Happy Memorial Day!

It's a good thing Mom and the girls came up on Saturday to celebrate the Memorial Day weekend the weather was perfect and we pretty much had the park all to ourselves. The weather is kinda crappy today and I bet people are fighting over that one table in the gazebo.

I Want To Believe

Donna and Jim took us out to see the new Indiana Jones Movie yesterday. As we were walking out of the theater I noticed this poster.

They're back! I have seen the boot legged preview, but now they have an official site and an official trailer posted at xfiles.com. I am hoping this one will be better than the last movie. The only season Mark and I haven't watch is Season 8, but that is the season where there is no Mulder. I don't think I can handle X-Files with no Mulder. I guess I am going to have to before July 25th.

Yay Adam!!!

Last weekend Mark's brother graduated cum laude from law school. We spent the weekend in Cleveland with them to celebrate. I didn't realize until we got to the graduation luncheon what a huge deal it was. Adam made his three years at law school look easy and when you are used to someone constantly impressing you it is easy to glide through those big days like graduation because you always knew that you would be there watching them walk across the stage.

As I was eating lunch, while I was watching his family settle around him to take pictures, and when his graduating class walked in and everyone stood and cheered I found myself trying to hide a couple tears that made their way up. This was such a huge day. He accomplished something truly amazing that took an tremendous amount of dedication, patience and bravery. Mark and I are so happy for him and we are very excited to see what comes next.

BEST THING I HAVE EVER HAD!

Tyler got a 24oz bucket of this stuff for helping out some of his rich friends. I don't think he liked it to much, Mike didnt really care for it, and Mark said he didn't understand it. I on the other hand think it might be my new most favorite thing. You can get it at peterbrook.com
soo yummy.

For all you artist out there

I am Banksy T- Shirts.


Wish I had thought of it.

The Visitor

After a long period of not being able to think of anything to take a picture of that I felt was worth it I thought of this today.

SPC

Strange Pretty Things

Maybe it is my final photo project but lately I have really been drawn to things that are.... a little vintage, a little foggy, a little surreal.







Miss Lulu's Flickr, Take my World Apart Flickr, Print by Devon Kelley-Yurdin
Found at charmignwall.com, Akihisa Nakamura Flickr

Happy Sunday

One good thing about being constantly busy is that when you finally get time to do something you want it feels decadent. Friday we went out to see Iron Man, we both really enjoyed it. Yesterday I spent trying to get more stuff done. Today we are riding our bikes over to the tennis courts for a little friendly competition. I was also finally able to process the pictures I took of our family weekend last weekend.

A Little Media Attention

Check out who was caught smooshing it up with President Hodge on the front page of Friday's Miami Student.

Let It Be

I bought my Lomo LC-A three or four years ago off of ebay before they went out of production and became insanely expensive. It never worked right when I got it and when a couple of rolls of film turn out blank it was demoted to decoration. I got it out a couple days ago to see if I could figure out what was wrong. The shutter wasn't opening.




After an operation I got the shutter actually working. It's not 100%, I have to firmly tap the camera on my palm before I take any picture just to make sure that it will open. I took a roll of film and took it to Kroger to get the film processed. I tried to figure out what I got by looking at the film, but I have no idea how color film works so when I scanned this in the other night I was a little surprised. Lomos are popular because of the distortions it gives images, but this was way beyond anything I had seen before.

After a talk with my professor I have decided to roll with this. After all I wanted the pictures to be up to chance. I seriously have no idea how any picture is going to look when I am taking it. I guess we'll see if I can let myself go enough to actually use this. Maybe I should do a couple pages out of my Wreck This Journal to give me some confidence.

We have a visitor this weekend.

He doesn't like it here much. I wont let him do any of the fun stuff like go in the neighbors yard, or roll around in the flowers, or roll around in the neighbors flowers.

How can you not love this?!

Over the past couple semesters I have realized that a big part of my love for photography is getting that moment that is impossible in the real world on film(or memory card). Many consider photography to be truth, there is something very interesting to me about creating a surreal world out of our real world. Which is why I LOVE Jan Von Holleben's series "Dreams of Flying" ....

