True story: got stuck going to Yearbook Club after school to keep me out of trouble, but the popular kids ran the thing, so I hung out with the other geek: in pre-production. While everyone else only had to walk around and collect orders (slackers), the two of us were saddled with labeling and collating each student picture (and more) according to column and row and page. Being that both of us were way into Photoshop and video editing back then, we decided to see if we could get fake portraits printed in the yearbook.

We knew they had to pass a cursory inspection, so the backdrop had to be the same and the overall composition needed to resemble the distance, palette, and style of the others’ school pics. That year, the other guy (nameless to protect the innocent) showed up in our yearbook as Brandon Lee’s The Crow, and my pic was Kaneda from the lock-up scene right before the grenade guy, when he looks over at Kaori. 🤘🏼