Love from a drunken sky...

Holga

2010-05-05T12:24:00.000-07:00

In you face

2010-05-02T06:49:00.000-07:00

my family puts up with so much...

pregger tomato

2010-02-17T19:41:00.000-08:00

The gel inside of tomatoes supposedly has a germination inhibitor so that seeds don't sprout until after the fruit has rotted away, but not this one! I found babies in my tomato!

perfect little hole in the wall

2010-02-15T17:09:00.000-08:00

visited this cool little hole in the wall cafe over break with some friends. happy accident that the focus is on the hole in the wall :)

Cozy Cabin

2010-01-19T20:08:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year!

2010-01-15T00:35:00.000-08:00

Another year has come and gone and there are many things that I anticipate with this new year, among them, more frequent updates! Hopefully I can stick to this better than resolutions in years past!

CHEERS!

Best of Summer

2009-08-11T15:51:00.000-07:00

Alright guys,

I've been a little selfish and I've only been using blogger to see what all of you are up to...sorry bout that. Let me catch you up on life...I present the best of summer!!!

THIS WEEK

Biked to Old Town Today and hung out with the Golden Harvest girls.
Wanted something more interesting to be happening here with all of the toys strewn about the tables...

"Why aren't you saying your words 'jewelery for sale'? Say it louder," said Ayva Luna Vicknair, 7, to her younger sister Stella Rain Vicknair, 5, while selling jewelery outside of Golden Harvest in Old Town Lansing. "They grew up here so they're oddly comfortable," said mother Vanessa Vicknair. The girls grew up at the restaurant, which their parents have owned for five years, helping to wait tables and cut potatoes . They occupy themselves however they can including creating potato sack dresses to play in.

This is what printed.

4-H Horse Show

And hung out with an awesome blind guy for a multimedia piece on Radio Talking Book. He lost 100% of his vision in his 20's but that doesn't stop him from doing much. He even designed and built the extension to his house.

MUSIC

Common Ground- This is the moment I fell in love with The Roots
...or this guy's hair...

...i make friends with drifters everywhere I go.

Jazz Fest

Mr. Party

Beaumont Carillon

...and a piano on wheels...

LOTS OF RALLIES AT THE CAPITOL...

AND WHAT WOULD SUMMER BE WITHOUT THE INTENSE OVERLOAD OF CUTE KID ASSIGNMENTS?

COLORADO
East Lansing, MI to Denver CO: 1210 miles, 18 hours...maybe 3 hours of sleep
despite all of the shit I went though it was well worth the completion of my story.

Got stood up one day so attempted to drive to the top of a mountain. Made it to the parking lot of some frat house near Golden, CO...hopped a highway...and climbed a mountain...

And met up with my lady to cover the USA Boxing National Championship while living out of my car and pitching pseudo-tents...

Pics below, slideshow on my website here:
http://nhoerner.webs.com/multimedia.html

2009-03-30T10:50:00.000-07:00

Finally have enough internet signal to upload photos! YAY! so enjoy them.

Joey and rainbows in San Fransisco
This is Bobby Ice. He and a bunch of his buddies breakdance on the streets in front of pier 39 in San Fransisco. This strip is occupied by tons of street performers fighting for tourist attention. These guys get a consistently large crowd. "I gotta entertain myself out there,ya know," Bobby said to Adam before jumping out into the crowd.

Adam commentated the entire performance until this point, when he pulled Josh and Darryl from the crowd.

A Golden Gate Sunset

2009-03-30T10:32:00.000-07:00

Junior forward, Aisha Jefferson, falls to the floor after MSU lost to Iowa in the Sweet 16 game against Iowa State. The spartans lost 69-68 with only a few minutes left on the clock.

Stanford freshman forward, Nnemkadi Ogwumike, dances in front of teammates and coaches after winning a free throw drill in practice Friday before their sweet 16 game against Ohio State.

Berkeley resident, Aron Harris, kicks off his shoes and makes himself comfortable while watching the open practices for the women's basketball teams in the sweet 16 in Berkeley California. Harris said he usually roots for the underdog and he was rooting for the Spartan women.

2009-03-30T10:23:00.000-07:00

San Fransisco from the Bay bridge

ALCATRAZ!!!

