Seeing the Star Wars exhibit once wasn’t enough for me. I wanted to share it with with my family too, so we all gathered there on the Friday morning before Christmas. The crowds and traffic were a challenge, but we took the place by storm.
My youngest brother, Rex, flew in from NY the night before, so the first thing I did was hug him and make the whole family pose for a picture together. The rest of the day can told through the photos.
Leah, James, Jack, Jenni and I visited the OMSI exhibit of Star Wars to see the science of the space saga. There were many props on display from all six movies in the two triologies, including models, costumes, lightsabers, blasters, and vehicles. More after the jump into hyperspace!
It’s been an interesting few days with the high-speed winds blowing in the northwest. We experienced two blackouts in three days.
We wish everyone a wonderful and great Thanksgiving! In the spirit of turkeys, the picture above was actually taken last year at my company’s Thanksgiving Turkey party. One of my talented coworkers made turkey cupcakes to share with everyone at the office.
Food art is pretty cool, it’s just too bad that it gets eaten up.
I took a Photoshop course this past Monday that taught me a lot about RAW workflow, tone and color correction, and retouching techniques. I thought I knew a lot about Photoshop, but the instructor showed me many great techniques to put more “pop” in my pictures. Ben Willmore was a great instructor and I’d highly recommend him to anyone who wants to see how curves in Photoshop is truly used.
The picture of Jenni was originally shot as a test portrait at my workplace. I’m in charge of doing employee portraits next week, so Jenni was helpful (as always) and picked up some backdrops for me. We tested a green, blue, and black. I couldn’t help but snap a half-portrait with the black since it looked so dramatic. And the end result? An interesting but not terribly useful pseudo-spoof on the movie, Memoirs of a Geisha.
Wow! Jenni and I are so thrilled to be featured on several blogs for our Pirate Captain Jack O’ Lantern! I woke up today, opened my blog’s dashboard to wipe off some comment spam, and found a reference from the MAKE magazine’s web site to our blog. I headed on over and saw a link to our own Captain Jack featured on their homepage!
David and I went to Po Po’s house with my mom, dad, and brother-in-law to carve pumpkins. It was lots of fun sitting out on the porch, designing and crafting our masterpieces. Po Po said we all should open an art studio. I don’t know about that, but it was neat to see what each person came up with.
Tracy took me to the beach for my birthday! One thing or another kept coming up so that we had to delay our trip til September… but what a perfect day for it! I never knew about the beautiful beaches just south of Cannon Beach until our adventures that day. Thank you, Tracy, for a wonderful day with a wonderful friend!
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
– Friedrich Welhelm Nietzche
“Everything has rhythm. Everything dances.”
– Maya Angelo
“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
– Martha Graham
“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”
– Friedrich Welhelm Nietzche
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.”
– Mata Hari
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.”
– Unknown
“Here’s my new favorite name to say: Jenn-e-lynn Lim,” – Grace Killelea, BridgeTown 2006 M.C.
Last year’s BridgeTown experience is a hard one to beat. Not to say that this year was plain or boring, but going in to BridgeTown 2006, I knew I could not expect a repeat of last year’s magic.