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It's been difficult to find time for dropping the updates around here, so let's do a little shooting from the hip action today, eh?

• The Spotitive opening was a blast. I had to work late so I missed a few of the early flickrites, to whom I sincerely apologize - would have loved seeing you guys and saying 'hi', but the rest of the evening was a big ol' party. It was great finally getting to meet a bunch of locals in person I had only known through websites and email. Emma Berg? Probably the cutest thing ever. Anyway... a few pics can be seen both on mplsart.com (click on the "09/29/06 Spotitive" gallery in left-most column) and on fellow flickrite Gabriel's photostream. Thank god those guys brought their cameras, cuz as you'll see in one of Gabriel's pics mine barely made it out of the bag and out from behind my back. Thanks to everyone who stopped in to say hi (except Spike, who was too shy to actually say hi ;-).
• I've been shooting up a storm the past couple of weeks. Last Saturday I had the pleasure of photographing Ironic Teachings, aka Leab, and his gorgeous family. He recently had a baby and asked me to hit him up with some cute baby photos. I don't know why I was at all worried because babies are probably the easiest thing ever to photograph. Ever. I mean, well, that is if you take about 300 pictures of them. The squirm as bad as cats! Leab was awesome, his wife was the sweetest thing ever, and his baby is gonna give DeRusha's mini-him a run for his money on the cuteness scale.
• I also parked myself in 2 spots on Sunday for catching a little Twin Cities Marathon action. First stop was on the Franklin Bridge over the Mississippi at 7 a.m. where I got some beautiful sunrise shots of the runners. I also went to the finish line at the capitol in St. Paul. I wasn't there long enough to actually get any dramatic marathon finishes, just 10-mile finishers. That was actually a little bit of alright in my book because they said there was about 10,500 runners and 300,000 spectators. Um, yeah. That was a lot of people, but great fun.
• This Friday a show is opening at The Rogue Buddha Gallery of photographer Marc Hauser's work. This sounds like an amazing show and Marc will actually be on-hand Friday evening for the opening reception. I'll be there, camera in hand to check it out. I met the gallery's owner, Nick, last week and he dropped a few tidbits of information that drew me in... like, for instance, that Marc started working for playboy when he was 15. Just... how does that work anyway?
• And finally... *drum roll* ... I'm working on a new website which will be unveiled in the next month. I woke up from a dream about 10 days ago with the idea and knew it was time to make this bad boy happen. "The legendary" Taylor will be helping out on the site and you'll probably catch a glimpse of some other locals you may (or may not) recognize, but other than that you're just gonna have to wait for le grande unveiling. Will be a whole barrel of fun.

Wow, my quick update turned in to quite the novel channeling Chatty McChatterson. Hope to see some of you Friday!