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dollar mondays...

...at Dart Bowl rock if you don't mind poor customer service and getting kicked out early. The website confirms they close at midnight during the week, but they have a bad habit of shutting the doors around ten.

Perks include bowling, beer, nachos and hot dogs for only a dollar but you gotta get there early cause these lanes fill up faster than CNN.com can post Swine Flu updates. And don't forget your hand sanitizer! Just think of all those germs.

spring time

I just love it when photos look like paintings. I'm having trouble getting photos to look the same in photoshop as when posted on blogger. I had heard that using Flickr solved this problem, but no luck for me. Any suggestions on this long, seemingly never ending battle for true color with blogger??

jalapeno flower

We've recently planted a veggie garden in our side yard and watching these things grow from seed to flowering plant has been magical. We'll be eating fresh tomatoes, peas, okra and peppers soon if all goes to plan! It feels really great to be semi-self sustaining and gives me a real appreciation for people who grow things for a living. Joey does a lot better job of describing the phenomenon in his post.

love this pair

Especially when we explain photography to each other over pitchers at Posse while everyone else is screaming about the Mavs game.

Go Mavs, btw.

wedding wind

© Courtney Dudley for Studio 563

Around the house

rip scooter

sxsw, finally done

I may end up posting a few more stragglers, maybe a Kanye or two, but these are my favs.


Janelle Monae at Peckerheads. Bad lighting, great spot.


Cold War Kids at Auditorium Shores.


The Levis/FADER Fort. Best venue at SXSW this year, IMHO.


Mr. Potter, otherwise known as "Charlie," "Rivet," and "Bug a Boo,"or in this case, VIP, relaxes at the Fort in between sets. What a rockstar.



Janelle Monae at the Fort. If you ever get a chance to see this woman and her band, GO DO IT. Twice.

lake weekend

Spike Lee, White Denim and M.Ward

convention center

Early mornings in the convention center make for nice light.

Simone love

I wish Simone would edit my SXSW photos for me.

Plus Mardi Gras

laissez les bon temps roulez

Callie and I took a quick trip to New Orleans for the last day of Mardi Gras and had a fabulous time, thanks to a friend with an open bed at the Sheraton for us to crash on. Never a dull moment. It was my first time to the Big Easy and wow, is that city awesome! I can't wait to go back when I can spend some real time exploring... and preferably not during the busiest tourist week of the year.

Introducing the wolf pack.

I may have to start a separate blog entirely devoted to documenting the adventures of the puppy pack, considering that they are oh so photogenic. Their cuteness is overwhelming. Until then, I'll be posting them here. Get excited for the adventures in chaos of (from left to right, top then bottom) Mingus, Darwin, Panda, Barbie, Kaiser Soze, Simone De Beauvoir (my pretty little poo bundle), Boo Radley and Haji.

Today we took a trip to Lady Bird Lake and were the most popular puppies on the trail. Geeze, if I were in the market for a girlfriend, this would be the best way to pick up chicks. Simone jumped off of a tall terrace leaving all the boys in her dust and she proved to be a remarkable swimmer. If only they's stay this small permanently, we could keep all of them in our backyard forever. Heres to a few more months of adventures in puppy land.

Red Cross training

I was sitting in my living room when I felt the house shake, as if someone had slammed the door as hard as they could. Went outside and followed the sirens down the street towards a fire a couple of blocks away. Luckily, no one was killed... the family smelt a gas leak and called it in, firefighters arrived just before the leak exploded and blew the roof off the house.

Issue 0

This photo illustration is from a mock fashion shoot for a mock ad for an online magazine that's in the works. Heads up; we will soon be taking contributors and would love to get as many fellow photogs as possible involved. More info on that coming soon.