A new headshot

12.01.11 - Chicago, Illinois - Eunice suggested I get some new headshots. Still not sure how they turned out, but I set up the lights in the apartment and she snapped away. Might try again in the spring.

-Will

Thanksgiving in the USA

11.29.11 - Chicago, Illinois - Wow, it's been too long. No really. It has. I started a new job as a Video Production Specialist for Vivid Ascent in the Loop. It's been going well, but as a result, my photographic archiving has taken a hit, and so too, my blog. Can you ever forgive me?

Well, either way, this is Thanksgiving. We split dinner with the Harts at a place they had rented for the week here in Chicago and had a great time. They fetched the turkey and fixings from Whole Foods and we brought punch (thanks to an excellent recipe in The Reader). Afterwards, there was Rock Band

It had been a while since Eunice and I got to celebrate back here in the States, so it was awesome to have everything we missed in Spain.

-Will

Mr. Hart vs. the turkey

Jonathan on the drums
Alaina playing guitar
Eunice on Michigan Ave
Mom at the Daley Plaza Kristelmarkt
Eunice and Justin on the drums
Eunice.
Brunch at M. Henry's.
A smaller Nunnally Thanksgiving on Sunday.
Mr. Hart.

Lexy's Birthday!

11.11.11 - Pretty soon you're going to think that I only shoot birthday parties. This was special though. A Freep reunion of sorts in Pilsen. Lexy invited us to the Skylark, a spectacular dive bar with great food (or heaven as I like to call it). The key though was that it had a photo booth (or at least it did until it broke while we were using it) and we were supposed to give her photo booth photos as presents. That didn't quite work out, but we still had fun hanging out.

-Will

Jenny's Birthday

11.06.11 - Chicago, Illinois - First night in town and I'm invited to a birthday party! I know, I know. I'm extremely popular. Ok, so maybe this was in the works for a while, but still. A good time.

Jenny invited us to her birthday party at The Flower Flat in Lakeview. Dinner was great, highlighted by a pear tart and merlot-chocolate chip ice cream. We mixed and mingled.

-Will

Just. So. Symbolic.
Jenny, Carla and their group performed a couple of songs after dinner.


The birthday girl.

Kira.

Moving on up (to the North Side)

11.05.11 - Somewhere, USA - Well we packed up and moved out of the house in Fayetteville taking the better part of the upstairs with us. I followed my dad (seen below driving the Budget truck) all the way up to Chicago from Atlanta and grabbed some shots along the way. We drove through Tennessee and part of the Smokey Mountains or at least some lovely foliage. We crashed in Horse Cave, Kentucky for the night which is in the Central Time Zone. We woke up to frozen windshields and cruised up through Louisville and Indiana (in the Eastern Time Zone, interestingly enough) and landed in Chicago around 3.

Overall roadtrip rating (on a scale of 1 to 10) - 6.9

-Will

P.S. - Don't worry; the car was on autopilot when I was shooting.

Winston was not helping.
North Georgia.
Tennessee.
Outside Nashville at dusk.
Entering Kentucky.
Horse Cave, Kentucky.
Icy morning for the Escape.
Alighting into the morning sunshine.
Crossing a bridge in Louisville.
Entering Indiana.
Indiana.
First sign of Chicago.
Just past 95th street on I-90.

Halloween

10.29.11 - Atlanta, Georgia - Readers meet Drunken Debauchery, adult Halloween's favorite bedfellow. It's cousin, Spectacularly Irreverent also made an appearance (see: dead Quaddafi costumes that beg equal parts applause and the question, "too soon?").

Anyway, I went out to shoot a Halloween party for Spiral Entertainment at the Park Tavern just east of Midtown. The building quickly filled up, packed with people competing for the $1000 top costume prize. The music was hoping and the booz was flowing.

Below are the highlights.

-Will

Dancing sumo.
Peeping Tom and James Van der Beek?
I believe my exact words were, "Bite her! It'll be great!"
Yep.