This is something I have just started you can ask me anything! I will also be posting the answers to the questions I am asked here in the blog. http://www.formspring.me/markdaughn

Wow, it’s February already……what happened to January and all those good intentions of a newsletter every month? Hmmmm, I think it was Costa Rica, coffee, beach, jungle, waterfalls, beautiful models, and lots of shooting…followed closely by LA and more shooting. Lots of video production. Editing, editing and more editing. Oh yea, did I mention the [...]

We’re going to talk about cigars for a minute. I guess I have to qualify this by saying I’m not a smoker, however I used to smoke cigarettes many years ago. I smoked for a long time but I was never a big fan of cigars.

Well, I got a whole series of emails, it’s amazing. I don’t consider what I do pornography. I realize that some people do. Obviously, cause I have five emails sitting here in front of me of people telling me that I produce and that I shoot porn. I disagree. I completely disagree.

Art. What is it? Is what I do art? It’s a debate I’ve had many, many times in many, many ways. How do you define fine art?

Okay, I never said it would all be sweetness and light. Do you ever have days where you get up, you look at your work, you’re studying it and you realize this isn’t what you want it to be? You haven’t progressed as far as you wanted to progress. You’re just simply not happy with [...]

I’ve been sitting around looking at too many wine bottles and it made me start thinking about names. Names are really, really important. Names on wine; Syrah, Zinfindel, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet. Where the hell do these names come from?

Okay, this is one of those times I just have to rant. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know why people are stilling using it. Mapquest. If you wanna get somewhere, come on people, use Google Maps. Mapquest, quite frankly ummmm, sucks?