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Charlie Snuggs On Guitar
If you've been in the Carolinas for any length of time, most likely you know Charlie Snuggs. You may not remember which band you know him from, but you definitely know him.
"I've played in so many bands, even I can't remember them all," laughs the versatile guitarist during lunch in Little River, S.C. this week. "I've been with country bands, dance bands, blues bands … all of them."
Born in Highland Park, Ill. to native N.C. parents, Charlie moved to Pittsburgh, Pa., Lakewood, Fla. and Thomasville, Ga. all before he was five years old.
"My dad was a municipal manager," Charlie explains. "He'd be fired and rehired with every election. We lived all over the place.
"Blues was in the air in southern Georgia, when I was there in the 50s. The old men playing on the street fascinated me, and I'd put a penny in the cup, and sit to watch them."
Family life revolved around music, too. Charlie's old sister played classical piano. His father sang in the choir at church and community events.
Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964 was a pivotal date for a young Charlie Snuggs. He, along with a reported 73 million others, watched The Beatles for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show.
"Watching John Lennon, it hit me. That's what made me get a guitar.
"It took me two years to learn my first song. I did it by ear. It was 'Love Me Do' by the Beatles."
His next big musical moment would come in 1967 with the release of Cream's critically acclaimed psychedelic rock album Disraeli Gears. It catapulted the young guitarist into a whole new area of music – blues.
"I started really listening to British music … the Yardbirds … the Stones … I didn't know it was blues, but I knew I liked it."
During this time, Charlie was busy playing. At 14, he had his first gig, playing for a teenage center (By now the family was living in Mooresville, N.C.). A few years later he landed a spot with a more experienced band, Nova's IX. They had recorded a record and appeared on American Bandstand. The band included Bobby Nance (trumpet player for the Catalinas), vocalist Gary Brown and guitarist Sammy Ingram (now a professor at Clemson).
"They hired me to take Sammy's place … a 17-year-old in a happenin' band … I think Gary Brown got me drunk for the first time!"
Later on, in Charlotte, N.C., Charlie met drummer Earl Truette, and then the Barkley brothers – Rusty and Johnny.
"We toured the hotel and fraternity circuit, playing Top 40. Then one day the Barkleys walked in wearing cowboy hats and boots. 'We're shutting this band down. We're going to play country.'
"So now we're a country band," said Charlie.
Rusty Barkley's comment to me about this, when I reminded him of the incident during a phone conversation this afternoon? "That was the only way we could get out of playing disco … And doing country really opened up another kind of playing for us. Charlie's dad had told him, 'You're never going to be a real guitar player until you can play Chet Atkins.' So Charlie started doing "Yakety Axe" [the Chet Atkins 1965 single, which was an adaptation of "Yakety Sax" by his friend saxophonist Boots Randolph.] Then doing James Burton's chicken pickin' stuff and playing with Jim Brown, a guitarist for Charlie Daniels Band, who had a big influence on both of us … well the country thing opened us up to a new kind of playing."
So the newly designated country group hooked up with Larry Presley, who built the Beach Wagon on Business 17 in Myrtle Beach and Kaleidoscope Productions.
Continuing his saga, Charlie says, "We opened the place and played there for a couple years, opening for folks like George Jones, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless and others, until the band broke up. Rusty and John went back to Charlotte. Earl and I stayed here.
"My next adventure was at Sock's [Myrtle Beach club on Hwy. 501]. It's around 1979, and I'm working the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. gig.
"I played with Kerry Michaels and Mike Stevens for about a year. It was a crazy place … gambling, hookers. John Jenrette [from the FBI ABSCAM debacle] used to hang out there."
"I moved to Nashville; that didn't work out. Went back to Charlotte, got a great gig with the Country Underground [now Morehead Street Tavern]. Upstairs was the blues band and downstairs, it was country."
Back at the beach in the late 80s, Charlie was again playing country music with Silver at the Beach Wagon. After Hurricane Hugo, he joined Party Sharks playing the hottest gig in town at the Holiday Inn in downtown Myrtle Beach.
