Sunday, February 27, 2005
4 flowers
Love this painting that I came across on flickr...makes me think spring is just 'round the corner, despite the 8 inches of snow due in NYC tomorrow night...
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Gimme some Rainbow Fancy! Oh, wait, I already got some...
Oh, who am I kidding?! Of course we meant to be couply and cutesy, and how better to do it than in a photo booth in San Francisco's Japan Town that spits out trading cards festooned with lovely phrases like "Lovely Angel" and "Rainbow Fancy?" For just $4!? I'm already drooling over the cash we're gonna reel in from eBay in a few years. And hey, photo naysayers, our camera primping and posing is nothin' compared to the "print club" obsessed kids in Japan...or compared to the photofreak I was during my 15 months there. Spent most of the money I earned teaching English cordoned off behind pastel curtains as the cameras clicked all around me and my friends. And to relive that joy now, all it takes is a flight from NYC to San Francisco--whoohoooo!
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Strip Club Take Two (or Five)
Okay, we're addicts. But what else to do at the beach in February? And aren't you dying to know why those two photos are missing? Hah! As if I'd tell.
Strip Club
From Adam, "Lauren and I took these shots on separate occasions and by ourselves, yet when you stack them side by side they strangely seem to be a cohesive unit. Coincidence? You decide...." D'ya like the cap on him? So cute, no? But speaking of style, aren't my bangs SO third grade? Need some help! Please send your style ideas to lauren_needs_a_new_do@yahoo.com. Thank you so much.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Underwear: The NYC Street Find
Was walking back to Adam's place one snowy night a few weeks ago when I came across a huge empty box for these plastic lovelies by the side of the road in Park Slope. Couldn't resist ripping off this scintillating side panel (though it was quite a struggle being the strangely super-thick cardboard that it was). I don't know if the front, um, bulge is clearly visible in this scanned image, but it's hilarious in real life, take my word. I mean, is that bulge, um, FULL in this airbrushed photo? And hey, if you wear these, don't mean to offend...I can commiserate, kind of. After all, this is how I feel if I'm forced to wear a pad due to lack of tamponage.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Year of the American Idol Munk...Chipmunk, that is!
Alvin, Simon and Theodore announced today that the former American Idol contender, Aa'isha Jackson would be joining the former trio for what will prove to be part of a large comeback by the band who got their start in 1958 with the holiday hit "The Chipmunk Song".
That same year the boys made their television debut on the The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 they released the hit "Alvin For President" followed by "Alvin's Harmonica" and "Alvin's Orchestra". CBS launched The Chipmunk's first television show, "The Alvin Show" in 1961. The boys got another show in the 1980's, but that quickly faded leaving the 1990's pretty much devoid of these furry fellas. Currently, FOX Pictures is developing a fully 3D animated Chipmunks feature film to be released in the next year or two.
If you were lucky enough to catch Aa'Shia Jackson on last night's American Idol epsisode, then you'll understand how perfectly her squeaky voice will mesh with the signature Chipmunk sound. This gal couldn't possibly channel another animal finer than that of the chipmunk. She has that slight warble and high pitch tone that audiences fell in love with over 40 years ago.
There is speculation that Aa'Shia voluntarily requested a pink slip from American Idol on the advice of her agent and at the request of the Chipmunks to join their group. While the rest of the room full of rejects was sobbing and falling all over themselves, there was no visible diapointment from Aa'Shia or her mother who had been previously adament that Aa'Shia would be crowned the next American Idol. Well mom, perhaps she still will be an American idol...
Alix at 31 (weeks!)
Alix will be my first friend to become a mother, and I couldn't be happier about it. She and her husband Nick rock(they're both geologists but no pun intended!) Their happiness is awe-inspiring. During a long, serious relationship talk a while back I told Alix that so many people our age are in relationships that take so much effort and energy, and are often just plain hard. She didn't really understand, in the best way possible. She said that with Nick, it's always been easy, quite struggle-free. And after being together for six years now, since falling in love on grad school rock climbing trips, she still looks at him and her heart jumps at how gorgeous and wonderful he is. Now that's love to aspire to!
