Dr. Horrible Sing-Along Blog plus a last wedding post

I'm falling behind in so many things right now, so I likely won't Blather again after today until I've had a chance to catch up.



Before I make my last wedding post, I have to thank Kim Phelan for pointing me to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which was written by Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy, Firefly and other great shows) and Maurissa Tancharoen. The three act series was produced on a shoestring budget (financed out of his own pocket) over six days during the writers' strike. Whedon says he wanted to show that there are other creative outlets apart from traditional television.

The first two acts are now online, and the third will be posted this weekend. Each act is about 18 minutes along. The site got so much traffic on its opening day that the servers crashed; the site was apparently getting 200,000 hits per hour.

Each act is available from iTunes for $2 and a "season pass" for all three episodes costs $4. After the download period, the videos will be taken offline and the series will be released as a DVD.

I -love- this series so far. A ton of entertainment and great songs packed into a very short time. I love the characters. The writing is brilliant. Jeff and I plan to buy the DVD, which is supposed to be packed with extras. We want to do whatever we can support this project; hopefully Joss Whedon will create more like it.

Anyway, do check out Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

But back to my last wedding report post...



As I mentioned earlier on, my photo shoot with Erin and Rand just after the ceremony was cut short because of rain and a grumpy security guard. I managed to take quite a few photos in those 12 minutes, however. You can see some of these in my Flickr set, tagged with '12 min.'

As we hurried from one photo shoot location to another, I was tickled by the reaction of passersby. I do the same thing myself when I see a bride in her wedding finery on the street. Erin was especially radiant because she was beaming pretty much the whole time.

Smiling back, strangers called out their congratulations as we passed; it was truly a fairy tale moment.



Jeff and I left shortly before 10 (I was dead tired) and walked back to the hotel with Allison, John, Jodi and James. I didn't expect to see Rand and Erin again until the post-wedding breakfast but I was wrong.

At about 3 a.m., we were shocked out of sleep by a blaring alarm. A voice on the public loudspeaker announced that there was an emergency, and everyone needed to proceed to the nearest stairwell and...then the announcement was cut off. We waited, but there was no follow-up announcement.

Jeff called security, and we were told that we needed to come downstairs. We both figured it was a false alarm but decided to go down anyway to be safe.



We ran into Erin and Rand plus some others from the wedding. Above: Dan, Jeff and Rand. The blurriness is because my camera lens from fogging up because of the humidity. We found out later from Walter (who had stayed in the hotel with Allison, John, Jodi and James, and watched the action from his hotel window) that Luis and Alisa had gone outside as well, but we never ran into them.

Despite the rude interruption to their wedding night, Erin and Rand took the unexpected event in stride. Rand was sleepily cracking jokes, and Erin went to get a parking pass from the front desk. Some wedding couples would have been throwing a fit, but Erin and Rand just hugged each other and were being...well...newlywedCUTE. :-)

It turns out one of the guests from another wedding was smoking in the elevator.



The next morning, we dropped by the Bridal Suite for freshly baked bagels and other goodies, coffee and juice. The cookies in the above were baked by Rand's mom; they were amazing and she's promised to send me the recipe.



Above: One of Rand's nephews cuddles in his lap. During the weekend, I loved seeing Rand with his nephews, and how affectionate they are. In fact, I enjoyed seeing both Erin and Rand with their families, the affection and love a joy to witness.


Erin and her dad.

Eden captures the feeling perfectly in her blog entry, "I thought the ceremony was very moving. What I noticed most was the feeling in the room. I have never been in a place so filled with love. Just pouring out from everyone toward Rand & Erin and filling the space with so much positive energy that it was nearly overwhelming."



Walter is continuing to upload wedding photos; he's up to the rehearsal dinner on Friday night.



Photo by Walter

Below: chatting with Erin and Vicki.



Photo by Walter

Here's a photo of what I gave Erin and Rand for a wedding present:



I filled the book with photos, stories and poetry for the newlyweds, self-published as a hardcover book through Blurb.com. I was pretty happy with the quality, and will be using Blurb for other projects...possibly a Waiting For Frodo comic compilation, for instance. The service offers different sizes of book as well as paperback as well as hardcover.



You can find more of my wedding photos in my Flickr set, plus Walter, Allison, Jennifer, and Dave also have uploaded photos from the event.

Below: Cora and Star Trek Red Shirt Ninja Doll recover after a wild night of partying in Buffalo.



To those who have encouraged me in my photography. I was especially touched by Vixy's comment:

Debbie Debbie DEBBIE. You are an AMAZING photographer!

I am absolutely serious when I say that the running-from-the-rain photo is the best wedding photo I've ever seen.

You have such an eye for Moments. Like the shot of Erin in the car, or of Erin's dad in the hallway... you have an eye for photos that clearly have a story embedded in them, and that tell that story at a glance. Or photos that make the viewer feel like we're looking in on a special scene, an intimate moment. Your photos make us feel close to the subject, like we're there, not just looking at posed models. That's what your photos have, really-- intimacy.

You also have an eye for *selecting* the photos; Jeff Bohnhoff recently said to me something to the effect that good photography usually involves taking 99 bad photos and one good one, and picking out the good one. :) However one says it, you have a gift for that too. You pick out the ones that show everyone to their best advantage.

...and I gush. But seriously. Don't ever say that your photos aren't good enough!

Many thanks to Vixy and others who have encouraged me in my photography. I still feel like a complete amateur, fumbling over settings and composition, but I'm gradually getting better.

I'll get more practice when I take my camera to photograph Allison's and John's new kitten tonight. :-)

Have a great weekend, everyone!





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