Christmas Bubbles

Lots of photos from last night. Just a little sneak peek.

Plastic bubbles are a favorite toy here in the Philippines. You take some plastic goop, stick it onto the end of a short thin straw and you have some insta-fun!

Also have been playing with PhotoShop. Can you tell? ;)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Honk

Honk 2008, about 2 weeks ago.

Mask me

Tidbits from Tufts Community Day 2008:

a photo a day ... take 45

Let's see how well I will keep up with it this time.

The Dunbar-Hester-Fried wedding from this August. Congratulations again to Anna and Pete.

Zombie-esque

Well, it is the time if year when specters rise from the dead, right?

Things, obviously have been crazy. Since my last post, I have ended my tenure at Mark's studio, always with the hopes of more assisting and good times down the road, and started up with Portrait Simple (thank you very much Jessie!) And life got crazy and fun and good. I have also been shooting weddings and events, and ever hunting down my street performances.

And with all this going on, this is the only photograph I'm going to leave you with for now:

A diner from a traipsing trip to Salem as of late.

Happy Fall and more photos to come soon :)

Chaotic

Chaos. Not quite like this, but it feels pretty close.

In the past 2 weeks, things at Ostow studio have gone crazy - we were gone on overnight shoots at Austin Riggs and Kent Private school which took almost 2 weeks worth of my time, including a Whole Foods shoot and my own shooting for Tufts closing events in the middle of that. Things have been nuts and this is pretty much my first break in two weeks, immediately followed by another 2 weeks of pretty much no days off.

Life has exploded, duckies!!

I've also managed to get some holga developed and scanned in there somewhere - who knew!

I had to throw a little vanity in there.

In the non-photo world, I saw the 4th Indy last night, which was surprisingly good and consistant with the classics - once you got over the fact that Harrison Ford looks like he may have a heart attack at any moment on set. I loved it for 2 simple facts:

1) Shia LeBeouf actually turns to Indy after a fight scene and says, "You fight pretty good for an old man. What are you, like, 80?" I died laughing. Half the theater turned to look at me.

2) It basically enacted one of my biggest tangible fears ever. SPOILER!! Huge car chase in the Amazon and what happens? They land in a field of massive ant hills with masses and masses of huge army ants that subsequently swarm over people, trees, etc. in mile square sheets and devour everything, dragging people down into their ant holes for further edible goodness. Worst fear ever. I almost died. It was fantastic.

All for now, kiddies. Watch for ohkarina.com to be launched in the next couple weeks (I hope!)

Family fun

So I've been in the Philippines for the past week in celebration of the marriage of my oldest cousin! Congrats Criselle.

The wedding was beautiful - 800 people! It was unbelievable. I should have taken more advantage of it, but I got caught up in being a guest and being in photos, rather than taking them. That doesn't mean that I didn't get my share of Kodak moments though :)

The "Tres Marias," our little flower girls. Three girls born in succession in a family is supposed to be good luck (the Tres Marias) and there's no set in the world like Marty, Lizzie and Annika.

My nephew, Vito, as the ring bearer. His mom, the Matron of Honor, had to walk down the aisle twice - once to walk him down and once to walk down herself.

And last but not least, the happy couple. They choreographed their own first dance - it was the most beautiful and adorable thing I've ever seen. This is one of the only clear shots I have of the dance - I couldn't focus the camera because I was crying. So sentimental! ;)

Too excited to hide it

So this is a little silly but I got a message on flickr, as follows:

Hi there,

I'm Cynthia, one of the editors at NowPublic.com a participatory journalism site, I saw your photos about the St. Patrick's day parade and I was hoping that you would share your photo with one of our articles on the parades across the globe.

The requested photo(s) will appear as thumbnails when you follow the link.

Please remember that you retain your ownership over the photo and you can find our terms of use below.

I'd also encourage you to comment on the article (after following the link) if you have opinions on the topic. It will appear as a comment beneath the article (and not as a caption to the photo)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at @nowpublic.com

Thanks v. much,
Cheers,
Cynthia

Giddiness! It was just exciting to be found. Cynthia's article on NowPublic is here.

Go look! Comment! Explore!

Happy Irish Day Boston

Jessie took me to Judy West's studio in Southie for the St. Patrick's day parade. Madness and fun everywhere. To think I had never experienced a Boston St. Paddy's day before this.

Kids on roofs...



Green dogs...



Typicalness...





Me with Jessie and Judy in Judy's beautifully naturally lit studio...

What a day. Thanks Jessie. Viva le Irish!

Such is Life

So I finally got around to showing Mark my work today. I had printed 40 images at Camera's Inc and was really stoked. I was... mildly crushed when he was less than ecstatic with well more than half of my work. Its hard. I'm trying. I'm not getting enough shooting of my own done though and I don't know if I've hit a wall or not. I'm just scared I'm going to be stuck in this state of mediocracy.

But before I fall into the angst-fest ... Mark loved this one. "Award-winning" he said. I hope so.

Enjoy it.

Honk 2006.

For Maia

Hey there cutie pie,

There, the photos! I'm working on the others but here is your teaser:

Mwah! Can't wait to see you

More Goth Love

The Boston Gothic Ball in Back Bay. I loved it.







Cage dancers and blacklights, whooo!

Happy Lupercalia

Obviously, I don't keep New Years Resolutions very well. But I have good excuses:

1) Stuff at Ostow Photo has been nuts - Fun but super nuts. We had a show at the studio for the class Jessie teaches at the Germaine Lawrence school for troubled teens. I basically cleaned the whole studio and hung everything. It was super fun, but then all three of us got sick which put us back in shooting and so craziness keeps on moving along.

2) Uh... otherstuff.

Okay so the excuses aren't that great. Here are some photos though to catch up.

This was a really fun goth Valentine's party in Cambridge.

And to finish off, I finally developed a Holga roll that's been sitting in the camera since who knows when. I miss this girl so much. XOXO Betta!

All for now,
me

all in the family

New Years Resolution No. 1: Really try to get this blog off the ground.

Spent the turn of the new year at the beach. Some moments to remember (or at least, looked good pixelated):



The Rubix cube took over the whole trip.






Okay, so it kind of became a tribute to my nephew. He is adorable.



Happy 2008 all!