(photos on flyer courtesy of Joey Elgersma)
On October 31, 2007 over two hundred revelers crowded Seattle’s Baltic Room for a night of DJ’s, drinks and dancing in costumes. Everyone was there from the Super Mario Brothers Mario and Luigi to Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. The event was held near downtown on the hipster frequented oriented pike/pine corridor.

Photos by Lauren Max.

On October 26th, 2007 members of the Maveron team, a leading venture capital firm with a portfolio including eBay, kinetix and TerraPass and their families gathered for a Halloween Bash. Community notables such as former Washington State Governor Gary Locke and Maveron Co-Founder Dan Levitan were in attendance. Everyone was entertained by a mime, a clown and a cupcake decorator while the children participated in story telling, pinata smashing and a rousing rendition of the mummy game. Hosted by Maveron. The event was held at Maveron corporate offices in the NBBJ designed 505 Union Station building in Seattle.

On October 20th, 2007 the Anthony Chavez family of Sacramento gathered together friends and relatives in honor of their beloved wife and mother, Antoinette. To celebrate her 60th in style, the Chavez’ selected a quaint Sicilian restaurant, Soprattutto! Salumeria for an afternoon soiree. A good time was had by all as they dined on chicken and eggplant parmigiana, homemade fettucine alfredo noodles and much more. Speeches were made, songs were sung and everyone was delighted to be part of this celebration in the idyllic neighborhood of East Sacramento.

On October 16th, 2007 top members of Seattle’s literary and visual arts community gathered at a silent and live art auction to benefit Rivet Magazine, an independent quarterly that presents new work in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography and graphic art. After an introduction by Editor-in-Chief Leah Baltus, noted actress Marya Sea Kaminiski of ‘My Name is Rachel Corrie’ fame stepped on stage to act as auctioneer for the night. Money was competitively raised by an expectant crowd of collectors during the live auction featuring work by Jason Wood, Jenny Zwick, Kristen Ramirez, Ben Hirschkoff and others. Later in the evening, the silent auction came to a close amongst a large crowd of revelers including many of the twenty-six donating artists, magazine staff and local culture vultures. The party was hosted by a committee including John Hoyt, Nancy Guppy, Sara Burnett, Molly McCarthy, Jessica Knaster and Matt Wasse. The event was held in the Crawl Space Gallery in the cutting edge Capitol Hill neighborhood in Seattle.

September 22 and September 23, 2007, The Adventure School took to the open road to create the Explorers Photo Shoot for famed international stock image company, Getty Images. The shoot captured pretty young things exploring historical landmarks. We styled fifteen different photographs of young women exploring nature in modern urban garb as the stylist and production coordinator to assist conceptual photographer Anne Mathern as she shot with a medium format camera, two portable flashes and a reflector. The images were captured on the California coast off of the Redwood Highway, in Redwood National Park, a hotel in Klamath Falls and Lava Beds National Park.