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This is the path that my mouse traveled across my laptop screen for an entire day.

The hotspot on the top left which then grows downward is probably the Gmail logo and my gmail folder/labels. The hotspot on the bottom is my fireworks tools. The hotspot along the right side is my os x dock.

Geeky art at its best!

Last Friday Zoe and I decided to take our date night to the next level. We got anthroscopic surgery together.

Well, not really together. Back-to-back. Same surgeon. Same hospital. Same room. The hospital staff got a kick out of it. Our mom’s thought we were nuts. Our friends were really sweet – thanks LexPau for coming over to babysit us.

You may think we’re crazy too, but imagine… We got to spend a whole day together in a cool hi tech place. We had very friendly staff look after us. We got to wear pretty yellow socks. Then we went home and took pain killers all weekend. Doesn’t sound so bad now does it?

The videos below are not leaked scenes from James Cameron’s latest underwater films. These are our very own inner worlds shot during our surgeries by the steady hands of Dr. Kenneth Akizuki. (warning: not for the fait of heart)

Video watching bonus: see if you can spot the part where the camera leaves our bodies and films the operating room.

Ron’s Labrum Lasso

Anthroscopic Shoulder Surgery – Repairing a torn labrum from Ron Kurti on Vimeo.

Zoe’s knee cap cleanup

Anthroscopic Knee Surgery – Removing tissue from underneath the knee cap from Ron Kurti on Vimeo.

This was our spot.

I don’t care what you think… I am in love with this photo. I can’t really say what it is exactly. It could be the subject matter. It could definitely be the hand – the way it lingers on the side of the couch. It could be the legs. Maybe its the texture of all the materials around the figure. Maybe its the contrast between the light skin and the dark fabrics.

When I look at this image I feel incredibly relaxed and sexy – two emotions that go very well together.

spoiler alert:
The original image is below. If you are completely wrapped up in the crispness and stark tranquility of the above image do not read any further.

It wasn’t always like this. This image is posed and it didn’t really come out that great.

Zoe and I worked together for about twenty minutes to try to get all the elements lined up. I liked the way she was lying on the couch and I pulled the camera out with the intent of capturing a nice symmetrical perspective. We tried very hard to line everything up. I usually don’t direct a shot… I just shoot what I see, but Zoe was trying to teach me how to inspect the set and try to adjust the model and elements around her to make the shot better. It wasn’t until one of the last frames that I asked her to put her hand down beside the couch.

I inspected the images on the computer and was not feeling good about them. The colors were dark. My perspective wasn’t really there. I was very close to throwing out the whole set when I decided to start experimenting.

Sometimes an image just doesn’t work, and other times there is a hidden treasure inside. When the colors are just not working for me I always go to black and white. I try to make the light area the whitest and the dark area the blackest. Then I lighten up the darks to bring out details. After that I start experimenting with cropping.

Both cropping and color can dramatically re-tell a story. And in this case the results are very dramatic.