This Land Rover was parked in behind Emily Carr & I must confess that I am a sucker when it comes to taking photos of grills of an old cars/trucks. I always have been, in fact I should do a post about the grill of old car photos that I have taken over the years.

Yup it’s that time of year where I end my summer blogging drougt. That’s right!!!! It’s NaBlopoMo time!

So today was about packing and jamming!I managed to pack a whole crap load of stuff and clean out most of my desk and such.

We had a quick bite at the newly replaced Incendios in g-town where Darren & I ended up with ridiculously large & free beers.

Then there was Jam time where Darren & I had more foolishly large beer.

We rocked out so hard that the Zoom H4n Actually froze 30min into the session. That is how much we rocked out! tomorrow more packing and treks to Richmond :) Fun!

…and all I can show you all is some Polaroids. It seems that Port Alberi has an old timey drive in.

We stopped there twice for yummy burgers and the like.

I think there is two recurring themes when it comes to us & Tofino. Weddings & Pie! Yup it seems that we come to Tofino and there is a wedding and there is pie. Large pies. Many pies.  Delicious Pies!

Yup for a moment or two I may have forgotten that this trip for us at least is partly work. We be shooting a few hours today out on Chesterman beach and the weather is a mix of bloody awesome and slightly less awesome (at least by Tofino standards) so it should be swell. Then after the work stuff is backed up and safely stashed in multiple locations it is all about the relaxing and nothing but good times! I am hardly shooting any digital photos this weekend because it is all about the Mamiya RB67 and a variety of super awesome films/polaroids. This combined with sketchy internets means you all wont get many photos from this weekend till later sometime. Them’s the breaks so deal.

…I would like to take this opportunity to mention to all my friends in Alberta (and other places that are starting their long winters right now) that we have flowers and green all about us :)

Just tossing that out there :)

So Darren & I went to see Art Brut Rock out at the Biltmore! It was fun. These photos are not nearly as awesome as the ones that I took at Richards On Richards a few years back but they are OK. The Show on the other hand Royally kicked ass. It helped that I was 2 feet away from the band. Despite the group of drunken, barely of age, hipsters girls wearing large framed 80′s spectacles with the lens pop’ed out that were bound and determined to bounce me out of their way.

It was here that he started telling us that we should form a band. I wanted to yell back that after the Richards On Richards Show in March 2006 we did.  this was the Show that made Darren & I start our musical exploits that resulted in My Friend Lisa

I heart these Cuff links. I want Cuff links that say my band name :)

I was so bloody close to the guy! I sorta wished at the time that i Had brought a 24mm lens. I am glad looking at these that i stuck with the 50-1.2

So I hereby declare my self a willing participant in 2009′s NaBloPoMo! Yup as last year for an entire month, I intend to fill your RSS readers with mostly pointless posts! Why? Well to say that I might be able to commit to something every day for thirty days! Really expect 10% half assed content and 90% filler like “hey I am posting about insert trivial item that is poorly described here” or “hey here is a some photo of something with little to no explanation” so you know status quo. :)

This will be a tough month for NaBloPoMo! We will be moving, we are spending an extended weekend in Tofino, we are doing a whole lot of recording/jammin, & we will be seeing shows galore! While I might have a lot of stuff to share with ya all, I doubt I will have much time to share it: )

That is all.

Yuppers all up and at them for a day of fun at Whistler!! The board is all loaded up and ready! Just going to grab Coaxial and we are off!! Hurray. No real camera’s on the hill today but crappy camera an iphone will document the good times :)

I know i just posted, but this started as a reply comment on this post, but it turned into a long rant So I figured it should be its own post.

I thought long and hard about Polapremium this morning and I ended up even more disappointed. I was looking for long term and I instead affronted with just how temporary it all is. I have a rule, if it costs more then $3.00 a shot I need to be making good money at it, or it better knock my socks off in some other way. Most things that I would buy from Polapremium unfortunately doesn’t meet that code. I don’t mind spending extra to support people/businesses doing cool things, but I think I will take all the money that I could have spent at polapremium and use it to buy more of Fuji’s instant stock on a long term regular basis. My feeling is, lets support the long term guy, the guy who is going to be around for a while. I am going to stick with my normally attractive and funny long term girlfriend, instead of dumping her for a fleeting romance with a super model with a coke habit that will last an intense week, but be left in the end with nothing but heartbreak and regret.

My Omega 4×5, the 360 Land camera, and I will happily shoot our Fuji FP100C with fantastic results and well into the foreseeable future.