When Chicago Bob Hess quit his gig with Blues Express, the house band at House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, Charlie took his place.
"It was great," he says. "They sent us to Orlando for two months. We opened for Johnny Winter … we opened for
Robin Trower – one of the highlights of my life."
In the mid nineties, Charlie played at Sandpipers. "Bo Diddley came in, hired a local band, so we hung out, another great time. What a storyteller he was. And I ran Smokehouse Brown's band for a while."
After that, Charlie played with local musician Jaynie Trudell, for some 15 years. In fact they still work together sometimes and pull in the crowds when they do.
"I decided at some point I wanted to have a blues jam band. And that's the Sharks [formed in Fall 2011], with Earl Truette on drums, Terry Harper on bass, and me on guitar. It's sort of Widespread Panic meets Albert King," he says. "You can't just mimic old Elmore James sound. The rhythms are different now. So our jam band sound is appealing to a pretty broad crowd."
Charlie Snuggs is all about the music. When he's not playing, he's practicing or listening to music.
"I study music all the time," he tells me." I'm fascinated. I like it. I like hip hop rhythms. I listen to Rihanna and Mary J. Blige. I listen to Derek Trucks and Jimmy Herring."
Chicago Bob, Ambassador of the Blues for the State of South Carolina elected by the National Blues Society Hall of Fame, told me, "Charlie Snuggs is probably the most accomplished musician I've ever had the pleasure to share a stage with … He probably knows more styles of music then anyone I've ever met … Charlie is the absolute best
I've ever worked with and I've been at this business for over 40 years."
Kerry Michaels and bandmate Terry Harper concur. She said, "Charlie and I go way back [He is a] great, great guitar player as everyone knows, but with Charlie this is no other guitar player as sincere and honest. He has always been my friend."
Terry adds, "Charlie has such great stage presence. He brings a personality to the stage before he even opens his mouth … and his playing …. it's just topnotch."
Rusty Barkley was happy to elaborate. "Charlie's ability to set a groove helps other players sound better," said Rusty Barkley. "He's never selfish, always does his best to help. It was Charlie, back in the day, who pulled me along. He knew theory and taught me … I always loved playing with Charlie … He was playing like Jeff Beck; I was playing Clapton. We put it together and got rock & roll … oh, and Charlie on slide…
Charlie told me that a great guitar player doesn't want to play a bunch of notes. "We want to make the guitar sing like a voice … like B.B. King says about Lucille."
"I hear so much emotion in Charlie's playing," adds local blues legend Michael "Pops" Stallings. "It's not just technique. It's more." And when you go see Charlie Snuggs play guitar. That's what you get. More.
You can catch Charlie jamming with the Sharks at 2001 Night Club on Sunday nights, beginning at 9:30 (often along with pals such as Chicago Bob, Kid Drew, Anson Funderburgh, Jaynie Trudell, Scott Cable, Digger Tozzi, and Calabash Flash. On Wednesday nights, he's usually there, too, playing with the Coco Loco Party Band. And if it's country licks you're lusting for, look for the Most Wanted band, with Charlie Snuggs on guitar.
Royal Southern Brotherhood: Roots Rock Meets Soul In an Electrifying Union
I first heard about Royal Southern Brotherhood (RSB) from the band's drummer, Yonrico Scott. He was in town last Dec. for a South By Southeast show and during an interview, I put the standard query to him, "So what's ahead for you?"
The enthusiasm and intensity of his answer caught me by surprise. "I've just joined this band," he told me, "Get on Facebook, check it out! This is big! Devon Allman, Cyril Neville, Miko Zito, Charlie Wooten … and me! We're already working on a CD. We've got bookings lined up! This is big!"
Okay, this sounds big.
