LEAF

The Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) is an annual event that happens in Black Mountain. I had been meaning to go for years and hadn't been able to until this year. It was a bizarre and interesting mix of everything having to do with art. There were performers, crafters, musicians, even the healing arts were represented. The areal artists who do flying trapeze lessons that Becca and I did a long time ago were there and when I glanced down at one of their signs I saw ME! In the photo at the top right, that's me grabbing that dude's arms. Cool event.

Katie

My heros

It occurs to me that I haven't introduced the team of creative individuals I work with on a daily basis. So here's a group shot of us at the office. Actually, we were hanging out in the break room with Spiderman and the Flash. Then, I'm not sure what happened. I think someone made a comment about spandex and that was it. All hell broke loose. Anyway, this is my team in the Creative Services department at WLOS.

Katie

The Oscar Party

The Oscar Party was by far the most exciting yet. So many costumes, so much fun. We had a full house, and were wishing it was larger so we could fit more people! Those that came were all decked out. Here's just a small sample. My new roommate, Carie, is the one with the kimono.

Katie

Videos of Awesomeness

There are two projects that I’m attached to for the South East Regional Emmy Awards, which take place in June. They’re both station image promotions. Really Dave did them and I helped, but because I helped I get to get an Emmy statue if we win. I also had two commercials in competition for the local ADDY awards, but I found out this week that neither of them were even nominated for those awards. I’m really bummed about that, and I was disappointed that I didn’t have enough work from this year to enter anything in for an Emmy on my own.

So I’ve decided to redouble my efforts through out the year so that come next Emmy season, I’ll be ready. And to kick off my coming year of amazing work, I did two College Basketball Opens. These are the opening titles that played before our televised basketball games. There’s one for the men’s games and one for the women’s games and they’re both posted on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/user2464102/ videos So feel free to check them out and look for many more videos of awesomeness to come.

Katie

Cookie Bake

I forgot to post the Christmas cookie bake. Back before Christmas we had our annual cookie bake party. Lots of dough was eaten, lots of sampling done, and some cookies were finished in the process. And yes, Mae is wearing a doggie snuggie...not my idea.

Katie

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