the shiny penny: photography

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March 14, 2009

philanthropy and photography

today my mother and i went and helped out and an event held by a non-profit organization. the organization itself helps high risk youth and gives them a safe place to stay during the day, along with food, clothing and life skills classes (amongst others). it is a great organization to say the least and today they were having a bbq for many of the teens and young adults that come to the center. we prepared food and then passed it out. they also had two circus performers, one on stilts and one blowing fire. so cool and got some great pics. it felt so great helping out and i am hoping to make it a regular volunteer gig for myself. i might as well do something good since i have so much spare time right now.

here are some cool pics from today:

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February 28, 2009

weekend!

happy saturday blog universe! hope you like my new look. it is temporary but it feels better than the christmas. i love christmas but it was getting to be a bit ridiculous that my blog was still chrismafied in almost march. hopefully i will have a new pretty blog design soon (hint hint sissy).

anyhoo....there are some things in life that are seriously unacceptable: colored leopard print, sharon stone dressing like a 19 year old, mullets and mom jeans. there is just no excuse. the other day i saw a woman in mom jeans and yesterday i saw a guy with a mullet. not ok.

took this the other day

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February 23, 2009

pre-oscar fun

so this weekend - prior to the oscars i had some serious fun. first, my friend j and i went down to marina del rey and had lunch and took some pictures on the pier. i love how some of them turned out so check out below to see them.

in addition to the cool things we saw some not-so-cool things. first i saw this guy that i will call purple douche. look at his shorts, his t-shirt and his hat. he just screams douchebaggery.

while out picking up coffee the other day i saw this wonderful man. now, he was over 6 feet tall and he was essentially wearing purple booty shorts. totally inappropriate but obviously hilarious.

saturday night my two friends and i went out to a bar at a hotel. this hotel happened to be where the weinstein pre-oscar party was. it was amazing. there were people everywhere and it was a beautiful hotel. the party was upstairs and obviously guarded but we happened to have the best seat in the house. our table was in the corner facing the hotel driveway so we saw every person get out of their car and get back into their car. it made for some great moments. but the best part came when we were coming back from the bathroom and mickey rourke was leaving. he was kind enough to stop and take a picture so my friend and i both got one. i told him how much i enjoyed the wrestler so he 'choked' me in my photo. it's pretty great. and little did i know that shortly before the photo mickey had won the independent spirit award for best actor. if only he had won an oscar too.