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Re:Frame Collective Blog Part I

Hey, friends!

Check it out! I'm featured on the Re:Frame Blog!

In this post I talk a little about the evolution of my brand some of the mistakes I made along the way. In a future post, I talk about the Canon MkII 5D and some other things. Be sure to check it out.

Being selected to be featured on a top industry blog like this is amazing! I can't believe my eyes! Someone pinch me. :-)

Take a look at part one of two: http://reframecollective.com/blog/?p=475

Please leave a comment here or there! Even if it's just to let me know I suck.

SF Wedding Giveaway Profile

I'm featured on the SF Wedding Giveaway Vendors page!

Check it out http://www.sfweddinggiveaway.com/meet-andrew-hsu-of-studio-msv/

And visit the other vendors who are donating to this incredible philanthropic project! (Sweet. I just got to use the word philanthropic in context.)

I Got Me Some *Style Me Pretty* Love

Check it out! The Beltane Ranch video that my friends at Thi Cosmetics invited me shoot is a hit! I'm so encouraged by what Abby Larson of Style Me Pretty said about my video. It just made my day!

"You are going to LOVE this next feature. And I mean seriously love.

The ridiculously talented Andrew Hsu of Studio MSV sent us this little clip that he put together during a photoshoot for Brides Northern California Magazine.

I mean…is that not the greatest thing you have ever seen?"

Thanks Abby and the SMP gang for the feature and the super nice words, (and for following me on Twitter!)

I'm Featured on WedClix.com

Check out my short interview on the WedClix.com blog!

It's funny - not funny ha ha, funny like 'weird' - to read someone else's blog and have my words and 'voice' coming out of there! Check it out, won't you?

Go HERE to see the post!

Junebug Weddings Fashion Report 2008

Congratulations to our past Take-a-Look Tuesday featured photographers, Cooper Carras and Nate and Jaclyn Kaiser for being selected as part of Junebug's top 25 wedding photographers! There are a bunch of other great photographers listed (many that I've met or are internet friends with) so please check them out! Congrats to all!

Check out the awesome eye-melting slideshow here.
Check out my Cooper Carras' interview here.
Check out my The Image Is Found interview here.

By the way, faithful readers, Take-a-Look Tuesday is coming back! Stay tuned for more new interviews soon!

Southern Weddings (on sale now!)

If you know your internet - and I'm quite certain you do - you know all about Southern Weddings online blog, www.swsmag.net. It's a terrific resource for brides and wedding vendors alike, and if you haven't heard of them, you most certainly will be getting ears full soon enough! They're all the buzz! (So be sure to check them out and get caught up!)

SW just published their very first print edition (congratulations ladies!) and it's all over the bookshelves at bookstores everywhere! SW is holding a photo contest for people who send them pics of their mag on the stands. Check out the contest rules here.

But my proudest moment is of these three posts that they made about my Vendor Chic back in September 2008. I feel like I am one of those cool kids that knew of a rock band before they made it big. I practically have a t-shirt to prove that I heard of them first :-)

Good luck with your new endeavor ladies!

Check out one of the videos that they featured in their post!

Why No Bloggy?

Here's a real-life account of the dialogue I had with my blog last night:

Me: Hey, blog. What's goin' down, vato?
Blog: ...
Me: What's wrong?
Blog: Nothing.
Me: Don't tell me, "nothing" - clearly you're upset.
Blog: Do you even care about me anymore?
Me: What?!
Blog: You used to pay so much attention to me. To the tune of four posts a week -- but lately I feel like... I feel like ...
Me: What?
Blog: ...you ... you just haven't spent a lot of time with me lately, that's all.
Me: What are you talking about? I'm sitting here every day for hours on end.
Blog: But you're never really paying attention to ME.
Me: I've been working OK? If you want me to stop working, there would be no reason to even keep you around.
Blog: !
Me:... sorry... I didn't mean that...
Blog: I don't even know who you are anymore.
Me: Look; I said I'm sorry.
Blog: Just go do what you have to do.
Me: Don't be like that. I've been editing client wedding videos; working on important marketing materials; a new video to launch my proposal videos; a brand new 'legacy video' feature; and a whole bunch of other things. Plus, I need to spend time with my family for the holidays! Not to mention the fact that I've hardly been sleeping because of the new puppy and I haven't touched a Playstation 3 controller for like three months!
Blog: Excuses excuses.
Me: Ugh. I can't talk to you right now.
Andrew's Fantasy Football Team: For what it's worth, Blog. I feel the same way you do.