Guitarist Devon Allman is, after all, the son of legendary Southern rocker Gregg Allman and successful leader of his own Honey Tribe band. Percussionist Cyril Neville is from the first family of funk, the Neville Brothers (and the groundbreaking Meters) – and of course, some of the best vocalists around. Guitarist Mike Zito took home a Blues Foundation award last year for his tune Pearl River, which he co-wrote with Cyril Neville, and his newest recording, Greyhound is up for best blues album this year. Charlie Wooten, the group's Louisiana-grown bass player, founder of Zydefunk and the Charlie Wooten Project, is into everything from R&B to funked up jazz and reggae. Drummer Yonrico Scott has his own band, is a 2011 Grammy winner (with the Derek Trucks Band) and has played with Col. Bruce Hampton and Ike Stubblefield.
So I started following their progress on Facebook. With Grammy-winning producer Jim Gaines they were recording at Dockside Studio near Lafayette, La.
Pretty soon they were posting snippets of tracks … harmonies for "New Horizons," then guitar dubs … vocals for "Left My Heart In Memphis."
They had me at the harmonies. I had to interview this band. And after talking to them, I'm more excited than ever about the music that's in store for all of us.
Devon was my first phone call. We talked a little about his famous dad, but mostly focused on the new group and their debut 11-track self-titled CD, which will hit the streets on May 8.
"There's a real blend of styles," he tells me. "But it all comes from old school blues and rock."
Devon is the founder and bandleader of Honey Tribe, a St. Louis, Mo. based blues-rock band known for their musicianship and jam band leanings.
"RSB is definitely more laid back than Honey Tribe," he says. "But we're stylistically similar. I'm really stoked that we came together."
Are there any highlights of recording that you can share, I asked him.
"Any time Cyril stepped up to the mic," he answered. "He really inspired me. There's a tune that he sings,
"Moonlight Over Mississippi. It's a standout. I honestly like the whole album, but this might be my favorite."
Every one of the band members is excited about the new group. "We all came ready to work, said Cyril. "We wound up doing 12 tracks in two days, finished in five. We're all putting 150% in.
"We needed a solid rhythm section and that's what we have.
"What you hear on the recording, that's performance on there, not all studio trickery and overdubs. It's performance.
"Devon and Zito, they're amazing guitarists. I like the blend between them. They never stepped on each other.
"And I'm very excited about the singing. Devon's vocals are topnotch. Each song is different, but they all come together.
"All the elements of what I've been exposed to in my life are mixed up in this beautiful musical gumbo. Every member of this band has been involved in some of the seminal Southern musical ensembles.
"I've known Gregg Allman for over 35 years, so I don't believe this is a coincidence or accident that I'm in a band now with his son.
"The music, to me, feels a lot like what Gregg's brother – and Devon's uncle– did and what I did with my brothers and my uncle."
I really had considered Mike Zito a guitarist, but in reading about him, I found reference after reference to songwriting.
"I've been writing my own songs since high school, 20 something years," he explained.
"I don't ever write with intention for style. Usually just sit down and pick the guitar up and start singing. Or I'm driving."
So how would you describe yourself, I asked, guitarist, vocalist or songwriter?
"Six years ago – would have been guitar, love guitar. I didn't get it that singing and songwriting was where it's at. These days, guitar isn't my strength. Now I pay more attention to my voice.
"Used to be I wrote songs to play guitar. I found some songs off my old independent releases. I think they're stronger than my guitar. Over the past five or six years, it's come together."
I knew Mike had some addiction problems in his past, which we spoke about briefly.
"I started playing in bars, six nights a week in bars … drinking a lot … drugs … too much partying," he said. "I got in trouble with it, quit playing music. I was out on the streets.
"But I got into recovery. I had people helping me and eight years ago I started playing music again, different this time. Nothing came between me and the music. My newest album is Greyhound, produced by Anders Osborn."
"Pearl River, the album before, was my first experience with Cyril, and my first ever collaboration."
Cyril talked about it, too. "We had never met. I sent him lyrics. He asked what I felt about music. I had Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 'I've Got a Spell On You' in my head and we went from there."
The respect these guys have for each other is evident with every sentence.
