Lauren Pedersen

Deep Creek Elem School, Attended 1991 - 1992, Class of 1992
Damascus Middle School, Attended 1992 - 1996, Class of 1996
Sam Barlow High School, Attended 1996 - 2000, Class of 2000

Dance Pioneer, Photo Warrior, Music Maven

Sprockettes, Church of the Force, Zoobomb

Blue skies, white clouds, green bicycles, grey cats, black coffee, red hooded sweatshirts, pink shoelaces, brown paper bags, orange bell peppers, purple bird puppets

His Dark Materials, The Christomanci Chronicles, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, The Mysterious Stranger, The Little Prince, Neil Gaiman, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wicked, Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, Charles de Lint

Underworld (NOT Evolution), The Matrix, LOTR, Ghostbusters, Rotating Food, Do You Copy?, Cold Lampin', Bike Riot, The Pitch, anything Burton or stop-motion

Meg Lee Chin, Beck, Bjork, David Bowie, Portishead, Scream Club, Romanteek, Show Me the Pink, Woodchuck, The Ponys, The Epoxies, The Pink Mountaintops, Kermit the Frog, Rasputina, Nine Inch Nails, mash-up

The Politics of Dancing, Gargoyles, Star Trek TNG

Aquarius

I admit to being a bookworm, boy-crazy, the messiest person alive (I like to boast, but some say otherwise), incredibly injurous (mostly to myself but people are easy to bruise) and nearly insanely honest. Served as a jurist once: one month on a class-action lawsuit vs Taco Bell. Been varying degrees of veggie for the last eight years. Haven't worn a watch for nearly five. Went without a car for three and a half years, drove for five months before giving it up a second time.

I play flute, need to practice piano and saxophone more, and am learning to play valve trombone (the only song I can do properly is this silly little thing called The One-Legged Skank). I own far too many books of sheet music and theory for my own good.

I now dance with a sweet little candy-striped 16" named Mayhem. It's taken a lot of work to get little Mayhem in condition for me to ride, there's still a bit more to do.

Once Mayhem's done, I'm going to start working on a 20" trick bike and learn a couple things.

I enjoy the company of intelligent, witty, honest and creative people who are vegetarian/vegan friendly and anti-hate (is this an oxymoron?).

Let us drink too much coffee and embark on adventures (that are so much more exciting with too much coffee in vein... are your eyes buzzing yet?), overdocumenting everything with a small arsenal of lenses, dancing all the while.