And a funny little story involving me and my psychic abilities, which I haven't attempted to hone since giving up on aura-reading back in middle school when it only served to make me dizzy.
In an e-mail announcement Alix sent to friends back in October, she wrote:
"And by the way, for those of you that know Lauren, you know that she has got a rather keen intuition about things, sometimes to the point of being a bit scary. Well, just another example of that was that on the very day that we got pregnant, without even knowing that we were trying, I received an e-mail from Lauren that ended with:
p.s. hey, are you pregnant!? Just had a sudden instinct that perhaps you are....;)
Now, of course, it was another two weeks before we knew for sure, but I knew that was a good sign. I still think that is just hilarious. Now I am just waiting for Lauren to tell us whether it is a boy or a girl!"
Well, Alix, I think it's going to be a girl...
Ooh la la...the good life, times two
I love this photo of my pal Anneliese and her boyfriend Tony, taken a year ago during a visit to her mom's house in Wisconsin. Don't they look too chic for words? Heck, check out her shoes! That robe! Those glasses! Tony's cap! And what's not to love about the flowery-painting backdrop, awash in shadows?
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Flickr Find of the Day!
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Wow, love Seth Cohen's new look
Friday, February 04, 2005
yep. says it all.
Elmwooders
Gone
Simon's death still makes me gasp inside, and every few weeks I lay awake at night thinking about how this dear friend could have died a couple months before his 30th birthday. Or how couldn't he have died--is there something someone could have done to stop him from destroying himself?
In this photo we're at my birthday party in San Francisco, December 2002. It's surreal to look at photos of me in my (natural) blond days, especially photos with people who are no longer in my life. Makes me feel like I'm a very different person now...and yet, how much of me has changed?
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
What you see looking over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge, if you're a really good photographer
My Spanish pal Javier took this shot while he was living in the Bay Area last year.
I met Javier on an airport shuttle bus in London when I asked to borrow his cell phone because I was late to meet a friend. The screen shot on his phone? The Golden Gate Bridge. I'd just finished grad school at UC Berkeley, and he was relocating to Ireland from San Francisco. We only chatted for a half hour or so, but we stayed in touch and hung out last month when he and his folks came to New York City over New Year's. And he just won a Fulbright to attend business school in the U.S. next year...you go, Jav! Just goes to show, you never know where you're going to meet a new friend...
Genius older bro
In Oct. 2004 my older bro introduced the world (okay, residents of Cherry Hill, N.J., and proud friends & family) to Free Wheel, his first public commission. Pretty damn cool, huh? It's on the site of a community center that used to house a water mill and also served as a stop on the underground railroad. He can make you one, too, for $20,000 or so.
Oh, and he also entered the competition to design the Flight 93 Memorial in Somerset, PA. Check out his entry here.
It's #30-573, in the middle row on the far right.
The sketchiest guy I know
hah! I'm hilarious, I know. Adam did these a while back, and wooed me with them in an early e-mail exchange. (Yes, I met the lad online.) Is there anything sexier than a man who can draw?!
Mimi and MiLa: related, no?
Lauren & Laverne
My grandmother's 94--isn't she beautiful!? Took this photo in June 2004.
me & special K in Ocean City
Can't resist another niece photo...she IS the cutest thing in the world, right?
yes, I'm 27.
Have been photoboothing for more than 15 years now. Just 3 bucks and 3 minutes for endless bouts of viewing joy. Years from now, I'll look at this and think, "God, I was fun when I was young. What the hell's happened?"
And photobooth lighting has got to provide for the most flattering, zit-wiping-out imaging possible...the closest my photo'd skin will ever get to airbrushing...
bubblicious in brooklyn
