The Andy Aupperlee Explosion 5000

This is Movember, the month formerly known as November. Movember is a month long celebration of all things mustache. Specifically, men are encouraged to grow out the legendary facial hair style to raise awareness about prostate and testicular cancer. The man pictured above, Aaron Huber, organized a team of about twenty of us to participate in this year’s antics. Mo-bros join the team by setting up a profile on the official Movember website. Mustache fans can donate to individual team members by visiting his or her Mo-space page. The Movember organization partners with The Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG to make sure the donations help “change the face of men’s health.”

Several weeks ago I talked to Aaron about ways to raise awareness of Movember. I offered to take portraits of the folks on our team, post the photos and throw up a blurb on the Explosion. On Tuesday night the MOst MOmentous MOs (our team’s name) got together for a photo shoot at Aaron’s place. I constructed a full blown photo studio to capture the essence of the “mo.” Aaron and I encouraged our mo-mates to dress up for the evening, but I never expected the passion I witnessed on Tuesday night. The props, costumes and utter ridiculousness that ensued would even make Tom Selleck blush. What follows below is the evidence of this “Mo-plosion.”
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This weekend the folks at Seattle’s Bold Hat Productions staged the seventh annual Hop Scotch Spring Beer and Scotch Festival in Fremont. Over 50 microbrews and imports, along with Scotch and Tequila samples were featured at the event. The tasting is a benefit for the Seattle International Film Festival.

So to summarize:
Lots of beer.
Fremont.
Cool charity.

Of course The Andy Aupperlee Explosion 5000 was there.
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WTF is Product Runway? It’s something I’m blogging about, semi-exclusively. Jill Marasigan, the event’s co-chair and a designer at Lara Taylor Interiors, invited The Andy Aupperlee Explosion 5000 to attend the oh-so-hip Product Runway Volume II kick-off party last month. Unable to refuse such a swanky suggestion, I immediately packed up my camera, made a pathetic attempt at dressing artsy/hip, and headed down to Pental Granite and Marble‘s art-gallery-esque showroom in Georgetown. I downed a few cocktails, fed on some finger food and made some photographs with Seattle’s denizens of design.
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Cabin fever is serious. As we shiver through the early days of March, please be careful to diagnose and treat any symptoms related to this ailment. Since the Andy Aupperlee “explosion” (that’s what we’re calling my S&F), this blog has gotten uber serious about medical issues. The best form of treatment is prevention, and that’s why I’ve decided to dedicate an entire post to this subject. Also, all ad revenues from this post will be donated to the Society for the Advancement of Cabin Fever Knowledge (SACK).

The following is a case study of a group of 20 somethings from Seattle, Washington as they battle cabin fever near Mount Baker. (continue reading…)

Billy and the guys at BPong.com did a helluva job putting on the World Series of Beer Pong IV. For four days at the beginning of 2009, over 400 teams competed at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for $50,000 and the distinction of being crowned beer pong champs. I was asked to cover the tournament as a publicity photographer. Below are some pictures and thoughts. (continue reading…)

Barack Obama Victory Rally. Broadway & Pike, Capitol Hill.
Seattle, WA. November 5, 2008.

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Claire, Curtis, Tom, Desiree, Rich, Sarah, Kristen, Emily, Laura, Lara, & Drew.
Lake Wenatchee. October 5, 2008.

If you read the comments on this blog, you will notice that people are always asking, “Andy, how do you get such great pictures of your friends goofing off and the-what-not?” Whether it is capturing your friends in the middle of ‘the little things that make life meaningful’ or just party pixxxxxing when yall are having a good time, properly operating a DSLR can make the difference between some ‘nasty Facebook tags’ and ‘authentic profile pics.’

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