I love Oxford in the Morning.

I did not know this when I started Ceramics but firing a Kiln takes f...o...r...e....v...e.....r two days actually. And there are a whole bunch of different shifts that have to be taken care of in the course of those two days. I got the 8am shift today, sucktacular, I fell asleep last night thinking about how much it was going to suck when my alarm went off 30 minutes early. It did suck, lots, but when I got to Hiestand (right behind Shriver) I kinda liked it. The light was perfect, and the trees were in full bloom, and their were no annoying art kids hanging out around the fountain. Quiet and pretty, it made me wish that I could get up everyday at 8 and go for a run or get some homework done to enjoy this quiet time of day. And I though I could do it, I could totally do it.

I wont. I have always said I would do it, but I wont. I hate getting up in the morning, it always sounds good the night before but when that alarm goes off it is the worst thing ever. I have two more projects to fire before the end of the semester, maybe I will have one more day of getting up at 8am. Other than the danger of my pieces exploding I am not sure there is much else that can get me out of bed that early.

The sun makes school not so bad

It is sooooo lovely today. We need to finish our IMS website so we are walking to King to soak up a little of the sun before we are banished to the IMS Lab Cave.

I noticed

Today as I was driving back to the house after dropping Mark off for his class I realized that the trees were starting to turn green again. I love when everything is green. Green makes me happy, but what I realized makes me even happier is that I didn't need the trees to turn green again. Winter was crappy cause it was cold and gray, but time kept moving for me this year. We got here and I don't feel like I have been asleep for the past couple months. I love summer I can't wait until it is so hot that I can't stand it, I think it will be a little sweeter this year because I don't need it. I'll just enjoy it.

A Day Off

I did nothing today. By that I mean I did nothing I should have done and a bunch that I have wanted to do for a while. Mark and I slept in. We cleaned the house, which has been neglected for some time. Living in a dirty house makes me feel crazy, even when I am not home because I can always hear it calling to me. I have not had time to do much cleaning, or blog posting, so it was nice to be able to do that today. Annnnd..... are you ready for this?

WE PICKED OUT OUR WEDDING PICTURES!

I think it helped that we waited so long, but it was still really hard deciding between images. I can't wait to see what Jen is going to do with the albums.

I also finally got around to making a promotional something for TealTown. Back when I made our business cards I wanted to make something but I had a lack of inspiration so I let it wait hoping that a great idea would fall in to my lap. Then I found this site a couple days ago ala Jennifer Pebbles. It is full of great idea's for scrap booking, card making, all kinds of fun projects. It is also a great place to get idea's for fun and fancy layouts.

Here is a sneak peak....

Omni Hotel, William Penn

M.E.M

I remember sitting in Grandmas living room watching SNL with my aunt and cousin way back when I was little, even then I loved the pictures they showed of the host after each commercial break.




Go check out Marry Ellen Matthews. She is pretty amazing.

With our collective forces we form a vortex of creativity.

We needed a way to display out shirts at the craft show. Kendra and I came up with the brilliant idea of vintage suit cases a couple months ago, and over spring break Mark and I found some, she found some, and Donna gave us some. We had plenty amazing looking suit cases.... on the outside. On the inside they were covered with fabric, most of which has been water damaged over the years. And all of them smelled like... old.

Easter Sunday we had another brilliant idea.


Rip out the fabric and cover the insides with something pretty. This is the one we did on Sunday using Donna's collection of beautiful card stock. The other ones Mark and I did at home were covered in Comic books, maps, and old Playboy adds. All of them looked amazing by themselves, and with our shirts tumbling out of them.

Unfortunately when we got to the show we soon realized that we were not going to be able to use them how we wanted. The wind was too strong and kept snapping them shut. The only one that worked was the broken one. They did create a lovely wind barrier though. For the most part they kept our shirts on the tables.

It didn't turn out exactly how we had expected, but they did look great and were a big help. Plus it was a lot of fun pasting everything to them.

Inspiration as of late.

I love how all of these crazy handwritten fonts come together.