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What I'm Reading Now

Michael lives in my neighborhood. I do not know him but I see him around all the time. This book (his first) was named one of the top 10 best books of 2007 by the NY Times Book Review. He also just won the Impac Dublin Literary Award.

What I Just Read

My rating:

(I need to cry for 5 stars.)

Janelle interviewed me eons ago for Salon.com. She's a sassy lady who's super nice. This is her first novel. It received rave reviews and I loved every minute of it.

Sep 28, 2009

Roman Polanski

This made me ill.

From the Hollywood Reporter...

Debra Winger, who serves as president of the Zurich fest's jury, on Monday demanded Polanski's release and criticized Swiss authorities for their "philistine collusion" in arresting Polanski as he entered the country.

"This fledgling festival has been unfairly exploited, and whenever this happens the whole art world suffers," Winger said in a statement on Monday, standing together with the other four international jury members who wore red badges reading "Free Polanski" as they announced plans to continue the fest.

Um, Debra, being a great filmmaker doesn't give you passies for raping a child, so please just. shut. up.

The other thing I hate are people who say this case should be dropped because it happened so long ago.

(However, if the victim asked the DA's office to drop it, then they should drop it.)

Posted by Karyn at 11:45 PM

Sep 23, 2009

Love Letter to Chumley

Dear Chumley,

As you may have heard, my mom and I are coming to Seattle in a few weeks to visit you. I had my brother Elvis take this picture of me so you know what you're in for.

For Chumley

I hope you like it.

I can't wait to see you, my love.

xoxo,
Beverly

Posted by Karyn at 12:08 AM

Sep 16, 2009

Tilt-Shift Photography

Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model.

You can create it with a special (and $$ pricey!) lens like this...

Or you can create a fake one by manipulating a picture you've already taken in Photoshop. Directions on how to do that here.

Here's a picture of Jack and Nora in their monster truck that I took at the beginning of the year:

nora and jack in their monster truck


And here it is after I manipulated it to look like a tilt-shift photo in Photoshop:

Jack and Nora Matchbox Car

Click here to see it larger.

Isn't it neat? They look like they're in a matchbox car.

Click here to see 50 awesome examples of tilt-shift photography.

I need to go out and get some good NYC street pics so I can create more!

Posted by Karyn at 3:20 PM

Sep 15, 2009

I Taught Jack To Say Something New

I taught my nephew Jack to say this from Karyn Bosnak on Vimeo.

Posted by Karyn at 10:15 PM

Sep 11, 2009

9/11

Thinking of those who lost their life on 9/11/01 and the many people whose worlds will be forever changed because of it.

Posted by Karyn at 3:02 PM

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