My Uber Amazing Blog Nominees

Last week I wrote about being selected as an "Uber Amazing Blog." Part of 'paying it forward' is selecting fiive other blogs that I think are pretty uber. So here are my nominees - all photographers:

• Augie Chang Photography - Augie's work is clean and fresh. His vibrant images almost serve as coffee for the eyes. (And he blogs often so the 'fresh' stays fresh.)
• Tinywater Photography - Caroline's blog is chock full of crazy characters and off beat weddings so it's always fun to check in on her stuff.
• Ed Pingol Photography - Ed and Monica are workhorses on the wedding day! And it really shows in their work. Ed's blog is never short of images so checking out a post is like digesting Thanksgiving dinner! So. Much. Goodness.
• Tanja Lippert Photography - Tanja is all Film all the time. Her work is natural and beautiful in a way that none others can be. When my computer tells me she's got a new post, it's like getting a gift in the mail and I can't wait to check it out.
• Jennifer Skog Photography - If photos were drugs for your eyes, Jen's blog photo-Pfizer. Each and every images is always rich with detail and juiciness! Check out Skogie's photo pharmaceuticals.

It's hard to pick just five, but these are five of my morning RSS feed staples. There are many others that I love, but if I listed them all, you'd be deep into tomorrow by the time you finished reading this post. :-)

Check out these Uber Amazing Bloggers!

Uber Amazing Blog Award

One of the coolest things about the internet is it's "viral" nature. The internet is unlike any other modern medium of information distribution because it has a unique way of disseminating news from one source to another that spreads faster and further than the usual news network or paper.

When, on the internet, one item becomes popular and is reported or spread around by others, that popular item becomes world renown in a matter of days. (Case in point: the "Chocolate Rain" music video that was posted on YouTube in April of 2007 and has since been viewed almost 31 million times! That's over 54,000 views a DAY! That's clearly more than just a youtube video - that's a phenomenon.)

Well, about a month ago a gal named Jade, who writes the blog MommaWannabe, started passing around what she called the Uber Amazing Blog Award for blogs that she thought were uber amazing. She simply asked each recipient to also nominate and give the award to at least five other blogs who were uber amazing. There's no telling how many blogs have been nominated or have recieved this award by now. Try Googling the term "uber amazing blog" and you'll see just how prolific this award has become!

I'm proud to say that my blog has been nominated as an Uber Amazing Blog by Diane Phillips of DK Designs! Thanks, Diane!

These are the official rules:

The Uber (synonym to Super) Amazing Blog Award is a blog award given to sites who:

• inspires you
• makes you smile and laugh
• or maybe gives amazing information
• a great read
• has an amazing design
• and any other reasons you can think of that makes them uber amazing!

The rules of this award are:

• Put the logo on your blog or post.
• Nominate at least 5 blogs (can be more) that for you are Uber Amazing!
• Let them know that they have received this Uber Amazing award by commenting on their blog.

Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.

I will be announcing my nominees soon!

New Chocolate Lab Excuse

It's been nine days since my last post. Nine days of sleeplessness and nine days of patting myself on the back for having the foresight to order ceramic tiles throughout the downstairs of our house. Puppy-owners and ex-puppy-owners will appreciate my self-congratulations.

Yes, my excuse for not having kept up with my blog (or even my Twittertweets) is a 10 1/2 week-old Chocolate Labrador named, Cade (pronounced "Katie"). As much as Cade has been a blessing and welcomed addition to our family, saying that she's been retraining us (read: me) to be more patient, more disciplined, more responsible, more tolerant, and more forgiving is basically a euphemism for "she's driving us (read: me) crazy!"

Cade went through a bout of puppy 'tummy troubles' and worrying about her has been akin to worrying about our own kids when they've been sick. Of course, the discussion surrounding a sick child isn't centered on whether or not we'd give up the kid if the doctor's bill exceeds $800-$1000, so the analogy ends there. Thankfully, with a change in diet, Cade got better and is "regular" again. Feel free to file this under the "TMI" (too much information!) category.

But aside from a lack of R.E.M. sleep and mopping the ground twice a day (the latter, not so much anymore. Cade is pretty much 90% potty trained) I've been happily editing away! Promo videos, fashion shoot videos, wedding videos, legacy videos, corporate videos, and personal videos are all I've been working on.

And at the risk of this post sounding too self-aware and overly apologetic, I want to let you all know that I'll be catching up with my blogging! (I've said this as much for you as for me. 'Nothing like putting something down in writing to force commitment!)