Thanksgiving

2008.

Glimpse shoot

glimpse

Above is a link to photos taken at the shoot for a music video I'm directing for Honeybee's song Glimpse. The kids were pretty adorable. I just added some that were taken with my Lomo (they're at the beginning of the album). Thanks to the various photographers!

November 4th

Labor Day weekend in Hancock

From Hancock Labor Day

Click here (or above on Hancock Labor Day) for full album and festivities.

L.A. photos

From L.A. in August

Click on the L.A. in August link to see the rest.

Plaiderpillar

My staff favorite is up at Venus Zine. Amy (a.k.a. Plaiderpillar) makes really awesome stuff. Cody first introduced me to her stuff by way of Herbert, my long-legged monster friend.

Here is Herbert and Rufus:

K.C.

Last weekend we embarked on a family weekend trip to Kansas City. It's a great mid-size city with quite a bit going on (see Whoop Dee Doo article below, as one example). We went shopping, ate some good food, and saw The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (well worth it). We also visited a small town called Weston and ate at their diner and looked at some antiques.

This first photo was taken in the section of town called the Crossroads Arts District. One of the stores we stopped at was Peggy Noland Kansas City. She designs some cool, kind of out there stuff that has been worn by the likes of Tilly and the Wall members and Lovefoxxx from C.S.S. (those awesome one-piece spandex suits that she often wears). Note: she is the faraway person in the photo below. The store is tiny, as in the size of a closet, and the walls and ceiling were covered in fluffy, white cotton. It felt like you were in a tiny cloud.



This next photo is from Hammerpress, a letterpress and design studio. They had a bunch of awesome stuff in there - concert posters, stationery, art books and art prints - and you could see the big letterpress equipment in the back area they make the stuff.



And here's the sibling set in the small town of Weston, in front of some historic building and historic bell, no doubt.

Tilly at Sokol

You asked for them...

More photos from the Wisconsin trip!

pinecrest 2008

I've got some catching up to do.

I've returned from one of the best places on Earth: Hancock, Wisconsin. This picture gives you a good sense of the place.

Bemis Creativity Festival

Bemis hosted the Creativity Festival, a series of awesome free events from Thursday through Saturday - music, exhibitions, panels, workshops, open studio tours - it was really fun, informative, and inspiring.

Much of the conference was devoted to talking about "creative communities" and how to foster, support and keep them alive and buzzing. It's clear that the Bemis is dedicated to promoting and helping develop the arts in Omaha, a task that they see as vital to the health of a city or community. I wish all cities would be committed to that same purpose, even if it's at the expense of business or economy at times.

Anyway, here are some photos from the festival:

bemis

major storm!

storm

reading in the capital

I'm backtracking here, but last Wednesday Cody and I went to Lincoln to some free panels offered by the Lincoln Writer's Conference. The first panel was on getting the inspiration to write, the second one was on pop culture and viral epidemics (or something). At night some talented writers gave readings (featured below): Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep), Sean Wilsey (Oh the Glory of it All and McSweeneys editor-at-large) and Meghan Daum (My Misspent Youth and Saturday columns in the L.A. Times).

It was really good to hear a bunch of people talk about writing. It got me re-inspired and re-energized to write.

We also visited some historical Lincoln sites.

amy's birthday

Saturday's activities included celebrating Amy's (aka Plaiderpillar) birthday. We went to OJ's for some Mexican food and then to her family's cabin. It was a beautiful day. And I played shuffleboard for the first time. And took to the trails with Cody. Fun, fun!

chicago!

Omaha in the springtime

Jasmine tree, originally uploaded by NotoriousLBT.

I like this house. And this tree. And the owner working in his garage-top garden. He was nice too.

Three stages of trying to make your wish come true

So excited!


Almost there...


Catching his breath. Still one candle left!

Honeybee interview/photos

This week's "Meeting the Band" for City Weekly was Honeybee. Honeybee is a group of great people making great music. My friend Will wrote the article, and I took the photos. The scanning didn't work out so well; the quality isn't so great and the first page didn't fit on the scanner. To read the whole interview in a possibly easier format, you can go here: Honeybee article.

More Easter photos

The Beatles should have used this as an album cover. These are our "hidden" Easter baskets.


A-ha!


Tricky!


Dye-ing eggs is kind of a Zen art form, like fishing without the gross hook part.


Look how happy Kyle is. I must admit his eggs were quite eye-catching.



All of our creations together. My eggs are in the closest carton. Aren't they beautiful?

the eggs say it all.