The Scariest Photos I Have Ever Seen

This was posted earlier on a great flickr wedding group I frequent. I cannot believe people actually spent money on these things. Looking through the numerous horrors that came to define the 70s and 80s 'portrait studio look', I find myself breaking into sweats and tensing my shoulders because I feel so incredibly bad for not only the people in the photographs, but the poor photographers as well. You have to wonder where these people are today. I know I've captured some bad photos in the past (I mean, who hasn't?), but these are on a different level. It's a bit vindicating, really, because after viewing these visual abominations you can take solace in the fact that you will never, as long as you live, duplicate something so atrocious.

Chicago in the Summer

So this is a bit off topic, but barring any radical changes or dream bookings for the weekend of June 21st and 22nd, I will be jetting off to Chicago to (finally) see my beloved Cubbies live and in person at Wrigley Field.

Some may ask how it's possible that after 28 years, I still have never been to Wrigley. After all, I grew up in Wisconsin, my sister was born in Illinois, I went to college in Minnesota, and my mother's entire family is from Chi-town.

Sometimes necessity causes certain things slip through the cracks, I guess.

Needless to say, I am excited.

My good friend Kyle (a man who lives, sleeps, eats and breathes baseball, and is a huge Twins fan), had the connections to score us tickets for not just one game, but both the Saturday and Sunday games in the highly coveted terrace box section. Oh, and did I mention this is inter-league week? It's the Cubs vs. the Chi-Sox. NL vs. AL. Good vs. Evil.

It is going to be rowdy at Wrigley, that's for sure. Bring it on!

Site Re-design (semi-complete)

So I stayed up all night... again. This time redesigning www.sethwilliampage.com. I found a super sweet site that provides free flash-based galleries. Check them out here. They work with Adobe Lightroom as well. Which makes things a snap.

No one ever said I was the bomb at web design. My stylings are now ultra retro... retro as in 1997... as in, HTML v2.0. It's never pretty when I take the reigns and attempt to change the world via Dreamweaver. Fortunately, my Adobe Photoshop CS3 skills are more pronounced than my Flash skills, and these days you can export slices, layers and links as .swf (flash) files. Cool.

And yet I still get the feeling this is a temporary fix.

I want, more than anything, to purchase a www.livebooks.com site, but it's costly, plus you MUST host with them, which is something I don't like the prospect of. I love my FTP and 40GBs of space through www.webhostingbuzz.com. Very much the win.

A fellow colleague of mine (and all around nice person), Kelly Rashka, who just so happens to be the great Sergio's latest protege , recommended I try www.bluedomain.com for a quick and easy professional solution to the website dilemma I've been having for the better part of 9 months now. Maybe when I get tired of my current design, I'll pony-up and hire a dedicated web developer to pwn all.

Man, I'm such a nerd.

-Sp