"Charlie Wooten and Yonrico? First time playing with them, we hit it off instantly," Zito said.
"The first night before anyone else got there, we recorded guitar, vocal, bass. They're the backbone."
Until Royal Southern Brotherhood rolls into your town, they're as close as your computer. They have released their official video of "New Horizons." It was uploaded to YouTube on Feb. 20. Check it out.The band's website is: http://www.royalsouthernbrotherhood.com. And if you're on Facebook, find them and "like" them. You'll enjoy the exchange.
Soulful Troubadour Back at Myrtle Beach Train Depot for SxSE Show
It's become a wonderful tradition for South By Southeast concert goers in Myrtle Beach. Right about this time of year, the Randall Bramblett Band – and we're talking the full band here – head to the Grand Strand for a fast-paced, high energy show at the historic Myrtle Beach Train Depot. And when I tell you they blow the roof off the place, that Davis Causey's guitar work defies description, that Michael Steele is a monster on bass, I'm not exaggerating.
Randall Bramblett has performed and recorded with Sea Level, the Allman Brothers, Steve Winwood,Traffic, Levon Helm, Bonnie Raitt, Widespread Panic, Gov't Mule and more. His tunes have been covered by scores of others. In fact, Bonnie Raitt is covering his "Used to Rule the World" from Randall's 2008 Now It's Tomorrow CD on her next release. It'll be the lead track and the second single to be released. Plus, they co-wrote another tune together that will be one of Starbucks' free releases.
Randall Bramblett is a multi-talented icon in the music business. He's more than proficient on guitar, saxophone and keyboards. His raspy vocals are passionate and soulful to the bone. But songwriting for this Jesup, Ga. native is akin to breathing, and that's what I wanted to talk to him about during our telephone interview last week.
He was happy to oblige.
"I have a lot going on," he tells me. "I've been writing, getting ready to put out another album. I'm in the process of demo-ing songs that I've written since The Meantime [his beautifully sparse 2010 recording that featured Randall on grand piano, Gerry Hansen on drums and percussion and Chris Enghauser on upright bass].
"I think I have enough for a record. I have to figure out a direction now."
Did Randall write his songs as a concept album, I wanted to know.
"I've never done a concept album. They have a 'feel' after the fact, and I always like to think of it as an 'album' even with single downloads.
"The thing with me is I have so many different styles. My songs can be folkie or funky gospel or something else. But I don't want the album to be too disjointed. A lot of it comes together from the players.
"But [for this next album] I've got a lot of strong bluesy R&B going on."
It makes sense, when you consider that Randall grew up in the heart of soul country in southern Georgia, where he counted James Brown and Ray Charles among his musical heroes. Further influenced by artists such as James Taylor and Carole King, Randall began writing songs while still in high school.
In college at the University of North Carolina, he studied religion and psychology. But shortly after graduating, he moved to Athens, Ga., where he made contacts and honed his skills in the "Liverpool of the South."
I'm always curious to learn how songwriters work at their craft … whether it starts as an idea or a line or a piano riff…
"I don't write like Tin Pan Alley writers do," Randall told me. "I don't have an angle. Basically, I sit at my computer, two actually. One is for lyrics and one is for music.
"I'll have sheets of paper with ideas from journaling written all over them.
"I usually write with a vignette or scene in mind. It'll have some meaning, but I hardly ever write a story. I write more mood stuff.
"It's similar to poetry, I think, hard to define … it has some openness to it."
Intelligently written lyrics are a signature for Randall. His 2004 album Thin Places, much of which he co-wrote with guitarist Jason Slatton, is one of my faves.
"Jason usually gets it started and I finish. He comes up with some great lines," Randall laughs as he explains. "We still write together, on two acoustic guitars."
"No More Mr. Lucky [released in 2001 and produced by John Keane of Widespread Panic] was my first record for New West Records," he continues.
Another beautifully written album, it served notice that Randall Bramblett had achieved a new level of songwriting. Soulful blues, jazz, funked up rock and a Southern sensibility meld together in a standout recording.
