95.7

95.7, originally uploaded by justinmarantz.

My poor Justin is sick...and I think our thermometer must be too. It
said he was 95.7 degrees! J goes "oh great, I'm a radio station!" LOL

Lauren & Matt

Today we had a blast hanging out with two of our new clients for 2008, Lauren & Matt. These guys are two of the most adorable people you'll ever meet...the kind of people who make you feel like you've known them forever from the first second you meet them! They have SO much fun together and their laughter is so contagious. I can't tell you how many times today we all found ourselves cracking up hysterically!

We actually like to do several engagement sessions with our couples before the wedding because 1) we just have so much darn fun with them and 2) it really helps us get to know the couple and become friends with them. So this will be just the first of many shoots for Lauren & Matt, and we're already off to a killer start!

Lauren & Matt also have one of the coolest "how did you meet" stories I've ever heard and we have a whole themed shoot in Newport planned just for that. So make sure to stay tuned for future appearances from these guys!

P.S.: How HOT are these two?!

My new moose mug!

My new moose mug!, originally uploaded by justinmarantz.

Yes it's a moose...not a reindeer. How do I know? Because I heart mooses (meese...moosi?)and I said so!! :) M

This is how it's done!

We got this email from Christy a couple weeks ago telling us that her goal was to raise $500 for Portrait House by the end of the year...and in the last WEEK she has sent in $650 worth of checks!! It's so awesome to see people setting these goals and totally blowing them away in such a short amount of time. If you head over to the PH blog you can see that Robert Norman has now more than doubled his original goal of raising $1000 by Christmas. This is how the Portrait House is going to happen...by individual people stepping up and taking it to the next level. So...are you in? :)


Check out how Christy is marketing this to her clients:

This just says it all...

From the pen of the late-great Eddie Adams

hmm....

Ok, so I was just in the shower getting ready for dinner with our wonderful clients-turned-friends-turned-designers extraordinaire (but of course still friends too!) Lisa & Rob...and I was reading the back of my conditioner bottle, as you do. In the directions it says "ALWAYS (under threat of death) begin regimen with TreSemme Anti-Breakage Shampoo." Huh...I wonder what happens if you don't start with the TreSemme Anti-Breakage Shampoo. Does your hair fall out? Does your head explode? Either way, I'm gonna listen to them. That's not the sort of thing you mess around with.

I AM McLovin!!!

Superbad is out on DVD today and WE were the first in line to get it! :)

Coming to a City Near You!!

Mary & I have the very cool opportunity to tour around to a bunch of PUGs this winter (lol I feel like we need T-shirts..."The Marantz World Tour 2008"...ooh and one of those double decker tour buses with a hot tub in it!) to talk about our business model and how important our friendships with other photographers (not to mention our clients!) are to that. The tour kicks off in January, and so far is going through March. Here are the dates we have set so far:

January 14th: Charleston, SC
January 15th: Raleigh, NC
January 16th: Asheville, NC

Feb 7th: Nashville, TN
Feb 8th: Knoxville, TN

March 31: Salt Lake City, UT

And we will also be in Pittsburgh and Boston at dates TBD!

We can't wait! We're so excited to meet a bunch of new people and hang out with some of our dearest friends again! And thank you SO much to all the awesome PUG leaders for helping us get this set up!! If you're near one of those areas, come to a meeting cause we'd love to meet you! And if you're part of a different PUG and are interested in having us come hang out, you can just shoot us an email and we'll see if we can get it set up!

k, it's Monday and you know what that means...off to the weekly board meeting!!

How to Create a Favicon

Here are the two lines of code that you have to add below the head tag... just change the url to match the place you uploaded the .ico file

It's the Back-YARRRRD Brawl!!!!

T-minus 2hrs and 25 minutes until kick-off for the Backyard Brawl! For those of you who DON"T know, the BB is the famous showdown (this year in Motown) between WVU and PITT who are a mere 45 minutes apart. This year marks the 100th brawl, but the stakes are much, much higher than bragging rights this year. With a win, WVU will all but lock it's place in the BCS national championship to be played in New Orleans on Jan 7th...and thus set couches a burnin' ALL OVER Morgantown tonight!! Oh how I wish we were there to throw some fuel on the fire!

Check back here for game updates!

"The Hundred Year War" - Lou Holtz - ESPN Gameday

- 3rd play of the game, WVU intercepts Pitt for 47 yards!

Blue & Gold(en retriever)

- Still 0-0 in the 2nd quarter, but Rivers just picked another one. WVU ball.

- oooooh... Pat White goes down... it looks like the team trainers are trying to pop his thumb back into place on the field... on national television!

- seriously! I could see that face mask from CT... a thousand miles away!

- TOUCHDOWN Mountaineers!! Back-up QB Jared Brown from 5 yards out. 7-0

"well his thumb came off... and they put it back on... so once he gets the feelin back we'll put him back in" - Coach Rich Rodriguez at half time. Rough game.

- ok...down by 3 going into the 4th... we can do this. Let's turn and burn!

- Devine just ran back the kickoff for 48 yards! And wait...who's that coming into the game.... could it be
YES!!! PAT WHITE IS BACK!

wow... not much to say.. final score 13-9. It is a dark, dark day in the Marantz household. Flowers in memorium of our national title dreams can be sent to our home address. :( :(