Been looking forward to this for awhile...

The trailer for Water for Elephants. I absolutely adored the book and am hoping that the movie will do it justice. Seems a little more love-triangly than the book, but there is so much pretty to look at. Hal Holbrook already made me cry. Not as hard as he did in Sons of Anarchy...but close.

La Momma Morta

this will forever remind me of being 15 years old and laying in an uncomfortable bed in Malaga, Spain with my headphones on and the soundtrack to Philadelphia playing in my portable tape deck. and I rewound and rewound and rewound and listened to this song all through the night.

Yeah I've been a dork for a long time.

Maria Callas - La Momma Morta

I literally have ZERO skills when it comes to self-portrait taking. Not only does living in a basement provide the absence of light necessary to produce an image, but it was so bright OUTside today that it looks like I was sitting on the surface of the sun. By the time I hit the timer, focused (or so I thought) and parked my ass on my piano bench (that was sinking into the grass) I was lucky if the top of my stupid head made it in the frame. Plus my camera was balanced on top of my set of Twilight novels, my A&P book and lab manual, an old foot rest and the wooden bench Brandon's grandpa made.

PorOr

had a great mini-break to Portland, Oregon for a friend's wedding at the end of last month. we'd never been there before. alas, we didn't have time to take the Twilight tour (ha, no seriously) but we did do a bunch of thrift store browsing/shopping, way waaaay too much eating, and took in a lovely ceremony in the woods.

there is a light that never goes out

you can find some interesting things in Beacon while walking to get a sandwich.

That mural on Bowery and Houston that I keep posting about has changed again. From Keith Haring to Os Gemeos and now...Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano.

Fall Creek Falls

Back to school. The break was too short but I managed to fill it up with some great times with great friends. My semi-yearly-regular hop to Tennessee was this time punctuated with a brief but exciting frolic up the side of a waterfall.















It was so dry that we could hop-scotch across it and right up to the edge to look over.

Bank Square Coffeehouse

I have some of my photos hanging in the Bank Square Coffeehouse in Beacon! It's a great little cafe with great coffee and beautiful artwork year-round. Stop by and check it out if you're in the area. My stuff will be up til the end August.

Electric Windows 2010

Last weekend marked the return of the Electric Windows installation to Beacon.

"30 artists will converge in Beacon, NY to create live artwork and have their work installed on the exterior of a 19th century factory building. "

I stopped by later on in the afternoon after most of the wall murals had already been completed and a majority of the canvases were near completion.

Of course after everyone un-converged, this is what my town looked like on Wednesday afternoon at 5pm.

bunch of stuff

i'm behind on posting for a variety of reasons, so in no particular order, here's a bunch of stuff!!

starting with the os gemeos mural on Houston St. it's since been covered up by another...



and it's pouting because it still wants to play...



a wonderful visit to the wonderful Alice in Wonderland statue in (crowded) Central park with the wonderful Cristina...this spot in particular held many, many memories.



a very important date...



the best birthday celebration...100% homemade with love.

I updated my website a bit. added menus to the portfolio pages and i did it all by myself. PROUD.

SUCKERS

This is the first single from their album, Wild Smile, but for real the whole album is SO MUCH FUN!!!

Bobby Long at the Highline Ballroom

Bobby Long is so yummy and he sings and writes so well and his band was AWESOME. I can't believe it's taken me this long to post these.

Works in Progress

A week or so ago I spent the day with my friends Anne and Rob chasing the sun and looking for breaks in the rain where we could take some engagement photos that could be used for their Save-the-Date. They're big into nature so it was a win/win for me :)

down with bp

oil reaches louisiana shores

amazingly upsetting photos from the Gulf of Mexico

Santa Monica

a few photos from my too-quick trip to LA over the weekend. lovely hotel on the beach made it ok that the weather was too chilly to go to the beach. ;p

Brittany and Jonah's Wedding

I had the pleasure of attending a friend's wedding in Seattle at the end of April and was graciously asked to help photograph the festivities, which was a tremendous honor. Thankfully I was more serving as a back-up for the unbelievably talented Natalia Kutsepova, so the pressure was not quite as intense. it was thrilling nonetheless.

Seattle

an amazing time was had in Seattle last week. Words cannot describe. Perhaps pictures can.

click and enjoy the brillance

Kaada - "No You Don't"

Thom Yorke and Atoms for Peace

A few of my favorite photos from the night one of the Atoms for Peace shows at Roseland Ballroom in NYC. Taken with my droid believe it or not. Not bad, huh? Grainy Thom is good.

turkey vultures

I made Brandon pull over when we saw about a dozen of them on the lawn of the old Butterfield Hospital. I crossed the street and approached them, but of course they took off when I got too close. I've never seen that many together in one place before and I haven't seen them there since.

redesigned website

Christine Wright Photography

it's up! it needs a ton more photos but at least the format is done and it's just a matter of bulking up and moving stuff around within the framework of the site. it's such a satisfying load of my mind to have finally worked it out. I went with Wix, a flash website builder that has loads of user-friendly templates to chose from. It was still a challenge and the profanities flowed like wine while I was doing it, but hey, if I can figure it out, anyone can.

Princeps

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Originally uploaded by missbloom2000

st. mark's bookshop

searching for a theme

I've been so busy lately that I need a corkboard in my brain to put all my random sticky-note thoughts. But I'll just put them here so I can look through them later.

60 sources of inspiration

Photoshop Tutorials

Anne Frank photo competition

Jump start your inspiration

Daily photo blogs

check out these awesome photos of 1970's NYC

this one is my favorite



that mural was recently covered up by an amazing os gemeos piece



see more on my flickr here