This week at work I finally found my night life. Images from The Weakerthans at The Triple Rock Social Club:


The Weakerthans put on a fabulous show to a sold out all ages crowd.
We also hit up the Turf Club in St. Paul - while the music was a bit of a bust ... I did find a Blatz Attack:

Besides good music and great beer - it was one of those rare nights when I got paid to go to work with excellent friends. I would like to send a very special thank you to Dan and Michael at Aesthetic Apparatus for allowing us to invade their studio and for taking us out on the town.

Thanks Michael and Dan! You're the best.

Quite some time ago I shot behind the scenes on a commercial production in town. The images were for a website designed to allow you to virtually beat down one of the poker world's biggest brats.


The brat moniker is no joke. Log on. Beat the brat. Please. He's earned it.
For more on this shoot and on the brat, watch the Kare 11 Extra this Thursday at 10:00pm. (MN Only).

Congratulations to my sister who got married this weekend in Minneapolis! While I didn't shoot the wedding... I did shoot their engagement photos a while back:


And, managed to snap a couple at the rehearsal:

Dad in church.


My beautiful sis and I at the groom's dinner.

Mom + Sis at dinner.

This week at work: Canoes!




When not riding against the current in a shallow river on a tippy canoe full of thousands of dollars worth of gear - we finagled the rocks. That is where we found this guy:

This week at work we were shooting Night Life in the Twin Cities. Let me first start off by explaining that, my night life, if you can call it that, typically consists of a trip to the dive bar across the street - where the beer is eight dollars a pitcher, the popcorn is free, the juke box hosts a variety of Johnny Cash and the same man has been coming every day at noon for 25 years and every day he drinks until he falls asleep at the bar.

My dive bar, however, is presumably not quite tourism worthy - and the night life we did cover was highly unfamiliar territory. To the wealth of inebriated folk who called me 'Paparazzi' with either a fit of uproarious laughter or a smug grimace filled with disdain - thanks. Thank you very much. I hope the next day you grasped a faint memory of having been captured on camera as the drunkest, most intolerable version of yourself. And, also, there are no paparazzi in this town -- let's all take a moment and be thankful for that.

To the inebriated underclassman in Dinkytown who repeatedly obstructed the view from my lens and then loudly exclaimed to your friends, "She's got a rough job..." I must respond, "Yes, at times it can be difficult. It is a lot of hard work. But, at the end of the day - I get paid to take pictures for a living and that is pretty rad." ("Oh, yeah - and also, your backpack full of Budweiser is not as inconspicuous as you might think.)

On to some pictures...





...and one from behind the scenes:

This week at work we headed to the Classic Car Cruise-In on Main Street in Hastings. The majority of people in the quaint town were quite lovely.




I'd like to take a moment tell you that my father is simply awesome. Thanks Dad, for lending the crew your spectacular car and for being the best dolly grip in the business.

Behind the scenes with Dad, the crew and Dad's '66 Mustang. (Photo: Steve Barone)

Hi-tech set.

Last weekend I explored the Brainerd International Raceway for the Muscle Car Shootout. There were lots of cars... and drunk people. Presumably the drunk people were not in cars but rather they were driving four wheelers.

(* Disclaimer: While there were many intoxicated attendees at the track - neither of the individuals pictured below were drunk. At least to the best of my knowledge.)

Several years ago, when the Ten Second Film Festival was in its infancy, I collaborated with John Catron on the classic film: Haircut in the Dark. Enjoy.



For more collaborations with John Catron - check out both the Futureman and Global Warming Links.