Meow House Theatre

(Editor’s note: I love seeing the site stats go up whenever I post something with a famous person’s name in it. Well, I love it, and it makes me sad and disgusted in a way. Nothing against the celebrity personally, but why doesn’t anyone jump to this site when I write about the 4,000 men and women killed in the war so far? -End editor’s note)

At the risk of appearing like a (fill in the blank), here are a few photographs that I took when seeing Stephen Colbert at his recent appearance for the New York Times “TimesTalks” series, held in New York on November 16. It was really fun: I had thought this would be mainly a publicity spot for the book but actually he talked about it very little. It was really a regular interview, and he did it nearly entirely out of character. There were a few “Stephen” cracks in there but it was mostly all him. Lots of good questions from the audience too, as contrasted with the tiresome repeats he always gets.

I like the way these came out even more because I did various forms of editing in Photoshop. It’s amazing what just cropping and lighting can do. The originals were much less nice, to my mind, even as photogenic as Stephen is, and it’s pretty dang hard to get a bad shot of him. There’s one or two where part of him was covered by by someone standing in front of him, but a little pixel magic can replace missing arms. Point being: don’t trust what you see in magazines. If you think those models really look like that, trust me, you are WRONG. I might do a little before-and-after tutorial to show just what it’s possible to do and how you can make even bad photographs pop. (Not that these were “bad” to begin with. If you want to see a bad one and how it came out after PSing it, I have plenty of those of myself!)

Anyway, enough about Photoshop. I know you all just want to see the pictures of our favorite former shortest-campaign-ever presidential candidate. Don’t lie.

Stephen at the Times Center, Nov. 16, 2007:

Hmmm, I should have edited that phantom hand out in the last one. It didn’t look so odd to me before. Live and learn I suppose.

Photo credits:
Stephen Colbert at TimesTalks (four images): © Meow House Media 2007. All rights reserved.

Today’s photograph:

Kahtia

Found nearly dead; her nose was completely sealed up with mucus. It took a while but she turned out to be a real sweet girl. She always seems to look a little ticked off in photographs though. Not sure why since her real-life face is very babyish and timid.