Jason Cooper is, professionally, an Online Community Coordinator for kaboom.org. Personally, he is a Detroit to DC transplant, and all around B.M.F. He secretly wants to be an internet celebrity.
I think we’ve just selected the song we will enter our reception to. Love Gun by Kiss.
In the next iteration of MP3 software, be it iTunes, Zune, Napster, whatever, to have a “Mix-Maker Mode” or “DJ Mode”.
Basically, I want to be able to play two songs at the same time— one through my speakers and another through my headphones.
I’m in the process of making playlists for the wedding, and I need to hear the song outloud in order for me to decide if its worthy of the list. I also want to be able to play songs that entertain myself and my lady as we chill on this Sunday afternoon. If I were starting a new track every 30 seconds, we’d both get annoyed.
I’m sure there is a way I could pull this off messing with my speaker settings and using Winamp and Zune at the same time, but that’s annoying and doesn’t make the process any easier.
The invitation cover
Reply card
Close-up of Jack
Top half of reply card
We’ve been overwhelemed by the compliments and kudos our wedding invites have received. Thank you all for enjoying them so much!
There isn’t much of a story behind the invite. Shannon and I have a geeky bone (or two, or three) in our bodies, but we aren’t planning a very geeky wedding. We decided we should show that side of ourselves in the invite.
Off to the internet! Shannon did some searching, and found a man on Etsy.com that couples like us can commission to produce artwork for us. She realized this was the same person featured in an article sent to her by our friend Lindsay. We loved the sample artwork he provided and his overall style. We reached out to him, sent him some ideas we had about the landscape and what type of peril the invitation version of us would face. We decided to ground ourselves in a post-apocalyptic cityscape (there’s no place like home) and face-off against the greatest threat we could imagine: our cat Jack!
The artist was excited about our project and was ready to flex his artistic muscles. We sent him some headshots of us and Jack, and a few weeks later, got a huge black and white pencil of the artwork, and the digital, color image files that would make the invite.
We were ecstatic. I wanted to send them right away, but the advice of friends convinced me to wait for the proper times. Its been tough to keep the secret and to not blow the surprise coming to people’s mailboxes. The wait, however, was worth it and we’ve been delighted to hear all of the positive feedback.
The artist goes by the name swelser on Etsy and was an absolute pleasure to work with. Responsive and attentive, he met all of his deadlines and produced a piece of artwork that we’ll look back and love for a long, long time. If this is your sort of thing, I can’t recommend the guy enough. Plan way in advance though— swelser was recently featured on the uber-geek blog, i09.
We are likely going to get a little more use out of the artwork. There will liekly be a large print of the cover for show at the wedding and we’ll be reusing the little Jason and Shannon heads in some other places too.
At my wedding, there will be at least 8 people who use Tumblr regularly. Nine if you count the wedding website, also built on Tumblr.
I think this counts as a meetup. I’m going to try and get stickers.
Party Down is great, but it scares the hell out of me when I think about the yahoo’s that’ll be working my wedding.
The First Family is getting wedding invites.
Now testing: Pages
You can now add static pages to your blog, with a few very useful options. Head to your blog’s Customize page and click the “Pages” menu to get started. There are currently three types of Pages you can create.
Really looking forward to this for the wedding blog.
I feel like this is an extension of a post I made about New Year’s Eve in NYC earlier this year, but I want to see a spectacle.
I just learned about something called the Dakar Rally. Its an annual race that for the past two years has taken place in South America. Beginning on January 1st and ending on January 16th, entrants drive motorcycles, cars, ATV’s, and trucks in a 9,030 km loop through Argentina and Chile.
This sounds amazing. The picture above is from Boston.com’s beautiful photo essay covering the event. It looks like a blistering competition marrying endurance, driving skill, and engineering. Competitors battle the elements, the structural limits of their machines, and of course, other racers. Its like something out of Speed Racer.
Simply put, this ain’t NASCAR.
I’ve decided, for our honeymoon, that I want to go to someplace in the world and see a spectacle. I want to see something that’s far and beyond American Idol, NASCAR, or even the NFL playoffs. We leave in October, so if you have any suggestions, please pass them along.
In the meantime, I want to keep my eyes open for something, ANYTHING, exciting here in the states. I’ll drive, train, maybe even fly to see it. Air shows? I’m going. Catapult competition? I’m there. Three hundred men chasing cheese down a hill. Two tickets please.
I want to see people staring down the elements and winning. I want to watch a feat that makes mother nature piss her pants-suit and I don’t want to be sitting down on my couch when it happens.
America is still capable of amazing, right?
Well, I guess it’s time to start the actual planning…
We set a date and booked a venue!
“Its a traaap!”
(via notquitefaust)
Arin Safadi, a 24 year old Druze woman from the village of Ein Qinya in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, set out to marry her fiance, 35-year-old Rabia Safadi in neighboring Syria last September. However, due to the absence of diplomatic ties between Syria and Israel, she had to sign a document shortly befor leaving, giving up her right of residence - acknowledging that she would not be allowed to return to her family home. Arin and Rabia were married the same day, planning to move to Jaramana, a twon near Damascus, Syria. (via Stories from Israel, Tanzania and Malaysia - The Big Picture - Boston.com
