If there is one cohesive theme in bARTer Sauce, it is most likely - Me Forgetting the Camera.
How is it possible to forget a camera when one is going to do a trade with someone for the SOLE PURPOSE OF DOCUMENTING IT ONLINE?
Well, it is very possible. I do it all the time.
I think the next series of trading cards will just be of items where I've forgotten to bring the camera to the trade. Normally what I do to cover is just do a Google Image search and whatever comes up is the picture of the trade. In this case I got lucky and actually found a picture of the person I traded with on Google Images. What are the odds?
Ron called me as I was on my way out the door to do a Non Profit Comedy benefit show for Amigos saying that he had remembered to bring "Still Life" so we could do our trade. So, in my defense, I was in a hurry when I forgot to bring the camera for the ....drumroll....twelfth time....end of drumroll. And I'm lying. I'm far too lazy to weave through the tangled mess that is bARTer Sauce to see how many times I forgot my camera. Plus, that says nothing good about me, so why go to the effort?
In any case, when I got to Comedy Underground and swore about forgetting the camera, Ron reminded me that I have a camera on my phone Granted, this isn't ideal, but probably better than when I traveled to Massachusetts to go to the Museum of Bad Art and (you guessed it) forgot the camera. I had to use my cell phone that time too...and lemme tell ya...the pictures were not great.
So yeah, we took the photos on my camera phone. And now you might be asking, well, where the hell are they? Yeah, I don't know how to get the pictures OFF my camera phone. And neither does Doug. And it spawned much pouting and "when you do that it makes me feel like..." conversation this morning when we tried to get it to work. And we eventually gave up. So here we are back to doing Google Images searches.
Sigh.
Aside from the camera fiasco (about which I've gone on about far too long) the benefit show was awesome. They brought out tons of people and had raffles and raised about $600. Hell yeah! So, if you have some extra money, give it to Amigos. Because they are a good comedy audience. And I'm sure they do other stuff that's actually in their mission statement.
