Posts Tagged ‘Our Town’

That’s WEIRD, you guys!

This entry features 112 jpeg containers. With this scope in mind I feel responsible for introducing what you are about to experience but I find myself without words. It is a perpetuating comedy, then. I photograph for many reasons but one of them is the excellence it represents in the conundrum of self-expression, reflection and reciprocation. Where I stumble, photography grounds me. And, by the way, I love yours too. I think other bloggers should comment so that I can follow the links back to your internet venues. Now, then.

There is a film named Kodak HD 400. I shot a roll of it in my Nickelodeon Photoblaster.

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Interestingly enough, the results from this expired roll that has been in my fridge (a number of fridges, really) for years are rather delicious.

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Brother Entropy surprised us all in Vancouver with the weather throughout September but in October it began to rain at last. Quite convincingly I might add.

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This cat convinced a number of individuals that being in a salad bowl on the floor really is not so bad.

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Limits tested, but not met.

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Quite content to be back on the floor again. I guess it is really nice to have a camera around for these situations.

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Add another point in my decisive moment column.

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I love that the film recorded the nature of the sky to some degree, polluted by the light of the city landscape.

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I missed several cute/intimate moments between these two but I still wanted them anyway so I had to take them.

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We were all in attendance to see a guy in a place.

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Pretty sure that was 1/2.

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Apparently that is what I looked like, proudly demonstrating my Nickelodeon Photoblaster back from the shop in tip-top shape.

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Discovering mirrors is a bit of a strength, I would say.

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Guy outside of a place.

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Hm, and snapping to finish the roll off the next day. That place burned down on November 12th. That place where I spent so many days, taking oh, okay, maybe one more cup of coffee. Where the food always hit the spot. Where I truly loved the staff. Where.. I don’t know where to go any more.

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Good thing, then, that we went inside that day. I guess this was the second to last time I was there. Kodak Tri-X.

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I am going to weave in a roll of NPZ here and there and intend that I am slotting it in pseudo-chronologically. Again, different cameras and simultaneous rolls, so who really knows.

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Kidnap Kids at Goonies.

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Nadja at the Rickshaw.

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They were great.

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lol

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I failed exposing that one, oops, was in a hurried commute. It is almost what I was going for though, to be fair.

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That was Mono at the Biltmore, October 6. I only made that one shot on film. Actually, maybe I should include a few of the digital frames I made there…

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Here’s Beard wondering if he’ll regret that face. Though he was happy to send me off with the 5d.

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So Randy and I hopped in a cab.

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The stage was set when we arrived.

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The show was sensational, profoundly sensational.

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To celebrate we visited 7-11.

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On October 9th, 2009 the Centaur upper stage of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite impacted the crater Cabeus near the south pole of the Moon at a velocity of 10,000 km/h. I made a photograph for posterity.

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We talked about something cool. Can’t remember what it was. Good story, right?

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Quaint. It is always good to get involved with the community in pro-active ways.

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Or to just sit and study.

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Or sit and sip, discuss.

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I am a little rusty.

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So, something else that happened in October was my 10 year high school reunion, yep.

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Eventually the photographers of the class converged a bit. Everybody loves to handle the Nickelodeon Photoblaster.

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It was a weird event. Oh, no, not the reunion. Just the fact that someone almost managed to pull focus here.

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That hat fell from the balcony above where a wedding reception was taking place. The hat was being used as a prop for photographs, unfortunately I ended up wearing it for a while before realizing what it looked like on me. Fortunately, it was legal for us all to drink this time we got together, and drinking definitely did occur.

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I played with the photographer above who had by that time realized I was in possession of her hat. I was working my way up the stairs to deliver it back to her when I was intercepted by a friendly dude, the brother of the groom perhaps, who had come to retrieve the hat. I didn’t get any farther than that, which I regretted. I wanted to say thanks for playing with me.

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Then it was time to celebrate a birthday.

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And have a bit of a jam. I think Weston is going to be the family drummer.

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That composition grows on me every time, more than last time. ;]

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We drove to the supermarket. Careful not to get a parking ticket.

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A portrait of a person; a portrait of quality time.

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Completing the circle of life, queuing to pay. On the internet, at the cashier, on the internet.

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Hallowe’en was approaching, and the last day at my old apartment. Still I had not found a new place to live.

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Our Town had become a fairly regular spot to regroup.

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And the packing was underway. I was fortunate to have amazing help from amazing friends. And a place to live was found.

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As my apartment emptied I paused to make one last image in that place.

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I moved on October 31st. The weather was incredible, as was the help I received. Hi, mom.

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Later we returned to Command HQ and launched Operation: Destroy Brain Cells.

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Other things also happened that night, as they usually do.

