holga

Over 6 years ago I bought a holga camera... I loved my holga camera, and took it everywhere and took pictures of EVERYTHING.

Then, when I moved to Athens, I lost my processing/scanning connection, and my obsession for my holga dwindled, and it was packed away with the rest of my camera equipment.

While cleaning out my old equipment recently.... I found the little plastic jewel, and I plan to start a new affair post haste.

We have had one outing since retrieved from the depths of my closet, I actually had it in tow while visiting my cousin Dale in Oklahoma back in Feb. Kyle had the honor shooting with it for it's return performance, BUT because I was out of practice, I did a half-ass job loading the film and thus it was not properly exposed. BUT there were 2 images that were GREAT... and some really interesting color things happening too... which is one of the best things about the holga... you never know what you're gonna get! Way to go K... promise I'll load it better next time.

p.s. when I bought my holga 6 years ago, I only paid $3..They are hard to find for under $30 now!

in exactly 3 months...

we will be spending our fist day as Virginians, (I can't believe it's that close) one of the things that I'm going to miss most is being able to go to my parents house for the weekend, especially times like mothers day. These are a couple of images from our road trip from Lubbock to Ft. Worth this past weekend. I've been making this drive all together now for over 10 years, and it never ceases to amaze me. Almost every trip we see some kind of amazing sunset, or crazy awesome clouds. I will start out taking pics of it with my iphone and K will say, "do you think we should stop for this one?" I always answer "no" but then quickly digress and we pull over so I can get my "big camera" and get a better shot. 

This is what I have referred to, for most of my adult life as "my mesa." It also signifies that I am one hour from Lubbock. This formation is right outside of Post, TX and I have recently found out that it's called "flat top mountain"... whatever. 

Found this guy while exploring around an Allsups in Baird TX. 
This is Cotton staring, mystified by the white horse. Cotton has a thing for anything that's white. It could possibly be due to the fact that his fur is white? BUT he has a strong attraction to other things that are white... blankets, toys, horses, cats...? 
Road Dog.

Kyle thought that this cloud formation was actually a flying saucer, a gigantic flying saucer entering our atmosphere... who knows, stranger things have happened.

Kyle & Limon

My boyfriend K, as I probably have mentioned before, is an awesome, amazing, kind, most wonderful person ( I thought I would take the opportunity to throw those in ) and he always seems to land himself with some cool jobs. Since we have been in Lubbock he has worked at a bronze foundry. He started off as a wax worker and has moved up to a mold maker, which is an incredibly skilled position. A job is a job, and in my definition of a job no matter how much you love what you do, there is always probably something else you would rather be doing, BUT that being said, I think his job is pretty cool. He has met some incredibly interesting people from the guys he works with to the artists that bring in their work to be created into bronze... they are all characters! One day last week one of his co-workers brought his rooster up to work, and Kyle just happened to have my camera in the car! Kyle took the opportunity to capture "Limon" a "bull-stag" (which means he is one year old) Kelso Rooster... Isn't he beautiful! I am amazed by the color in his feathers, and the fact that he seemed to be posing for the camera... he knows he got it!

These are some random pieces from the foundry in different stages of the process... isn't that ol'e Abe Lincoln there on the right?

This is K's BFF at work Gilbert, showing off his muscles. Kyle has learned so many priceless phrases from Gilbert. I might also mention that when he started at this job he knew little to no spanish.... now, he can tell you all sorts of interesting things! 

btw... if anyone knows anyone in Richmond VA that needs a talented mold maker, hook us up!

weekend round-up

Although we thought we had a pretty laid back weekend planned... it really was anything but. On Friday night we went and saw 2 one act plays at a new indie theater in town... The Limelight Theater. Both plays were amazing and I am already eagerly awaiting the next production there. On Sat. I was actually on stage 4...yes that's 4 times! My band The Diamond Center played at noon for the Blue Ribbon Rally, Kyle and I played a set of all REM songs with our friend Daniel Markham, of One Wolf fame, I sang with an old friend that I haven't seen in years, Heath Tolleson, at Bash's and then to top it off Thao, and the guys of The Get Down Stay Down invited Kyle and I up on stage for a song later that night at Bash's II! woooo....
here is Heath and Me (to the left)... I guess this is usually the reaction when you haven't seen anyone in a loooooong time?

At the Blue Ribbon Rally there were so many awesome old cars and motorcycles but my favorite had to be this ART CAR.... CAMERA VAN! Check it out more HERE


I have long had a slight obsession with Art Cars since my sister and I saw our first one at the San Diego Zoo when we were little. (BTW, small side note, Jana swears up and down that she saw that first Art Car we ever saw, the one from the Zoo, in Lubbock about a week ago?) There was a community of Art Cars in Athens and I befriended a awesome artist and art car owner Chris Hubbard ( CHUB ) when I was living there. Chris' car is called the "Heaven and Hell car" and is based on his art... or his art is based on his car... which came first the chicken or the art car? Actually the first piece of art that I purchased for myself was a CHUB piece.  

ok... so that was all kind of random. How was your weekend? Spring is here people!

new toy

Last Thursday my new toy arrived in the mail & I've already taken over 700 images... and am in total love... with a camera! Images to come! (nice smile huh)