My friend wandered past my house Saturday morning, dressed for a wedding. I couldn’t help but garner a few shots out of her before she left.

The view from the American Museum of Natural History (New York, December 2007). I sometimes think about visiting New York again one day, but not usually with any gut feeling or particular notion, more matter of fact lightened with the promise of fun. Looking at this photo is enough to make me really want to go back.

Kate uploaded some photos of our wedding invitations. I’m really happy with the finished result. Visit Lovelorn Unicorn for more.

Lately there has been way too much doing to be able to spread word of said doing. A large part of it has been busyness at work and a mad rush on wedding planning that has included invitations, the website, catering and other such things. It’s fun, but the other fun stuff, in no particular order, has been:

1. Dirty Dancing

I saw this for the first time as one of the classic film screenings at The Embassy Cinema. Such a great experience. The crowd went wild plenty of times. I think the classic screenings are one of the best things to happen to movie theaters in a while. No technical standards of movie exhibition in the theatre or home can compare with the effect of a good audience. I think Easy Rider has just had it’s screening, but Imagine is coming up very soon.

2. Skate Highway One

Photography by Jed Soane (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jedsoane/)

Speaking of wild crowds. I think Skate Highway One may have received the best turnout of any Richter City Roller Derby bout this season. Wellington did get whipped by the slightly scary Pirate City Rollers from Auckland, but it was still an exciting match and I appreciated every moment that the Wellington girls were taking points.

3. The Wire

If you don’t know already then perhaps there’s no point in me telling you how rich, clever topical and well developed this tv show is. I’m onto Season 4 right now, I just need more time to get on with it.

4. Purchasing Fonts

I’ve always admired a good typeface. Not as much as I do now, knowing what hard work, talent and precision really go into it. My first font purchase ever is Phaeton which we used for our wedding invitation. Admire away. Now that I’ve got my first, I feel tempted to get more. I think a typeface shopping spree would make a pretty awesome gift, though a potentially expensive one at that. Phaeton is also my first time using OpenType with advanced features and it wowed the pants off me. Who would have expected something Microsoft had a hand in would be so worthy? Check it out at Adobe.

5. Raw Meat Monday

Nope, I’m not upping my carnivorousness. If anything I’m leaning closer to vegetarianism (this would be much easier to describe if it worked on a continuum rather than in absolutes). Raw Meat Monday is the night that established comics take to the Fringe Bar with new material and upcoming comics give it a go. For only a fiver you get plenty of laughs in an atmosphere I can totally get behind.

All this behind me, I’ve got rolls of film to develop. Digital photos to sort out. And not nearly enough time to accomplish either. At what point do people decide they can hire an assistant?