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Although I dawned the horse to this party, the hot dog guy found an appreciation for my style. We traded hats and I wore his zombie Barack Obama mask which worked out nicely because I was dressed formally and it was possible to shoot through the eye holes in the Obama mask, unlike through the horses mouth.

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Salacious!

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November 1st deserved going out for breakfast.

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R.I.P. Idle Thumbs <3 (that was being out for breakfast another day in fact). I was boycotting the price of razors for a bit. :/

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We are at the Elbow Room.

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The painting walls occurred. The consumption of Stiegl occured, occurs yet.

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Leica eyes. You know’em or you don’t.

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You’d think I might be near Our Town again.

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Might be right…

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It is happening on all sides of me.

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Oh, this is unique. I brought to a show a flash device for my camera, then I used it.

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I am impressed you’ve got this far, honestly.

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But do not worry, we are almost there.

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hemingway

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OK.

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I think we’re good.

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Days Away

Good morning. I’m going to blog a bit now while I have a chance. There’s a good pile of boxes to my right. The shelf is empty and the closets are following close behind. Of course some of those boxes I didn’t have to pack because they were already waiting there like they’ve been the last 2 years or more. I don’t quite know what the feeling is to witness these piles of hundreds of 8x10s most of which not even grant me pride. Nonetheless, when I reach my new home I plan to pull them out and get them on to the walls for once. Perhaps I will see many of them in a new light.

But for now, more fancy colours.

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I found this roll from 2007 somewhere inside a tube. It had never been cut. So I’m rewinding a bit to once again revisit moments that occurred when I first moved to Main street a couple days before I move again.

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This circumstance will be familiar to some.

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My buddy Maarten was in town to work with us for the summer. I was happy to see him again and still wish I made more time to spend together.

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This is a series of JJ attempting to play Forza Motorsports.

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He’s not getting much positive encouragement though.

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Because somebody wants some candy, and somebody wants it really bad.

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Desperate times…

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Sometimes there’s nothing left to do but to move in for the kiss.

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I got a kiss that night too but I did make $5 for it.

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These things happen on the bus late at night.

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Never met them before or again.

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We’re waiting for the b-line.

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That dinner felt like a parody.

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All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.

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We’re getting some air outside. It is the second last Fake Jazz Wednesday at the Cobalt.

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This week and the next, people were taking tiles or any piece that would remove as souvenirs before the end of The Cobalt. I just took some photographs.

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In the ladies room the art was more ambitious.

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Hello.

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That was a random angry human yelling at me like many others have done. Their finger is sore and yes that’s a cigarette.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Man, I really wanted that shirt. I had trouble taking no for an answer. I’m sorry I was so persistent.

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I really don’t remember much of that night but I did leave my phone on a bench near where we’re standing right there. There was a nice guy delivering papers early in the morning who found it and when I realized I’d lost it I got in contact with him and he drove up to me at the 7-11 payphone within 2 minutes. He leaned across and handed me my phone through the passenger window of his Honda Civic. His car smelled like a cigar and he had a nice moustache. He told me his karma must be doing good this week because he just found a wallet full of money the day before that he was able to return. I told him I didn’t know how to thank him but I gave him $20 which was all I had on me. He smiled and decided he’d take his wife out for breakfast. That would make me very happy I said. Later when I was looking at my call history I noticed he tried to call ‘Mom’ at 6am thinking that was a good person for him to call! Sorry, Mom! Haha.

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Our Town = Our town.

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Sitting by the window with coffee and a book.

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So for Craig’s surprise birthday party the theme was being old. Everyone dressed up like we were triple our age. Well most of us did.

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Naturally I brought the horse for some reason.

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I wanted a photograph of her for years before this moment arrived.

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Newlyweds Jon and Randie gave me a couch to sleep on that night after I had trouble getting home. In the morning Jon made me coffee and toast and we played video games. All the good ones are taken!!!!!

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Fraction of a second too late.

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Maybe that’s what the end of times will look like.

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And then I discovered the Vancouver Ukelele Circle which gathers every month at Our Town Cafe.

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They are led by this man.

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He seems to take his role very seriously.

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That night there happened to be a film crew from Japan visiting.

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He’s no relation to the crew but seemed very interested to tag along either way. Just like me.

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I thought their camera guy ruled actually.

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A week later I was at the Cobalt again for the final Fake Jazz Wednesday and the final show ever at the Cobalt. Yeah that’s a paint brush.

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I actually loved their set but didn’t learn their name.

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Next was Anha.

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Goodbye Cobalt. I hardly knew you.

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This entry really was about the end of things and the passing of time. Good bye East 14th Avenue. I already know that it will be difficult to remember you fondly and that’s an injustice because you were the best place I’ve ever lived.

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