2009-03-30T10:15:00.000-07:00

Plane flying overhead

wings

watching over...

Salt Lake

Kiss

2009-03-22T18:33:00.001-07:00

Kate's Wedding

2009-03-22T18:20:00.001-07:00

Dust

2009-03-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

Wish I had been on the other side for this but I like the dust.

Spartan Stampede

2009-02-26T17:36:00.000-08:00

Matt Ford of Grant, MI is helped off of his horse after staying on for eight seconds during the bareback

Marc DeGroot of Luncan, ON is helped out of the arena after being thrown off of his bronco and dragged during the Saddle Bronc event

unorthodox
A boy adjusts his hat while climbing onto a gate in the middle of the opening prayer for Spartan Stampede Friday Feb. 20 at the MSU Pavilion while, from left to right, Justin Musselman of Lebanon, IN, Shaun Conner of Perry, MI, and Travis Coenen of Hastings, MI, bow their heads in prayer.

Inorganization

2009-01-20T18:17:00.000-08:00

We began the day in D.C. having no idea where our yellow press credentials would get us, thanks to the very informative inauguration websites. We began following directions to the Senate building after failing to get inside with the presidential media only. We had our gear checked here and wandered around the building looking for our entrance, ending up in the basement where a shuttle runs straight into The Capitol building.This was wrong. We went back upstairs where police wondered how we got into the Senator's office building...and were told we needed better credentials to get out...this was obviously wrong too. Then we were told to go to the House side. This involved traveling down D St. to the tunnel which would take us around to the west side. D St. is also where the purple ticketed inauguration goers were standing in line thus causing an elbow to elbow people jam for a good hour because they wouldn't let the "cutters" get to the other side of D to continue walking in the opposite direction and leave them with more space and comfort. After bumping into Jessie Jackson here, who had obviously been given poor directions as well, we were able to push through to the tunnel. Here they refused us entrance. After arguing we continued on where we found a second tunnel which was open to us and connected to the first one after the first 50 ft...So now we walk on the highway up to more entrances where we are refused access before stumbling upon white tents! We have our gear checked at this media entrance and once again walk to a basement where we are told that we don't have the right creds- they tell us to go to the botanical gardens. We go back upstairs and cant get out again. We ask where to go and explain that we had been told to go to the Senate, the House, the West front, and the botanical gardens. we are told to go back downstairs and demand to see the supervisor. Here we are told no again and Katie pretends to cry. The guy feels terrible and gives us directions to go down Independence to the Mall. So we walk and walk and walk down 7 blocks until some random officer lets us through a barricade without a baggage check. huh...

enjoy the photos...we really worked for them:)

Lincoln Memorial

2009-01-19T12:46:00.000-08:00

Finally, card reader and free time...

2009-01-03T16:29:00.000-08:00

christmas
my bro was all about new clothes and shoes...even if it doesn't look like he is...he's just trying to look cool...haha

Bri is a sass pants 99% of the time...

but cute 100% of the time...

...and don't forget the christmas silly string fight...

silly framing...

pretty fall nights

2008-12-19T17:56:00.000-08:00

~merry xmas~

2008-12-18T20:16:00.000-08:00

1979 Schwinn Varsity original tape, speedometer, light&generator

TOBY!?

2008-11-27T08:40:00.000-08:00

This one's for you, Mike:

Toby from the office made an appearance in a toupee at the women's basketball game last night...

mirrors

2008-10-20T18:42:00.000-07:00

My SN Decor lady had a really cool loft but I really wanted to play with her mirors too. All of the pictures on her walls are from study abroad and backpacking in Europe. I really like this.

Ohio State

2008-10-20T18:19:00.000-07:00

The Ohio State Buckeye fans cheer as the team looks to the scoreboard to see the replay of the fumble by MSU's Blair White which led to an OSU touchdown in the last 15 seconds of Saturady's game. You can kinda see the team reacting but I wish it had more depth of field...and maybe if I was a little higher up in the stands I could've gotten some more separation and seen the actual touchdown...maybe I'll try it again sometime...

May or may not have exposed the Ohio State Mascot...OOPS!

