Last night was fun. Michael invited us over to his place where he and Val cooked an amazing veggie lasagna with a sickeningly sweet banoffee pie for dessert. Thank goodness I brought my camera – not because there were some photo ops and I just happened to catch them, but the bringing of my camera actually inspired a flurry of impromptu photo ops! After dinner, we started with the face shakes (as seen on Shakeskin.com).

me, Andy, Val, and Jan

Now that’s a good looking group of people! I was surprised at how eager everyone was to repeatedly shake their heads as violently as possible in front of the camera. As you can see, we really started to get the hang of it. I didn’t get a good picture of Desmond or David because they couldn’t relax their cheek muscles to the point where they looked horrible enough. And American Jan just flat out refused to even try.

After the IQ-lowering face shakes, I opened up the shutter and we took some magical long exposure shots. The bestest pics of the evening came from David moving a candle around his head while Val and Am Jan posed motionless at his side. We ended up with some really spooky (and blasphemous) pictures including a burning cross, a ‘666’ (that looked very much like ‘Bob’), Allah (in Arabic!), and God.

We then spent about a half an hour trying to take a picture in which everyone had two heads – one good and one evil. This didn’t quite work as we had expected. And after this, it all went downhill. I distinctly remember someone thinking it’d be ‘cool’ if we took a 15 second exposure of people slowly passing a white cardboard sheet back and forth while trying to remain perfectly still. I blame the Cabernet Sauvignon.