Davin Greenwell

for many people, tomorrow and the next day are a big party in the middle of the city that lasts all day and late into the night. for a few select others, this is the gig of the year, the one they’ve been looking forward to all year. and for an even smaller group of people, this weekend is the culmination of a quarter year of organizational efforts and a chance to revel in what dreaming and planning can make happen.
any way you cut it, the Victoria Electronic Music Festival is the focus of almost every party-goer, DJ and producer on Vancouver Island and it keeps on getting bigger and better every year. this year it is attracting talent from as far as chicago and calgary and many names from vancouver as well. there are more producers performing their own music than ever before and more DJ’s than ever before. there are workshops on how to make the music yourself or spin records if you’re so inclined. for free. It starts for most at 12 pm noon tomorrow when dj trever puts the needle on the record. if you get to centennial square earlier, i’ll see you there.
it’s time to dance.

these are photos from last week’s luminara festival. i couldn’t stay around for darkness but really it would have been not a lot different than the year before. they shut down relatively early (you get about an hour of darkness) and the people are generally much more interesting than the content provided by the festival. if they allowed amplified music to go along with the visuals my opinion might change..
i’ve been using picassa a lot lately to organize my photos. the pro is that it’s fast, much faster than lightroom, but the con is pretty clear in the photos above. they appear slightly washed out on an 80% quality setting during export, and the jpeg artifacting even at 80% quality is pretty obvious in my opinion. the file size is pretty small but it’s a long ways from photoshop optimization or fireworks, which i suspect will be one product soon.

saturday i went tubing on the cowichan river, slept, woke up, went to luminara, then went for dinner at milestones with the boys and girls, then went to lexi’s birthday party, and then it was off to Lush for the shiloh world release party for their new album “bleed.” it was a perfect end to a perfect day.
ps: note justin from shiloh wearing the pacific front recording’s t-shirt at the top. an excellent choice for evening atire in my opinion. strong move.

well it was one of those moments where victoria felt like an episode of the simpsons. steve nash showed up at the local park and hooplah ensued.