Yup this summer has gone by so crazy fast that it seem like last week that I made this little film using macro lenses with my camera, but it was instead February.

Way back in the day when I was going to be the next awesome filmmaker, long before there was even high definition this is what would pass for a complex and beautifully done art film. It would have required expensive cameras and macro lenses and a larger lighting kit to provide enough light for the special expensive camera, not even mentioning the hours of computer rendering. :)

Seems so much easier to do now :)

Just saying

PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL Sharon Van Etten Keep Trying [ft. Marie-Claire Balabanian]

This past weekend we had a wedding at a place called Alpine Meadows Resort near Clearwater BC. Where is Clearwater you ask. Exactly! We were seriously off in the toolies which was really awesome even if it meant there was no cell service or internet.

We took a little river ferry to get there.

They had a lake that was quite literally jumping with fish and rowboats :)

Marsh Grass taller then me…

and street lights… in the wilderness… I am not making this up…

It was a weekend of completely epic clouds and dramatic skies.

I again like always have forgotten my capo resulting in an improvisation.

Super awesome place was a super awesome wedding, and despite it being a work weekend, it was super swell! There are more photos to come I am sure.

But not a glamorous boat like you may be thinking. I was instead on a rather unglamorous BC Ferry from Galiano Island where we happen to have a nice midweek wedding. The island was glorious in it’s hippy laid back fashion and I came home one step closer to being refreshed & smelling adequately like petiole oil. :)

Here we have a series of attempts at an epic ‘My Friend Lisa‘ photobooth photoshoot.

The Idea: Simply we wanted to have Darren & I jumping up as high as we possibly could at the exact same time with Shannon standing in front with an epic rockstar pose.  Seems like it should be simple enough, right? WRONG!

Above: This was the absolute best photo out of all our many futile attempts to jump at the same time.
Below: Me cursing out Darren for being a bad keeper of time, while Shannon laughs :)

Above: We try it again

Below: We simply give up and move on to the obligatory Rock Star band pose.

All in all fun!

Oh and yes Darren isn’t wearing any pants. Why because he is the drummer, and drummers don’t wear pants. :)

Even though they didn’t choose me to be one of the 200 artists, (something that shouldn’t really be a surprise, being that I did my submission at the very last minute from a bar after a few pints with stolen wifi and the Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Game going on) you should all check out this years Cheaper Show! It is on the 26th of June! So the Saturday after next!

It will be AWESOME I just know it, And I know all awesome, Because well I am an expert in the art of awesome! Really… I am… You don’t seem to believe me… Why don’t you believe me… You don’t think that I am an expert in awesome….. You don’t think that I am awesome…. arrg… Well I am awesome and my Mom says so…. You should GO TO THE SHOW!!!!

This is a photo from my Canon 1Ds MII that I sent to canon repair after it stopped turning on.  They sent it back saying it had water damage and that they can’t fix it. The neat thing is that it came back working…. Neat. I am not sure if i should trust it but I have been shooting away with it so hopefully it will remain working :)

Here are some photos of the water damage.

On the weekend M & I were Celebrity Judges for a hat contest at an awesome fund-raising event that the ever awesome Lani helped put on for Building Opportunities With Business The event was held down at the Hastings Race Track, where we got to hang out with our co-celebrity judges John Fluevog & Kim Cathers (there! I am done with the name dropping) We got to be kinda famous and watch horses run around in a circle, it couldn’t be much more awesome then that, yet somehow it so was! There was beer, steak, and potato salad to go with all our gambling craziness. M only lost like $13.00 so you know we were getting out of hand.

After a quick walk for free coffee at waves (i have wave’s ‘dollars’) I took this photos on the way back. Typical me however, I totally didn’t even see this when i walked by it 5 min earlier because I was looking at the minutiae of the wall beside it. More specifically the molding around a window on the wall beside it :)

it has been a busy weekend and first half of a week. Tonight i should be able to start remembering what the hell has been going on and write it down. Right now I must prepare for a small wedding :)

M & I were here for the Our Social Fabric’s sale over the weekend and who could resist the stereotypical perspective photo.
I couldn’t

Sunday saw us with not much to do so after a super quick breakfast we meet up with J&S and Kris out on Bowen Island. I had a guitar with us (which is absolutely required when one is taking a boat somewhere) and our returning boat was basically empty so we shot some photos. Some are shot by me, some by josh and some by Shannon. I don’t know who took these photos of me but I took the three of Shannon.

