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Robin

I'm retired, I invented dice.

About Me

I'm a a full-time art student, a photographer, a VIP hostess, a model, a film/videographer, and an EMT.I've been on the web since 1998, and actively blogging since 2001. I hate the words blog and blogging yet, I've been at it for quite a while. I am also really into global travel, martial arts, snowboarding, my website , riding my stock blue '78 Vespa P200, MAC make-up, all kinds of music (a one-time DnB DJ), watching movies, and meeting new interesting people. I've sold Vespa scooters, skateboards, and snowboards. I've worked for a dot-com - as a graphic designer, they paid me Phat cash and then layed the whole company off. I've even worked for the California Department of Corrections. I helped pay the bills. They still buy balls & chains.

My Interests

Photography, Art, Music, Film, Global Travel, Technology (computers, the web, gadgets, gear, and the like - hence TECGIRL sans the H), Corsets, Fetish and Pin-Up Models, Strippers, Go-Go Dancers, living by the ocean and lots of Sunshine, The 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and early 60's, Porn, Museums, Painters, Sculptors, and other Photographers, Art Galleries, Vespas and Lambrettas, Burning Man, Karel, Video Games, Dark Chocolate, Kung-Fu, Snowboarding, and my super sexy boyfriend .

I'd like to meet:

Who haven't I met yet?

George Clooney, Helmut Newton, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Guy Bourdin, Kurt Russell, Marshall Mathers, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Bacon, Peter Sellers, Annie Leibovitz , Alfred Hitchcock, Eddie Izzard, Suze Randall, Quentin Tarantino , Richard Pryor, Federico Fellini, Mike Judge, Bill Maher , Bill Viola, David LaChapelle, Charles & Ray Eames, Akira Kurosawa, Mamie Van Doren , Andy Warhol, Kevin Smith , Newton Thomas Sigel, Eddie Murphy , Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Kim Catrall, Isamu Noguchi, Christopher Walken, Audrey Hepburn, Jamie Foxx , Platon, Steven Soderbergh, Hugh Hefner , Jude Law, Julian Schnabel, George Nelson, Max Beckmann, Jason Lee , Tim Burton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Wayans Brothers , Diane Arbus, Arny Freytag , Ice Cube, The Coen Brothers, Mos Def , Salvador Dali, Willem De Kooning, Angelina Jolie, Tim Hawkinson, Mike Skinner, Walter Murch...you!

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Music:

Some Favourites: The 5,6,7,8's - 45 Grave - A Perfect Circle - A Tribe Called Quest - AFI - AK1200 - Al Green - Amon Tobin - Aphex Twin - Aphrodite - Arctic Monkeys - Atmosphere - Autechre - Bad Company - Basement Jaxx - Bauhaus - Beastie Boys - The Beatles - Beck - Beethoven - Benni Benassi - Bernard Hermann - Billie Holiday - Björk - Black Eyed Peas - Black Flag - Black Sun Empire - Boards Of Canada - Branford Marsalis - Busta Rhymes - Cab Calloway - Carl Cox - Charles Mingus - Charlie Parker - Chemical Brothers - Claude Debussy - Coldplay - Concord Dawn - Count Basie - The Crystal Method - Curtis Mayfield - Cypress Hill - Daft Punk - Danny Elfman - Dave Brubeck - Dave Matthews Band - David Bowie - David Holmes - Dead Kennedys - Dean Martin - Deftones - Depeche Mode - Dieselboy - Dinah Washington - Disturbing Tha Peace - DJ Dara - DJ Shadow - Dr. Dre - Duke Ellington - The East Flatbush Project - Ed Rush & Optical - Ella Fitzgerald - Elton John- Elvis Presley - Eminem - The English Beat - Esquivel - Filter - Frank Sinatra - GBH - Gorillaz - Gravity Kills - Green Day - HED P.E. - Henry Mancini - High Contrast - Ice Cube - Incubus - Interpol - Isley Brothers - James Brown - Jimi Hendrix - John Coltrane - Joy Division - Jungle Brothers - The Killers - Kruder & Dorfmeister - Lamb - Lil Kim - Lords Of Acid - Louis Armstrong - Love & Rockets - Mampi Swift - Marilyn Manson - Mark Farina - The Mars Volta - Martin Denny - Marvin Gaye - Massive Attack - Miles Davis - Missy Elliott - Mos Def - Moving Fusion - Mozart - N.E.R.D. - Nancy Sinatra - Nouvelle Vague - Ocean Colour Scene - Outkast - Pieter K - Pixies - POD - The Police - Portishead - Praga Khan - Prince - Prodigy - Protection - Queens Of The Stone Age - Radiohead - Rage Against The Machine - Ram Trilogy - Ramones - The Rapture - Ray Charles - Roni Size - Rosemary Clooney - Sander Kleinenberg - She Wants Revenge - Siouxie & The Banshees - Social Distortion - The Specials - Squarepusher - Stevie Wonder - The Streets - Sublime - System of a Down - Talking Heads - Thelonious Monk - The Von Bondies - Wynton Marsalis.

