Erin and Adam

this weekend I photographed this amazing wedding of two friends Erin and Adam. Click on the photo above for a sneak peek of the photos at my facebook page.

rushing here and there.

I had a fabulous weekend away, only to return to my real life and rush around to get my finals done. And this coming weekend is another one away, I’ll be shooting my best friend’s sister’s wedding. Tonight is a kind of going away party, and by that I meaning we’re going to see a play at the Lansburgh Theatre tonight, for my dear friend Nicole who has accepted a job out in Los Angeles and is moving this week.

They’re married!

Dear friends, they’re married, and thats all that really matters. Even if everyone who was supposed to come couldn’t, there were still a lot in attendance. A lot more than I expected, which was wonderful.  The snow kept coming down all day. It was magical. After getting ready in the church’s nursery, we rushed outside around to the front of the sanctuary to walk down the aisle. I’m sure the photographer took some great pictures of us skittering in the snow. I can’t wait to see them. Everyone involved in the wedding was more than accommodating and super willing to help out with anything. After moving the wedding up to noon, a local hotel had a conference room available and was able to host a small reception. By luck or divine intervention the colors in the room where the same colors of the wedding, red and gold. Everything worked out, this was the most planned wedding, that ended up being the most unplanned wedding, and I couldn’t imagine how it could have been better. As I said, the important thing is they’re married.

I didn’t take too many pictures at the wedding, because of the madness that existed and because I was in it. So here are some from last night rehearsal dinner, and a few from today.

Best friends. evah.

This is why we’re meant for each other.

Fluffing the dress.

Now the deed and day is done, time to relax with the family. Oh right.. that doesn’t really happen. OH BROTHER(s). I’ve got two, anyone interested in one? They come attached to some very nice ladies, so it kind of balances them out.. kinda.

short and sweet(ish).

i would write something here, but my past few days have been bizarre to fully recall right now. I have to make a lot of hard decisions right now, so let’s just panic.

 

rotten catten

Uhmerica

Self, Red Brown

 

 

 

 

 

i need a new best friend,
my old one simply wont do,
oh no dear, i dont mean you-
or maybe i do.

 

Dear Friend, as you know

I spoke with my close friend Meg tonight, she is such a wonderful person. Pretty much we just talked about our lives, our problems. That is a true friend, someone who will listen to you and tell you the truth, tell you if you’re off the mark, or if your struggles are just what happens.  No one is perfect, no one wants to hear “fine”, “mkay”, or “good” when ask about someone’s life. I want to know about  you, and how you are doing! Thats why I asked. Don’t give me one word, you cannot sum up your life in one word. And if you can- must be a pretty poor life you lead.

I went to see my friend Drew’s band Elby Brass tonight at one of my favorite restaurants Sammy T’s. They were amazing. Standing room only should be changed to dancing room only. They were a riot. Tonight was their first official show so I can’t wait for more from them. That is for them to learn more songs so their set will be longer! I think everyone in attendance tonight will agree that they’re happy for what they have completed so far, but eagerly wait for more.  Especially more tuba players dancing on the bar- oh yes my friends it was that kind of a night.

I’m a little disappointed that I’ve not photographed here in the house as much as I did during my last stay. My last stay at the house I regimented myself to do a series of pictures of what my bed looked like every morning when I woke up. The bed I stay in has taupe sheets and the creases and folds of the sheet and blanket look like a topographical map. The series title is Beauty in Entropy”. My friend ChrisJ. described the images as looking like “krinkled paper” and then called it “beauty in entropy”. Lacking an extensive vocabulary, I had to look up entropy, where I found this.. “lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.” To view those photos they can be found here.

I’m just a maybe

celebrity crush.

I love Mo Rocca. I’ve been sorta a fan of him since first seeing him on VH1′s “I Love the 80′s” a few years ago. I love his witty, dry, sarcastic humor. Since then Mo has been popping up in my life; I really started to take note of him recently. He appears in two of my favorite shows as a guest judge or commentator; the first is “Iron Chef America” and the other is NPR’s news quiz show “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”. Whenever he is on one of these shows I just seem to enjoy it more. I really like his humor and just how he doesn’t seem to take his job as a commentator so seriously. I love that fact that he is able to be a foodie and political commentator all at the same time.   And come’on who couldn’t resist his nerdy boyish looks? Defiantly my celebrity crush.

Mo Rocca

HI- human interface 

This is a neat video from a Spanish interaction design group called Multitouch Barcelona. I love how on their about page they describe themselves as a group “that explores natural communication between people and technology. We design experiences that merge real and digital into a creative environment where people are invited to touch, play, move, feel as they do in the real world.” I think that is so powerful. Technology as we know it is quickly taking over the way people communicate with one another- for better or for worse.  This video is humorous and socially satirical. Not to mention that the way it feels so DIY with cardboard props and comical plays on computer icons.  It’s nine minutes of your life well spent, enjoy! 

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

 

HI- Loading Please..

 

beauty in entropy

I would like to thank my friend ChrisJ. for giving me a title for my bed series- “Beauty in Entropy”. He described the images as looking like “krinkled paper” and then called it “beauty in entropy”. Lacking an extensive vocabulary, I had to look up entropy, where I found this.. “lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder”- how freakn’ perfect. I love talking to people about my art (and other’s art) because often I can’t put words to what I am trying to show or convey coherently. And if I’m conveying what I want to then someone else will surely say it and then it just clicks! Like magic.

I loved critiques in college and high school because of this. I hated in college that people would only say polite, or nice comments. Heaven forbid you not like someone’s work! I would rather a person say that they didn’t like or even hated my work and why they didn’t, than for them not to say anything at all. How are we supposed to learn if no one points out our weakness or failures, likewise with our strengths and successes.  It doesn’t mean you have to agree with them at all, or think what they have to say is valid. Its how we can grow, though adversity. It’ll make you stronger, either in your own sense of work and knowing what you’ve done is right or in seeing changes to made for the betterment of your piece. 

Today was a good bed morning, I had a hard time picking from my shots- thus a triptych! 

 

 

Bed Six

 

 

And here’s some others.

 

Bill, the cat

 

Clayton & French Press

Wall/Flower

 

Inside

 

bonnie.

 I’m still enjoying my time here in the house and constantly being inspired. My daily routine has changed a little, for the next 7 days I’ll be taking care of another person’s cat too! This cat, Bonnie, is diabetic. I have to be at that house to give her an insulin shot by 8am and then 7:30pm everyday. It is so confining to me to be bound by those time regulations. I am glad that it will only be for 7 days. I feel constricted in planning my day, I’ve never had to deal with something like this before.

I was thinking last night what if Bonnie was my cat and I had just found out she was diabetic, would I keep her?  Being a young and active person would I bind myself and my life to caring for this cat on such a regimented schedule. I would like to think I would, that I loved the animal before I knew of it’s disease and that I would continue to love and care for the cat afterwards. The more I think about this,  the less sure I am that I would keep the cat.  I wouldn’t go to the extreme of putting the animal down but I don’t think I could continue to afford caring for the animal, afford both in time and money.  I would probably seek out a new home for the animal.  Just thinking about makes me appreciate people who are put in those situations and grateful that I’m not.

Hatteras!

For the next two weeks I am in Cape Hatteras for a shooting class. So far it’s been pretty relaxing and exciting. We have mini class discussing photo topics that we normal wouldn’t take the time during the school year. So far all we’ve done is learned about panoramics, which are awesome! And surprisingly simple. I wanted to think that they were so much more difficult because they can look so amazing. We also talked about the idea of shooting in the same style as a pano but using to expand even slightly a scene. Its really changed the way I think about taking pictures.