Yup tonight at the Lynn Valley Library (map) in North Vancouver, yours truly will be giving a presentation on Film and why we should all use it! You should all come and listen to me ramble.

As the title states

So after becoming horribly sunburnt and eating a fabulous meal with peeps at some Broadway sushi place (the name of which I cant recall), M & I went to Richmond to run some errands, one of which took us by the New Richmond Speed Skating Oval.

It is very peerrty at night so I think a trek back with tripods and the like will be in order.

Ok It looks like I may have fixed some of the word press bullshit that has been taking all of my free time as of late. We will see how this random manual fixing will all hold up.

In other news today was day one of northern voice 2010.  It was good. I took photos.

This is my first super Photoshop CS5 content aware photo Check out the original here. Not a super complex Photoshop job I just wanted to see how it works.

It has been a super busy weekend that turned into a busy week! Tanya’s wedding was an absolute blast! I think we should have more friends that are getting married, because I <3 going to weddings as a guest :) Photos will be forthcoming on the BOP blog for people who are waiting to see how awesome Tanya & Barry looked!

Sunday was Got Craft, and for those not in the know Got Craft is a really awesome craft show put on a couple of times a year by Lotus Events. This year, like last year, my darling Wife & Kimli had a table. It is a crazy awesome show that everyone should check out. So being that I was down on Commercial Drive the very first thing Sunday morning I seized the opportunity and took advantage of completely empty streets and closed store fronts to walk about with my camera!  This particular set of photos I found in a dead end back alley behind what sounded like a busy restaurant.

Yup I have been to literately hundreds of weddings in the last ten years but I was working at every single one of them. With the exception of my wedding I have not been to a wedding in non working mode basically ever!!! I had a camera in my hand the entire time but i had Mini/sherry Olives to take care of everything so i had nothing but good times and many many many double rum & cokes! w00t! I r loaded but I have had one of the best times!!!! that i have had in a long while!!! we all took many a photo

and hopefully will sort though them all soon!

Tanya & Barrry Thank you for an awesome time at an awesome party!!!

So I have rounded up all the ingredients for My first attempt at Caffenol C Film Developer.  What is Caffenol C You ask? Well in essence it is developing your precious rolls of film in Laundry Detergent and Coffee! Yup, Homemade, green-ish developer, for super cheap!

This is the recipe I will be starting with (from the folks at Digital Truth)

Caffenol-C film developer
Water  8 oz (237ml)
Arm & Hammer Washing Soda 2½ tsp (level)
Vitamin C powder ¼ tsp (level)
Instant Coffee Crystals 4 tsp (slightly rounded, NOT decaf)
The Fixer is regular Ilford Film Fixer

I will be documenting this experiment in detail and I will let you know how it all goes. This is however nothing but a teaser because I doubt that I will have a chance to get to this till sometime next week.  Because it is a crazy weekend of awesome this weekend! It is Tanya & Barry nuptials day, where I plan on drinking heavily and groping my wife inappropriately in public. Perhaps I will make a drunken spectacle of myself by making some sort of heart felt slurred speech in which I profess nothing in particular over and over till someone (most likely my wife) hooks me with the proverbial cane and tears me away from the podium!

It will be fun! :)

More colour from my trip to the camera show last week. I heart New West for its old broken buildings. I fear that they are going to “clean up” the neighborhood and build shinny new uninteresting condos before I get a chance to explore them all. I suppose some sort of concerted effort on my part may be in order. :)

I enjoy that almost all the A’s are missing of some of the signs. I wonder if they were stolen or if there wasn’t enough A’s in the letters that they used? :)