[Leica] Pentax DSLR follow-up

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

PhiL

Congrats, I'll be that you're quite proud!

Jim

Phil Swango wrote:

> For those here who commented on my daughter Juliet's new Pentax DSLR a
> couple of weeks ago, there's a little follow-up story that might be
> interesting.  The pictures of her that I posted to Smugmug (taken with the
> Pentax) found their way to photographer Joel-Peter Witkin, who called me
> last week to ask if she would be interested in posing for a fashion shoot
> commissioned by the NY Times Magazine for publication in the fall.  She 
> was,
> and they are planning a shoot for May 23.  Pretty exciting for her, and
> she'll make a few bucks to boot.  The Smugmug pictures start here:
> http://tinyurl.com/zj6l6
> 
> Then right after that, Rolling Stones Magazine published their 1000th issue
> and their online edition listed the editors' pick for the best songs of 
> each
> of the 40 years since the magazine's first issue in 1967.  Their 1999 pick
> was a song Juliet wrote and performed for her now defunct band "The
> Rondelles."  That was a *big* surprise, since probably less than .01
> perecent of the RS readership has ever heard of the band, let along that
> song ("Shanghai Surprise").  I have no explanation, other than that one of
> the editors was possibly a Rondelles fan back in the day.  Juliet wrote the
> song in her high school history class, so if your teenager seems bored with
> it all and daydreams of rock stardom during class, it just might work out
> fine after all.  The RS list is here:   http://tinyurl.com/zh6rm
> 
> I'm posting to both the LUG and the Rollei group, so apologies if you 
> get it
> twice.
> 
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