA and just am seeing your post now on July 18 2007." --Vid2vid 18:38, 18 July 2007 (UTC).}}}

[edit] Questions

Hey Peter - I just got back from a family vacation on the shore. To answer your questions, I shoot DSLR, never film. Film is artistically better, but only marginally so (that's not my opinion, it's what Christopher Makos and Billy Name told me; Billy actually said people who pooh-pooh digital just can't afford it). But photographing for Wikipedia isn't really an artistic pursuit, although there is some artistic license. I'm not paparazzi because 1. I mostly only do "sit-downs" with people where I have an appointment to meet them in their home or office, or some other location (such as my recent Jim McGreevey); 2. IN all other incidences, I photograph people at public events where they expect to be photographed, such as book signings, speaking events, or the Tribeca Film Festival (such as Drew Barrymore and John Waters). I don't hide outside their houses or chase them through the streets of Paris in a speeding car. I couldn't be bothered. And I've scaled back my photography a good bit because I'm working on a book. Additionally, the people I photograph are only about 250 of the over 1,000 images I have on Wikipedia. You sound skinny! Better than heavy ;-) I'm not all that LGBT-friendly; I don't really hang out in the gay scene that much. Although I am gay. My photos of the Pride Parade are on Chuck Schumer, Pasties, Dyke (lesbian), Celebrity impersonator and Transgender. Thanks for the good words! I hope San Diego is treating you well. --David Shankbone 18:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (very late) reply to your question on Talk:Wikipedia

I'm not sure using the parser's magic words is a very good idea, it might have some unintended consequences for the mirrors for example (say I import this article on my personal wiki, it would output "15 articles"). -- lucasbfr talk 16:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] San Diego Meetup

Hi, Vid2vid. You can't create a San Diego Meetup by just announcing it in one line. The first thing you have to do is create a page like Wikipedia:Meetup/SD1 (which was created for the first San Diego Meetup; the second would be at Wikipedia:Meetup/SD2). But since you didn't create any such page, I'm going to remove the mention from Wikipedia:Meetup for now. You might also want to look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Southern_California#Southern-California-area meetups.

I don't think anyone really cares about Meetup.com too much; these things tend to be coordinated directly on Wikipedia. If you seriously want advice on this, I could help you a bit long-distance in terms of setting things up online. Thanks.--Pharos (talk) 22:44, 27 February 2008 (UTC)