BFD: The Video
Best Friend’s Day from Karen Seifert on Vimeo.
The video from Best Friend’s Day. Enjoy, the summer is nearing the end.
Brit’s beach birthday
Brittany’s Beach Birthday from Karen Seifert on Vimeo.
A lot of you already saw the other version of this video with the Male Bonding song, but I really wanted to use this song. So I had to tweak it a bit. Yay summer!
Homemade Knives
Last month I was asked to take photos at the Homemade Knives show for the Live at Ipanema series. I didn’t realize how difficult Ipanema is to shoot in, especially with a band like this. They are very intimate type of band so the last thing I wanted to be doing was having my flash go off every minute. I also try very hard at these shows to not block people that are there to enjoy the show.
RVANews posted this article on the show where you can see some photos and download an audio file of the whole show. They played Bruce Springsteen covers so it might not be a bad idea.
4th of july
4th of July! from Karen Seifert on Vimeo.
It’s been a busy summer. But this was 4th of July and we had a pretty great time.
life in pictures
Here’s a quick look at things recently in pictures.
I met Phoenix.
They signed the set list that Hunter was able to wrangle for me.
Also Diana had a pick handed to her by Christian, she totally gave it to me and I totally lost it. I think it fell out of my bag when I was getting the setlist out. 
Sorry lady.
It was the best night in a long time.
Been downloading sweet photography apps for my iPhone.
Hanging out with Sam, hitting up playgrounds all over town.
I shot a wedding this past weekend and rented a badass lens for it.
Finally set this photo up after wanting to do it for over a year and half or longer. FTW.
inching closer to springtime…
Finally got some nice, not quite springtime, but getting warmer type of weather this weekend. In fact I didn’t put my winter coat on once this weekend.
Saturday night there was a Jersey Shore party at Cous Cous. It was a birthday party, but mostly a reason for all the boys to put earrings back in those earlobes from when they were pierced long ago and the girls to show lots of cleavage. Oh and for everyone to get a nice fake tan in February.
As I was editing the photos last night I kept thinking I must have had some sort of vivid coloring filter set on my camera, then I realized no everyone was just really orange. I was impressed with the level of outfits and I am now the proud owner of a pair of white platform flip flops which are safely in the back of my closet.
One of the cast members from the actual show happened to be in Richmond that night at some event down the street. Despite all of our tweets directed towards him he never showed. We had fun with our house music, Jager bombs, and orange skin without him!
Sunday afternoon was a pretty epic brunch at Helen’s. Although dinner_crue is quickly outgrowing most Richmond restaurants.
(we miss you Ian!)
Brittany, Hunter and I ventured into Maymont after brunch and Hunter brought her crazy Marie Antoinette wig. I was able to get some pretty photos of the girls even with the strange looks from passerby.
If you haven’t downloaded the mix from last week do it! Kevin from U or R’s radio station left a comment saying he was going to play it. (is that legal? is what I did even legal?) How he found it and me I have no idea, but take that internet celebrity Phil!
happy valentine president’s day
Ahhh Valentine’s Day. I was happy it landed on a Sunday this year, going to brunch at 821 with your friends and drinking the best mimosas in town is pretty great. And my dear friend Diana did give me this awesome Valentine card. Later that evening everyone else went to the Saves the Day/New Found Glory double feature and I stayed home and watched “Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion” (which I’ve never seen all of) and downloaded a bunch of pop punk that I didn’t have. Anyone remember Spitalfield? Pretty great.
The night before Becki and Corey came over and we did my photo of the week.
We also had some other fun.
In other news… Phoenix is playing a show at the Norva April 27th and the tickets go on sale this Saturday morning. Let me know if you want to go, I want all of my friends to go!
I got all 3 of these pillows for $14 from the Urban Outfitters 50% of sale. It would have cost me over $100 at full price. LOVE deals like this! I also bought new super soft jersey sheets and a bedskirt (also on sale). I’m never leaving my bed again.
through being cold
SNOMG from Karen Seifert on Vimeo.
Blizzard number 3 came this weekend and we finally decided to go play in it. I’m sure glad we did.
Oh hi blog
I could apologize for not blogging but I’m not.
This past weekend started Friday night with a midnight screening of “The Room.” This movie was made in 2003 but it wasn’t until the last couple weeks I had ever heard of it. It is the worst movie I have ever seen and the most fun I’ve had a movie in a long time. Watching the trailer for this movie does not do any justice for it, but physically going to see it with your friends is what makes it. The moment I knew it was great was when everyone in the theater starting yelling “SPOON!” (because there were framed pictures of spoons in the scene) and throwing plastic spoons all around the theater. Along with guys in suits running around with a football and audience members participating in quoting/mocking/general mayhem the entire hour and a half.
Also “Oh hi Mark” has not stopped being repeated on a constant basis. The best was when I came home to find Liz and some friends playing a game in the living room, I said “oh hi Mark” to the group only to find someone was actually named Mark. I’m sure he thought I was crazy.
Saturday was a snow day. Breakfast, games with friends, laying around, making butternut squash soup, having dark and snowys at the bar, having a snowball fight in the bar, Becki flinging herself into snow drifts on the walk back to 319. Sunday was followed with a delicious Comfort brunch followed by hours spent watching movies/LOST on the couches of 319. In my 7 years in Richmond I’ve never seen so much snow in one year, and there’s talk of more for this weekend! I feel like I should talk more about the snow but all it’s done is create problems of transportation, clogging up the grocery stores and bring cold. Frankly I’m over it.
I never posted my 52 weeks for last week, so here it is. A few days after this was taking we get a foot of snow on the ground. Things I’ll never understand.
Here comes my friends
fridaynight_crue from Karen Seifert on Vimeo.
I think I’m getting the hang of this video thing a bit more.