OK, seriously, this is like the BIGGEST news I have heard all week… are you kidding me?! A movie?! THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!

This was my absolute favorite book growing up (I think I have gone through 3 copies in my lifetime…) and I never get sick of it! I LOVE the illustrations, and the storyline is just so absurd that you simply can’t help but feel like a kid when you’re reading it! 

I was also checking out Apple’s website for the “Where the Wild Things Are” trailor…(yet another children’s favorite)…. sadly, I have a confession to make… 

…I’ve never read the book… *gasp*   The movie looks amazing, and I am SO glad they are using costumes and puppeteering rather than CGI… I admit CGI always LOOKS more realistic, but maybe thats just it… maybe with puppeteering and costumes… there is a sense of real organic life, and that it ISN’T perfect… but thats what makes it FEEL real… Jim Henson really was one in a million. (not sure who is doing the puppeteering for WTWTA, but give me a holla if you know!) In any case, I can’t wait to go to BOTH of these movies! Who wants to come with me!? :)

Thanks all for now, have a great weekend everyone!

Michael

so… a good friend of mine text messaged me yesterday with the following message:

“3 months from today and you will be 30″

…I didn’t have the energy to drive out to Calgary and smack him. (Does FedEx offer this as a service?)

I got to thinking after that, that I’m actually not scared of turning 30. In fact, I’m kinda thrilled! Is this normal? Its a BIT scary, but exhilarating at the same time! I bet it will get a little more REAL once I start typing this out lol… I remember turning 25 was MORTIFYING…26, 27, 28, 29….not too bad (well now that I am typing these ages out back to back, it IS kind of an eye opener…)..

30. Thirty. Thurrrrrrdy. Dirty 30? 13 going on 30? Will I still be on ‘this’ side of ‘the hill’? Am I already at the top and just about to spiral down the roller coaster track in a chaotic blur of blood-curdling screams?

30. wow. 

Thanks Ben. Thanks for the random text message….Remember, you’re time comes up one month after mine… 30 dude, 30. THIRTY. Not 29. 

Below are 2 photos of me when I was clearly younger (with my sister, Hillory). When I was NOT 30. See my smiles?! The FURTHEST thing from my head in these two shots I PROMISE YOU was ‘I wonder what life will be like at 30?’ (for the record, my fashion sense back then was ASTONISHING! The sweater on the left said ‘The Kid’, and the brown ‘velvet?’ (yes velvet) jumpsuit (yes jumpsuit) on the right has Big Bird on it. Boo-yah.)

30. Pass the A5-35.

I finally did it! I got a new blog! Slightly bigger photos, slightly cleaner…basically the same thing as the old blog, but now it smells a bit newer. :P

Be sure to update your Google Readers and your RSS’s and your “Internets” (thanks to George W. for THAT little gem!).

I’m really happy with the new blog and I want to give a huge shout-out to the gang at Tofurious for doing such a fantastic job! I had a chance to meet them at WPPI in February and they are Awesome to the power of 10!

To celebrate the Grand Opening of the new blog, I am proud to show these photos of my good friend Randy. He is really all that, and a bag of chips. Seriously, take a look. This really is how he rolls…ALL the time. :) Hope you like the photos!

Michael

Don’t forget to change your clocks ahead 1 hour tonight!!! (unless of course you live somewhere where this doesn’t apply to you…then this would just be weird, and would cause a lot of problems. The End.)

:)

The Event:  Dining Out For Life

On Thursday, March 12, 2009 thousands will fill their plates to fight AIDS.

Over 200 restaurants from Whistler to White Rock and into the Valley will join the fight against AIDS by donating 25 percent of their food revenue from meals sold during this important event.

For a complete PDF list of participating restaurants in the Lower Mainland BC area, please click here!

As well, Sumac Ridge Estate Winery will donate one dollar from every bottle purchased in BC at restaurants AND liquor stores during the month of March and Stella Artois will donate $1 from every sale in Dining Out For Life participating restaurants on March 12!

All money raised will go to A Loving Spoonful and Friends For Life, Lower Mainland charities supporting local people living with AIDS.

Greetings everyone! I am pleased to announce that for the month of March I will be offering a special on all Portrait Sessions!

The Base Portrait Package special will include:

- *1 hour photoshoot for your choice of (actors headshots, family, maternity/newborn, engagement, highschool seniors, pets) 
- unlimited photos taken 
- unlimited wardrobe changes

- unlimited locations (within time allotted)
- approx 75-100 High Resolution images on CD (color corrected, basic retouching)
- additional 10 Final Retouched images on CD, ready for print

$200 tax included (approx. $400 value + tax)

limited bookings and days offered, please call 778-878-4531 or email me for more information.

* if photosession can take place in White Rock, I will add an additional 1 hour to the session.
** Session must be purchased in March 2009 in order to receive this special, however the session may take place between March 3rd 2009 and April 30th 2009.