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Live video feed of six puppies

Natasha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:12:36 +0000

Our wedding season is slowing down and we are catching up on all the blogging now :) We just had two more beautiful weddings in San Francisco and we’ll be posting those photos soon.

For now, I want to share with you our latest addiction, a live stream of a life of six puppies :) (These are not ours, but we can’t get enough of them anyway!)

(They do SLEEP a lot, though).

Enjoy!

Natasha

Carl Warner’s landscapes

Mike — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:57:04 +0000

We had an amazing weekend with a beautiful wedding in San Jose and a fun engagement session in Palo Alto. Lots of pictures will be coming shortly! :)

For now, we want to share with you photos from Carl Warner, an amazing photographer from England:

BTW, did you notice that the landscapes in the pictures are made entirely of food? We were blown away when we first saw these. View more of this artist’s work here.

Have a great week everyone!!

Mike

Best prank ever: Stopping time at Grand Center Station

Mike — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:36:55 +0000

We just came across this video and had to share it!

“Over 200 New Yorkers recently walked into one of the busiest train stations in the world, New York’s Grand Central Station, and at exactly 2:30 pm, all froze in place. There’s one guy in the video who froze just as he was stooping down to pick up some scattered papers. Talk about commitment!”

Take a look and see what you think. Social experiments like this are really interesting, if a bit unexpected:

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If you’d like to read more about it, check the original site.

Natasha

Coldplay music video – White Shadows

Mike — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:06:05 +0000

Do you ever listen to an album and realize you just can’t get enough of one of the songs?

I felt this way towards a track on Coldplay’s 2005 X&Y album. The entire work is fantastic but “White Shadows” is a masterpiece.

Here’s a video set to this song:

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The lyrics:

�When I was a young boy I tried to listen
And I wanna feel like that,
Little white shadows blink and miss them
Part of a system, I am

If you ever feel like something�s missing
Things you�ll never understand,
Little white shadows sparkle and glisten,
Part of a system, a plan

All this noise I�m waking up
All this space I�m taking up
All this sound is breaking up

Ooh oh ooh

Maybe you�ll get what you wanted
Maybe you�ll stumble upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state

Maybe you�ll know when you see it
Maybe if you say it you�ll mean it
And when you find it you�ll keep it
In a permanent state, a permanent state

When I was a young boy I tried to listen,
Don�t you wanna feel like that?
You�re part of the human race
All of the stars in the outer space,
Part of a system, a plan

All this noise I�m waking up
All this space I�m taking up
I cannot hear you�re breaking up

Woaaooh

Maybe you�ll get what you wanted
Maybe you�ll stumble upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state

Maybe you�ll know when you see it
Maybe if you say it you�ll mean it
And when you find it you�ll keep it
In a permanent state, a permanent state

Swimmin� on a sea of faces
The tide of the human races, oh
An answer now is what I need
I see it in the new sun rising and
See it break on your horizon, oh
Come on love, stay with me�

Mike

Jan Von Holleben’s Dreams of Flying

Mike — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:38:09 +0000

A couple of days ago Mike sent me a link to this photographer’s website. I glanced at the first image for a second, saw two kids laying on the ground and was totally not impressed. Feeling something weird about the picture, I kept looking at it and suddenly it became three-dimensional. It was like one of those images where you look at a geometric pattern and eventually you see a beautiful 3D picture.

This collection of Jan Von Holleben is called “Dreams of Flying” and every one of the 12 pictures is just amazing! I was looking at each “dream” for a long time enjoying how simple and original they are.

Check out his website to see the entire “Dreams of Flying” collection.

What do you think?

Natasha

We love music

Mike — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:01:31 +0000

Mike and I both love music. The first thing Mike does in the morning is to turn the music on; he turns it off as the last thing before going to sleep. If you want Mike to instantly like you just ask him about his music collection. We are lucky enough to both pretty much like the same stuff (although sometimes he listens to something really annoying) :)

We often have an artist or song that we’re just crazy about for a week and can’t get enough of it. And then we get another favorite. We’re going to start sharing with you some of our favorite tunes and for the past few days we’ve been listening to “Fake It” by Seether. Check it out their video right here:

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We’re always looking for interesting music and we’d love to know some of your favorites. Leave a comment to tell us who is in your playlist!

Natasha

They sneeze too?

Mike — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:44:38 +0000

For anybody looking for a mid-week laugh, check out this adorable baby Panda (sound is a must) :)

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Natasha