Greetings and Salutions!

I hope your new year has started on a good foot! So far it has for me as well as my company!

As some of you may know, I have been working on a charity event to raise money for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. [link] So to get the ball rolling we are hosting a sponsor party!

This party is a prequal to the charity event of the year. This is a presentation of VH1 Save the Music Foundation. We are looking for sponsors, media and promoters to make sure this event gets launched. We would like for you to join our gathering and learn about the company and what our goals are for the foundation. Come and see how you can help and be a part of this great charity event!
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Sponsor Party
at
Red Circle
420 E St.
San Diego, CA 92101
Hosted by
Worth A Thousand Words
Feburary 11th, 2009
6-9pm

Please RSVP by Feburary 4th, 2009
email: savethemusic@w1000w.net

Hope to see you at the party!
Vanessa Gutierrez & Douglas Selik

but i figured i'd update the few of you who keep your eyes one me!

i have started a new Blog where i discuss my experiences working at a specialty camera store and my opinions as a professional photographer. Check it out and feel free to shoot me any questions you might have regarding equiptment or just doing what you can to produce the best picture possible!

Questions and Comments always welcome!

[link]

Always,
Douglas Selik

wow, i leave home for work and sit down when i get to work and i have 2999 page views... i look at my pending updates and when i get back im up the 3001... so my 3k pageviews came and went without me even noticing.

now, i find it a little funny. i started this account in 2003. it took me untill April to hit 2k page views, and now i have hit another thousand in under 4 months! that is quite the jump!

now, i do agree with alot of people that pageviews arent everything! but i disagree with those people who say they mean nothing! pageviews mean that people are looking at your work! and that is the entire reason im here so that you (my viewers) can see my work and see how i am improving! lately i have personally gone back and looked over my gallery a few times and i will say that in my opinion my work has GREATLY improved! though i do believe i have a long way to go!

i also look over my gallery stats and a couple things catch my eye... first and foremost that one of your favorite images in my gallery, was one of the first images i EVER produced! i find that ironic because i look back on the image now and im personally not terribly impressed by it. the work i produce now is of MUCH higher quality! but it persists despite newer works.

i also look over my gallery stats and something actually buggs me a little bit. yes, i have gotten 1k page views in 4 months, but i watch the work of 515 people here (granted many of those artits are no longer truely part of this great community), while only 32 people have me on thier watch list... now, i know that my work isn't nearly as eye catching (or high quality) as the work of some of the great artists here such as and but i do feel i put myself out there a little more than 32 people... heh, this is my bitching and moaning about another 1k page views... i am easily bothered by small things and this has caused alot of problems in my past, but i simply feel that i am here so that people can see my work, and i just want people to want to see my work... the same as any other artist...

As to why i just uploaded a MASS quantity of Sports/Action Photo's when i havent really concentrated on uploading that style of my work here before, it is because reciently a local University expressed an intrest in possibly bringing me in to help out with their Sports Photography department. Well, they wanted to see some more of my portfolio work of this style and as i dont have a personal website where i can upload individual photo's this was my only option (luckily they where happy with that).

For those of you who follow my work, and who might be intrested in Updates from me, ill let you all know how things turn out with this in the comming weeks!

thank you all for you support!

Douglas

i doubt many of you will even see this... let alone care...

life has not been terribly kind to me last month or so... and following the suit of events today capped it off...

this morning i wake up to a text message that my brother was going to throw a pool party at the house im house sitting for while im at work for the day. im ready to leave for work and i unlock the side door so that my brother and his friends can get into the house and use the restroom and im on my way to my car to go to work and i notice two brown things in front of the door. at first i thought they where just leaves off one of the trees near there, but they i see them moving. i go to get a closer look and i see that they are two baby birds, just old enough to be starting to get thier adult feathers. both are breating shallowly and trying to scurry on the ground but too clumsy to do anything more than kick their legs futily.

i look around for the nest they fell out of and find it under the awning of the house. i cant leave them their, but i know i cant just pick them up cause they will pick up my sent. im in a little bit of a hurry to get to work so i grab the step stool and a couple paper towels hoping that they will be enough burrier so that the parents wont smell me on the hatchlings. i put them back in the nest as best i can and throw away the paper towels where the adults cant find them.

well, my luck would have it, i get home around 7pm and my brother and some of his friends are still here. i wave hello and go into the house to put my stuff down.

WARNING! if you are at all quessy or weak of stomach, do not read any further!

as im entering my house i see what looks like a leaf on the ground in front of the door. i take a closer look, knowing in my heart what it was and see one of the two hatchlings there, splattered across the entryway before the door. someone, in haste or carelessness stepped on the poor thing.

i step quickly around it, put the food i had with me in the fridge and go to confront my brother. turns out, he knew about it... so did everyone else. they claimed to not know who did it, but knew it was there and knew what it was. the main thought going through my mind at this point is, "WOW! and nobody even F***ing bothered to clean it up! you left the poor thing SPLATTERED there!" i kept my cool and simply walked quickly away.

thus is the story of my life... everything i try to do, every best intention i have ever had, has been for naught... futile efforts in greater scheme of life... and people wonder why my mind set has been so "off" or "down" of late... i am simply realizeing reality...