Silvia

I visited long time friend Silvia this weekend in Chicago. She and I met while in design school at Ohio State.

She was wrapping a gift when I arrived. I thought It was a flash light till further inspection.

Only One at a Time

Ologie said goodbye to Antonio also known as the only black guy i've ever worked with at a design agency. I'm pretty sure it is because the contracts say you are only allowed one at a time.

He and his girl are off to new adventures in Chicago.

The new boss man politely asking for another round

Ms. Lindsay Cox talking with our lunch lady Deb (she makes amazing fresh lunch for us everyday at the columbus office)

Mom & Snipper

The other week blazey tried to put me on the spot for not heading down to see the family in Springfield. So just incase he tries to front on me again I want to show some photos from the other day - Dinner with mom and my step-pops, Snipper aka Loren F. Browder Jr. I racked my brain trying to find a place for dinner. Mom doesn't eat red meat, pork or sea food and snip doesn't eat Chicken or seafood – yes, chicken! Once i met up with them at the Book Loft they told me the local Max & Ermas was just fine.

Snip: (I'm not sure how he got the name) Loren is going to look just like him in 35 years.

The place mom insist i bring "teeny book girl". The one on the right is Max and Erma's original location in German Village

Big Snip's tat from way back.

They were getting ideas for their back yard from the B&B I stay at (German Village Guesthouse)

Mom's hair is fly

Flashback to Wintertime

Columbus makes it so much easier to head to Target and get this 6 month old instant camera developed. Mari, Tyler, Megan and I headed up to Hunter mountain in Jan or Feb for my only snowboard trip of the season.

It Ain't No Joke

I kinda hurt my back yesterday and I figured i needed to see the doctor since i can barely get out of bed. The video shows me walking pretty well (hunched and slow but still okay) but that wasn't the case 95% of the time today. Yeah i rode ella which was probably was a mistake. While I was sitting waiting for some lame advil prescription I got bored and walked creeped around the store looking for magazines

The Wedding Photographer

I like shooting weddings but it has to meet a few criteria:

1. I get to fly to another time zone/climate change 2. bride or groom is either you or your brother or sister (you = someone I'veknown for at least a year prior to asking me to shoot the wedding) 3. I know you well enough to party with you 4. There is an open bar 5. There is no rush/pressure on when you want your photos

I can make up more is i see fit.

Comron and Carrie met all the above requirements and they are just two pretty awesome folks. View the full post to see a little set of photos from the shoot:

Escape from NY (again)

This weekend Blazey, Sonya and I are in Tucson Arizon for Comron's wedding. He and Blazey have been kinda like bffs for since way back when they were youngins. The photos here are from this morning at rehearsal. (yeah, i'm the wedding photographer if you couldn't have guessed already. No, I don't do weddings*)

Put On - Jeezy ft. Yeezy: Hit play this then look at the photos. If i could wear headphones while i shoot tomorrow i would have this on repeat.

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Tina is back from her world travels (here for her blog)

* unless your wedding is somewhere I haven't been yet and I can party with you after the first dance.

How i get around: Superguide

Once again I called on the help of SuperFuture.com's Superguide. Combine it with the Red Maps you can't go wrong. It is the perfect guide for a young wanna-be jetsetter like myself. The newest and hippest stores, restaurants, bars (although the lizard lounge recommendation was kinda off-brand) and sections of town. It highly recommend it if you are heading off for a little trip and want to see and do more than just look at your run-of-the-mill historic sights.

You have to get the Red Map as well though. It's not so good at letting you know exactly where you are at or what subways are near by. It seems like that is a part of the fun though; getting lost and roaming around and discovering some things on your own.

well enough of my advertisement. must get back to packing up and getting ready to head out.

Superfuture's Superguide

journey to the eiffel

Yesterday i saw the Eiffel tower for the first time since the last ime i was at Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm sorry but as grand as it may be, all the year visiting the amusment park and or driving to cincinnati via i71 numbed me a bit. I've not seen it lit up at night yet and maybe that is when I will be truly awe inspired. Or maybe in a situation that marcia discribed on her wonderfully written blog:

"The couples made it more beautiful. 

I know its a cliche, but lest we forget, I am a girl and I do have a great big heart.  Seeing these two couples standing in front of the Eiffel Tower, one young, one older about twenty feet apart from one another standing  on the great big lawn/garden. They were both embraced, the younger couple just staring out across the at Paris, taking everything in, the older couple alternately kissing and looking up at the tower, whispering to one another in that secret language that two people in love share. "

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We also took a little stroll through the Luxembourg gardens.

these last two shots are marcias.

Montmartre

Where I sleep: french edition

I was having quite a hard time finding a place to stay. I really felt the need to find a hip, boutique hotel for at least the final 3 nights. I found a place called the Five Hotel that seemed to fit my style perfectly but i was still without a place for the first 4 nights. Sonya and her sister visited Paris last year and i remember her saying how great it was to have rented an apartment for the week. So i started looking for a little apartment in the Latin Quarter / St. Germain area of town. After several days of not finding anything and having a hard time contacting a few that were avaible Marcia (who has been in paris for a week already) discovered this great little place. I was going to only stay for 4 nights and then switch off to the hotel for the final two. Well, once i got to the area, walked up the 4 flights of stairs and saw how perfectly french this place was, i immediately wanted to stay all 6 nights here. Instead of the 450 euro she was asking, i paid the full 650 for the week and that was that. No boutique french hotel this time.

The place has two rooms, a great bathroom, a full size and a half size bed, kitchen, free wi-fi (pronounced wee-fee by my french folks) and unlimited calling to the U.S.