The album's opening track, "God Was In the Water," feels dark and desperate, a spiritual longing or questioning, a feeling of being lost – recurring themes in Randall's work. Written by Randall and Davis Causey, Bonnie Raitt covered the tune on her 2005 Souls Alike album.
Other notables include the uptempo "Get In, Get Out," "Lost Energy" and Aching For a Dream, a tune about life choices, Neal Cassady and the Beat generation.
"I called Carolyn, Neal Cassady's wife," Randall says. "I found her on the Internet. She had a website devoted to Neal. She objected to my lyrics. She said he didn't die counting the railroad ties in Mexico. She says Ken Kesey started all that."
One thing all Randall Bramblett songs have in common is their emotion. I find it impossible to listen without feeling something.They push, they pull. They ask questions. They insinuate. They make me feel. Something.
The date for this year's show is Saturday, March 10. The show starts at 8 p.m. And it will be SRO. If you don't have a reservation yet, stop reading and shoot off an email with the number in your party to email@example.com.
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Admission fees include a range of potluck meals and often homemade dessert (to which you are invited to contribute), wine, beer, soda and coffee. The Myrtle Beach Train Depot is located at 851 Broadway in Myrtle Beach. For more information, or to join the nonprofit group, log onto http://www.southbysoutheast.org.


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Down and In: Assessment Practices at the Program Level
June 2011
Assessing the quality of undergraduate student learning continues to be a priority in U.S. postsecondary education. Although variations in outcome assessment practices have long been suspected, they have not been systematically documented. To follow up the 2009 National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) report on institutional assessment activity described by chief academic officers, NILOA surveyed program heads in the two- and four-year sectors to gain a more complete picture of assessment activity at the program- or department-level. This report details the findings for that survey.
Interested in program-level assessment resources? Click here.
Please cite as: Ewell, P, Paulson, K, & Kinzie, J. (2011). Down and in: Assessment practices at the program level. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA).
This NILOA work has been featured in several media venues:
AAC&U News, Down and In: Assessment Practices at the Program Level, in the August 2011 issue.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Assessments of Student Learning Vary Widely by Field in June 15, 2011 issue. Be sure to see the interactive table.
Inside Higher Ed, How Program Heads View Assessment in June 15th, 2011 issue.
"The future effectiveness of institutional accreditation in both promoting good practice and in reinforcing the academy's assumption of consistent and transparent standards of student academic achievement lies entirely in the hands of the academy and its leadership."
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From the time I was young, I've been asking myself (and others) that question. What is it about Commerce that makes it so unique, and so extraordinary? A seemingly modest small Southern town determined to hold onto its small-town atmosphere, Commerce is big in all the ways that count. But why?
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Vol. LXIII, No. 16
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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ON TRENTON STAGE: Obie Award winner Heidi Schreck, left, and Polly Lee, seen at McCarter Theatre in Candida, are currently co-starring in the world premiere of Instructions for Breathing by Caridad Svich at Trentons Passage Theatre, continuing through May 10. A drama about loss and faith, the play deals with the sudden and tragic loss of a child by an act of casual neglect, and the attempts at healing by the family and community. Directed by Daniella Topol, the cast also includes Bryan Close, Frank Harts, Kate Hopkins, and Gerardo Rodriguez.
A suburban home, an office, and various other locales in the life of Jon and Sara are only the literal settings of Instructions for Breathing, a poetic, poignant world premiere drama by Caridad Svich, currently at Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton. More importantly, this play is set in a dream world — a world of the mind's creation, beautifully evoked through a child's offstage voice, a suggestively surrealistic set, and a room "overlooking the ocean" on stage left — a place for meditation, spiritual relief and healing.
Princeton Pro Musica celebrated the close of its 30th anniversary season in grand style on Sunday afternoon as Music Director Frances Fowler Slade led the chorus and accompanying orchestra in a brisk and clean performance of J.S. Bachs St. John Passion. This is the type of music Pro Musica does best, and Sunday afternoons concert in Richardson Auditorium demonstrated the finer performance points of this well-honed choral ensemble.
