Disposable Day Volume 8: Megan Finley

I was just thrilled when Megan Finley said that she would do Disposable Day, as she is pretty much my favorite lady on the internet. Why you ask? Well for starters she's the managing editor of THE mother of all independent woman positive* wedding blogs: Offbeat Bride, AND she is an awesome photographer  in her own right. She runs her own wedding photography business serving offbeat couples all over California, and her pictures never fail to make me smile (which is saying something, if you only knew how much wedding photography I look at). On top of all this, Ms. Megan somehow finds the time to also run her own awesome blog, funk in deep freeze, which is filled with hilarious, and often touching scenes from her life with her husband and pets. She sounds like a total badass, right? But as an added bonus, she also happens to be the most genuine, unpretentious person that I've ever come across in my internet adventures, and therefor it is with the greatest pleasure that I present this Disposable Day, by Megan Finley.  

I started my day with an early client meeting in San Pedro, I thought the sun was pretty rising over the harbor with all the nice white boats neatly lined up.

Disposable Day Volume 7: Barney Baggett

I've known Barney for over 15 years now. We met because we both worked at the Renaissance Festival when I was like 15 & he was 14. At some point over the last decade and a half, I discovered that he was a pretty good writer. When we started talking about him doing Disposable Day, I suggested that instead of just writing an elongated caption for all of his pictures, that he might instead write a short piece of fiction. This is what he came up with:

He hates this part. Every time he hates this part.

His girlfriend rolls away from him, and pulls even more of his little precious warmth away with her. The lingering chill in the room, drafting around like an anxious toddler, took this opportunity to lick his neck under his ear, down his shoulder blade, under his arm. It's uncomfortable, but at least it's familiar. There and then, he sleepily arrives at the conclusion that this part of the morning is always this way, the voyage from the warm luscious beaches of slumber over to the cold light of day full of ornery reluctance. Almost always anyway. 

Disposable Day Volume 6: David Karsten Daniels

Seriously dorky confession: when I'm trying to impress someone, and especially in the past when I have tried to impress boys, I put on an album by David Karsten Daniels, and just let it play for awhile. Usually, though not always, the person that I'm trying to impress has yet to hear this album and so I score a few points for that. Then, inevitably, the person discovers that they really like this album, and so I score a few more points... wait for it... then ever so casually I throw out, "oh yes this is an album by David Karsten Daniels, he's had a song featured on This American Life, and the dudes over at All Songs Considered seem to like him a whole lot. Yeah, he's signed to FatCat Records (the same record label that initially signed the likes of Animal Collective and Bjork), and it just so happens that he's an old buddy of mine, and back before I moved to Texas to go to grad school I used to take press photos (on film, processed by me, that I printed in a darkroom) for him and his boys from the bu hanan collective."

By now, many of my friends, as well as my duly impressed music snob (now) husband own and love all of David's albums. And get this, his latest album 'I Mean To Live Here Still' is seriously phenomenal. The lyrics are taken from Henry David Thoreau poems, and the album is a collaboration with Fight The Big Bull, a jazz band out of Richmond, Virginia. It's a melting pot of folk, afro beat, and old school experimental jazz... all of this and it is not just accessible  for the unpretentious listener, it has subtle hooks that keep you wanting more. Are you impressed yet? Go on, listen to the album, it is sooooooooooo goooooooooooood. It's one of those albums where the first time you hear it you're like: what? The second time you find you like it, and after that you don't listen to anything else for like a month. As soon as David Karsten Daniels agreed to participate in Disposable Day I knew we were on to something, because this dude dosen't efff around. To prove it, we included a wee treat for y'all at the end of the post, so be sure to check it out! Okay, okay I'll shut up now. Here's David.  —Lauren                               

In the space of about 2 weeks, my wife gave birth to our son, my grandmother passed away, my new little family left our apartment in San Francisco and moved into my grandmother's house in Texas.

Disposable Day Volume 5: From Farm to City, by Kate McDonagh

Kate has been one of my dearest friends since high school. She's been there with me through major life stuff, is one of the people who I usually talk to twice a week even though we are separated by 1000 miles or so, and after I got married I went to live & work with her and her brand new family on their blueberry farm (turns out being married to a foreign grad student means that either you spend your summers in poverty because one of you isn't allowed to work in the other person's country, or you spend the summers apart... as we were already very poor we chose the latter option... So here's my honorary sister, going through a major life transition, and making the best of it like how she always does (if you're interested in seeing pictures of Kate check out my ode to North Carolina, she's real pretty) -Lauren

For the last 3 years, my family was living on a 12 acre organic blueberry & produce farm about 30 miles  outside of Asheville, NC.  We ran it as a farm-to-table establishment with Tupelo Honey Café where my fiancé is the head chef.  Although the farm was incredibly special to us- it’s where we became a “family”- it became quite clear that the pros outweighed the cons of moving back into Asheville.

Disposable Day Volume 4: by Anne Dunckel

The Tour de Fat is one of my favorite bike events in Austin...

This Disposable Day is actually a submission, and it is hella awesome. Seriously beyond my wildest expectations. Anne by far surpasses the three of us when wielding a disposable camera. I'll let her tell you the rest. 

Disposable Day: Halloween Eve, by Dave Frank

The po-po on 6th street, Downtown Austin

Last week we started getting a steady stream of Disposable Cameras back in the mail, and are busy processing & scanning all of the negatives. In the interim, my roommate Dave Frank kindly agreed to take a camera out with him on Halloween. Here's a few select shots from his evening. 

Disposable Day Take Two: A Normal Day, by Zach

Thursday, October 14th. So with the first week of Filmzblog under our belts, it's time for the second installment of Disposable Day. I decided to document a rather normal day filled with routines and a few unexpected social gatherings.

Disposable Day Volume 1: A Wedding Day, by Lauren

This is the first post from our Disposable Day series that we will be featuring every Monday. As you read this, disposable cameras are making their way to fantastic folk all across the states, and a few Austinites of note are already in possession of their little cameras. I could seriously not be more excited about the line up of awesomeness that we already have in store for ya'll. We welcome your participation so if you're interested you should check out the Disposable Day  prompt. In the meantime I figured that I ought to give our prompt a little test drive. Here are the results:  

Disposable Day: a New/Old/New Way of Seeing

We are excited to announce Disposable Day, the first long-term filmzblog community documentary project. The beauty of Disposable Day is that anyone can participate, regardless of your level of photographic expertise, and we hope to collect as diverse a range of experiences and visions as possible.