Cinema 2009

It's the end of the year and you know what that means...heavens no, not dieting. That's right, time to start thinking about the Oscars! Here is an amazing culmination of the movies of 2009 cut together beautifully by some guy I've never heard of, but thanks to YouTube you too can see it. Start thinking about those costumes. The Oscar party is just around the corner.

Blizzard: Day 3

Here it is. The end of my snowed in Blizzard days. By the third day, we were covered in snow and it took on a pretty glittering quality in the late morning sun. While I was in the hold up in the quilt room I made three stockings for my house and hung them on my staircase when I got home. Even if your Christmas wasn't white, I hope it was fun just the same. Merry Christmas everyone.

Katie

The Blizzard: Day 2

At the end of day one we lost our power. Day two didn't turn up any power either, but it proved a most productive day. Mom made a snowman and snow angels. I attempted to sled, but didn't do too well. And dad shoveled snow so that we could walk from the house to the road and dug out the van so we could drive, not that we really went anywhere. The little cold I had developed turned nasty and I ended up curled up in mom's quilt room working away on a project you'll see in day three's chronicle.

Katie

The Blizzard: Day 1

Our white Christmas came a little early this year. We had a massive winter storm dump over a foot of snow on us over night. Mom and I took the dogs out for a short walk. It was brutal and beautiful. I almost didn't make it over from work, but now I'm snowed in for the weekend with a nice woodburning stove, a sled, lots of hot cholcolate and christmas cookies, and mom's quilt room at my disposal. It doesn't get much better than this.

Katie

My new roommate

Richard is my new roommate. You might recognize him from the sniper pistachio nut commercial I did (neither commercial made it into the top ten of the competition.) We were talking right after the shoot and he mentioned that he was looking for a place in Asheville and I mentioned that I had a room to rent. He moved in a few days later. Richard is an actor, model, and masseur among other things. He's currently working on starting a non-profit, but in the mean time he needed head shots. So we went around town in the freezing cold and then ended up shooting some at home. I traded the photo session for a massage. It was a great trade!

Katie

Game Night

A while back I hosted a game night at my house. Everyone had a blast. Ashley was over to visit, and you might recognize Tim making a funny face in one shot from the Dating Game I did. Throw a game night party, or go to one, they are loads of fun. Just have everyone bring over their favorite games and play.

Katie

Commercial Contest for Pistachio Nuts

I made two commercials for the Wonderful Pistachio Nut Commercial Contest. You can check them out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XhOsalMd_0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed0Pj5Lsox4

Richard is the sniper he works as an actor and model among other things. The angel is my neighbor Annie who was nice enough to be in my commercial with no notice. I shot them with my still camera and put the commercials together frame by painstaking frame. It was long and tedious, but I really like the results.

The judges will go through almost 600 entries to come out with the top 10 they like best. Then everyone will vote for the best one out of the 10 on youtube. So stay tuned for more.

Katie

Meet Sadie Rose

I got a new dog! Her name is Sadie Rose and she's so cute. She needed a home when her family had a new baby and their dogs and children became too much for them to handle. A friend from work was walking around asking if anyone had a home for a Boston Terrier that needed one. And that was that.

I've only had her for a few days, but she is already sleeping with me in my bed. She is two years old and she's house broken, but doesn't have much training beyond that. We're working on sitting, walking on a leash, chewing only toys and not being afraid of the kitchen.

Katie

Scapegoat Marketing Shoot

"Scapegoat" is my friend Dave's feature film. It's taken him about three years from start to finish, but he's finally there. He needed some marketing and publicity photo for his movie and I volunteered. I took these photos just before his screening. He has entered the film in the Sundance Film Festival and is looking into other festivals.

Katie

Scapegoat Screening

Two weeks ago I shot stills for Dave's Screening of his feature film "Scapegoat." It was an awesome event held at the Carolina Cinemas. These are some of the portraits I took of people at cocktail hour before the screening. I'm hoping to have an online gallery up soon for people to order prints from. I'll let you know as soon as it's up.

Katie

Paul Visits...and installs my door knocker!

Well the door knocker wasn't the only thing Paul did for my house. He also put up my medicine cabinet and helped me move furniture. Be careful when you come to visit me, I might put you to work :)

The knocker is an antique and a special housewarming present from my family. It's a good match for the photo at the bottom that I took in Spain. I love my new, old door knocker!

Katie

Mountain Climbing

When I was a kid Monkey bars were my favorite playground play thing. I have never attempted mountain climbing before, but there's this climbing wall downtown on the street and I've seen people climbing it all the time. I've seen little kids scamper up the thing like it was nothing. So I figured, if they can do that, so can I. I'm in pretty good shape. How hard could it be?

Well let me tell you, it's hard! Paul and I went to tackle the rock climbing wall when he was visiting here and at least he made it half way up the thing, I couldn't even go that far. My forearms and hands were like jello. I tried a few times, but the longer I climbed, the more my strength waned. I finally had to call it quits for the big wall outside. I felt a little better when I made it to the top of a wall that was inside and wasn't leaning out at an angle. I would love to do it again, but I think I will have to strengthen my armpit muscles. That's right, I said armpit muscles. Did you know you have muscles in your armpits? Well you do, and if you go rock climbing you will realize that they are there the next day.

Katie

Portraits

I did a photo session a while back with Russ Bowen, a news anchor and reporter at the station. Russ and I worked together nights when I was a news editor. He was volunteering at a charity dinner and needed a photo to help promo the event. We had a fun time shooting. Russ is great in front of the camera, its no wonders he’s a good anchor.

I managed to get a photo of Dave while I was at it. Dave is the guy I work with in promotions. You may remember him from a previous chronicle I did when we were shooting a promo in Brevard. He stands in front of a camera with the same reluctance a child would display going to the dentist. I only convinced him to stand in for me because I needed help adjusting my lights for Russ’s shoot. I got one really awesome shot of him that I really like, but that’s as much of a smile as I could get out of him.

Katie