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Minka Kelly – aka someone you've never heard of – is the sexiest woman alive
Esquire's "Sexiest Woman Alive" issue features Minka Kelly this time around, and after the cover image was revealed, a lot of people scratched their heads and said, "who?" Â People have been complaining left and right that they don't know have the slightest clue about this girl. Â The surgical-technician-turned-actress has not had a lot of different or high-visibility roles, but she did play Lyla on Friday Night Lights, remember that show? Â No, you never watched it? Â Well, she was also Ricki on What I Like About You, did you watch that? Â Still no? Â Well, she's also been on a few episodes of Parenthood, and if you've never watched that one either, then I got nothin'. Â I barely recognize her myself, but I have to admit, she is pretty hot.
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October 14th, 2010 at 10:26 am
The sexiest woman alive?!!?! Um. Yes, she's very attractive, but she doesn't hit the Top 100.
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Shore LeaveShore Leave (2002) Episode 301- Home Movies Cartoon Episode Guide
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- Burns & Burns Productions, Tom Snyder Productions
- Cartoon Characters: Brendon Small, Paula Small, Jason Panopolis, Coach Jon McGuirk, Melissa, Erik, Mr. Lynch.
- Voice Actors: Brendon Small, Janine Di Tullio, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Jonathan Katz, Ron Lynch.
- Directed By Loren Bouchard.
- Produced By Melissa Bardin Galsky, Loren Bouchard, Bonnie Burns, Linda Simensky, Brendon Small, Tom Snyder, Mary Catherine Tucker.
- Written By Loren Bouchard, Bill Braudis, Brendon Small.
- Music: Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small.
- Editor: Chris Georgenes, Damon Wong.
- First Aired on August 04, 2002.
- Originally Aired on Cartoon Network (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Episode Number: 301
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Cartoon Summary:
Melissa is forced to join the Faery Princesses when her dad decides that she doesn't have enough female influence in her life. Brendan has no excuse not to sleep over at Fenton's house, which turns into a nightmare. Jason masterminds a plan for their escape,... (more)
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What is distillation:
Distillation is the chemical engineering processes and other facilities used in oil refineries to distills the incoming crude oil, pyrolysis oil and waste oil into useful products such as diesel oil and fuel oils, gasoline or petrol, jet fuel, etc.
Distilling equipment
Our distilling equipment is unique in Chinese market now. The Distilling equipment can be used to process waste plastic oil, waste tires oil, waste engineer oil, waste used oil to diesel. It has some advantages like long service life, better oil quality, continuous working, high oil yield etc.
Distilling equipment working process
Distilling equipment
1. Prepare waste oil
2. Heating for distillation
3. Cooling
4. Chemical process for cleaning the distillation oil
5. Collect final diesel product
Distilling equipment advantage
1.Long service life
Indirect heating can protect reactor, which makes no pollutions and greatly increase the service life of oil distillation machine.
2.Better oil quality
After oil distillation, we will add some chemical to remove color and odor in the diesel, so as to improve the diesel quality.
The diesel from our oil distillation machine can be used in diesel generator, tractors, trucks etc.
3.Continuous working
When operate oil distillation equipment, first you pump oil inside the reactor to heat. After finished heating, it will become oil gas and goes to cooling system.
Then start another tank. So, the first reactor is empty, no need to stop, you could pump another tank of oil again into the first tank, continuously working.
4.High oil yield.
The raw material for our oil distilling equipment can be tire oil, plastic oil or waste oil. After processed by our oil distillation equipment you can get 85% diesel and the remaining will be bitumen.
Distilling equipment final product
The diesel oil obtained can be widely used in more kinds of diesel engines and will produce less smoke and less noise than regular diesel fuel. In addition to producing products that have high economic values, our plants also have the features of safe, energy saving and environment friendly.
