So last Friday I went half-deaf for a good cause.  I had the opputunity to shoot NovemBeard For The Cure here in Kent, Ohio.  8 Bands.  Loud bands.  But, NovemBeard for the Cure is raising money for the Blood and Cancer ward of Akron Children’s Hospital in honor of a little girl named Ellie Sutton.  In 2007, 13-year-old Ellie was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma in her pelvis, tail bone, and lower spine. She underwent numerous chemotherapy and radiation treatments to help cure her cancer, and after an entire year of these treatments, miraculously found that her cancer was in remission.

The bands included in the 2008 NovemBeard For The Cure where:
Drop To Zero
Amplexus
State Your Cause
Drenalin
Of One Blood
Wake the Lion
Into Enemy Hands
Karate Bullfighter

Photos?  Ya I got some, any sales from the prints I’m donating back to the cause as well or you can donate directly here.

I stumbled upon this today and had to share.

Well if you haven’t seen it you should. Pretty much a camera and puppies as a live stream. Get your cuteness quota in for the day. Better hurry though, they will be adopted at some point.

So yesterday I drove to the heart of Amish country, Holmes County Ohio. I was on shoot to photograph The A & D Buggy Shop.  Daniel, the owner, operator and pretty much everythign else buys, sells, and most of all restores old horse-drawn buggies and sleighs.  They don’t come cheap either.  Once restored they cost anywhere from $4000 to $8000 and up, but for a reason.  He puts more then 250 hours into each and his work is incredibly detailed.  His craftmanship is something that just has to been shown, which is why I was there.  I pulled out the lights for this assignment and hopefully I’ll get cover shot from my shoot.  Anyway, here’s a few from the shoot.

I spent today in Perrysville, Ohio on the Ayers Dairy Farm. I was there for the Ohio Farm Bureau magazine Our Ohio. They are doing a story on the family and how they feed all the great people in this country.  Anyway, here’s a few cow photos.   Moo.

This is pretty cool, you can build a camera with an old scanner, some foam core and tape.  Check this out:

I have to say that the day after Tuesday’s election had some impressive newspaper front pages.  Want to see, well, most of them?  This page has a huge collection of them.  Some from overseas as well.  Paint me impressed.

This time Bruce Springsteen joined him, so ya, there’s a few music photos in there also

A few more photos form yesterday, I also just figured out how to embed an entire gallery from PhotoShelter, the photo archive site I store many (and more soon) on.

I got to photograph presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama today.  It was fun and great to be there.  I wish I could have stayed for the whole speech, but I had to get back to Kent St. to teach class.  Here’s a few photos though.

Woody and Lisa

So Woody and Lisa got married last weekend and I was honered to be asked to be in the wedding.  That being the case I couldn’t offically take photos at their wedding, but I had my camera with me and managed to get around 600 photos taken.

Here’s my photos

Well, I found a few site that maybe show just how important good photography is, and well how bad portrait photos where. In all their glory check out..

We have Lasers

Even better?

Sexy People

Weezer’s “Troublemaker” broke a bunch of Guinness World Records, fun video and song I have to say.

Largest Air Guitar Ensemble
The largest air guitar ensemble consisted of 233 participants and took place during during the filming of the music video “Troublemaker” by the band Weezer in Los Angeles, California, USA on 21 August 2008.

Largest Game of Dodgeball
The largest game of dodgeball consisted of two teams of 50 people (100 total) who played against each other during the filming of the music video “Troublemaker” by the band Weezer in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 21 August 2008.

Longest Guitar Hero World Tour Marathon
The longest Guitar Hero World Tour Marathon lasted for 10 hr 12 min 54 sec during the filming of the music video “Troublemaker” by the band Weezer in Los Angeles, California,USA, on 21 August 2008.

Most People in a Custard Pie Fight
The most people in a custard pie fight was 120 during the filming of the music video “Troublemaker” by the band Weezer in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 21 August 2008.

Most People Riding on a Skateboard
The most people riding on a skateboard is 22 during the filming of the music video “Troublemaker” by the band Weezer in Los Angeles, California, USA, on 21 August 2008.

Ok, at some point I’ll get back to putting some photos back on this blog.  Right now I’m getting ready to fill in for 3 weeks at Kent State teaching Photo Technology, should be fun. Anyway, Tina Fey still rules…

You can listen to Kings of Leon’s newest album now on Last.fm.  I have to say their site has terrible usablity, but the music is there, so go listen, it’s worth it.  Might be their best album to date.