first friday – may

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Downtown Raleigh has a great opportunity to see artwork, art studios, and go to nice restaurants with friends. It’s the first Friday of each month, and aptly named ‘First Friday’. I just happened to go last minute, and hung out at the Fish Market for a bit, where some people I knew were showcasing their work. You can read more about it here: http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/FirstFriday/index.htm

The material was created by Jessica Monique George. You can read more about the process on her website: http://melodicmovement.mosaicglobe.com/

This artwork on this wall done by Iris Chen. Even her fashion design sketches are very artistic . . . her website is www.deathful.net


This was very cool, the artwork seemed to be made of newspaper, or pages from a book when you look up close. Artwork by Liz Bradford:

I Love this! I actually took the photo for my friend Adrienne who loves Polaroids:

~ (SparkLy) things

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I usually don’t buy myself (SparkLy) little things, but It’s good to treat yourself to something every once in a while – which is what I did! Meet blue topaz. If you look closely you can see hints of purples and shades of blues – and it sparkles in all kinds of light!

~ travel with (StyLe) Greece video

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Well it has been almost 2 years since Gary and I went on our honeymoon to Greece! We Loved it so much and can’t wait to go back. This video was taken by Gary on the trip, and I have more footage somewhere . . . I’m in the process of finding and getting that video backed up, but for now here’s a little something I put together tonight. You may need to turn up the sound a little, since the Greek music is a little quiet at first 🙂

And here are some of the photos I took during the time the footage was being shot 🙂

~ photographing actor, sean astin

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Sean Astin, actor, most widely known as Samwise Gamgee in Lord of the Rings, Mikey Walsh in the Goonies, and other movies (check out his IMDB page), director, writer, and Hillary Clinton endorser was in North Carolina the other day speaking about Hillary’s ideas and visions if she were to be elected as president and why he stands behind her beliefs.

Someone brought their Lord of the Rings novel with them for Sean to sign, I kind of wish I thought to bring my Lord of the Rings DVD’s 🙂 :

Though I did get his signature on a Hillary Clinton poster:

and thanks to AJ who took this picture of Sean and I:

You can check out his website at http://www.seanastin.com/

~ photoshop disasters

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Sites like these are fun! I found this site earlier today, and went through every single page. One of my favourites was in a Victoria’s Secret catalogue of a hand left on the shoulder of the model but no one was standing next to her. Check out the Photoshop Disasters Blog, not everyone is perfect or as skinny as they look in the magazines 🙂

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com

~ photographing barack obama

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Senator Barack Obama was in Raleigh today for a town hall meeting. There were 2000 tickets available and within a few hours were already given out. Obama’s goal was to ‘focus on the economy and his commitment to investing in middle class families’ and then answered questions from the audience

handing the mic to a 4th grader who won his class election and asked Obama what he could to to become president one day. Obama said jovially, “I should ask you some questions . . . you’ve already won”:

I would have to say, this is a classic Obama (SmiLe):

I love the feeling of this photo:

-> News and Observer Photos HERE

-> Getty Images HERE