Yup well a while back Coaxial and I went to The Frog and had a few beers… well truth be told we closed the place out. Once we were ejected from said bar we decided that because we were the better part of completely loaded, we should go and take random night time photos. All hand held of course because we didn’t plan this or anything so neither of us had anything that even looked like a tripod.  I loaded up the Canon EOS 3 with some crazy old (circa 2003) Fuji 1600 that I had kicking about, and together with the f/1.2 God lens I was able to do a decent job at this drunkin night time photo wandering. I love the grain of the 1600! It is so authentically gritty :)

So yesterday after a band practice – that I am not going to talk about – I was drug out to the Media Club to see this UK band called Frightened Rabbit and I am glad for it. COMPLETE AND UTTER GENIUS!! I had given one of their albums a spin the other day on Coaxial‘s recommendation, but I didn’t make the connection that the band that I was listening to was the same band we were seeing, until part way though the first song. Also this was the first show that I had seen at the Media Club and while it as packed I was still standing ten feet from the stage for a wicked show, which makes it my kind of venue :)

In other news, I am having a really hard time visualizing what I am going to do for my “Scenes From A Movie” entry. For those that are not in the know, Stephanie had this awesome idea. A group of us pulled the names of a bunch of awesome movie directors from a hat with the idea that we take a photo in the style of the director. I pulled Akira Kurasawa and Stanley Kubrick out of the hat. Akira Kurasawa I didn’t even know who he was until I pulled his name.  I know of his work, I just didn’t realize that it was his. The only Kubrick movie I have ever seen was The Shining and that was a long time ago.

I have noticed a couple of themes that are prevalent with both directors. I have noticed that Kubrick loves the wide lenses! Both A Clockwork Orange & 2001 A Space Odyssey has scenes that heavily used extremely wide angle lenses, nearly fish eye in some cases. I may use something like that in my Kubrick photo. Kurasawa was a genius with framing and such.  There are a lot of scenes in The Seven Samurai that are shoot throughs (shooting with an object in the foreground that you shoot through to the actual scene beyond) as well as other fun framing so I may experiment with that. He also painted his story boards, so experimenting with that may be interesting. All said and done I have nothing really.  I will watch more movies and see what comes of it I guess.

Today was also a hang out at VGH day so I wandered about and took some photos.

This is my absolute favorite graffiti in all of Vancouver! And I guess it would fall in to the category of mural rather then graffiti but I don’t care I like it! :)

On a walk about, I found this behind a hotel (I don’t remember which one) on West Hastings Street. I like it because it looks like someone actually hand painted it on the wall & in two colours even!

Snapped this in a Gastown back alley last week I love old brick.

So a while back I found a bunch of alleys and such that backed onto some train yards. Nothing but rows and rows of empty lumber cars.

Last week when i was walking to the Lab I found this awesome cross walk. I had to wait for nearly 10 minuets to get a break in the traffic to take this photo but i think it was worth it.

Last Sunday after a wonderful breakfast, Miranda and I went to a Retro Market at the Croatian Cultural Center and I discovered this awesome find. It is a Mamiya DSX 1000 35mm SLR camera with a nice 55mm f/1.8 lens.  The camera body is in remarkably good shape for a model that could be as much as 34 years old. The accessories and hot shoe protectors are all in place and there are no scratches or dents to be found on it. I have loaded up some film and we will see how that all works out!