I would have never guessed either

It’s been six months since my friend Theresa and I started our project NYC + KC, and I want to see a show of hands of those people that never thought we’d make it this far? Okay, put your hands down. Really, put them down. If you would have asked me how long this thing would’ve lasted, I would have told you a month, tops, but here we are, 181 days later, and still going strong.

Granted, we have fudged some of the rules a bit. No longer does each picture have to be taken before noon (a year of mornings…yeah, wasn’t going to happen), and some weeks we get pretty behind in uploading. Really, the only rule is that we take a photo each day, and even if it doesn’t get posted for a week, it still counts. I think giving ourselves this kind of stretching room has helped the project to continue. Our goal is to make it through an entire year, and while it isn’t easy, I think we just might make it.

For those of you that find themselves forgetting to click on the icons on the left sidebar, which lead you to the project, here are a few of my favorites:

Day One Hundred and Three

To me, this looks like they could be at the same party, laughing at the same joke.

Day One Hundred and Seven

Is Lulu watching the carriages?

Day One Hundred and Ten

A city scene, and a country scene.

Day One Hundred and Thirty Eight

A color celebration.

Day One Hundred and Thirty Nine

Can I borrow some change?

Day One Hundred and Fifty

Rain and sunshine.

Truly, you should check out the archives. There are rainbows and weddings and flowers and kids and babies and cityscapes and dancing and food and everything else you could ever imagine.

Even my dad, the Dean, has checked it out. His exact words:

Very cool, and an interesting concept! I like it. In some pairings, you’d almost think that you two have switched sides, but it reclarifies in the next pairing. I’ll have to monitor it periodically ‘til its done (if I remember where I put the linkage).

So you should check it out. The Dean says so. That is, if you remember where you’ve put the “linkage.”

More Music Friday

Lately I’ve been posting quite a bit of music through Blim.fm, a site that works with Twitter to post songs and videos found online to your Twitter followers. I love it, because when I hear a song I love on the radio or wherever, it takes me a bit to commit to buying it via iTunes. I’m fickle with my music, and I can hear a song that I love the first time around, just to find out that I loathe it after two or three listens.

But since some of you stubbornly refuse to tweet (Mikayla! Trent! Unamed reader!), I figured I’d post a video or track every now and then to lure you in to my indie music web. Or maybe just so you can take a break from listening to Thriller on repeat (ahem, Mikayla, cough, cough).

First up! This band is Beirut and the song is called Nantes. I can’t really describe the music style, so I’ll let Wikipedia do it for me:

Beirut is an American band. It began as the solo musical project of 23-year-old Santa Fe, New Mexico native Zachary Francis Condon, and later evolved into a band led by Condon. Their first performances were in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. The music combines elements of Eastern European and folk with Western pop music.

Now if that doesn’t lure you in, take a listen.

Beirut vid via Girls Gone Child.

[Guess what?! You can find my playlist anytime you like! Just click the link in the right sidebar that says Crazybananas Tunage. You know you want to…]

A Birthday Haiku

Today is my best friend Mara’s birthday, and in honor of her big day (and because I just bought her a graduation present), in lieu of a gift, I have decided to glorify her with a poem. Specifically, a well-thought-out haiku:

Team Edward and Team Ronald
you are such a goof
twenty-six will be awesome

Please, please, stop applauding. I know, you didn’t realize my talents stretched into the world of incredible poetry. Well, now you know.

(If you’re on Twitter, wish Miss Mara a happy day yourself here! It’s also photographer extraordinaire [and fellow mother of a Tasmanian child] Nicole’s birthday! Wish her happy birthday here or here. I think I’ll go eat some cake now. You know, for solidarity.)

Friends Are Awesome

Another lovely sidenote of the wedding I photographed this weekend was the fact that I got to spend time with two of my favorite people on the planet. Ever since our wonderful “Nacho Cheese” (Abbie) moved to Alabama, we rarely get to spend time together. Though Mara and I have spent more time together lately than any two friends with obsessive personalites should (vampires! wizards! movies from 1983! redheads!), we truly never has as much fun as we do when Miss Abbie is with us. She balances us out, bringing to the mix fart jokes, country line dances set to rap music, and the ability to finally make Mara laugh. Case in point, the following selection of photos, which shows our threesome’s relationship better than any of my words could.

(Photos totally stolen from Abbie’s facebook)

Watch as Abbie and I decide we want a picture of three of us, then spend forever trying to get Mara to smile, while she pouts about taking a photo. Check out Mara’s face, it’s classic “Mara.” Techniques for capturing said elusive smile include silly faces, striking a pose, the robot (which unfortunately translates to jazz hands on film), and smootching:

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Friendship is such a good thing.

(Note: Both Mara and Abbs look so damn cute, and I look sweaty and disgusting. I blame that on the fact that I was not informed I should dress up AND spent a good portion of the afternoon sweating and sitting on the grass while I took pictures. And I had to borrow a shirt from Abbie because after the first two hours of shooting, my shirt was covered in sweat stains. I know, you really wanted to know that.)

“Firsts” or “Why Did You Bring a Rifle to the Wedding?”

This past weekend I was able to do so many fun things, my head is still spinning. The fun was so overwhelming, in fact, I actually haven’t been able to sleep. For reals. It’s 4:22 a.m. and I’m still not asleep. This will not end well.

But as long as I’m not sleeping, I figured I’d share some of the fun with you all, you lovely Crazybananas readers, you. First, on Friday, I got to finally meet Miss Lauren Kathrine Fogarty, the new baby girl just birthed by the awesome Kristi. I definitely didn’t get enough time with the munchkin (Lu fell while playing with the neighbor kids and never really recovered from the trauma of it all), but there were major snuggles to be had.

Baby Lauren

Out of focus, but I love it anyway.

Kristi + Lauren

Kristi is a great mom already. Such fun stuff!

Lauren's Foot

Um, yeah, I know. Right? Right?!! Arggghhh, BABIES! Overwhelming adorable-ness!!!!

That made no sense, did it? Well, like I said, NO SLEEP, so nothing I say in this post will make much sense.

But I digress.

On Saturday, I headed to good ole’ Manhattan, Kansas for a lovely July wedding. My best bud, Abbie, has a brother-in-law that was getting hitched, and she asked me if I’d take pictures of the wedding. Now, as I AM NOT a professional (or even f’ing close) photographer, I bitched and moaned and begged not to do it, but in the end, I decided I wanted to help out. And I’m glad I did, as it was a fun learning experience for all involved.

What did I learn? Well, when the bride looks like this, the photographer doesn’t have to do much.

Portrait

Just Married

The Men

Rice! (or birdseed)

Bride + Flower Girl

What else did I learn? Well, sometimes, at weddings in Kansas, boys like to have their picture taken with their guns. I find this odd, but I tried to go wtih the flow.

Boys with Guns

And then I ran for cover….

Abbie + Luke

Special thanks to Luke and Abbie, who trusted me (for some strange reason) to capture Sascha and Michaela’s big day. You guys are pretty. Now move home from Alabama, immediately!

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