Cabin Kids! #1:Awakenings

My first series of out of context stock photos centers around the "Cabin Kids" a group of 20-something energetic singles, and the trials and tribulations of life, love and laughter in their Rocky Mountain cabin.

Meet the gang! These are the cabin kids and they couldn't be happier to see you. They are a group of 20-somethings from SURGE™, the emergent singles and young couple's ministry of Pinewood Community Church (or PCC for short). As you can see from the above photo they are currently in the process of constructing a brand new cabin for their "relevant" conferences and Po-Mo worship retreats. So let's introduce the 4 happy faces you see above (from front to back):

Jordan Jones: He's the Ralph Malph looking guy and known as "Double-J" to the rest of gang. He was homeschooled from Kindergarten to 8th grade and then attended Madison Senior High School in suburban Denver. He's 23, loves to play acoustic guitar around the campfire and attends frequent "ministry meetings" with Bridget (who you'll meet in a moment!) JJ works at FastSigns as a graphic designer.

Steve Whitney: Steve is 24 and is really really into C.S. Lewis. Oh and G.K. Chesterton too. Oh yeah and A.W. Tozer. He loves to read. Seriously he does! I mean if he didn't, would he know of all those famous Christian authors? Of course not. Steve is currently attending Fort Collins Techinical College (FCTC) studying auto-mechanics because cars have always been a passion of his. Steve loves country music (especially Toby Keith, "A true outlaw" as Steve puts it). Steve is secretly in love with Bridget.

Matt Lundgren: At 29 Matt is one of the "older" members of the Cabin Kids. Matt was schooled at Lord of Lords Christian Academy in Colorado Springs where his father was stationed in the Air Force. The family moved to Fort Collins in 1995 after Matt's dad was tragically shot down by a psychotic Greenpeace member with a SAM launcher. In the summer he worked at "Oh My Goth", a local "alternative store" where he was saved by a co-worker from a Christian ska-core band. Matt is currently "between" jobs but is thinking about going to FCTC to study graphic design and/or auto-mechanics and/or audio production and/or welding.
Matt is not-so-secretly in love with Bridget.

Bridget Erwine: Bridget is 22 and active with the SURGE™ experiential worship facilitators (i.e. "Worship Team"). She's not exactly sure why she came up early to help JJ, Steve and Matt build the cabin since she's not very good with tools and doesn't really like the outdoors. Oh well! Her bubbly personality is a great asset to the Cabin Kids and she loves to cook! In fact she has to go now because while she's really happy to meet you she has to find a Kroger in town so she can make the boys some pancakes!

To be continued...

I don't care to see you, naked people

I've decided to introduce a new feature here at CDNV. I call it "Fun With Stock Photography" or FWSP for short. A little background first...

As a graphic professional I spend a lot of time—way too much time really—searching various online stock photo agencies. While this might on the surface appear to be glamorous and exciting, it is in all actuality a boring and annoyingly repetitive task. I guess searching through untold thousands of royalty-free and rights-managed stock photos trying to find another damn sunset just doesn't move my soul quite the way it used to. Furthermore, these stock agencies have some seriously messed up people designing their search engines. For some reason, no matter what you are searching for 85% of your results will feature some form of nude human or nude human part. I'm not searching the web generically either, these are the proprietary search engines of respectable stock photo agencies.

For example: Let's say I need a stock photo of a stapler to use for Tim LaHaye's latest Staplers & the End Times for Kids!: Growth and Study Guide®. I casually type in "stapler" and hit enter but instead of 127 images of staplers I get 1 image of a stapler and 126 grayscale images of nude black men throwing hammers. I don't appreciate this Getty Images, especially when the FedEx guy is standing there waiting for me to sign for a package.

So to sum it all up, as an act of revenge I'm going to swipe comping images from these places and write humorously out-of-context captions for them.

My first entry shall follow shortly.

Great Jehosophat!

Lord help us all it's finally happened!

I can just picture armies of these things swarming all over Tokyo, crushing and maiming everything in their path! Then it's only a matter of time before they develop rocket packs for them—in which case it's curtains for the entire western seaboard.

I'd like to remind the Japdroids that as a prominent member of the Blogging® community I may be useful in helping round up others to toil in their underground silicon chip factories.

Pineapple Fanta

Pineapple Fanta
Originally uploaded by darthvedder81.

One of the great things about traveling to different parts of the country, is finding many unique or once-thought-lost grocery products. For example, Count Chocula, Jello Pudding Pops and Quaker Oh's! cereal are no longer available in the Twin Cities area, but can be found elsewhere.

My recent trip to the Kansas City area was no exception to this rule, as I discovered the finest soda ever produced by mortal man.

Pineapple Fanta.

Oh sweet, sweet Pineapple Fanta how I love thee. I remember as a young lad partaking of the now defunct Pineapple Crush soda, and later on enjoying Jones Soda Co. Pineapple Upside-Down soda (now discontinued). Pineapple Fanta, I am proud to report, easily carries on the legacy of pineapple flavored carbonated beverages.

I hope to track down a way of getting more pineapple soda into my golden body—short of having to drive to Kansas City everytime I get the urge.

Perhaps a special order at Lunds or Byerly's will do the trick? I'll keep you all posted.

On a lighter note

I'm in the process of setting up a my.soundclick.com website which will allow me to freely post various GarageBand musical creations for all the Internet to enjoy. It's looks like a pretty cool website mainly because they host your Mp3's for free. I can't get my homepage to work yet, but I have uploaded a song already. It's nothing special nor is it completely finished but hey, I'm trying. Let me know what you all think of it. Thanks.

Rumor

Hooray!

Less babies murdered!

We should all pat ourselves on the back.

Blackwolf the Dragonmaster

Blackwolf the Dragonmaster
Originally uploaded by darthvedder81.

Geocities. The web sever choice of all Dragonmasters.

Yes he serves the high king Ard-Rhi (since he got fired from the D.M.V).

"You are fortunate your superiors at Late Night let you out this day!" ~Blackwolf

Follow-up

Here's a terrific follow-up to my last post...