But I did. As I was rushing out the door a couple of weeks ago to take Haley to the vet (nerves on high), I trimmed my own bangs. Have you noticed that there aren't many pictures of me online lately? My bangs are crooked. And oddly shaped. I'm trying to let them grow. But every time I see a hair out of place, out come the scissors.
I saw an extra long piece yesterday, which I proceeded to snip off. They still don't look right. I looked in the mirror and I knew that I had to devise a way to stop myself from touching them.
Jay came home last night and said "What did you do?" when he saw the barrette. "You need to stop cutting them."
Today I went to historic Marietta to take a few pictures.
The old train station, dating back to the mid-1800's.
Stopping the train by using a fast shutter speed.
Showing the speed of the train by slowing down the shutter speed.
I need to make plans to visit Marietta Museum of History. I heard about the history of this building during a girls night out ghost tour around Halloween. During the Civil War (1862), trains carried the wounded to this once hotel then make-shift hospital from a local battlefield (Kennesaw).
They used elementary means to numb the soldiers like alcohol while removing limbs - think Haiti today - and this building was said to be filled with "screaming patients." The morgue was on the forth floor, which you might notice is missing. The next owners removed the floor due to its past. Today, there are numerous ghost stories of patients roaming the halls and peering out the windows at night. We were shown some surveillance camera footage that caught some wispy beings on tape. An interesting place!
The dogs came with me for the ride....they needed some fresh air. And the 8,000,000 pets they received while I was taking pictures didn't upset them either. They make me smile.
The movie Killers staring Katherine Heigl and Aston Kutcher was partially shot in our neighborhood last May. Somehow I totally missed blogging about it. The trailer just came out for the movie, and it looks really good!
Here are some pictures that we took during the time they week or so that they here in May of 2009.
All of the trailers and set equipment behind me...
Rob Luketic also directed the movie 21. The Cadillac in the photo below transported Rob back and forth between the clubhouse (trailers) and the set for the week. Note Jay standing right behind it to get a glimpse of him. He's a huge fan. Actually, there were two Caddys that transported Aston and Catherine back and forth from the trailers to the set as well as the Director. The guy in the orange shirt walking toward the car was close with the director, possibly his Assistant? He definitely went wherever he wanted.
I can't even begin to describe how much work goes into movie production. I spent hours talking to the set crew who were working hours on end. One particular staff member, who was working on the explosions (in a fire hydrant crash scene), told me that it takes over 24 hours of set up the effects to produce less than one minute in a movie. The entire set crew staff were running non-stop, perfecting the lighting, sound, equipment, and everything else. These people work hard!!!
This Volvo crashed three fences at once. It was en enormous production that took a day and a half or so just to set up. The crew tore down our neighbors original fence, rebuilt it with their set materials, and finally crashed through it. Once the shot was set up, they had one chance to get it right. Let's just say they were very serious about everyone being quiet and keeping out of the cameras views. Poor Volvo, it was completely destroyed afterward.
Ashton and Katherine's stunt doubles getting ready to scale the fence.
Ashton stood in between the houses and ran into the scene. It was around 3:30a.m. in the morning when I took this picture so I'm not sure if it was me or the camera that couldn't handle the scene. (Hello, it's Ashton Kutcher! He's too cute.)
I'm especially excited to see this movie. It comes out June 4th!
As I was rushing out the door a couple of weeks ago to take Haley to the vet (nerves on high), I trimmed my own bangs. Have you noticed that there aren't many pictures of me online lately? My bangs are crooked. And oddly shaped. I'm trying to let them grow. But every time I see a hair out of place, out come the scissors.
