Vita.mn

I think it's time to blow the lid off the busyness that has been this summer, the non-postingness that has exploded on this website, and the skinny on what's going dizz-own in the Twin Cities since, well, Taylor almost scooped me on my own website yesterday. Can ya dig it?

First things first, I'm pleased to finally unveil and announce what I've been up to the past few months: say hello to Vita.mn! Any official description I'm going to have of the site will include words and phrases like, "sweeeeet", "bitchin'", and "Tiny Christian Horses" which is why I leave it to my partner in crime, Matt, to do all the talking for us. And Matt says...

Matt's articulateness makes a marked, non-use of the word 'bitchin'. This is why he's the editor. I am resigned to User Number 2, but, ya'know, Number 2 is always the brains behind the operation anyway. So that's basically a whole lot of tiny Christian horses to me.

I will definitely be filling everyone in on what vita.mn is, what's behind it, why you should visit it, and perhaps even a sneak peek in to the COMING-SOON! portions of the site (which, yes, there are many) in the next couple of-ish posts. Cuz, you know, we have a redesign to talk about around here too. And photography. And as many other geeky things as we've shared together in the past. Whatevs. It feels like we should have a celebratory rah-rah drink for this monumentous occasion but I fear all my readers have long since vanished to the photoblog where pictures are pretty and skin runneth over. No worries, I have some exciting news to announce there too. Just remember you heard the news that there will be news here first, sweet sopheava readers. Those Lumiere bitches are the last to get all the info.

Working on an Arts and Entertainment website as both web designer and photographer has its perks. Not only does my camera get to see, um, any number of things it didn't used to... but did you know there's all kinds of interesting things going on in the Twin Cities? Like, for real! I've lived here almost 5 years and had no idea there was more to photograph than just the Mississippi river and that spoon & cherry garbage. Passing along this sensitive information, gentle readers, is my moral duty. Plus I'm also paid for it. So that helps.

+ There's a Zombie Pub Crawl going on this Saturday. That's tomorrow folks! and it's somewhere in Northeast. Many thanks to Taylor for his complimentary posting prowess right here on sopheava.com yesterday... eeeeeeeeven if he was just trying to butter up both me *AND* my 2 remaining readers so we'd go to his pub crawl. Photographing drunk zombies sounds like a hoot which is why I will definitely be there. The only possible road-block is that it's in Northeast. Have I been to Northeast Minneapolis before? (Haha, kidding... sort of) If you see the red crumpler be sure to say hi.

+ The Renaissance Festival is going on this month, and if you can you believe it I am a Ren festival virgin. My camera won't be missing it this year.

+ And while this has nothing at all to do with vita.mn, it does in fact crack my shit up. Head over to hipster erotica for a good time baby. Watching you play old school NES ROMS on your iBook turns me on. HEY WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!

Have a few things up my sleeve for both sopheava.com *AND* vita.mn, a lot of which will be making their first appearances in the next couple of weeks. I'm so gonna be that person, if only for a moment, who says STAY TUNED!

So STAY TUNED!

PS, this post would be so much more fun if I had done it with a lisp.
PPS, I should add that if you're one of the early Saturday morning readers you'll find that vita.mn will be down for scheduled maintenance. But, you know, head on over anyway to check out how well duct tape and worn can play with web 2.0.