Posts with the tag 'project night'
Project night came again this week, and along with it another healthy snack courtesy of DaveO. I mean, I’m all for improving your skills and perfecting technique, but after the mac and cheese last week, and this weeks deep fried tater-tot goodness, I might ask for some perfecting of salad making skills next time. Or perhaps jello-making. Or green bean blanching?
We also got to do some brainstorming and social media chatting about a new product that my friend Marci is helping with promoting, Pestos with Panache. We snacked on the delicious different pestos above, Gorgonzola with Fig and Pumpkin Chipotle and chatted strategy and usefulness of twitter and facebook fan pages. It was fun, but it got the wheels turning and now I want more!
The rest of the time was spent practicing Photoshop skillz like color balances and the key beauty retouches, and sorting through large batches of Storyboard Books. I’m getting better at PS and liking it.
Tags: daveo, house, project night, the storyboard book
November 20th, 2009
Second week of Project Night, and I feel like although a little scattered, we may have managed to get more done!
2 major successes of the night: Dave’s killer baked mac and cheese, and Nora’s quick-shot blog image photo shoot (thanks Jeffrey!).
Nora is the magic and brains behind Minneapple in the Big Apple, which is a group that brings together Minnesota expats here in the Big City along with promoting the heck out of Minnesota-created cultural goings-ons whether by said expats, or touring musicians, artists, comedians, writers, whatever. Nora does this out of pure love for both the Minneapple and the Big Apple and her events are always a success. Check out her blog–complete with event calendar–here, and one of her several blurbs about her monthly event in Time Out New York here. You can also buy one of those kick-ass T-shirts, designed by our friend Bryan Christianson (of course another Twin City expat artist) here!
other PN successes: preliminary photo shooting of Nora’s Minneapple calling cards, designed by yours truly, more baby-stepping toward Storyboard Book art, mini-card design discussions.
more more more!
Tags: corin, daveo, food, photos, project night
November 12th, 2009
Last night was the first installation of a weekly get-together at my place that I have deemed Project Night. I would have to say that this PN was a full blown success, if only for the creation and consumption of these fried delights, apple beignets.
Suffering from an overload of apples from a recent trip to the orchard, Heather and Brittany decided to get out the deep-frying bravado and make these puppies. They were DELICIOUS, and not a single one lasted the night.
The recipe is from dearly departed Gourmet, and you can find it here. Sadly, there was no butter rum caramel sauce, but I have to wonder if they even needed it.
Other PN successes: a full storyboard book 2 pager artfully done and photographed, new web sites set up and on the way to being designed, rickety bike seat stabilized and fixed up, new concepts created for postcard project, yarn cut, tied and readied for holiday gift making.
Let’s see what happens next week…
Tags: bicycle, cider, food, project night, the storyboard book
November 5th, 2009
