Dark Horse Climbing Competition

February 2011--

Last month MetroRock Climbing gym of Everett, MA hosted the Dark Horse Climbing Series. The competition brought professional climbers from as far as San Francisco to flex their bouldering muscles.

I wish I had documented the transition of the orderly, composed and clean house of my boyfriend to a climber hostel, decorated with backpacks and travelling gear with the occasional set of chalk bag and set of climbing shoes. I think it took more than three or four sweep and mop jobs to clean up the residue of loved crash pads and people.



Pro climbers Max Zolotukhin and Natasha Barnes resting after finishing their sets after Natasha's upper lip got into a fight with the bouldering wall.



Third place Men's Pro Brian Kim getting burly.



Third place Tiffany Hensley sports her signature unorthodox attire in her finals round. Hensley ended up third.

ANNNDD THE FIRST PLACERS!



Pro Francesca Metcalf in first for women's.



Daniel Woods stepping up to his final problem at the Dark Horse Series Comp.

This month I will be fortunate to attend Boston Rock Gym's Heart of Steel competition.

If you think Dark Horse is cool, check out VIDEO INSTALLMENT NUMBER ONE of this bad boy:

HEART OV ZTEEL • Pt1: Missing from Louder Than 11 on Vimeo.

Savage. Brutality. In the best way possible.

NEW WEBSITE NEW WEBSITE NEW WEBSITE

So I've been working off the old website that I created senior for awhile. An incredibly outdated, PJ-istic website that really doesn't emulate the extent of the work I've been doing lately.


Over the past month I've been working on something and one of my clients asked me about my website so I decided that I'd finally suck it up and finish it. I'm still not totally satisfied but it surely showcases some different things I've been working on. So here we go: MY NEW WEBSITE...for the time being.


CHECK. IT. OUT.

Thanks for looking! Stay tuned!

Proxy Puppies, Purses and People

January 2011--

After more than a year at Simmon's College, Proxy says goodbye to its origins and heads to the wonderful world of Somerville to a new office space conveniently located in Union Square. We share the same roof with an eclectic talents from a guitar builder to Groundworks Somerville. So far we are digging the new space and have even set up a nifty little product studio that I will detail in later posts!

Last Sunday we had our official office warming party/sample sale, and introduced everyone to the newest member of our team:




BESO!!

There was a wonderful turnout of new and old faces to see some Winter favorites and a few sneak previews into our Spring items.




Purchasing the holiday dress!



Awesome new bags made ENITIRELY OUT OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.





Beso's best friend was also in attendance.



One of our Lasell models stopped to give Beso a few scratches of encouragement between talking it up with our guests.

Missed out? Not a problem. Monday, February 7 fashionista Naomi Mirando and Proxy will be taking Mission Hill's Savant Project by storm with Fashion with a Conscience:



Hope to see you there!!

January Dance Party Extravaganza!

January 2011--

Whew. This month has been a busy one for the GOOD boys, despite the New England's mandated weekly blizzard. Here are some of the more interesting photographs I've taken over the past month from the dance parties, hope you enjoy them.

GOOD:





Here are the highlights from Substance, the Zuzu dance party gig:



Joe's new ink!



New faces ripping it up on the Substance dance floors.




DANCE DANCE DANCE




Close friends, close tattoos!!!

Yoga Hot Spot-- Stil Yoga Studios

January 2011--

I've been working with Doreen of Plank Designs the past few months.

This past week we went to one of her vendors, Stil Studios in Dedham, MA to do a catalogue shoot and sit in on a class.



Doreen in lotus before the class.



Feet!







Relaxing after the class.


I immediately fell in love with the studio. A boutique adorned with tasteful jewelry, yoga accessories preceeds a large rustic barn door opening to a yoga studio.


Yoga teacher Betty shuts the door before class.

The studio teaches about 5ish classes per day, with a variety of instructors with a variety of yoga disciplinary backgrounds.

It's MBTA accessable, and drops you off literally a hop skip and a jump away from your destination. And if you've got time to kill, it's conveniently located in a shopping center with a myriad of clothing and accessories stores. Seriously...you'll want to parooze AT LEAST one of them; being void of any window shopping desire is actually impossible.

Knifey Spoony, Now Denial Breaking in an Allston New Year

January 1, 2011-

The first night of the New Year I celebrated the turn of the times seeing Allston's Now Denial and San Francisco's Knifey Spoony at Obrien's. Amazing crowd, amazing bands, if you're in the market for some new ear candy I suggest checking both of them out. Now Denial frequents the Boston venue scene so you'll have plenty of opportunities to check them out live!



Stevo from Knifey Spoony




Knifey Spoony



More Stevo




Joe from Now Denial



Now Denial



Now Denial




More Joe.

This was show number one of using the 50 mm f 1.4 WITHOUT FLASH FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. Not gonna lie, I kinda dig how the focal length and aperture infuse a sense of intimacy into these low fi sets. Looking forward to how I fare in more low light settings!

GOOD gets weird.

January 2011-

Well, I guess you know you're a photographer when you walk into a room with your camera and you're greeted by sneers.

Last GOOD I think I reached the pinnacle of paparazzi loathendome ("thats not a word" blah blah blah it's good enough).

Everytime I went up to a crowd of people, instead of drunken smiles and sparkling eyes gleaming for a bit of glass attention I was cast away with snarls, and an alarming amount of middle fingers. Something different. Right on.

So here are my favorite snarls and sneers from last week's dance night. Enjoy.






I'm not sure what my friend Will is trying to convey, cameras don't make noises.



This kid tried to come up to me and say something, but his friend just gracefully whisked his head away in some 80s heartfelt torrent of emotion and this expression was the only thing that was produced from his lips. Okay.



I know these are neither snarls or sneers, but I thought that it's rather interesting that the HAPPIEST PEOPLE captured of the night were those flicking me off.




Sad? Angry? Remorse? Regret? Who knows, maybe his friend.




I am without words.