I am just hanging waiting till I go to the dudes side of the wedding prep. I would go a spot early but he asked me to come back at 2:30, so that leaves me with some unadulterated blog time!

They came and finished the floors today. Well we hope they are finished anyway. They may need to give them another coat on Tuesday but we will see. Basically our house stinks to high heaven. I was starting to get high just hanging about this morning. I feel bad for Miranda who is sort of stuck in it all day. There were cleaners that came yesterday to clean up Van Halen’s mess of messes and they did a real bang up job. You almost couldn’t tell that there ever was a sand happy 80’s rocker playing with power tools and pretending to not get paid by the hour. I mean I wish I was paid by the hour for jobs that I then determine how long they should take. I am sure that our four day displacement made him enough money to buy some studio time, or perhaps he could invest in a comb and/or toothbrush or maybe he can now put some new strings on his flying V or something.

So anyway he and his mess are gone and the painter came this morning and said that it would only take about twenty min or so to paint the floor and he was the first person yet to come in and give me an estimate and actually be in and out when he said he would. So we have to wait 24 hours to walk on the floor and 72 until we can move furniture in an such. So barring that there isn’t any huge unforeseen something or other (wait while I load the iPhone knock on wood App and well knock on wood) we should be able to continue the studio renovations that we are in control of this weekend. Starting with some painting and the floor repair where the old wall was. Should be fun anyway! Alright it is about that time now so…..

You should go for a walk with a camera, because in Vancouver this could be considered a gift. :)

Only because there is always a ton of people that always ask me about living in our building, I thought that I would let the masses know about this

Yup I think all the details should be on the website livework.ca or phone Wayne at that number

UPDATE!!! – I was blogging this while getting coffee so I didn’t look at the website but it would seem that this it the place across the hall from us!! 411 so if you want to live out side my door you can :P

Well when you are out for anniversery drinks with your wife of course. We are hanging at Granville Island waiting for a play to start and we saw this sign on a wall. I found it extremely humorous that it says keep OFF not keep OUT. It’s not like this is a building that is meant to have people on it, it is just a normal roof is not accesible kind if building.

It has been a crazy busy last few months as the sporadic blogging would show,  but i am slowly getting to things and blogging them as I get time.  This comes from June when A was visiting. We decided in all our infinite wisdom that the best way to spend a preposterously hot day on a preposterously hot weekend was to climb up to the top of a preposterously tall mountain via a preposterously steep trail.  So we found that hiking the Chief in Squamish had just the right amount of preposterousness so the plan was set.  Now because we don’t like ourselves and we are interested in making things really hard we felt that we should go to the frog the night before and get good and drunk! So up early we got and after scooping up A, D, & J and a horrible amount of Tim Horton’s grease, off to the great white north we drove.

Now the trail started like this.

and ended up being like this.

It was probably the most work/fun that I have had in quite a while! The triumph that I felt when I looked down and saw my truck as a tiny yellow speck was unbelievable.

More form the archives of the institute, here we have a wicker chair and and wicker wall in the Waldorf Wicker Tiki bar that A Northern Voice Party was at this year.

Yuppers just hangin around at VGH while Miranda comparison shops physiotherapists. Didn’t have a real camera so I figured I would grab this with the iPhone. Looks great at 2×3 inches :)

Taken and blogged with the iPhone.

Yuppers here we now have a complete lack of wall between the old place and the new one. Thanks coaxial for the hand in the cleanup. I just have to deal up some minor electrical and add a spot of floor and we are solid. The cats are already having a blast with the new and improved hole. Even if Luna had to have a quick bath in the whole process.

So I know I said I would get to it but I sorta got ambitious.

So this last week was pretty much the first week that we have had a home and an office in well… forever and i have to say that thus far it is pretty awesome. Hopefully I will get the chance to do a little more wall demo this week and not have to go out into the main hallway every time I need a new kitchen item. We have been doing the ‘move as you need it’ form of moving that is where you leave everything where it is and simply run back and forth for things as you require them. So let’s say you want to make soup? OK well go to the old home/new office and grab a pot, spoon, bowl etc. I figure that eventually we end up moved and what ever doesn’t get brought over by Christmas can go to goodwill cause it is obvious that we didn’t need it anyway. The normal I am moving so lets cull and clean out all our junk is something that we haven’t had the opportunity to do in the the last three moves. In fact we have been moving the same packed boxes from one home to the next for three or four years. I don’t even know what in most of them.
On a different note the PC to Mac data migration is complete. I am now officially using Mac for 95% of everything I do. I still have a PC backup server but that doesn’t really do much other then backup. I say 95% because there is a few programs that I can’t find a mac equivalent for. Programs like Breezebrowser are hard to replace. (and before one you comments and suggests that Adobe Bridge as a replacement it isn’t the same thing. Perhaps one day I will get into breezebrowser and highlight some of it little known features.) I will do the boot camp thing on the imac when I get a chance but for right now I am using the backup server for my minimal PC requirements.  I have it on my Macbook but it seems just wrong to load up WinXp on a Mac it is like i ruined it or something.  It’s funny cause Mac OSX86 on the PC is Simply the awesome mixed with the cutest kittens possable! It is like you improved a PC 1000% as soon as you see an apple logo as the boot screen.

I am waiting for today’s wedding to copy over so i thought i would post something

It is just a random shot of a picnic table that I took while at Whyteciff park on Thursday.

So I have been a bit of a busy beaver that last few days. I have been shooting everyday almost and trying to deal with the new home and such so there has been little time for much else. One of the things that i have been super busy with is Portrait and headshot sessions
Here is photo from Michelle’s headshot shoot that I did this morning.

She is awesome and you may recognize her from this shoot.

This shot is from a session that i did with the lovely Sarah Bergeest (you may also remember her awesome hair and makeup work of the same snow photoshoot)

This was taken today at Whytecliff park during a particularly wonderful sunset.  This is of course after (safely) jumping in the ocean with very expensive unprotected camera equipment, for another Trash the Dress Session. It was fun and not at all cold. I think i am going to jump in the ocean during the summer months more often,  it seems to be quite preferable to lets say March in oh I don’t know Tofino for example.. :)   So after our TTD/Suit session the North Shore Crew met us for BBQ and other fun foods. fun was had, and sun’s settled into mountians giving awesome light, photos were taken.

So we finally have access to our new home today. They have finally finished the floors and painting the wall and such, so we thought it best to kick a whole the wall.

It is a hole where we are going to tear out a wall, but it is a hole none the less.

So here I am on top of what is know as unnecessary mountain. We are ten min from the base of the Lions. I have an epic view in all directions and there was even some fireworks a while ago. I am not sure what they were for but cool none the less. I expect that It will get quite cold tonight not that I am worried. :). I am totally wiped from the last few days of action. Mostly because our office has been moved around and I have slept about two hours a night for the last two weeks. Not to mention that I did just climb a mountain :) so sleep for me.