January 2, 2011

• The Legend of Calder House.

  The name Calder House (where I live with my friends/landlords) didn’t come around until I moved in. Back in the days prior to moving in, I would be chatting with a friend or two and we’d be all, “Ok, meet at the TP’s”, “TP” coincidentally being the initials of both Tu and Tramanh. When I moved in, I started taking photos in the house (of the dogs, etc) and when facebook asked “Location” for each of the albums, I started posting “Calder House” in the text field. And then, since I have a habit of taking sides, one day while we were sitting around, I dubbed all the residents of the house collectively as “Calder House”. It’d be like, “Okay, Calder House photo” or somesuch. And then the name stuck.

  Well, longtime friend Patrick was moving to Geneva last November and he had lived there with us for exactly one year before he had to move out. We made a pretty good group that introduced many nights debating roundtable (well, kitchen island) topics over bottles of wine, each bringing in a wide variety of subjects and interests. Before he left, we decided we should have the first Calder House commissioned photo. And by commissioned, I mean I just set up my camera equipment and ghetto-rigged it like so:

  

  The inspiration for the shoot was to come up with something mimicking the parody photoshoot from Rob & Big from so long ago:

  

  

  Of course, we had to include Uno and Pepper. Except Uno kept making a weird expression every time the flash went off.

  

  Uno, so dignified.

  

  Dogs, what are you doing?!

  

  After a few takes, we ended up with this one as the final photo to get blown up into a huge poster-sized print for framing in the house.

  

  We sometimes joke that Uno looks like a cockroach. In this picture, he die.

  

  At a Crystal Castles concert, after a few drinks, I thought it’d be funny to call it “Clader House” and sounding like “Clodder House”, but when I said it, it came out as “Clawder House.” Hence, this picture.

  

  Our version of the Rob & Big photo. Pepper posed perfectly. This ended up being my facebook profile picture for a while.

  

  Tu & Tramanh being not as gangster nor hardcore.

  

  And then here is my doing one o’ dem internet memes.

  

  And then that picture of Tu up above reminded me of that Keanu Reeves meme running around.

  Patrick ended up moving out at the beginning of November, so Tramanh’s friend from high school Karine moved in shortly after the landlords’ wedding.

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