If you know Brandan and me, you probably know our sense of humor. When we redesigned Lime Tiger’s “About” page, we really wanted to reflect that humor and the creative edge we try to bring to our work.

We started casting ourselves in iconic duos of popular culture by tackling “Twilight.” For those of you without tween/teen girls in your lives, “Twilight” has taken popular culture by storm, rewriting the vampire canon from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice by adding questionable bits (sparkling skin, anyone?) and generally romanticizing the crap out of vampirism. Seriously, would you want a 108-year-old undead guy stalking your high-school-age daughter?

An after-work photo shoot meant our friends Kristen and Jim could help behind the camera, so at 7:00 one evening we brought together the four of us, a $3.99 bottle of Rite-Aid’s palest foundation, a camera, and a bottle of wine. (It was going to take some relaxing to get Brandan into the requisite three pounds of makeup and hair product.)

After a good bit of trial and error and wine, we realized the “Twilight” movie poster was probably a composite of two separate shots of RPattz and KStew. Too bad. We were determined to recreate the whole thing with a couple of Home Depot clamp lights and a black sheet. Our first pose went well, don’t you think? Let’s hear it for Brandan’s homemade “Team Jacob” t-shirt!

Ever helpful throughout the four-hour shoot, Kristen (our hair and makeup angel) and Jim (grip, camera guy, and cat wrangler) stepped in to demonstrate the spirit of the pose that Brandan was failing to capture. (Perhaps it was the copious amounts of hair spray, or maybe those bobby pins were too tight.)

A weekend of Photoshopping later — seriously, retouching photos is tedious work — our first “About Us” popular culture pairing was complete. I think we nailed it. See for yourself how they compare side-by-side.

Stay tuned for January’s reenactment — a new duo will be unveiled!