Ohio State fan, Anita Donadio, hugs her son, the Buckeye mascot after Ohio State's 45-7 victory over MSU.

Yay for Man Love!

MSU senior running back, Javon Ringer, receives a hug from Ohio State junior defensive back, Kurt Coleman, after the Buckeyes defeated the Spartans 45-7 at Spartan Stadium.

Bharatiya Temple

2008-10-12T22:13:00.000-07:00

"Religion, after all, is a human expression, and religions are as different as our cultures...To think you can own the Almighty cannot but be counterfeit. No real experience of the infinite presence of God can leave you condemning your neighbor." ~Swami Vivekananda

"...truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect." ~J. Krishnamurti

One of the common misconceptions od the Hindu tradition is that they worship many gods. In reality, it is a henotheistic religion meaning one God with many facets. the deities represent various powers of the supreme God. They believe that there is no one way to God, just many paths to salvation. the way that is right for one person may not be right for another. The only correct way is the one that leads the individual to ultimate reality, or Brahman.

Rameswari Devi

The Bharatiya Temple priest splashes holy water on the deity, Lord Venkateshwara,the form of the Hindu god who destroys the sins of the people.

Parameswaran Iyer performs a prayer befor the Navagraha Devatas, the nine planetary deities, after walking circles around the platform.

B. Lalithambal, the priest's wife

Lucky Firsts...

2008-10-12T21:47:00.000-07:00

I love it when this happens. This is the best shot from my living city by far. I was wondering around the pavilion, rounded a corner, saw this boy, lifted the camera and snapped...they saw me by the second frame and started waving...funny how the very first shot, however spontaneous, can end up being the all around best.

Parents, Joe and Stephanie Gill, lead their sons- Shaw, 6, and Tate, 4(not pictured)-back from their Lead Line performance at the Michigan Quarter Horse Association's Breeders' Futurity horse shows at the Pavilion. The Gill family has been doing horse shows together going back three generations when Jill Bain first began. Since then, her daughter, Stephanie Gill, and her Husband, Joe Gill, who met showing horses, have continued to show with their two sons. Most weekends, Jill Bain’s father shows as well, bringing four generations out to the event for a family affair.

I'm free...free fallin'

2008-10-06T22:16:00.000-07:00

Some of the MSU Outdoors Club

Apparently parachutes are held together with rubberbands...

Chris getting ready for the jump

Football

2008-10-01T20:53:00.000-07:00

Grrrrr...missed him!

Secret game watching spot for one of the construction workers completing the Indiana stadium

Playboy!

2008-10-01T20:44:00.000-07:00

Playboy morning show hosts for Sirius and XM radio, Kevin Klein and Andrea Lowell, play a radio game with MSU senior hospitality business Playboy model, Lynn Wisper, in which the hosts attempt to discover the player's secret. Lowell and Wisper crack up after Lowell incorrectly attempts to guess Wisper's secret.

The secret was that she really likes going to sex shops
the guess is too inappropriate for this blog...

Stanley Cup Stuff

2008-10-01T20:28:00.000-07:00

I really liked this framing and moment...

Oakland University juniors, Megan Hryckowian, and Naida Efendiyeva, are shocked when they realize that it is Mike Bolt, the keeper of the Stanley Cup, who is being filmed in front of them...okay so they freaked out a little...

so this is the dog of the girlfriend of Alex Beaudin, one of the guys we interviewed...

Nursing junior, Melissa Heacock, lets C.J. ,2, and Caroline, 5, play ith her dog, Ipswitch, while she makes a donation which will go toward children's cancer research, to have her picture taken with the Stanley Cup.

Drum Major

2008-09-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

Feature front from August on one of the drum majors. She's so fierce!

Cutline: Music education junior Rachel Linsmeier practices her drum major routine Friday Aug. 22 in the field outside Demonstration Hall while the band practices indoors.

Feature find at band practice:

SN Decor

2008-09-24T21:22:00.001-07:00

Shot SN Decor at the beginning of the month for Mallori Fogler in Campbell Hall. Lots of black and white patterns. Shot this for fun while she was waiting.

Packrats!

2008-09-04T20:54:00.000-07:00

So today I had an assignment to shoot new technology at the planetarium. Who would've guessed it would be the best thing ever!

