I spent some time yesterday afternoon taking headshots of my friend Heather and her business partner Kala, for their new home bakery business, the Night Kitchen. It’s interesting, trying to get natural shots of people who are very conscious of your camera. I think I got some winners. When their website goes up, I will…
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Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
dylan vs petty covers benefit for haiti
dylan vs petty: big fat gap, originally uploaded by minervacat. My plan for today was to post several Tom Petty and Bob Dylan covers, in honor of the Dylan vs. Petty Haiti benefit show that we attended last night, but it turns out that in my enormous collection of covers, I actually have very few…
i do believe
It’s like Peter Pan: if you believe in spring hard enough, it will happen. And speaking of believing, a book recommendation: NPR’s 2006 compilation This I Believe: the Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. I picked it up at BookExpo in 2006, and found it both moving and astonishing.
carrboro farmer’s market
carrboro farmer’s market, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: Amazing multiple exposure photography, by Tracy Packer and Fiona O’Donoghue. Matt Sewell’s amazing watercolors. Docent, a Flickr app to curate and manage galleries made by your contacts. I love the galleries feature on Flickr — though I wish galleries…
floating action @ the pour house
floating action @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. I get obsessed with songs and listen to them again and again and again. I could eat music. — Florence Welch
glossary — feral fire
glossary @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Glossary — Feral Fire. Out 2/2, Liberty & Lament. One of my favorite things about Glossary’s sound is the combination of the fuzzed out, grinding guitars with Todd Beene’s sleek, wailing pedal steel and Joey Kneiser’s voice, which might have a whiskey edge but not quite a…
mike doughty @ the arts center
mike doughty @ the arts center, originally uploaded by minervacat. Douglas of Fresh Cherries from Yakima has declared this on repeat week, which is something I can get behind. I will listen to songs I adore until they’ve been driven into the ground. I have a smart playlist in iTunes that’s devoted to my 100…
worth getting up for: january
flooowers, originally uploaded by minervacat. Worth getting up for in January: waking up in a world where Tim Tebow no longer plays college football; big ideas; doing scary things; Brian Fallon solo acoustic shows; punk rockers covering Kathleen Edwards and Patti Griffin; this photo; putting the camera down and just rocking; tapas and dim sum;…
actualfax southern snow
actualfax southern snow, originally uploaded by minervacat. The snow and ice down here knocked out at least two of the three shows I’d had on the books for this weekend (American Aquarium at the Pour House went on as scheduled, sans us because driving to and from Raleigh wasn’t in the cards last evening; the…
the old ceremony @ the pour house
the old ceremony @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: More alphabets, this one from local-to-me designer (and NC State student) Kayce Lomas. (More typography from Lomas here.) Also these illustrated letterforms and this Paperfingers alphabet. Frankly, while I’m at it: designworklife in general makes…
brand new kind of photography 