An Afternoon with Wedding Photographers

Back in April (yeah, I know this is so late) I hung out with my buddy Josh and his friend Matthias. Both Josh and Matthias are super talented and amazing wedding photographers (Josh shot my wedding back in 08!), so it was an absolute pleasure being around such talent and learning new photo tricks. So what do wedding photographers do on their days off? They go on photo adventures and take pictures (duh)! Here are some snapshots from our afternoon in the Dog Patch.

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Lately…

Aside from working on my print portfolio, I’ve been helping out friends with screen printing projects:

These bandanas are for my friends bowling team, Bowltron. Bowltron is part of the punk rock bowling league here in SF and plan to go to the big Punk Rock Bowling Tournament in Las Vegas. It should be fun times.

These are test prints for Good Krama, a local apparel company that my neighbor co-owns. Good Krama sells beautiful handmade krama scarves and proceeds go to helping communities and needy children in Cambodia. To purchase a scarf or to learn more about them, check out their site: http://goodkrama.com

Wolf Types

A long while ago, Johnny’s friend made him a wolf hat:

The hat was handmade and well constructed. It inspired my costume for Halloween, but that’s another story.

The hat could almost blend well with his beard if his beard had more of a salt and pepper color going on. Maybe 30 years ;)
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Holga Crap! This Camera is Sexy!

One of my super awesome friends forever, AM, got me this super dope Holga for my birthday and graduation. I love gifts that inspire creativity. It was such a delightful surprise!

I’m really grateful to have friends and a hubby who are not only creative but very supportive as well. Many of them helped me get through one of the toughest semesters I’ve ever experienced. Without their help and feedback, and motivation, I don’t know how I could have gotten through. Thanks for being so great, I love you guys.

Shirts

I’m so excited to see my friends wearing my t-shirt designs! Woohoo.

Here’s Hsinya and Amanda at Lovefest. Don’t they look awesome :)

Crafty Kim!

A while ago, Kim came over for some craft time goodness. While I was sewing a simple curtain, she was busy making this awesome wallet made with denim (from an old pair of jeans), a beautiful patterned fabric and a button that I donated, from scratch! No pattern or instructions necessary!

Check out her blog for the finished wallet and all her other projects: http://kimberlylauren.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/wallets/

Poster and Messenger Bag

My poster on modernism & type somehow made it into the annual design show at school (second time in a row, yay!). Funny stuff since I didn’t actually sign off on it, but whatever. It’s not the greatest thing I’ve done, but I guess it’s pretty cool that the professor thought it was worth being in the show.

The poster on the far left was design by craft buddy Kim and it’s one of my favorites from the class. And while we’re on the subject of Kim, she made this super rad messenger bag out of old vinyl banners:

ekgm photoshoot!

Some photos from the EKGM shoot in March. Photos by the ever so awesome Josh Gruetzmacher

And for a special treat, some behind the scenes footage:

Josh

The make shift studio.

A little bit of butt crack.

Josh, Kishante, Steph, Mark.

EC on screen.

MK on a bike.

The guy with the beard is Josh’s buddy (who’s name I forgot–sorry), he helped out with the shoot as well.