So my contact turned out to be a collector of wetnaps. He calls it his "moist towelette museum". There are wetnaps from all over the world in many languages including Chinese, Thai, Turkish, and Dutch. Why towelettes? "Because they're Lemony fresh!"

He also wants to start a celebrity section. It is a collection of 1: Tom and Ray of Car Talk on NPR.

The man who shares the office with him has a collection of pez dispensers including but not lim ited to The Flintstones, all the Garfield characters, The Simpsons, Sesame St., Peanuts, Pooh and friends, Looney Tunes, the Disney Princesses, Mickey and friends, the Ducktales family, the Smurfs, the Jungle Book characters, Star Wars, Spongebob, etc...

...yes...many pez dispensers...

Ok, this is really cool because it is a lens donated from a star projector from a planetarium in Battle Creek. One of this guys buddies is going to turn it into a meg camera and take pictures of the night sky. The observatory is open this weekend and he will be there. Needless to say, I'm going to find him and try to get in on this.

This is like the size of my head...

Last but not least...I just can't resist. I was checking my white balance and caught Jeff. I like it.

Editor hannah

2008-09-03T23:30:00.000-07:00

Hannah will hate me...pretty sure she already did :)

...needed something to fill the vacancy till I get all my new blogposts in order...
Tune in later for some SN goodies and pics of friends once I collect them all...

Fuck my life...

2008-08-03T18:17:00.000-07:00

Okay so by the time I was ready to leave for Boston, I was most excited about this super sweet project I was gonna do. It was the whole reason I wasted my life away for 2 days straight on a train.

The project was that every person I met on my trip, I would ask to describe their personality in a word or a phrase. Then I would have them show me this and take their picture. I planned only to use the old canon A-1 for this.

Unfortunately,I am left with only one photo. The one I took with my digital camera because I couldn't find my flash at the time. Something went wrong, and the role seemed to never end...it was blank when it was developed...not gonna lie...i cried...

*Note* if you don't feel like reading this whole post, that is fine. Just be sure to read the very last part about Lorenz.

My only photo.

Sarah Cohen-Bacry. "Dreamer"
Sarah was on her way to Holland to visit family at their lake house. She was born and raised in France and came to the US to attend Arizona State University, where she is a junior in film studies (She just finished an internship in CA). Sarah kept going on about how she loves Michigan so much because the people are so much more friendly and smile much more than the people in AZ.

Wade. "Sports Fan"
He was taking the train from Fremont to Wisconsin to begin his 9 day trip which included 6 MLB games. He was most ecxited to see the Yankee stadium before it is torn down. When we reached Union Station, I took his picture and he asked to do the same for me, except he chose my word to be "Focused" as a pun for my personality and being a photographer.

In Chicago I met up with living city Piotr, who was randomly visiting a friend.

Scott. "Mysterious" (a word chosen by his friend Ashley)
Scott is a firefighter who applied to work for the secret service and is still waiting on a reply. He spent his Jr year of high school playing pro soccer in Mexico! Needless to say, we hit it off right away, and the 1 hr ride to go get Piotr from his station wasn't the least bit awkward.

Ashley. "Fantabulous" ... also "Indecisive" fantabulous was about the eight word...
but it is suiting for her bubbly personality.

~What I realized while these two were trying to come up with their words is that the better you get to know someone, the harder it is to find one word to describe them~

Kourtney. "Weird"
This was her first time traveling alone. She was returning to Massachussetts from Louissiana where she had been visiting her mother for the past month. Kourtney is 18 and just out of high school. She is big on animae, and is really talented in drawing these characters:

Jason, you will be happy to know that she has big time "Yellow Fever". She has a huge crush on an asian guy she met on myspace...basically this is all she talked about on the trip that was supposed to be 16 hrs...but somehow turned into 20 hrs. She acted a lot younger than she was which made me think that she had some struggles in her life, which I later found was true.

Richard W. Crocket. "Tolkein Hobbit"
Hannah might have called him a creature...
Retired polysci prof, and writer for a weekly in Illinois, he was on his way to visit his son in Utica, NY. He kept going on about how humans are basically the root of all problems but especially global warming.

