In Asheville there is a section of town called the River Arts District. There, a community of artists have taken over dilapidated warehouses from our town’s bygone days of manufacturing and turned them into beautiful studios and homes. All the artists leave their doors open so people can just walk in and see them creating and buy a piece if they want.
I was out one weekend looking for interesting people to shoot for a promotion I’m working on (coming soon) when I passed a sign that read, create your own hand blown glass $50. Now I know $50 is a lot to pay for one pint glass, but this is a special pint glass because I helped make it. And glassblowing is not an easy thing for a person to do on their own, you pretty much need an assistant. I got a lesson in glass blowing, some experience actually doing it and I got to help support the amazing community of artists that call Asheville their home. If anyone in the area is interested in making your own hand-blown glass you can visit: www.ashevilleglass.com theyhave regular classes as well.
Katie
I just won three Emmy awards: one for writing, one for News Image Campaign and one for special effects make-up. The official event photos aren't out yet, but these pictures were posted by a woman taking a few at the Southeast Regional Emmy Awards. I'll post some that I took later on.
Yesterday I went on the LaZoom Comedy bus tour (www.lazoomtours.com) around Asheville with my good friend George. We had a great time! I've used the guys from the LaZoom troupe before in a promotion for WLOS and I'm using them again for some more really funny spots I'm shooting now. Look for these same actors in posts to come. They'll be easy to recognize.
I shot two of my good friends/colleges engagement session at the NC Arboretum. They are just so cute. They were worried about not being able to pose well, but really they had nothing to worry about. Wedding coming soon.
I did my first marathon. The Asheville Chamber of Commerce 5k. I walked the whole way... well I did run for the last bit of it because we could see the finish line and the countdown clock was about to go to 1 hour and we decided we wanted to get in under an hour, so we had to run the last little bit. WLOS had a team and I decided to join. It was fun. I cut up posters so we could have themed costumes. I'm the "Body of Proof" poster.
