Indie I Do was this past weekend which had us as always busy and having a blast :) The show was on Saturday and was as always a great success but we were basically full on exhausted on Sunday and spent the day watching BBC documentaries and Movies. TOday is a day in which I must take all of the household/office things that were torn apart for the show and put them back together! Not an easy task to say the least. So here you are Birds on a wire.

I am reminded of an article i read about arranging birds on wires as musical notation.

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

Just some more Digital Holga stuff. Neat lens but it is horribly slow. I am guessing even after I modded it is sitting at f/22ish (light meter battery is dead so I can’t confirm). Seriously in daylight (granted it was a typical grey vancouver day IE:dark) I was at ISO 2500 & up pulling shutters at best of 1/60th to 1/30th.

It was a nice day today so I went out for a walk. There were so many busking folks out today so there was plenty of music to guide me along :)

Jerk with a camera.

Just from a walk to gastown the other day.

This is an instagram that Shannon took during last rehearsal. I liked it so I stole it.

…but it would seem that I try anyway :)

Yup – Not A Drummer

…this is a repost from the the MFL website…

We had mentioned this on twitter but we have been so busy I forgot to mention it on the blog. My Friend Lisa is no longer just a duo! We have welcomed Renee (keys) & Lani (violin) into the fold!! We are still finding our footing with all this but have a listen to our off the floor cuts from last nights studio kitchen rehearsal.

Our favourite song ‘London’
My Friend Lisa – Dec.14.2011 – London

And our complete failure at playing Smashing Pumpkins Disarm.
My Friend Lisa – Dec.14.2011 – Disarm
I personally blame the kettle boiling over at that exact moment. :)

Not perfect but we have only played together a couple of times so I figure we are on the way to AWESOME!!

So right before the crazy of Culture Crawl we headed out to the west coast for some scouting and what not.  Here are some Redscale images from Ucluelet

My favourite is this last one.

Just a quick cut of my friend Jenna playing one of her original songs. It’s Awesome!

Now I haven’t posted a lot of actual words this year. (seriously be happy that i’ve posted anything at all) but do actually I have a lot of things to talk about. A big one is This years East Side Culture Crawl. For those that are not in the know about Culture Crawl; SHAME ON YOU!! GET OUT OF THE HOUSE ONCE IN A WHILE!! GEEEZZZE!! :) According to the website the East Side Culture Crawl is…

“A FREE 3-day visual arts phenomenon. This event involves more than 10,000 people visiting artists in their studios in the area bounded by Main Street and Victoria Drive north of First Avenue in Vancouver, Canada.”

That all said IT IS AWESOME! You should probably instantly drop everything and plan out how to visit as many of the 336 artists over the three days as you can. Seriously don’t just half assed not even bother to plan, and end up only going to one of the the 4 or 5 buildings that have the most artists in a single afternoon sometime between a late breakfast and an early dinner and then say ‘we went’ & that ‘you saw what Culture Crawl has to offer!’ Do that on Friday, then go street hoping on Saturday and then go to as many other places as you can on Sunday. Then once you are nearly as exhausted and the rest of us only then can you you say you have truly experienced the Crawl and you will be happier for it :)

As I started this long diatribe out with, We, (we being my darling wife and I) are participating for the first time this year. mostly because this is the first time we have lived in the neighbourhood and been remotely prepared to think about participating :) That said, I am no where near prepared for anything of the sort & nor is my house really :)

We live in our house and as such we are totally fine right now with large unfinished pieces of random plywood leaning against Ikea cupboards as room dividers. My idea of clean is simply get all the junk off the floor in some way & hurray we have achieved clean. :) Needless to say there are more the a few house projects that need to be done for what is rapidly becoming next week

That is not to mention all the projects that we need to do to basically have something to display for the crawl

I have been mixing up photography & table saws and I have a few really intereting projects that if all goes according to plan I will have it all displayed up on our wall for all you to see when you come.

I apoligize for instagram photos as I havent bothered to take a ‘real’ camera down to the woodshop. These get the point across though :)

I have also been attempting to mix photography with ceramics

That is 1/2 tone of clay. The Xterra was so loaded! :)

Oh and also My Friend Lisa will be rocking out at our studio (times to be decided)

OH YA and this is only me! My darling wife will have all of her awesomeness displayed up as well!!!

Oh ya I will have some film screenings happening

um…. there is more I am sure

we might bake cookies

FUN!!!

so YOU NEED TO COME OUT TO THE CRAWL!!!!

here is a handy leaflet that you can email around or link to!!

So a while ago I rented the 90mm TS-E for a particular shoot and while i had it I wandered as much as I could. I love the focal length I love the tilt shift  I did however wish the lens was L series glass. All in all fun!