Kevin "Rob" Studer. "Interesting" & Bobby. "intellectual"
Rob was a youth mission leader from Ohio on his way to Albany with a group of kids, including Bobby, to help inner-city kids. I bumped into Bobby again on my way home which was kinda funny.

The last guy I am going to tell you about is the sole reason that the absence of photos has made me so upset...

Lorenz. "Me"
Lorenz is a drifter. He is on his way back to Boston, which he left 14 months ago, to travel all over the country...and the world. He keeps a minimum ammount of money on him and once his funds fall to this level he will stop and pick up some odd jobs to build them back up.His favorite animal is a cat because they resemble his attitude. If they want to be around you they will come to you, otherwise they want to be left alone. His mottos: enjoy life & what is meant to happen will happen (you would've loved him Sam). Georgia, you might find this intersting...this is the only black man I have ever met who is a vegetarian.

Now, the reason this project was going to be super cool was because this was the only person who was not going to have a photo. He was the only person who wouldn't let me take his picture and here is the profound reason why:
( Nick, keep this in mind. I'm hoping you can laugh this off by now...)
Lorenz said the best thing that ever happened to him was that he lost his camera. My immediate reaction: *gasp* "that's a crime!"
Lorenz continued by telling me that once he wasn't so worried about capturing the moments through his camera, he began to discover the moments he was missing in life.

Although I would never give up the task of trying to capture the moments with my camera, I really respected the fact that he didn't want his picture taken because he had such a cool reason.

Birthday Mayhem

2008-07-21T21:20:00.000-07:00

This weekend was my sister's birthday party. It was a funfilled day of screaming six year olds. yay...
Her party was princess themed. My mom made up a story about princess Bri Bri and the evil dragon who only wanted to play with the princess and not all the other children. The kids all got to take water balloons to defeat the dragon with...aka my bro in green make-up and a Babybop costume...

...unfortunately nothing really turned out from the fight, but you can see his tail in the pool here...

hokay...so Melvin and my bro got bored and decided to throw water ballons at the kiddies from the roof...this involved Melvin filling them up and throwing them up to my bro...and my mom tying the ballons because Melvin was having issues...

throwing the balloons at kiddies...

...blowing ou the candles...

This kid had too much cake...he spent a good hour terrorizing the girls with the hose...then he took a squirt gun, came up behind me, held it to my leg, and fired...and I did not have a change of clothes...

"I shall pet him and hug him and squeeze him and call him George..."

2008-07-14T11:28:00.000-07:00

Anyone who knows me knows that I love giraffes.

strobe silhouette

2008-07-05T23:07:00.000-07:00

my brother lit one of those strobe fireworks...

Something new...

2008-06-30T18:42:00.000-07:00

Tried something different...took it on a bike ride...wore it around my neck 1/4 second/ F8...
this is the coolest one...

Georgia

2008-06-30T18:39:00.000-07:00

pretty Georgia at Bower...

return to the hill

2008-06-15T22:36:00.001-07:00

It's Nobody's Business!!!

2008-06-13T23:18:00.000-07:00

Drove out after work to catch the last bit of Walker Fest where my dad's band, Nobody's Business, was playing tonight.

My dad is in the shadows...

                                                aqui!

beach

2008-06-13T22:18:00.000-07:00

mama

the water was cold...

RAIN

2008-06-10T22:30:00.000-07:00

Best thing about this week...lots of rain. I love thunderstorms :)

lunch break

2008-06-10T22:23:00.000-07:00

Biked far today...found these guys as well as some sweet places to camp out at for good shots...

From left to right, Georgetown Contruction workers Chris Spangenberg, Bill Kole, and Jason Rogers take a lunch break from road construction on 32nd street in Grand Rapids, Tues. June 10, 2008.

car chase

2008-06-01T22:35:00.000-07:00

so, today i'm sitting...not procrastinating...and working on a paper for class when I hear this awful noise...so my brother runs in the house after skateboarding in the street yelling "nicki, come quick some guy almost killed me goin' 100 down the street and they have the road blocked off."

I actually find it really hilarious that my neighborhood doesn't have signs that say "no outlet" especially when the second guy this year drives a stolen car from grandville down the road, hits the dead end, and books it for my woods...

