I'm a designer -slash- photographer living in Minneapolis, MN.

Many of these photos are from my adventures in and around the Twin Cities.

I like to make things pretty.

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Margaret Andrews
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I shot the serif.    2009.05.29
A 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' remake?! Ok, I'll give you 'Footloose' but don't you fuck with my GJWHF! Not amused.    2009.05.29
Germany's banning Red Bull Cola after traces of cocaine are found.    2009.05.29
Phun photos of 1940s NYC. Swell.    2009.05.29
Local news station WCCO is going high-defs. For those of us without tvs, we're gonna need to see that sh*t on Vimeo Jason. Pix or it didn't happen!    2009.05.29
The Palm Pre will be able to sync with iTunes. Save yourself from the dark side!    2009.05.29
100 abandoned houses. Creepsville.    2009.05.29
The new trailer for 'Bruno' is cracking my shit up. I'm pre-ordering my tix today if they'll let me.    2009.05.29
How to torture a designer. I'm breaking out in hives just reading it.    2009.05.29
Mad Men returns to your living room in April. Double dog crap.    2009.05.28
Hulu launches a desktop client. Oh. Crap. There went my untainted, beautiful, no tv watching summer.    2009.05.28
Is Riding the Wave the new Doing the Dew?    2009.05.28
I hate your HDR. BEST!    2009.05.28
Henry Clarke illos for Edgar Allen Poe. c.1920s    2009.05.28
Typekit is ready to rock your font. Yay interwebz!    2009.05.28
Google throws its weight behind HTML 5. Thus, the Lord spoke and on the 7th day he rested.    2009.05.28
Q&A with architect Donald MacDonald. He's designed over a dozen bridges, including an upcoming design for the world's largest suspension bridge.    2009.05.28
If the Nano & the Kindle had a love child. Blargle, I say. Why does the interface look like my Macintosh from 1988?    2009.05.28
Through the eye of a needle. Lovely and inspiring.    2009.05.28
Foods you can bring into your mouth simply by sticking out your tongue. POP ROCKS!!    2009.05.27
The vendor-client relationship IRL. Cringeworthy.    2009.05.27
Richard Avedon, Master Photographer.    2009.05.27
Ghostbusters DS. I might have to get this /geekingout.    2009.05.27
What to do when you're in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn't have sex with you anyway. When in doubt, always play the time-travel card (I guess). BTW this won't work on me now.    2009.05.27
Report: Increasing number of educators found to be suffering from teaching disabilities. All my teaching friends are gonna love this (and are totes nodding their heads in agreement right now).    2009.05.27
I didn't have $3 dollars so I took this photo instead.    2009.05.27
A Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie ... without SMG or Joss Whedon? Annnnnnd, queue outrage of a million hipsters on twitter.    2009.05.26
Listen to Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn get their duet on. Apologies Scarlett, I am not a fan.    2009.05.26
y so srs? Captain LOLbat strikes again.    2009.05.26
Student runs secret squirrel library of banned books out of his locker. Man, that kinda rocks. That kid's gonna go places.    2009.05.26
Remember Cameron's glass house in Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Yeah, IT'S UP FOR SALE!! Ferris Bueller you are my hero. [more pix]    2009.05.26
The happiest people ever. Wah wah.    2009.05.26
Brooke Hogan's new album cover is a whole new level of ... wait, nm.    2009.05.26
A long time ago in a galaxy far away George Lucas turned out some complete shit Star Wars scripts. Thank you budget constraints and the internet.    2009.05.26
Dennis Leary does a cute advert for Hulu.    2009.05.26
Nation's girlfriends unveil new economic plan: 'Let's move in together.'    2009.05.25
Prison economy spirals as price of cigarettes exceeds two hand jobs.    2009.05.25
R.I.P. Wilco's Jay Bennett.    2009.05.25
You are what you eat. Literally.    2009.05.25
Take this year's vacation in a treehouse.    2009.05.23
Alan Clarke's proposed posters for the 2010 Olympics in London. Si, si, I approve!!    2009.05.22
6 of the creepiest abandoned places around the globe. A photographer's dream.    2009.05.22
