The Ceremony was today with the Justice of the Peace in Nick’s back yard. The party starts tomorrow. I think we are finally going to have a taste of Xeng’s Mother’s famous Rice Whiskey. Couple shots below…

Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.

This guy wins. The end. Chicago, not a week later.

I just took this picture.

I think we can say that our house warming party was an incredible success. No one died, the cops only showed up once, and we only had one leaker.

Alice’s Birthday!
June 2010

So here we are, in the new place on the isthmus, and the time seems to be flying. Some projects are behind us, with many more ahead. It is going to be an interesting summer.

Everything should be done by this weekend when our lovely roommate Alice is throwing her 50’s themed birthday party which we are hijacking into a housewarming party. Hopefully the landlord won’t mind what I have done with the place, but more on that later.

I have a ton of pictures from old adventures that I hope to have in the gallery as well as some shots of the place up this week, so check back. I should also have the business web pages up hopefully in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for those. Ian has some reclaimed art that made it into a Habitat for Humanity show, which I had the honor of photographing and that will be up as well.

Really cool when matched with some longer exposures.

You can see more on the groups flickr page here.

Damn, looks like everyone is posting this…

This iconic photograph of James Dean was taken by Dennis Stock, who died this week at age 81.

About how my brain feels after 4 hours of CCNA studying. Ill get pics of the gear I am currently working on as well as photos from the last 4 months up. Wow, how I have neglected you…

My bad. The event was August 22nd, but I had sold my laptop and then we moved back to the Midwest two weeks later. I finally got these pictures recovered off of the extra laptop drive and processed. Working with these photos made me miss Portland even more. How long will I go before I ever see a random naked cyclist riding around the block on my way to the grocery store? Like everything else in Portland, this event was full of crazies expressing themselves constructively. No one died that I know of, but the ambulance did put on quite a few miles. Check out the gallery bellow.

Soapbox Derby,
August 2009