Category: photography

i walk past this guy regularly so I thought I’d get him in a photo. there are a bunch of other beachwood art pieces on this lawn, but this is the one that always catches my eye. to the right of this a bit there is a huge pile of beachwood. is it legal to take that off the beach? not too sure I care either way but I think this art is pretty neat.

Nickgurns brought me back a present from Tokyo. As you can see, it is boss. Thanks Nickgurns!
I don’t actually know what it is, but I suspect what Nick was trying to tell me was that it is coffee in a can. Wicked! this is something I can enjoy while sitting on my new Hawaii Chair.
I was going to post a photo of some flowers blooming just to make a point to everyone in Canada who is not in Victoria, but what’s the point? That’s old news now – the cherry trees started blooming here in December.

This is Willows Beach near Estevan Village, yesterday at noon.
Just a reminder that Frisky Radio’s spotlight on Canada airs tomorrow starting at 11 AM PST with:

• Paranoid Jack
• Deadmau5
• Kristian Littmann
• AFK
• Mistress Barbara
• John Morgan
• Mute & Laki
• Hatiras
• Kevin Shiu

More info:
Frisky Loves Canada
Also:
Who has RSS feeds? I do! See the little orange broadcaster (RSS) icon in the navigation? Copy that link into your RSS client or click on it if you are spiff and have a local RSS aggregation client set up already. If you don’t have an RSS client set up, point your browser at google’s new (and beta) reader, a place for you to collect the news feeds for sites you read regularly. what I like about google’s take on the aggregator is that it allows you to share feed items with your contacts within the reader and point them at cool stuff. here are the blogs i have subscribed to:

• Adam’s House of Fun
• Adventures on the Blue
• Delicious Juice Dot Com
• Extrametrical.com
• Habitual Distortion
• Krishenblog
• secondGemini
• Velvety Couch

Do you have an RSS feed that I should know about?

This is what View Street (at Vancouver) looks like approximately right now. They’ve laid down some mesh and other stuff over the pipes, and also moved the pipes around a bit, but more or less it looks like this. Basically the road has been in a slow-motion fail for a number of years and is sinking because they built it on a lake, so the solution has been to dig up the road and throw down a bunch of tubes and then put concrete over top of it. Kind of like a bridge with no bottom, plus a series of tubes. Yes, that is correct, the internets are soon going to be buried underneath View and Vancouver St. The roads are closed here but the sidewalk is open to pedestrians still. Some people are riding their bikes on this sidewalk and almost running into me in the morning, but I would say it’s a bad idea to those bikers since someone might throw a tube in their spokes by accident one day. It’s a dangerous world!
Has anyone actually seen any of the plans for what they’re doing with our money? How is this supposed to work?

Here’s a photo of Adam Freeland DJing at Hush a couple weeks ago. Earlier in the night I also DJ’d and the night was well attended from the beginning. Unfortunately the night was so well attended that we ended up leaving before it was over – too many people on the dance-floor to do anything except get elbowed! Fun night nonetheless and so there it is.
I took this photo with my olde Canon Powershot G2, a trusty and fun camera that I shot with for 4 years before picking up my absolutely awesome Canon EOS 30D. The G2 has a few features that have yet to make it fully into the Canon dSLR world such as live view, which is the ability to see the shot on the LCD before you take it – something that is available on almost every consumer point and shoot camera but on only a handful of dSLR’s at this point. Another thing would be Auto ISO in manual mode – this is something that seems a bit ridiculous to not have for low light settings. As you can see from above, the G2 is significantly noisier (grainier) than the 30D is – this is because of the larger image sensor in the 30D and general increase in resolution (4.0 megapixel compared to 8.2 megapixel). The other item would be a detaching and swiveling LCD screen so that you can do fancy angled shots like this and see what you are going to get before you take the shot. It’s a huge boon for composition from strange angles. The alternative to this is just taking a bunch of shots from roughly the same angle and then deleting what you don’t like later – this is what I do right now with the 30D, but it is an inferior method compared to composing the shot and waiting for the right moments. Perhaps this comparison is a couple years late, but I have had a good amount of time with both cameras to know and use them well enough to compare the actual significant differences. There is a big difference in how you use a camera with live view with only one lens and a camera with an optical viewfinder only and switchable lenses. Anyway I could go on but I must, instead, go.
Today at work I plan on defining the terms “blog,” “forum,” and “wiki” and differentiating between them. Has anyone else done that? Got any thoughts on the subject?

Here is Peter at Floyds. I was sitting across from him in another booth. Peter has mentioned to me previously that he may own the place, and to prove this, he is sitting here with what appears to be the accountant. I’m not too sure. She ordered soup, but that proves nothing. Anyone can eat soup. What did prove something, though, was that when our waitress was coming over to give us our bill, Peter took her aside and she came back and said our breakfast was taken care of, thanks to Peter. This is the kind of breakfast authority few can argue with, and why would you? Only a fool would argue with a free breakfast from Floyds.
I should mention that Floyds is on Yates and Quadra, across from the Starbucks (not really helpful I know), and they have one of the best Eggs Benedict in the world called “The Homer” – here’s the description straight from the menu:

You’re damn right it’s okay to unbuckle after that one. I may or may not be a sucker for anything chipotle. I’ve been enjoying their take on it since I started going there for breakfast a few years ago.
If you are thinking that Floyds is one of those way trendy / popular breakfast places like The Blue Fox, or Shine, or Mole, you are correct. This means you are indeed a fool if you arrive there after 9:30 AM or before 1:30 PM. You will be waiting a long time in line. I recommend getting there at around 9:00 AM at the latest. Coffee (if you drink it) will come fast and the food is great.
Here is a link to to Floyds (for more info and for the answers to the riddles on the mugs if you’ve already been there):
www.floyds-diner.com

On the way out: Sony MDRV-700 DJ headphones. Number of gigs played with these: 200+. Made many tracks with these headphones, taken them around the world with me. Were they good? Not really. Sony made them out of plastic and they broke pretty easily after I had them for a year. I had them repaired (not cheap, neither were the headphones), but they broke again in exactly the same place. I know a few other people who have had these and they have all broken in that same spot. C’est la vie. I have had these for around 7 years so they have definitely payed for themselves. I have no particular headphones in mind to replace these – I think I might need two different pairs – nay, three: a pair for listening to music, a pair for producing music, and a pair for DJing and performing.
On the way in: Pictured here beside the headphones is a CD of Benz & MD – Signals with remixes by yours truly. This will be coming out on Proton Music and it will be added to the productions section of this website at that time.

Yus! Another great photogroffee. As usual we got asked about our super duper photo “club” and I did my best to demystify it (“we are just hanging out”) but interest remained. Some folks at the cafe did their best to link us to the Grid Project, which we have nothing to do with, but if we all had the time I am sure we would be involved and more interested. Sadly time is at a premium for all of us so we get to do this kind of photo taking a few times a year – except for in the last few months where we’ve really turned up the knob on the photo excursions. This saturday we are planning a day trip to Saltspring Island with the sole purpose of taking photos. more on the way.. these are busy times indeed!
In the cue:
Carson and Brandy Wedding Photos – shot on NYE
Short Fuse Photo Shoot – shot this Sunday past
Crikey, time to get a new hard drive or two! Any recommendations are more than welcome.