Movies:

Some Favourites: 400 Blows, 8 1/2, Three Kings, A Beautiful Mind, Roman Holiday, Back to the Future, Chinatown, The Godfather (I & II), Casino, Heat, Kill Bill, The Departed,Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Shrek, Twelve Monkeys, Raiders of the Lost Ark, M, La Dolce Vita, Basquiat, Chariots of the Gods, Dog Day Afternoon, Citizen Kane, Fight Club, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Office Space, Zoolander, Rear Window, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Almost Famous, Big Trouble in Little China, Catch Me If You Can, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Nemo, Gangs of New York, Ghost World, Great Expectations, Used Cars, The Blue Movie, The Hidden Fortress, The Seven Samurai, Divorce Italian Style, The City of Lost Children, What About Bob, Dr. Strangelove, The Life Aquatic, The Italian Job (2003), LA Confidential, Layer , La Femme Nikita, Se7en, Krystal Method, Army of Darkness, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Blow Up, The Incredibles, The Breakfast Club, Young Frankenstein, Le Samourai, Shaun of the Dead, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Jenna Loves Rocco, Chasing Amy, Youth of the Beast, Carnal Desires, The Man With The Movie Camera, Dogma, Mallrats, Man Bites Dog, Monsters, Inc., Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Rize, Caddy Shack, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mulholland Dr., Last Girl Standing, North by Northwest, Ocean's 11 (2002), Ocean's 12, Out of Sight, Girlfriends, Requiem for a Dream, Secretary, Taxi Driver, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), Old School, Trading Places, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, Vanilla Sky, Waiting for Guffman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Vertigo, Big Fish, Donnie Darko and O Brother, Where Art Thou.

Television:

The Tele is good for comedy. Other than that I pretty much cannot watch anything with commercials. I watch TV from Netflix and iTunes.The Simpsons, I Love Lucy, Chappelle's Show, Mythbusters, Futurama, Reno 9-11, The Sopranos, Weeds, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Dexter, The Riches, The Office, LOST, 24, Nip & Tuck, The Shield, Rescue Me, The Girls Next Door, Eureka, Six Feet Under, Reaper, Lucy the Daughter of the Devil.

Books:

Basquiat - A Quick Killing in Art, Andy Warhol Diaries, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, The Godfather, Everything Bad is Good For You, A People's History of the United States, numerous art monographs, VOGUE, Make, Vanity Fair, PLAYBOY, The Odyssey, GOOD, W.

Heroes:

Audrey Hepburn. Annie Leibovitz.

My Blog

Stuff-n-Stuff

I had the pleasure of shooting my co-worker, Sara, at Slide...http://www.flickr.com/photos/tecgirl/tags/sarabecker /aaaand...if yer local, pick up this week's SF Weekly. I'm all up in that bitch for t...
Posted by Robin on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:54:00 PST

More Ketchup

The Playboy shoot was a kick. We shot at Zosa Ranch, about an hour north of San Diego. It was a quaint little B&B with awful interiors but gorgeous exteriors and landscaping. They had much better m...
Posted by Robin on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:08:00 PST

Ketchup

Happy Muhfuckin' New Year. To you, you, you, and you. I still boggle over writing 2007...I'm getting old. Hahaha. I've had a few shoots and spent another year working on NYE. Blah. I swore last...
Posted by Robin on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:12:00 PST

Shooting again...

So, after a two-month hiatus I started shooting again. Last week I went down to Secret Studios and shot friend and fellow BRC ccampmate Chip Clofine while he jammed away on an acoustic and bass guita...
Posted by Robin on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:42:00 PST

Whoadang

lingerie party was great. I am so wiped out. I think I may still be drunk. over the course of four hours I drank six shots of patron - generous ones at that, and followed with cups of redbull. the...
Posted by Robin on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:34:00 PST

Go Away, You Bloody Headcold!

OK. I am over it. It's been coming and going, and I wish it would seriously just go the fuck away. The sinus pressure, the headaches, the waking up every morning stuffed up and feeling like my head...
Posted by Robin on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:13:00 PST

LA was ABFAB

Man, I think I slept all afternoon! I went to bed around five am, got up at noon, crashed again until 4, and didn't get up until 8:30 - just in time to order delivery Indian food.The recap:Flew into B...
Posted by Robin on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

The Bunny Attacked Me Back

So I just got an email from Playboy asking me to be a photographer for them - in Florida...the same week I was to do the casting in LA. Of course I am going to do it. Shah!
Posted by Robin on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:11:00 PST

Back and on Bunny Attack

What a fabulous Burn. Photos here. We camped in Frozen Hell...a mixture of veterans and newbies that said they'd never attend. The newbies are now hooked!!I haven't shot much since I've been back, ...
Posted by Robin on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:55:00 PST

...and I'm off!

This has been a craaaazy month, and it always it, getting ready for Burning Man. First, I'd like to say, that if you have not been to Burning Man, then don't pass judgement on what you *think* it is....
Posted by Robin on Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:43:00 PST