This Week in (Uploaded) Pictures: Holiday Weekend Edition

Stephanie Glaros gets a picture perfect shot of the fireworks!


Jon Behm shoots the best costumes of CONvergence. Full slideshow at City Pages here.

Damon and Yancey Thrift go all out for CONvergence. More great photos from them here.


Franklin Christopher shares some awesomely artsy shots on Facebook.


When it comes to 10 Second Film Fest trophies, the Soap Factory doesn't mess around.


We heart Daniel Peet's art photography!


Max Sparber gets in the holiday spirit.


Cole Griswold goes water surfing on Lake Minnetonka.


Christian Erickson kicks it the right way.


Ryan Damien shoots Ashley Wokasch charmingly avoiding the rain.


Sohail Justin Akhavein and Karla Kapaun get tangled.


Native Brit and Soap Factory director Ben Heywood shows some homeland love.


Pam Gaard snaps her pretty pup in her art studio.


Errybody in tha pool! Photo by Eunice Pitts.


Alex Desnick grills out. Photo by Nicole Neff.


Mike Betlock captures some enthusiastic patriots on the lake.


Jill Myers Singer captures an amazing sunset in Milwaukee over the weekend.


Emma Berg hits NYC and snaps some fun pix.


Chuck Olsen shoots a pretty poppy. Summery!


LOL/OMG's Pat O'Brien LOSES the Diamond Dog eating contest at The Depot Tavern. Way to NOT represent! More fun pix by Leslie Plesser here.


Colleen Guenther snaps a dreamy summer scene.


Allison LaBonne shoots Vanessa Messersmith cooling off on the 4th. Nice sticks!


Tony Nelson ought to invite us over for drinks!

Upload a cool pic this week? Send us a link for consideration in next week's edition to omg@letoilemagazine.com.

Submitted by @theiverson

Weekend Twitterings

Happy Tuesday everybody! You all had a fantastic 4th of July weekend right? It was all about BBQs, pool parties, lakes, beaches and.. fireworks! oh yeah, Kim Kardashian was in town.

You don't? In other news, we learned over the weekend that Kim Kardashian has a diamond encrusted digital camera. Yeah.



Amen.

Oops.

We're so trying this.


We had another post about best of CONvergence 2011 tweets, but these guys deserve another one. Also, this:
Ha ha.


Excellent.

Definitely.


#winning.


OMG.


Double OMG!


Just another day at the beach...


We would just like to disclose that our own Pat O'Brien did NOT win the Diamond Dog eating contest.


America!


We need pics!


Revenge is sweet...


LOL.


Yes, congrats Chuck!

Submitted by @marrina.

Kim Kardashian parties on Lake Minnetonka

In case you didn't hear, Kim Kardashian was in town this weekend, obstensibly to accompany her fiance, New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries, who was in town to host a party at Seven Skybar Saturday night. Today, Miss Kardashian partied on Lake Minnetonka, and even tweeted a pic of her with some gal pals:

Steve Marsh chimes in with the unavoidable Prince reference:

At Seven on Saturday night, Stephanie Davila and Steve Marsh of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, as well as Twin Cities Daily Planet/The Tangential scribe Sarah Heuer, offer their reactions:


Earlier that day, the couple took in a Twin game, in which Humphries through out the first pitch:


It shouldn't be too hard after such a beautiful Minnesota weekend in the summer, should it?

CONvergence Tweet Roundup

Annual geekfest, CONvergence, kicked off Thursday and nerds are already going crazy on Twitter. We've rounded up a few highlights thus far, and we expect (no, we KNOW) that things will only get more outrageous throughout the rest of the weekend. Follow the hashtag #CVG2011 to keep up with all the hilarious shenanigans.

Jeremy Messersmith's Ira Glass "costume" is a hit. Speaking of Jeremy, did you read the Vita.mn cover story about his weekly D&D game? It's pretty awesome.


Yep. The sky's the limit at #cvg2011! Check out the schedule here.


They have breakfast at Dairy Queen?


Yes, the theme of this year's CONvergence revolves around steampunk.


@carr2d2 can't wait to eat some free rice in the CONsuite.


We completely concur. Read about the time we freak danced a storm trooper at our first trip to CONvergence here.


We bet a Klingon did that.


We can already tell Scrimshaw's tweets from Con are going to be good.


CONvergence dance parties are always epic.


We'd expect nothing less. Over 5000 nerds will be all up in the Sheraton this weekend.


One of the best party rooms of CONvergence got placed on the 4th floor this year. Stop in for a Pimm's Cup!

Submitted by @theiverson