Three Sixty Five Frames

I have come up with a new, ambitious project to keep me motivated about learning about my new camera and taking pictures. The idea is that I tote around my camera every day and take pictures. Each day I will chose one photo to submit as a frame in a book that will document my 26th year. On September 28th, 2011 I will finish the book and send it off for printing and probably start all over again. Each picture will have a caption which includes the date, city and a title. If more context is needed or if there is a cool story behind it I will add a little annotation. Excitement all around. The question is should I post these photos as I go onto my Flickr account just for funs because not everyone will have the chance to see my coffee table book.

**Update: I have now linked to my Flickr account a slideshow of the pictures I have chosen for my project! You can see it on the left hand side.**

***Update (December 2010): Okay. I overstretched myself. This was a good idea but I wasn't able to keep up on this goal. I will be still taking pictures and posting them to the flickr website.***

Hey ya'll havin' a ball, hope you're doing fine, because anytime is a happy time for a birthday party rhyme.

Thanks to all my friends who sent me birthday wishes in person, via email, text, a phone call, facebook and those who made it out to my birthday Skeeball Fest. You all made me feel so special! Please enjoy some of the things we captured with my new camera!

Blurry Tyler, Liz, and Laurel. All lovelies.

Tyler and I thought it would be a brilliant idea to wear the birthday as a united Team Ty front.

Sometimes our plans fail but funny Ty faces emerge.
We did it!

Skee-skizzles.

I for sure need to work on my faces in pictures. What a lovely bunch we are.

Me, Tyler and Devon. Blurry, blurry.

Another terrible face but sooooo excited! Jobie, me and Liz. Liz looks like she is presenting me.

Annie being proud to be the ultimate champion of skee ball on September 28th, 2010.

This is the "Oh you silly geese, you got me a red headed slut shot" look.

Obligatory birthday shot picture.
Photo bomb before....

AFTER!!!

Late night cat shot.

Need to get better about taking pictures.

This last weekend I was in New Orleans visiting one of my best friends from high school, Mariko. I had every intention on taking tons of pictures and really testing out my new camera. Fail. I think I took a total of three pictures. I don't know what my deal is! Seriously. I just need to take the time to grab it and start snapping but that takes patients and I really felt that I wanted to be running around rather than stopping and taking pictures all the time. Meh. I still had a blast!

Outfall Canal that borders the Lower 9th Ward

BBQ on the Bayou. I was trying to capture the really great harvest moon. That failed but I thought these colors were really cool.

Not sure what this is but we drove past it my first night. Perhaps it was a theatre?

This is outside the Louis Armstrong Park. They say it is under construction but I wonder if it has ever been open.

New Camera!

Yep, I did it. I bought a new camera. Get ready for some photos! Today I took it out to Gasworks Park and took a couple of snapshots. I can't wait to use it in New Orleans this weekend!

Nick knack, ticky tacky?

I am at that age where I am noticing the nuances of each of my grandparents. I have a wonderful grandma who is really into the nick-knacks. I am not sure what this fascination with collecting little clowns, frogs, pigs, what have you but that is what my grandma is really into. Focusing on all spending efforts on buying random objects possibly as decoration. You know, I probably do the same thing with my crazy scarves, crocheted purple and gold cowboy hat, and concert prints... psh let's not focus on that because I NEED those things.

Well my grandma has been pushing these little figures on me. I am slowly accumulating owls. Yes, it is very true that I have been fixated on owls as a motif. Check back on my curtains, mittens and sweaters. To me these things are functional as well as kitschy. So far I have three objects that have entered my life from my well intentioned grandmother. As a 75 year old Tyanne would say, "Bless her heart."

The first is a plastic owl. It is intended in scaring pests away from a garden. G-ma gave this to me when she found out about my owl mittens I made and the balcony garden that I had on Capitol Hill. I have to say that this owl did not deter the evil squirrel which harassed Catface day in and day out. That squirrel was a dick. Funny story about the plastic owl. It lived in the back seat of my car for a good while. One morning I walked out to find someone broke my drivers side window. To make matters worse is that he/she left their vomit covered t-shirt on my seat. This created the situation that the police were required be present to take the report and the t-shirt off my hands. When the fine officer and I were examining my car and chatting about how nothing was stolen other than the few Norwegian kroner that I had in my center consol (I will ask you why YOU do NOT have kroner lying around....) and he was shocked that the car burglar did not take the large plastic owl from my back seat. "I know, if I was searching people's cars I would have hit the jackpot!" The owl now lives in my basement storage unit awaiting the day that I will acquire some land which is harassed by rodents.

The second piece I have named Steve the Judgmental Owl. He sits on my kitchen window sill judging many things including: why I haven't done the dishes, why I haven't put the clean dishes away, and why I make so much food for one person. Look at those eyes and tell me there isn't hate within them.

The latest to my menagerie are these three owls which hold tea lights. I have found them a home in the window sill above my couch. They do not have a name yet but it looks like their heads are on fire.

I am now striving to become someone on this website in 40 years.

What the hoot?

Indeed.

I have finished my first adult sized sweater. Yes I made one in Norway but the arms were made for an ape. Very long. I have ATTEMPTED to make I think one two other times but the first time I ran out of yarn and I had only one arm left to finish. The other time I got everything knit and it just didn't work. So KAPOW! I win!

A closer look. Yep, those are owls. I need to find buttons for some eyes.

I also need to clean my mirrors. Oops.

Oh tickle sticks.

That has to be my most favoritest quote that Greg has ever said. I can't even remember the context right now but what I do know is that I couldn't stop laughing. The hallarity begins after 3 rounds of Rainier tall boys and whiskeys. Greg was on fire.

He also let me steal this picture of him and Catface. Probably the most affectionate picture ever taken of that cat. She only glares at me. Psh.

Kraken vs. Whiskey Tall Boy

Greg and I will be writing a short film together. Script writing and story board brainstorming starts on Saturday. It will look a bit like this: