almost everything I could say about robert is pretty much clear from his photo - he's fun, funny, an amazing photographer, and charming as all hell. he's also smart, conscientious, and intuitive (except maybe for that time he tried to take closeup pictures of parisian security force officers and got the film ripped out of his camera, or the time he almost got into a fight with a Bush supporter during a rally and got a little too close to the balcony on the top of the westlake mall; or when he made the mistake of saying "maybe" to a turkish shoe shiner and was followed through the streets of istanbul all afternoon by a herd of kids leaping for his feet).