I liked this...

sweet skids...they're actually a lot longer

District Finals

2008-05-31T15:55:00.000-07:00

Watched my girls lose district finals to Portage Central at Holland today. It was expected since the team suffered a loss of 9 seniors including both goaltenders. Not to mention the injuries on the current team including 2 broken noses, a broken wrist, and a knee injury.

The East Kentwood girl's varsity soccer team headed by Coach Conlin, center, endures the award ceremony for opponent, Portage Central, after losing the district finals game 3-0 at Holland.

Liked the subtle emotions from the seniors and starters in comparison to the indifference from others. Love coach's expression but wish he was a tiny step to the left. Also wish i could get good sports shots with this camera...

Crop Circles

2008-05-20T15:38:00.000-07:00

-cutline-
Mike Simon, an employee with D.J. Lawn Service, mows the lawn of the hill located at the entrance to Breton Woods North Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Simon said the job took four hours to complete.

Police Memorial

2008-05-18T22:46:00.000-07:00

My mom and I walked by Rosa Parks Circle last Thursday where the annual police officer memorial service honored 27 fallen officers from Kent County and the surrounding area, as well as numerous others taken in the line of duty.

Linus

2008-05-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

There are no kids my sisters age in the neighborhood.
So...her new best friend is the neighbor's dog, Linus.

Goofy man

2008-05-13T20:09:00.000-07:00

I liked this guy...despite the Michigan attire. He was doing all sorts of dramatic bending over to stretch before going for a walk. Found him behind my mom's house.

WTF?!

2008-04-13T19:11:00.000-07:00

appropriate reaction...

Oh, Takeya Fortner

2008-04-06T19:00:00.000-07:00

The women lost the WNIT this past weekend. How sad I am that I will no longer be able to enjoy the intense reactions from Takeya Fortner and her towel...

The 55-41 loss to Illinois in the women's Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, IN.

A slim 58-57 win over North Carolina State in the semifinals of the WNIT at Breslin.

WNIT semifinals

2008-04-02T21:37:00.000-07:00

I got to shoot the women's basketball team at the WNIT semifinals tonight. It was one of the most fun basketball games I've shot this year, maybe because it was so intense. We were neck and neck the whole game with the winning basket scored by Allyssa DeHaan in the last minute. The game ended 58-57 MSU.

Robert is always talking about working to capture the on-court moments rather than the reactions on the bench, so I teally tried to focus on that this time around.Of course I still had to shoot benched reactions because I am in love with Takeya Fortner's.I will post those later.

I thought this was kinda cool because I it shows two completely opposite reactions.

North Carolina State sophomore guard, Sharnise Beal, reacts to a foul called on her during the semifinals of the WNIT tournament, Apr. 2, 2008 at The Breslin Center as MSU junior guard, Mia Johnson, celebrates. Johnson led the Spartans with 17 points to a 58-57 victory over the Wolfpack.

Skate shop

2008-04-01T20:35:00.000-07:00

Sales associate, Jody Poole, talks on the phone to a customer Mar. 15, 2008, at Premier in downtown Lansing.

Corey Allen,13, borrows tools from Premier sales associate, Jody Poole, to switch his trucks to another board Mar. 15, 2008, before going to a skate park in Frandor.

Big Ten/ Rodeo

2008-03-31T19:52:00.001-07:00

This photo is from the Illinois/ Ohio State game of the women's Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis earlier this month. I was adjusting my lighting before State played Minnesota, and noticed this guy. Turns out he's not just a fan but the father of one of the players.

Illinois fan, Frank Smith, cheers for daughter, sophomore forward Jenna Smith, after Illinois' win over Ohio State March 7, 2008 during the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN.

This was taken back in February when I went with Jason to the rodeo at The Pavilion.I liked the framing of the two girls taking in the surroundings.

Love from a drunken sky

2008-03-24T22:09:00.000-07:00

Some individuals view the world as a glass half full and some individuals are just born with a gift to see the world for all it's worth. A true photojournalist discovers the beauty of this world in the places it's hardest to find. Like love from a drunken sky, beauty is reflected in any story worth telling.