Time Magazine celebrates 50 years of the Mini. Sure wish they'd send me a cupcake or something for participating in this milestone.    2009.05.22
Introducing: the pedi-sedate helmet. God bless parenting at its best.    2009.05.21
Top 50 txt acronyms parents should know. ffs im old.    2009.05.21
Kern in space. Damn, this is a hard game!    2009.05.21
This week's cover of Vita.mn is all sorts of ridiculous hotness. I may require a print and some empty wall space for this.    2009.05.21
365 days, 365 drawings.    2009.05.21
Yesterday local artist Dennis Dumm was killed while riding his bicycle to work. So heartbreaking, please be safe. He was a talented, amazing photographer.    2009.05.21
Awkward family photos. I resisted this for almost a week, but upon actual inspection turns out it lived up to the hype. Hilarious (and awful!).    2009.05.21
Three wolves tees now top selling item on amazon apparel. A 2,300% boost in sales.    2009.05.21
The Pope encourages you to use the internet. Oh, well, thank god I can sleep now.    2009.05.20
Richard Smith is hosting the Dollar Redesign Project, which is starting to attract some interesting redesigns of American paper currency.    2009.05.20
My Little Stormtrooper. Oh man, if I ever have little girls THEY'RE GETTING THESE.    2009.05.20
Outlier tailored performance cyclewear. Dang... I'm kinda hot for these!    2009.05.20
Mission to culture. The sketches are cute as a button today.    2009.05.20
You can't afford to be slow in an emergency. Is my love for firemen that obvious?    2009.05.19
'The Hangover.' I'll spend the $10 to see this in the theater. Holy crap it looks funny.    2009.05.19
Trailer for the new 'Sherlock Holmes' movie out later this year. Mmmm.    2009.05.19
Form + fish.    2009.05.19
Grand Complication. Video of a watch, a 648 piece jigsaw puzzle, being assembled.    2009.05.19
I took my friend Joe to see a sneak preview of 'Terminator: Salvation' last night. Here was his assessment before we saw the flick, which I kinda wish I'd read before I saw it too. The verdict? 3 out of 5 stars purely for the production / entertainment value. Writing was pretty much the worst ever.    2009.05.19
"I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses." -- Anna Wintour, 60 Minutes outtake. Oh no she di'nt!    2009.05.18
'Dollhouse' LIVES! I'll be honest, I thought it was gonna get canned.    2009.05.18
The NY Times kicks off a photography blog. Ack!, their struggle to win me over is slowly working. Bastards!    2009.05.18
I didn't forget that Coldplay released a free live album on Friday. Did you?    2009.05.17
The coolest photo you'll see all day.    2009.05.17
Your favorite song for the next 5 mins: Gossip - Heavy Cross.    2009.05.16
Squirrel chase. Giddyup.    2009.05.15
Buy our electronics, they're HOT! This catalog was in my mailbox the other day and I thought the exact same thing when I saw it. A whole pile of wtf?    2009.05.14
Amusing illustrations from spam subject lines. Totes SFW, and very worth the long pageload.    2009.05.14
Office pranks I need to file away in that deep, long memory of mine.    2009.05.14
Dear Dell, I am not completely fucking retarded. Della makes the baby Jesus very, very sad. On another note, I wish I was a fly on the wall for the meetings about this site cuz DAYUM.    2009.05.13
Wolf t-shirt will change your life. Don't believe me? Just read the comments. And in case that's not your cup of tea maybe the testimonials on this baby will convince you.    2009.05.13
Leslie keeps telling me Jet Blue is the coolest airline going. It must be their incredible servicey service.    2009.05.13
The font snob. Living with me isn't entirely dissimilar from this situation.    2009.05.12
Social Security system overhauled to provide 'early-death incentives.' No laughing, you know it's only a matter of time.    2009.05.12
Edamame hummus. Genius! Taking all the things I don't like about hummus and replacing them with things I do.    2009.05.12
Condiment gun. Resisting urge to make jokes involving the words shoot, sauce, squirt, weiner, etc. because it's the adult thing to do.    2009.05.12
An awesome set of ads for Star Wars weekends at Disney.    2009.05.12
