Nathan Veldhoen

The running shoe rack.

I have been going  solid on the training  since Christmas and feeling pretty good.  Legs are feeling tired almost on a daily basis with all the biking,  but going to have to trade a few of the biking days into runs for the up coming marathon in less then 2 months.  Overall feeling strong and wanting to get into a race soon.

As the weeks move on (I think I am on the 15th week) so has the dollar amount.  I missed running the Fort Half, but  just signed up for the Oliver Half Iron on June the 6th and planning on doing another half later on in the season.    I will be racing the BMO Vancouver marathon on the second of May and maybe another trip down to Vegas for the Rock and Roll race.  I am almost @ a thousand dollars this year alone on race fees!

Along with racing goes more equipment, I bought a new set of race day running shoes, and  looking at getting my wetsuit for the lake.  The Bike has been able to hold up so far, and so has the trainer.

One of the major purchases that I was wanting to get before the spring was a camper.   I recently just bought one on Wednesday and will have some pictures of the house on wheels here soon.

Day off tomorrow and then back at it Saturday.  I will be getting on the fundraising train here in the next few weeks, so for those who would like to donate check this page out!

Last month I spent quite a few hours working with Vacuum Design on a contest for  autotrader.ca.  Contest is called Cliff your Ride, if you have a shitty car and want to get a new one, enter yourself into this contest for 30, 000 towards a new one while watching the old one sail off a cliff.

Site and video put together by Vacuum Design, I built the car and did the animation for the logo at the start of the video.  See below.  Pretty fun little project.

More images from the trip few weeks back…

Lunch break

On the way up.

resting

Shots from last week, finally getting some together.  We head up the duffy lake road just up from Pemberton.  Felt weird being back there, since the last time was for the big music festival.  Sledded into a cabin up the valley and stayed for 5 nights and four days of solid skiing.  Had some good skiing, but were limited on what we could ski since the snow was pretty unstable.

Got up a 4:00am to get past the Olympic check point Saturday morning and then head into the mountains.  We ended up stopping in Whistler for lunch on the way back but not much was going on.  I’ll try and add some video off my phone from our walk through center of the village and I’ll add more pictures once I find some time.

Shot from the top of the ridge we where on-looking East

Little bit of wind on the last run on the first day

Boyz coming down.

The view coming up in the morning from the day before. Practice for there next figure 8 contest, might need some more.

I’m gathering up my photos from my ski trip last week but had to jump the gun and throw some up from the big hockey game yesterday afternoon.  Decided to get up and get my training in early so I could get downtown for the madness.  I didn’t stay for the after party but did get to see the game.  The whole thing was fun to watch, horns going through the night and the hangover begins.

zero'd in

Sun coming in through the window @ the Met.

Had Sun coming just as the game was finishing up. Pretty cool thing to see.

Headed into the city Wednesday night to catch one of my favorite live, Canadian bands, Corb Lund.  Ended up working out perfect, drove downtown, walked across Cambie and boom.  Almost walked right into the free Yaletown concert stage too.  Corb was good as always…can’t complain since it was free!  Photos Attached.  Good Canada!

Heading up to an area just pasted Whistler this week, hopefully stop in and get more olympic photos and some good skiing.

Crosby/ Corb fan

Took the wrong lens with me -would have liked to get the whole stage...

CLoser Up

Favorite out of the set. Guy looks so clueless.

Here are more shots of last week just before the show started, going to try to get into the city again soon.  Heading out Saturday to try and get some ski touring in,just out side of Whistler.  I’ll hopefully get some good shots and some possible shots of the village in Whistler if we can find some parking.  I’ll also be adding more photos to theartprojectonline.com later on tonight.

Facing Yaletown, from Cambie.

Russian House-2014

Yaletown Village...im sure its a lot crowded now.

Athletes village from Cambie bridge.

The Bay sporting some serious imagery.

GE rink @ the foot of the Vancouver Art Gallery

I will have more up on my flickr and will be adding most of these to the art site ::downloads for 7 bucks.::

Checked out a few of the Olympic hot spots that are around the city on Friday night.  Most of the cool and interesting things are best viewed at night.  Didn’t get as many good shots as I would have liked but a few came through.  Did manage to get to the Olympic rings on the water by Stanley Park as well as the mess down at the Art Gallery.  I’ll have to head down again to see if I can got more images.

Light show from Stanley Park

Source of the lights down at Sunset Beach

Shots from around Van city before the big parade.

From UBC side

same area

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...down in the island.

Spent my Saturday night hitting up a few events in Vancouver, first was a show and auction held by PUBLIC magazine! in  a cool little space across from the  new Woodwards building.  Some really cool pieces and a good mix of different talent.  Shots from the show can be seen here.

After the Public magazine launch party, we headed down to Chapel Arts for I heart Van Arts Launch Party for a festival that will be during the Olympics in Yaletown.  The crew that put this event on did an amazing job and used the the chapel to perfection .  A lot of  talented artists, as well as a large range of mediums from the music, art, and sculpture.  I was impressed with the overall set up and huge turn out.  They are also looking for volunteers for the festival during the olympics, so check out their site if your interested.

After the night out, headed down to some of the main venue that will house the Olympics.  Some really interesting structures and buildings all around the false creek area.  The hype has  started.  I don’t have any tickets but I will have to head down and see the gears turning, maybe check out a few of the free things going on.  Found a list free music concerts from vancouverisawesome.com.

Things are looking all good. There is the half a million affordable housing.

The non science world, its the center to learn about 2014 in Russia. I think...

See a hint of Cypress from Downtown.

Got my first turns of the year on Friday, headed up to Hemlock where there was only one main chair up and some crazy weather.  Was raining pretty hard in the morning at the house and it wasn’t too much cooler at the ski hill.  It was snowing but very heavy and wet, they reduce ticket price  to 34 dollars  so I guess that’s about 5 dollars per run.

Sun coming out...drive down 208th in Langley

Got my training in, in the afternoon and grabbed my camera for some sun breakin shots, and then hit up the AHL Abbotsford Heat game to finish off the day.  Fun Friday.

My favorite shot from Friday. It was so nice to see the sun this week.

Photos from yesterday for today.  Shots around my house, went for a wonder.  Got some happy shots before it started pissing rain.  Will be adding some pix to our stock digital downloads section on TAPO.

This was the display window @ Champagne and Lace, with some reflection off the street.

Interesting house just down the street from me, the roof is just weird.

The old court house at the end of my street, shot first thing in the morning.

Been playing around with a few ideas for wood frames, and different ways to present art.  In a previous post I had some fun with chemical stain and good old fire.  Some shots of what the original frame looks like with out fire with a different piece.  Looking for some feedback…which is better.   These pieces have been added to the ART PRO.  If you want one, try out our new ordering system, its pretty mental, in a good way.