Erin Loechner
It’s hard to imagine anyone sweeter than Erin Loechner, of designformankind.com. Here she is photographed at the Grand American in Salt Lake City during Alt Summit.
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It’s that grand time of year, again–time for the Alt Design Summit in Salt Lake City. I’ve been looking forward to this since….well, since about a year ago when I went last time. This year I’ll be photographing the event, along with Brooke Dennis. And on Saturday morning I’ll be part of a workshop called “Style and Fashion Yourself for a Photoshoot” along with Alison from Petit Elefant and Susan from The Working Closet. Then I’m scooting away quickly to photograph a wedding that same day. It’s going to be a busy and fantastic week. I can just feel it.
Alt is sold out this year and has been for a couple months. So if you’re interested in going next year, don’t wait around to sign up.
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I moved into my new studio last month on a Monday afternoon. Got all the boxes unpacked, put all my pens in a little cup on my desk, figured out where I’d keep the blank CD’s, figured out where the printers would go. Sat back in my chair and thought, I like this new place. Now, who can I photograph in the new studio? Then I emailed everyone’s favorite blogger, C. Jane, and asked her if she’d come on in, and be the first person photographed in the new studio. She agreed, and this is how things played out on August 24, 2011.
She wrote about it on her blog.
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She gets anxiety around crowds (then makes jokes about the medicine she’s on for it). She swears like a sailor. She started a very real, online fight with William Shatner. And she just might be the funniest person you’ll ever meet.
This is Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess.
Jenny Lawson, photographed in Park City, Utah at Evo 11
I met Jenny last year in New York at the Kirtsy party that took place at BlogHer. Those Kirtsy ladies are among other things, smart party planners, and had the good sense to seat Jenny with an old fashioned typewriter at a table, where anyone at the party that wanted to could have Jenny write something pithy or funny or profound about them. So a big long line of eager party-goers waited in line to see what Jenny would write. I kept the one she wrote about me. It’s been clipped to my file cabinet in my office. It says:
You capture the awesomeness in others because you see their light.
That’s a good thing. But not something I can be witty about.
Apparently.
That was last year. Now jump forward to last week in Park City. Jenny came to speak at Evo. She told me before it started that her speech would either work out great or go horribly wrong because it included asking audience members to turn into zombies and kill the rest of the audience. But not really kill them. Just fake kill them and then we’d all have a good laugh. And so Jenny had a little trepidation. But this is the Bloggess, and, turns out, ( just as I suspected) it was hilarious and inspiring. And I wish you could have been there to hear it.
Park City is glorious. Probably any time of year, but this time of year, in particular. Jenny and I took a 12 minute ride up the chair lift and then when you get to the top, you automatically start singing “The hills are alive with the sound of music” from the Sound of Music. You can’t help it. And if you’re there with a photographer, he must might get a photograph of that.
Jenny Lawson singing the hills are alive...
Jenny, thanks so much for making some time for me, remembering me from last year, and for being so open and genuine. I look forward to the next time (whenever that is) and also, I promise not to tell anyone where you live.
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Saying something like, I love Gabrielle Blair is sort of like saying, I love cheese. Of course you do–who doesn’t? Gabby runs Designmom.com which Time Magazine named of the best websites of 2010. Again, tell me something I don’t know.
Here she is photographed with her husband Ben at their home in Denver. (Although it’s not their home any more because the Blair family is spending the next year in France).
Want to know more about Gabby? Here’s an interview with her on the Mormon Women website.
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The night before Alt Design Summit began I was invited to dinner at The New Yorker restaurant in Salt Lake, sponsored by Hewlett Packard. I wondered if there was going to be anyone there I’d know. Turns out, some of my favorite people showed up: Stephanie and Christian as well as the very fine illustrator Sarah Jane and her husband. (She posted a picture of us on her blog).
And when I saw Maggie Mason, I was prepared to go up to her and say something impressive, like, you probably don’t remember me but I met you last year at Alt. But I didn’t get a chance. Instead, as soon as she saw me, she gave me a big hug and said, “Justin! It’s so great to see you.” Well how about that. Maggie Mason, you know know to treat a guy.
Maggie is the life of the party.
So in the spirit of whimsy and fun that is synonymous with Maggie, here’s a fun match game for you. Match the pictures below of Maggie with the mood of Maggie. Leave your answer in the comment section or play along on your own. Here are your choices:
Mighty Earnest – Mighty Mighty – Mighty Indignant – Mighty Graceful – Mighty Pugnacious – Mighty Peppy – Mighty Regal – Mighty Stealthy
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