Monday, January 21, 2013

Shadows

Photos by Travis McKeithan. I really love this set, I hope you do too! and check out the video at the bottom for a little behind the scenes footage from Travis.













Friday, January 18, 2013

Warm Winter Days

So this past weekend it got up to 75 degrees here in North Carolina. Thanks to the beautiful, but odd, weather, EVE (edgy vivacious entertainment) decided to do a shoot outside at the beautiful Hagen Stone Park in Greensboro. Special thanks to Kristin Shadrick who set the whole thing up and who's always been a welcoming friend. Photographers are David Powers and Gary Loy.

photo by David Powers
photo by David Powers
photo by David Powers
Photo by Gary Loy
As it got darker we moved to downtown Greensboro and Gary got some great selective lighting shots.

Photo by Gary Loy
Photo by Gary Loy

Friday, January 4, 2013

Happy Belated New Year!

So everyone's doing a new year post and I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon. I don't have a lot to say about new year's resolutions because, well, I resolved to quit doing resolutions. So far I've stuck to that. Besides the fact that the vast majority of resolutions are fat hating with losing weight being the number one resolution for 2012 (also notice that only 8% of people achieve their resolution goal. How many do you want to bet achieve weight loss?).  Heck, a third of goals don't make it past January.

But after decades of vowing to lose weight every year and trying to hate myself thin, and after watching everyone around me fail at the same goal, new year's resolutions have left a bad taste in my mouth. That may have been the diet food though. So if losing weight is at the top of you  list, please, for the love of all that's good in the world, throw it the fuck out. Seriously, write it down on a piece of paper, throw it away, burn it, tear it to pieces, scratch it out and feed it to your pet goat. Do anything but make that resolution. You know the science says that 95% of weight loss attempts fail anyway.

My secret? Don't make any resolution at all. If you want to get healthier, do it, and do it in a fun creative way. If you want to stop smoking, do it and do it with an arsenal of support around you because you're gonna need it. If you wan to get out of debt, get better organized, get out walking more, spend more time with your family... just do it. You don't need a resolution. All that does is puts pressure on yourself and makes you feel guilty when you take too long, don't do it, mess up, or otherwise fail in attaining that goal. There's almost no way not to fail.

Instead take it every day at a time. Go on a walk on days you feel like it. Organize one room at a time or, hell, one desk or corner at a time. Make it into a success, a positive, something you accomplished. But whatever you do, don't make it a resolution.

Dreaming of Wheels

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