it’s been a super eventful week, and i have lots to share, so i’m gonna shove most of it into this post, and i’ll try to keep each thing brief so it doesn’t drag on too long…
first of all – bad movie bingo has an official website! when i first posted about our game i had planned to just have it for sale through pete’s site, but then on monday i impulsively bought badmoviebingo.net and badmoviebingogame.com and built the site! it’s simple, but i think it does the job. and the list of recommended movies will keep on growing!
this week was our annual week of fun, or something – our 4 year anniversary was monday, then my birthday was wednesday, and then v-day yesterday… so we always try to do lots of fun stuff or go somewhere, and this year was great! pete’s “weekend” is always wednesday/thursday so we got to hang out around portland all day on my bday and then we took a day trip to astoria on thursday! but, i’m getting ahead of myself, back to monday… besides building that website, i also did this:
resulting in:
except not quite… the color in those photos is exactly what i was going for, but in real life (or in most lighting conditions) it’s hot pink. oh well. i get lots of stares from kids and babies, and the kitten loves it. next time i’ll go a shade darker and hopefully it’ll turn out how it looks in those photos. but i’m having fun with it! not what i wanted, but i did want something new and different, and that’s what i got! oh and, there’s another sneak peek in those pictures at the knitting pattern i’ll be releasing in a few days!
so then, on my bday, we had a great day – cricket cafe for breakfast (i highly recommend my favorite breakfast ever from there: hash browns topped with veggie sausage, veggie gravy and olives+mushrooms or your favorite veggies/etc) and then we saw coraline 3d! so great! amazing art! i’m so glad we had the chance to see it in 3d! then there was some good thrift store shopping and zine shopping at microcosm. and then we met up with a bunch of rad friends for (tofu) hot dogs and trivia at zach’s! want some linkage? thanks homero+david, caitlin, elif, vivian, emily, and all our blogless friends (kate, woods, simon, patrick…) – and we missed you star!! it was a great bday, filled with fun times, good friends, yummy junk food, and cheap beer!
next: astoria! on thursday we finally drove out to the (almost) coast for the first time! we mostly just walked around and i took tonnnns of photos (see the 60ish digitals i’ve put on flickr here), and we stopped into a bookstore where i found an awesome natural dyeing book from ’83 for only $4! and we ate some super delicious mac n cheese at a rad little coffeeshop with stumptown coffee!
and we walked all over the place and i took photos…
and then when we couldn’t walk anymore we went to the fort george brewery and pete got me a stout sampler (feb is stout month!) and we got to hang out with shannon and opal, that was fun! then we invented a new game: speed scrabble! no rules, no points, just fast. we created new and exciting words like nuntv (a cable channel with nothing but nuns) and kantcore (super into the philosopher kant).
so then another cool thing about the day was that i shot some film! i hadn’t done that in so long! i shot a few polaroids, nothing worth showing, and partial rolls of 35mm b+w in my canonet and 120 color in my holga. so i have a question for portlanders… anyone know of a photo lab (preferably in southeast) that develops medium format film? ideally, i’d love to find a lab that’s not crazy good quality (and therefore expensive) but that does medium format c-41 for cheap-ish, and if it also sells b+w developing chemicals that would be fantastic. so that’s another question, anyone know a place i can get photo chemisty in portland (east side)? once i find all these things, hopefully i’ll start shooting more film again!
oh and lastly, i’ve been playing around with stop motion a little! i got myself a wireless remote for my d80 and i did some fun experimenting the other day, but it’s not ready to share yet. i will show you this little video i made of the river waves on the astoria coast:
Lee Does Stuff 
well….if you can’t find anything cheap and fast and in Southeast, there’s always Blue Moon Camera in St. John
‘s, which only fits the description in that they develop medium format film. Cool shop though.
Also, I love the cricket cafe, love your new hair, and you reminded me that I want to see Coraline. Thanks!
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well….if you can’t find anything cheap and fast and in Southeast, there’s always Blue Moon Camera in St. John
‘s, which only fits the description in that they develop medium format film. Cool shop though.
Also, I love the cricket cafe, love your new hair, and you reminded me that I want to see Coraline. Thanks!
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a- Love the hair – wish I had the guts to do it!
b- I want to move to Portland – now.
c- Love the fingerless gloves – the colors are great!
I enjoy reading your blog and watching you create. You are an inspiration!
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Your hair looks awesome! Your week sounds fun, and the trip to Astoria sounds awesome! And I LOOOOOOVE Shannon! So glad you got to see her.
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Your hair looks awesome! Your week sounds fun, and the trip to Astoria sounds awesome! And I LOOOOOOVE Shannon! So glad you got to see her.
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Oh my gosh, the hair is AMAZING. I love how it looks with your glasses. It makes me miss my hot pink hair.
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Oh my gosh, the hair is AMAZING. I love how it looks with your glasses. It makes me miss my hot pink hair.
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Love the hair!
Gotta get to Astoria!
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Love the hair!
Gotta get to Astoria!
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Awesome locks Lee!!
I’ve been itching to go to Astoria and scout out all the Goonies locations! Did ya find any treasure chests on your adventure?
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Awesome locks Lee!!
I’ve been itching to go to Astoria and scout out all the Goonies locations! Did ya find any treasure chests on your adventure?
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Love the hair! I used to have my hair hot pink for years when it was super short. Now it’s long and boring… Sigh… I want pink hair now! 😉 haha
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Love the hair! I used to have my hair hot pink for years when it was super short. Now it’s long and boring… Sigh… I want pink hair now! 😉 haha
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i don’t know about developing chemicals but this is the only place i take my film:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/quick-stop-photo-portland
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i don’t know about developing chemicals but this is the only place i take my film:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/quick-stop-photo-portland
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Hey!
I just found your website, and i think i love it. And your pink hair is just so cool. Now i am thinking i could go the same color although i am 31 and should be a grown up ny now but who cares 🙂
Thanks for the bad movie bingo-link, looks hilarious!
/A new fan from northern Sweden
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Hey!
I just found your website, and i think i love it. And your pink hair is just so cool. Now i am thinking i could go the same color although i am 31 and should be a grown up ny now but who cares 🙂
Thanks for the bad movie bingo-link, looks hilarious!
/A new fan from northern Sweden
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I’m late with this, but have you checked out Citizens photo? Inner SE 7th
http://www.citizensphoto.com/
I’m busily at work on a Vortex in Silk Garden…
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I’m late with this, but have you checked out Citizens photo? Inner SE 7th
http://www.citizensphoto.com/
I’m busily at work on a Vortex in Silk Garden…
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a- Love the hair – wish I had the guts to do it!b- I want to move to Portland – now.c- Love the fingerless gloves – the colors are great!I enjoy reading your blog and watching you create. You are an inspiration! Renae
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