The NYT on eBook piracy. Cory Doctorow has the coolest t-shirt collection ever. There's no way the Times knew what was on his shirt. NO WAY.    2009.05.12
The Current pew pew's twitter. That is one fine Demi Moore impression.    2009.05.12
Have you noticed how Cheney is all over the place like he's promoting a new sitcom? Excuse me, your D1ck is out.    2009.05.12
Leslie created a virtual sh*tstorm on vita.mn when she said she prefers going to concerts where the lead singer does something besides just sing. I'm BFF-translating though, some people seem legitimately offended by her preference!    2009.05.11
'Punch Out' returns to Nintendo after 15 years in retirement. EeeEEeEeeeE!!1oneone    2009.05.11
Do yourself a favor and install a new wallpaper on your desktop. My Monday morning gift to you.    2009.05.11
Noma Bar's beautiful Star Trek inspired cover for Esquire. Check out some of the others that didn't make it too.    2009.05.10
Motherlover. Timberlake is my new favorite SNL cast member ;).    2009.05.10
What Chuck [Bass] wore. Fucking fabulous. As if Project Rungay were paying attention to Señor Bass.    2009.05.10
The cast of 'The Goonies' reunites after 20 years. I could watch this movie 386,911 more times.    2009.05.09
Curious squirrel. A squirrel tries licking any of my equipment and there's gonna be a bitch-smack all up 'n in his shit.    2009.05.08
RIP Duke Nukem. Sad. He was my first FPS long-term boyfriend.    2009.05.07
Microsoft cancels its 2009 Pro Photo Summit. Without hookers 'n blow what would have been the point anyway, I ask of you?    2009.05.06
Mike Kus videotaped himself preparing slides in photoshop for his speech at the "Future of Web Design" conference. Not educational, just beautiful. And set to freakin' Sigur Ros. Double lovely.    2009.05.06
Bristol Palin floods morning TV to tell America how horrible her "blessing" is. It's all fun and games until she realizes she can't have any more sex until she's married.    2009.05.06
Mpls's own Walkert Art Center wins a National Design Award. For Corporate and Institutional Achievement. Rawr.    2009.05.06
Blair Waldorf isn't the only GG with an aspiring music career. Taylor Momsen, aka Jenny, gives her vocal cords a workout.    2009.05.06
Star Trek failure generator. AKA sexual innuendo generator.    2009.05.06
Kindle engages bigass mode. Now supersized.    2009.05.06
Here's the Cullen house in all its vampireness. Sexy. Sad bad the wolves won't get the same 5-star treatment.    2009.05.06
J.J. Abrams on Colbert AAHHH!! Saw it. It was awesome. Already got tix to see it again in IMAX cuz holy crap.    2009.05.05
A violent but evolutionarily effective mating strategy has been spotted in spiders from Israel. Ah gahd *faintz* ... the best part about this post is the comments though. This whole thing is seriously like an episode of 'Fringe.'    2009.05.05
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters. Cuz I bet you were wondering.    2009.05.04
Trekkie fans bash new Star Trek film as "fun and action-packed thrill ride." No wonder the fans feel betrayed here. There isn't even once scene set at a long table in which interstellar diplomacy is debated in endless detail. Bastards!    2009.05.04
I Shot the Chef. Oh god another amazing food blog. This time the chef is married to a talented photographer who takes the most spectacular photos of her creations. New favorite thing.    2009.05.04
The Electric Fetus is selling music online. Only you get MP3s at 320 kbps for the same album prices as iTunes (and no patchouli aftertaste!).    2009.05.04
Journalists on Twitter. People with autofeeds like Katie Couric should be booted off the island.    2009.05.04
A view of Rockefellar Center in 1933. Click to embiggen.    2009.05.04
The 2009 Kentucky Derby. Mmm, I'm suddenly craving a mint julep.    2009.05.04
RiP: A Remix Manifesto is now available for download (view the trailer). Poor Girl Talk's parents have no idea how cool their son is.    2009.05.03
The house Steve Jobs hates. Ew.    2009.05.01
Coldplay giving away their latest album, FREE!, on May 15th. Don't be a jerk, they got it going on.    2009.05.01
Culture Bully reviews the Franz Ferdinand concert @ First Ave. Check out Leslie's kickass photos!    2009.05.01