week 42: film

Marie: This is a snapshot from the French film Tell No One. I saw it when it was playing at The Oriental last year.  The opening scene has stuck with me over the last year, I think because it features Otis Redding's "For Your Precious Love", which I love.  They also used my favorite favorite of them all, Jeff Buckley (Lilac Wine), though the scene in which he croons is, quite fittingly, melancholy and bittersweet.

Naomi: I went to the premiere of Harry Brown last week, that's Michael Caine and the cast giving a little speech before it began. It's pretty violent and the seats in the Leicester Square Odeon are leopard print.

The tlp is going to be taking a well deserved break while Marie brings another person into the world. Once he's arrived we'll get back into the swing of things, see you in a few weeks!
love,
Marie and Naomi.

week 41: bokeh

bokeh: in photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in ouf-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."

marie: we made a trip over the bridge to the eastside of milwaukee last night, to gather up some serious bokeh- the marquee of the oriental theatre. i love this place not only for the obvious reasons, but they also have a shaker at the popcorn stand with brewers yeast. i'm a sucker for good popcorn.

i also wanted to comment that i can not believe it took until week 41 for one of us to pick bokeh as a theme. and how funny we both opted for nighttime, light shots.  life simply looks better as a beautiful, illuminated mass of dreamy glowbugs.

naomi: we love bokeh, it's the best.

this is london at night time, waiting for a bus.

can't think of another theme that we can come up with that i'll love more than this, you've got a tough job this week 'rie.


this week shall be movie/film set by marie.

week 40:pastime

marie: this is not my house. this was taken from my house, though. it's the view from my bedroom. and seeing that one definition of pastime is "something that serves to make time pass agreeably", i guess that would qualify time spent in bed napping/relaxing/reading/editing/daydreaming of my baby as a pastime of mine. it's very agreeable, and a good deal of the third trimester has landed me here. so in case you were wondering, that is the connection between my neighbor's roof and this week's theme.

naomi: this is what makes my time pass agreeably. exploring other peoples houses and taking pictures in their mirrors.

next week's theme is bokeh chosen by london town.

week 39: feet

marie: i had to try REALLY hard to get my feet in this shot. i was going to shoot what i actually see, which is only my belly, but my boots just looked too pretty in the leaves. wouldn't that have been funny, though? the theme would have been changed to: feet (or lack thereof)

naomi: that's pudding again.
he's autumn coloured.
i love his fluffy feet.
i also love autumn and leaves and seeing maries big 'ol pregnant belly hanging out among the apples and pumpkins.

next weeks theme will be chosen by the american contingent. she chooses pastime.

did we mention we have started a new transatlantic collaboration? it's a work in progress, but check it out here:
the transatlantic press

week 38: staircase

marie: the stairs have been killing me lately. i waddle up and down and up and down all day with my egg shaped body -that's how jer described it this morning- like humpty dumpty. unfortunately for me, the only bathroom in the house is on the second floor. and sometimes i'm actually out of breath and my legs burn like they did after i ran the mile in high school. i miss having a one level house here in the midst of my third trimester. o, and that little blur is charlie cat, eater of cheerios, sporting his fresh lion cut.


naomi: i'm laughing at marie saying her body is egg shaped, because it makes me imagine she's going to lay an egg with a baby boy inside.
i fell down some stairs this week. my butt is not a fan of stairs right now.

next week's theme is feet, set by naomi.

week 37: uphill

naomi: i chose this because everything seems like such a struggle right now but i'm hoping that after all the struggling comes the easy ride down the other side.

marie: i snuck out between icy rain showers to take this. the ground was slick and the air had that damp, fallen leaves scent that only exists in autumn. the path leads to and from a flight of wooden stairs that takes you right down to the beach. the best part: it's a mere 5 minute stroll from our home. i imagine i'll be taking my signature snowy, gloomy beach photos there this winter. and my baby boy for blankets and sand castles when the weather is warm.

next week's theme is staircase, chosen by marie.

week 36: autumn equinox

marie: i can't believe autumn is upon us, again. the year has swooped past me, in a whirlwind of of home buying, home repairs, pregnancy, the death of my mother-in-law, our wedding. it's finally time to breathe cool air, take walks, watch the leaves fall and wait for the arrival of baby k.

naomi: this is one of my favourite tlp's that we've done. i love autumn the most.

i think this project is affected so much by the seasons that sometimes we don't even notice. in spring, we're both obsessed by cherry blossoms. in summer, we both love nothing more than moaning that it's too hot. in autumn we're engrossed by the fallen leaves, and come winter it's a snow lovers paradise.

marie's winter is going to be something else entirely this year because she'll have a baby boy to distract her from all the snow so i'll have to do double the snow-watching.

hopefully i'll make it to america to meet him though, so maybe i won't even notice the snow at all.


next weeks theme is uphill, set by naomi.