Twitter Updates From Tour
June 24, 2008 | Filed Under Personal, TOURsday | 3 Comments
Kelley {Slideshow}
July 17, 2008 | Filed Under Fashion | 3 Comments
Last year we had a rockin’ shoot with Lindsay so we were super excited when her sister, Kelley, contacted us and said she wanted to shoot with us.
The day was FREEZING cold and Kelley braved the whole day outside. In dresses, none the less. She was a total trooper and rocked it out like a pro model. We also had the Jamie doing hair and makeup for us, and we can’t wait to work with her again. Thanks for all of your help throughout the entire day, you were amazing!
Here’s the slideshow, enjoy! And enjoy the music of Nik Freitas
Suzette {Preview}
July 16, 2008 | Filed Under Fashion | 5 Comments
We met up with one of our favorite people and awesome actress, Suzette Babb, for a quick photo shoot last week. Suzette needed some fresh headshots and we were able to catch some awesome evening light by our studio.
{TOURsday}
July 8, 2008 | Filed Under TOURsday | 2 Comments
Hello! Welcome to another edition of {TOURsday}
* I have photo in the Lollapalooza Photo Contest that you should all vote for. (I’m ending in a preposition and I’m all right with that). It’s this photo:
* Also in the Lollapalooza bidding war, but to actually play the festival, are local rockstars, The Melismatics. They’re currently in first place! Help keep them there by clickity clicking here. They would rawk the socks off of the Lollapalooza crowd.
* Thursday marks the beginning of my 6th annual trip up to the Winnipeg Folk Fest and I can’t wait. I look forward to this weekend more than any other weekend throughout the year and this year is no exception. Check out some of my photos from past years on Flickr.
* Also on the potential festival list is the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore. Foo Fighters? Andrew Bird? Cat Power? The Black Keys? WILCO?! I’m in!
* We’re shooting tonight with the fabulous Suzette and I can’t wait! We’ve worked together a bunch of times and each time is awesome. I’m sure I’ll post some photos before I leave for Winnipeg, so get excited!
* Our friend, the fabulous Alexa Jones, is in Dance Band’s new “Babymaker” video. We frickin’ love you, girly!
Jenna {Slideshow}
July 7, 2008 | Filed Under Events, MN Rockstars | 5 Comments
We did a photo shoot with Jenna this winter and were totally blown away with her awesomeness. She’s a young chica and wanted to try her hand at modeling and we are so excited that we were able to do her first photo shoot. She clearly rocked it, the camera loves her, and I’m sure there are many more photo shoots in her future. Hopefully more with us!
Here’s a link to all of your photos. Enjoy and thank you!
Chris Koza {A Dark, Delirious Morning}
July 2, 2008 | Filed Under Music | 1 Comment
I can’t believe Chris Koza’s CD Release Show for A Dark, Delirious Morning was almost a month ago. I apologize for the lateness, but I am finally posting the slideshow and all of the photos.
Andrea sums up the night in a perfect way:
“Chris Koza’s CD release show for The Dark, Delirious Morning was everything I’d hoped: top-notch sound, a sizeable and energetic crowd, and a slew of special guests. With each new album Koza seems to add more layers to his constantly-evolving style of folky indie pop, and Saturday’s show featured a keyboard player, backup singers and a small string section in addition to his regular ensemble of guitar, bass, and drums.
Despite the fact that the stage swelled to hold up to eight or nine different musicians, including a very special appearance by JoAnna James (who recently relocated to Los Angeles and flew in just for the show), there was no doubt that this show was all about Koza. The group played the new album almost in its entirety, holding off until the end of the set to sprinkle in favorites from 2006’s well-received Patterns. Whether he played new material or dug out old gems, the crowd of roughly 600 clung to Koza’s every note and bit of stage banter, lending to the feel-good vibe of an evening spent with one of the city’s most promising young songwriters.”
Jet to Chris Koza’s website for links on where to purchase A Dark, Delirious Morning.
{TOURsday}… alittlelate
July 2, 2008 | Filed Under TOURsday | 1 Comment
Ok, so it’s not TOURsday at all, it’s Wednesday and I don’t even have a clever play on words for it, but you’ll just have to forgive me.
* I was just flipping through April’s Mpls St. Paul Magazine and noticed one of our photos from Voltage 2007. You may have seen it and had no idea that it was ours because it was, of course, not credited.
* Bloglines keeps 400 of my must-read blogs all in one place and yesterday it was down for the first time ever. When it came back it said that I had 1596 unread feeds. YIKES.
* One of my best friend’s got married this past weekend in Crookston. I was pretty stoked that Christy Doyea was doing all of the photography since you all probably already know how much I love weddings. She posted a preview on her blog so you should definitely check that out.
* Weddings aren’t my favorite to photograph, but I dig hawt engagements:
* I called Gabe when we got up to Grand Forks and asked him if there was anything fun to do. He said there was a Super Target. FUN! He also insisted that we go to Red Pepper and order an Everything Grinder with Taco Meat. I mean, this thing was freaking amazing. I’m definitely glad that I talked the rest of the crew I was with into going there.
* Our friend Eliesa of Photogen-Inc had the grand opening of her studio last week. We drove around for about an hour and a half because there was a parade going on and everything was blocked off, but we finally found it. It was awesome to see some of our fellow MN Photostars again and check out the sweet new digs. Of course we had to rock the photo booth, too:
* I’m going through a small music drought, so if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.
Kiki {Sneak Peak}
June 26, 2008 | Filed Under Fashion | 5 Comments
Are you kidding me?! FIERCE!
{Photo Booth}
June 25, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Photo Booth | 2 Comments
Of course we had to set up the photo booth for the show on Friday. Enjoy!
This could be my favorite photo ever taken in the photo booth. Hilarious!
Bee’s a creep
Sucker-punched!
Happy {TOURsday}!
June 24, 2008 | Filed Under TOURsday | Leave a Comment
What a gorgeous day, huh? I’m definitely going to have to get outside for a while today, the sun is shining yet it’s not overwhelmingly humid and gross out. The neighbors here are building a new deck and while I’m excited that they’ll have a sweet place to sip their morning coffee, I am way more excited for the constant hammering and drilling to stop.
Let’s get this TOURsday rockin’!
[1] As you saw in the previous post, I went to Rock the Garden this weekend. I was super bummed {or, B-U-M’d, as Bee would say} that they weren’t allowing cameras in, but then through the magic of Twitter I heard that Steve Marsh was looking for a photographer to cover the event for The Morning After so I jumped at the chance and was able to rock out all day from the photo pit.
[2] On Friday night we hosted another suaree at our studio where local filmmaker Bobby Willis of Below Zer0 Films showed his latest short film, and Nate Petterson showed his rockin’ abstract paintings.
[3] Yes, there was a photo booth. Don’t worry. Photos to come soon! Or, you can check them out now on our facebook page.
[4] My current song obsession is “Sun Down” by Nik Freitas.
[5] Bee and I did a shoot yesterday with my sister, Kyra, and I can’t wait to edit them all. I just loaded them on the computer, imported them into lightroom, and they’re just waiting for me to give them various amounts of stars. Oh man! Get excited! Kiki did an incredible job and we had the most beautiful light, we couldn’t have asked for much more.
[6] Tonight Bee and I are heading to Eliesa’s brand new studio; I can’t wait to check it out!
[7] I’ve been following the Mammoth Men for the past couple of days, and it makes me sad that I’m not jetting on my Banff road trip after heading up to Winnipeg. But! There are other trips in the works, so we shall see. Maybe we need a MN Photostars road trip, though, eh? Who’s in?
{More to come}