Snaps From the Weekend.

Autumn rainbows and frolicking.  Good weekend.

Photos by me (through sunglass-lenses).

Oh Snap

Me: Where you been all my life?You: Hiding from you.
Me: Oh snap!

Sorry my attempt of using 'oh snap' in a sentence is somewhat lacking.  Don't hold that against these beauties found over at the Oh, Snap photo blog.

Photos by Keith Davis Young, Jeff Devine and Elena Holkina.  Cool, eh?

Double Vision

These pretty (clever) photos are all from Charles Bergquist's photo series, "Double Vision".  All of the images are two photographs fused together by the energy of an exploding star  (I made that last bit up).  And I told another lie, the last photo is just a regular one image photo, except it's not because it's my friend!  Al is playing drums for The Ruby Suns in the US at the moment (check out their myspace).  It was a bit of a surprise to see a familiar face in this corner of the interwebs but if there's one thing I like in a photographer it's good taste in music, I'm looking at you, Andrew Bird set.

India

I've been planning a trip (for about, uh, 18 months) to India and Nepal.  When I say planning, I mean I've got this folder on my computer jammed packed with Indian goodness.  Like photos of tree hut hotels, trekking routes and weird festivals.  Which is better than the last big overseas expedition I made to Europe where the only research I did was to flick through a Lonely Planet, which is pretty much the worst way to go about it.  I still had an amazing trip but at least this time round I've been hoarding inspiration.  I think it has something to do with discovering blogs and flickr streams. If anyone's got any suggestions I would be so, so happy to hear from you.  Time frame is November-January. 

My friend Lily took these amazing shots on her recent Indian adventure.  Beautiful, huh?

Tiny Rainbows

Going Away Party, House Gig, Finish Recording Celebration.  I think that's all?  I liked it whatever it was, Tiny Ruins and Cool Rainbows played in the shop on Thursday.  We are lucky folks.  Anyone else wanna play?

SarcMark.

I have discovered something magic, something joyous, something I neeeeeed in my life.  Something that is only going to cost me US$1.99 and according to the folks at Open Sarcasm, my socialist soul.  What I'm talking about is the SarcMark.  It's a new punctuation mark that is meant to help people signify more clearly when they are trying to be sarcastic.  Just what I've always needed (insert sarcmark here).

No, I actually, I do think it's quite a good idea.  Just think of all the cool places you can use it.  (But only ironically, cynically or with a dead pan expression, otherwise you've missed the point.)

Example One:

 "This guy is so cool I want one of these (insert sarcmark)".  Oh no!  I think I just failed miserably, cos I actually really like this (do NOT insert sarcmark). 

 Example Two:

 "Oooh my head... (insert sarcmark)."  But again with the fail cos it was already pretty obvious that the person was being sarcastic wasn't it?

Hmm...  Maybe if you need to use it, you probably aren't being sarcastic enough.  Therefore my advice to everyone is to up the level of sarcasm and it will solve all our problems.

Love Letter to Auckland

Dear Auckland City,

You are pretty shitty, but sometimes you show me that you're not that shitty.  Thank you for looking like this the other day.

Love from Georgie.

Took Some Photos, Eh.

My friends got married and I took their photos!

I'm generally pretty cynical when it comes to marriage and weddings. Overly formal wedding photos usually make me want to have a little vommy in my mouth and I like to pretend I'm anti the establishment, man (am I doing a good job selling myself as your potential profesh wedding photographer? Email me!)  BUT, in saying that, I'm also the first person to cry when the bride walks down the aisle and I actually get lots of warm fuzzy feelings watching people getting married.  One thing is for certain, it was pretty gosh darn nice to see these two friends so happy at their wedding.

So here are some of the black and white photos I took as "the photographer".   There are about 1000 more where these come from, which if you're really lucky I will share in regular installments for the next 15 weeks...  Not really. 

The second to last one cracks me up big time.  When Emily and I were talking about what she wanted we decided to aim for casual snaps of (mostly) unposed, genuine moments.  One thing she definitely didn't want was veils blowing in the wind.  Um... we got veils in the wind.

Can't Believe I Forgot to Bid on These...

"Sexy Black Hot Piano Sporty Trackpant".  Who wouldn't want some "Extremely funky and very chic cool tie up front trackpants! Very trendy on and the perfect gym, jogging, running, yoga, pilates. Very soft stylish fabric and very flattering on. Nice long straight legs and cute piano design."

I just set up tumblr account.   It seems like a nice intermediary between blogging and twitter, lets see if I keep using it or not.  If you've got a tumblr let me know so I can follow you.  I feel like I should try to make this blog a little more sewious aka I'll post all my raps over here.  When I say raps I don't mean raps, I mean words.

I love blogspot 4eva!

Pets

 Marlena Shores!  That is all. 

40,000

Here couple of snaps from this weekend's anti-mining march.  The figures vary from 30,000 - 50,000 protesters but whatever the number I think it was pretty clear that normal New Zealand is against the idea of mining in our National Parks (except that one guy with the "more gold, less parks" placard, he's obviously not so interested in conservation and heritage but, you know, he's probably a dick).   Has everybody made their submission?