Diesel application


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Thank you for stopping by to check out Joy Coakley Weddings!
I graduated with a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art University and have been working in the commercial photography world ever since, as both a photographer and a stylist. My experience, ranging from photography, photo styling, floral design, event design, event production, and now motherhood, have all prepared me to approach shooting weddings and portraiture with great excitement and confidence. It's the perfect harmony for me.
And let's face it, you just can't have a bad time capturing some of the most joyous occasions for people! I love to have fun. I love all things beautiful and meaningful. I often get teary-eyed during speeches. I honor ritual, amazingly unique for every couple. I feel grateful to be welcomed into people's lives for such personal experiences. I love to dance and sing. I LOVE the idea that telling your story through my eyes will be treasured by you and your loved ones for generations to come. I love LOVE.
I approach every shooting situation with a wide range of ability and flexibility that is naturally tailored to each client, with a taste of photojournalism, lifestyle, and fine art.
Thank you to all of my amazing clients and subjects who always become lifelong friends. I will forever be grateful for you opening up your world to me!
~ Joy
I am based in the San Francsico, Bay Area, but am always up for travel. Make sure to stop by and check out my commercial work as well as my portrait photograhy.
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Because of that, I was invited to talk about my project at two different feminist events.
I didn't want to just 'give a talk' -- I wanted participants to experience sewing and the pleasure of doing something with their hands. So I built the workshop around an actual activity of hand sewing, which I hoped would pave the way to a discussion about gender and sewing.
|For the workshop, I wore my Granny Smith Blouse with the Guess What Colour skirt Photo: Tanchan Wichitsukhon
|Photo: Tanchan Wichitsukhon
|Mother-daughter team! Photo: Tanchan Wichitsukhon
|Girlfriend-boyfriend team! Photo: Tanchan Wichitsukhon
|Tan is the only brave one who has picked the Bow Belt project
|I think it was worth the extra work -- well done Tan!
|Ruth and Monika, in their workshop
My second group of participants were considerably more experienced. I even learned a thing or two from them! The thing I enjoyed most about this second workshop was that I had the opportunity of really talking with each participants. For example, one woman worked as an air traffic controller. It was fascinating to hear about the long training process and the zero-mistake policy! I'm glad there is a zero-mistake policy.
I leave you with pictures of the second event!


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It is officially the middle of another week! And you know what Wednesday means... it's time for another great challenge at Word Art Wednesday!
Be sure to check out the Word Art Wednesday site for all of the details including this week's digital scripture, how to link your creation AND info on some fabulous prizes!
We appreciate our sponsors so very much! Please take a few moments to thank those who generously provided our prizes this week!
A very special thank you to Simon Says Stamp who graciously provided me some goodies to play with this month! They are having a huge celebration this month. Be sure to check out their BLOG to check it out! As part of this great event also known as #STAMPtember, I have been given a few products to share with you on today's card...
I started out with an A2 Side Folding Card provided by Simon Says Stamp and added a layer of diagonal print designer paper. I wanted my snowflake die to pop so I chose a complementary DP that was a bit less "busy" and cut it to fit nicely under the die. The die (also from Simon Says stamp) is super dainty and looks great over this pattern. I can't wait to pair a couple of these dies together over an entire card panel to see what it looks like! I added a feel different size pearls to the panel (lifted up with dimensional foam) and printed today's scripture on white card stock. I trimmed it to the desired size and used a simple corner rounder to dress up opposite edges! I really love the bold look of these gem!
Thanks so much for stopping by! And don't forget to check out #STAMPtember this month at Simon Says Stamp! They have some wonderful new products to share!
And please join in with us this week at Word Art Wednesday's challenge where the designs are always family friendly! Thanks for stopping by!
Paper - Card Base - A2 Side Folding Cards by Simon Says Stamp, DP by DCWV Winter Basics Stack, White CS by Georgia Pacific
Die - Snowflake Block by Simon Says Stamp
Pearls - Recollections