Archive for February, 2008
Exposure Gallery – Call For Submission
I was at beau photo the other day and I came across this flyer on my way out the door! I thought that I would share it with the world.

Just A Tree! Oh & A Green Wall As Well!
On Tuesday I had some errand’s to run so I took my scooter and my camera! I took my time from point A to B and took photos of what I saw. This was a neat wall that I would love to use for a photoshoot! Maybe next week!

Some how I am busy. I have no real idea how that is but I am. I don’t even have a lot on the go it just seems that there is a tonne of stuff that I am not getting done! I blame the amount of sleep I have been getting lately! Well today it stops! No sleep till the work/fun gets done I tell ya! That way I can put more time into the really fun things like photo excursions, band practices, and of course more snowboarding. Our super busy season is creeping up quickly and I am not sure what I think about that, so one must make the best of the time at hand! That starts with the 187 unread inbox items :(
Our first band practice was a raging success yesterday! I simply cannot believe how quickly we meshed right of the start! I went into it with really low expectations and was really really really surprised because we really rocked out well for the first jam ever and my first in 12 to 15 years! So here you have it the much anticipated first jam session of our yet to be named band! This is our cover of a song by one of my favorite now defunct bands called Rainer Maria. Yuppers even though we may rock for an hour of playing together I don’t think we are quite ready to book the Cobalt quite yet! Give us a week or so!
4 commentsThe yet to be named band has had its first practice…
…and Man we had fun!! I seriously don’t think that I could have had more fun with my clothes on!! I am already excited for next weeks jam!!! I have a mp3 of one of the songs that I can post up later but for now I am also exhausted so I am going to crash out!!
No commentsBlue Skys & Dead Trees?
It must be Calgary! More specifically Calgary in the winter! A fun photo from the Great Matt Good Road trip in the fall of 2007! An epic road trip where we made sure to leave absolutly no white trash bar untouched and despite the prevalence of mullets and AC-DC karaoke I had a great time!! I think it was the drugs that they added to the Pilsner (we were in Pil country after all)
This one is an after dark photo that I managed to hand hold at some currently unknown yet ridiculously low shutter speed. the fact that I am sure I was wide open at 1.4 and was most likely at ISO 10billion. Not to mention that I probably took 6 in a row and then choose the clearest one has nothing to do with it. It was all skill people! all skill :) I could dig out the raw file and check the exif but I am sure that this is less work! :)
No commentsSave time?
I can not begin to tell you how much time has been wasted in life using the simple antiquated method of shirt removal.
No commentsOh… Look I Am Teaching!
So as I may have told some of you M & I both presented a quick 15 min session on lighting at this years northern voice. M did a fantastic job on her presentation of natural lighting and I focused on using flash and other forms of modified lighting! Now you can all see the presentation thanks to the fantastic video and sync work of someone (I am not sure whom) at Singular Productions.
It was funny to see that myself up there talking much more coherently then i had thought i did. (it was the first time i had done a presentation like this) and yet I can see that there was things I could have talked about more or better, but its hard with only 15 min.
No commentsTaking a break is fun!
Taking a break that is mandated by a fire alarm is not so fun! Yup so at 12:50 today the fire alarm went off which is what fire alarms are want to do, and in our building it happens more often then it should. So today when it went off I wasn’t all that concerned, I at a leisurely pace got my shoes on and grabbed leashes and bags for our cats, and pulled out the backup server for possible transport, and all very of this at as is said a very leisurely pace! Miranda ignored the fire alarm altogether and continued to work on her blog. Once I have everything ready I went and hung out at the window and contemplated playing a spot of guitar to practice for this weeks jam session! instead i watched the boats out on the water near Canada place, and just basically did everything but evacuate! :) After a bit when I started to smell smoke I decided that maybe it was time to think about leaving, and after gathering our things (ie: cats, laptops, and backups) we left out the front door and into the crowd. We meet our clients that we were to meet at 1pm at the front step and chatted as best we could with howling kittens and fire truck sirens. We also got to meet some of our neighbors (which in my experience a fire is the best time to socialize) We even had hobos asking if they can carry our computers for us and when that was denied they then asked us for change! (it would seem that crowds of people are hobo magnets in our neighborhood!) All said and done it would seem that the elevator control box caught on fire and will shut down the elevator for two or three weeks. So that should be fun being that the stairwells are all locked but Anyway I have a meeting, so ya we are fine and the cats are happy to be home!!!
2 commentsNice Day For A Wedding Show.
So today we are off to veil the un-wedding wedding show in North Vancouver. So we are going to be spending the better part of the day doing that but after we should be catching inner with the north shore crew. I thought I would be super tired today and would want nothing more than to sleep in, but I am wide awake and ready to tackle a tonne of talking. it will be fun! So I will leave you with another photo of the UBC forestry Building
1 commentNorthern Voice 2008 Has finished and I am off to bed
But I will leave you with a photo of the forestry building at the UBC Campus where NV08 was at.
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