… and I still haven’t forgotten you.  Wish you were still here.

www. seth-thomas. org

“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
“

Posted by Nicole Rork on September 23, 2008 | Misc | No Comments »

This is going to be good…

Posted by Nicole Rork on July 31, 2008 | Misc | No Comments »

Top 10 albums of 2007.
10. Empty Orchestra - Here Lies Empty Orchestra
09. Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home
08. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
07. Anberlin - Cities
06. Radiohead - In Rainbows
05. Hanson - The Walk
04. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
03. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
02. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
01. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Honorable mention.
Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
Saves the Day - Under the Boards
Bob Dylan - DYLAN (3-CD Box Set)
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me

Â
Most Disappointing albums of 2007.
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire

Â
Most annoying song of 2008.
Soulja Boy - Crank That

Â
Most Anticipated Releases of 2008.
Cinematic Sunrise
Anberlin
Best live show.
Sufjan Stevens and Anathallo at Calvin College - Grand Rapids, MI - March 30, 2007
Andrew Bird at the Riveria Theater - Chicago, IL - April 20, 2007
Cinematic Sunrise at Warped Tour - Detroit, MI - July 27, 2007

Best new discoveries of 2007.
Dustin Kensrue
Damion Suomi
The Sound of Animals Fighting
The Reign in Kindo
Empty Orchestra
Paulson
Bands that still annoy me.
Fall Out Boy
The Academy Is
David Crowder Band
Paramore
Angels & Airwaves
Soulja Boy
Songs that have some sort of significant meaning to me.
(not necessarily released in 2007. to download: right hand click > save as)

Ray Lamontagne - Shelter (download)
Chiodos - Intensity in Ten Cities (download)
Nick Drake - One of These Things First (download)
Billy Bragg & Wilco - California Stars (download)
Cinematic Sunrise - The Wordless (download)
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Heretic (download)
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (Live, 1966) (download)
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun (download)
Israel Kamakawiwoole - Over the Rainbow (download)
Bands/artists you should know if you don’t already.
Ray Lamontagne (link)
Nick Drake (link)
Cinematic Sunrise (link)
Empty Orchestra (link)
Andy McKee (link)
I’m sure I missed several albums/bands, but you get the idea.

Posted by Nicole Rork on December 01, 2007 | Misc, Music | No Comments »

This past week was spent designing a brand new website for my portfolio, complete with music and flash!  Flash Relief made the entire design process a lot smoother and faster - I suggest you check out their flash components!  I promise to keep this new site updated ALL the time.

Todd and Christina are gracing my front page.  I just shot their wedding last week and it was beautiful.

Aside from the website redesign, I decided my blog needed a new layout as well, so the blog has been updated

Posted by Nicole Rork on October 07, 2007 | Design, Misc | 2 Comments »

I will confess that I’m a huge nerd. My friend, Ruth, has been pestering me to read Harry Potter for a few years now. Every single time I’ve turned her down and made fun of the idea. Shame on me, right? Well, a couple of weeks ago (July 8th to be exact) I was at a Todd’s house and Chamber of Secrets happened to be on TV, so my friends and I watched it to kill time. At the end of the movie, I was hooked. On the way back from Todd’s I stopped by Ruth’s house and asked her to lend me all of her Harry Potter books so I could finish them by the time the seventh book was released. Needless to say, that was the fastest I’ve ever read a series of books in my entire life. I finished books 1-6 at 10:30 PM at the bookstore.

Waldenbooks only had enough copies for all of their reservations leaving both myself and Ruth’s older sister bookless. Luckily Meijer had a big stash. To end the weekend, I went to see Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix. I’m exited for the next two movies.

Ruth is happy

Mim tries to finish book six by midnight.

This kid had the best costume.

Ruth is crying. This is the end of her Harry Potter life.

People are getting in line around 11:45 PM

The carts are being rolled out and ready to be distributed within minutes.

The very first book is ready to go at 12:01!

Books

Another book

I have been tagged by the wonderful Eric Smith in an eight question blog game. It looks like I will be playing now!

Rules:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.

Eight things about Nicole, randomly selected.

1. If it were practical, I would explore and photograph abandoned buildings for a living.
2. I hate Starbucks.
3. I love shooting weddings more than attending them.
4. I don’t like big social events.
5. I’d like to travel around the world and explore everything it has to offer.
6. I want to live in Washington for a year.
7. I don’t answer messages on myspace, sorry.
8. I want to shoot your wedding.

I’m going to tag everyone on my links list which can be viewed on your far right.

Posted by Nicole Rork on July 23, 2007 | Books, Misc, Photos | 2 Comments »