Trying to get everything loaded up and ready. Having some fun getting everything ready. Few shots of whats going down. Studio is getting a little full. Tuesday is going to come fast.
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
September show preview @ the fall
Placing some imagery together for the upcoming show for the month of September, and had a bit of a slow down. Ended up shipping a few images off to the press tonight. See how everything matches up and how well the colors look hopefully tomorrow night. I am doing something similar to what I did for the show in Calgary but with a little different technique and a few more steps. :: link ::
Here are the images I am currently working with and hopefully by friday I’ll have a pretty good idea of an end result. I’ll show all the steps once everything is put together.
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Napoleon Dynamite, and the sledge hammer
If you remember back when Napoleon Dynamite was pretty much the coolest movie, well after 5 years of searching I found the sledge hammer…and rode it. Hurt my knee doing bunny hops but man it was sweet. Sad to say it was minus the pegs, Pedro would be pissed.
boom!
Sweet
Notice how Pedro had an extra brick under the jump, and when Napoleon goes its gone. Pedro, that sneaky Mexican.
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Seattles Rock and Roll Museum
Last week while I was in Seattle I headed to the Rock and Roll museum, the building alone is quite interesting. Admission was 14.50 and I would say it’s worth going, especially if you are a Jim Hendrix fan. They had a huge amount of Jimmy things from over the years, I didn’t realize that he was from Seattle. Plenty of facts, images, clothing and smashed up guitars.
Two things that really stuck out for me was the large guaitar sculputure, with the second being how well they had their interactive displays layed out. You could spend a solid few days combing over all the information that they had. Along with the music history and displays they also carry other displays. When we were there they were getting ready for a large science fiction display with a lot of star trek crap as well as a third section for the kids carrying Muppet “stuff”.
Right close to the space needle
I love this photo. I like taking photos of people taking photos....
huge video display...you don't need to pay to see it.
the white cello was a nice touch on the sculpture
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Art Show @ The Fall Gallery, Vancouver
Yours truely and four other artists are hitting up The Fall Gallery @ 644 Seymour St, in the heart of Vancouver, BC for the month of September. Stop in if your in or around the downtown core. I’ll have all new work with some sneak peaks later on next week.
show poster
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Second beach pool, Stanley Park
Finally got my butt down to the second beach pool in Stanley Park on Saturday, the thing closes labour day weekend. I’ve been meaning to get down there all summer but stuff keeps getting in the way. I got there right at opening so I could have the pool to myself. Opens at 10am and closes just before dark , 50 meter laps with three pretty wide lanes. Make sure you take your tinted googs.
Breast Cancer walk was the same morning. Took some quick shots before I jumped in the pool.
Cancer Walk
From the Path
shallow end
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Mid Week Seattle Trip
So my grandfather had some extra tickets for the Seattle Mariners game Wednesday and Thursday night. Wednesday night they were playing the Chicago White Sox and then Thursday the New York Yankees.
So it was time to bomb back to the states. I was pretty amped up for the Yankees game Thursday since I hadn’t seen them play since last may. White Sox game ended up being probably the best regular season game I’ve seen on tv or live. A 0-0 tie going into the 14th inning with Ken Griffey pinch hitting to get them the win. So much insane defense, including Ichiro gunning a runner out a home to keep it scoreless. Apparently it was the longest 0-0 game in Mariner history….
Roof off Safeco
Looking like it wants to rain
quite a few still stuck around--14th inning...
The motel we stayed at Wednesday night
Old pop machine right out our door.
I have not done back to back games with the Mariners before and the attendance numbers where a lot different for the White Sox then the Yankees. So were the prices, tickets in the same area where 5 bucks more and parking was double! I was kinda choked because the two guys I really wanted to see on the Yankees didnt end up playing, but CC Sabathia did pitch a great game. (a-rod and Jorge Posada
Thursdays game had a larger crowd. A little cotton candy?
I love the sky in this image....
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Houseboating on the Shuswap…weekend.
Headed out Thursday morning for a nice little weekend houseboat trip on the Shuswap. We used the Waterwaves houseboat company for our little trip on the lake, slept 14, and comes with a good size hot tub. Not totally pleased with the service aspect of the whole operation but the boat worked, the design and layout was pretty solid.
Apparently Waterwaves is one of the larger companies in Sicamous with the option to build your own boat if you have the money and ideas. After a weekend of houseboating I don’t know how they can even stay in business. The amount of shit you have to sign, rules, and bullshit that no one follows, would not be something I would invest in…Also sounded like this thing called the recession is hurting them a little as well.
Anywayz, fun weekend all together and everything seemed to work out. Good weather, good people and a lot of beer to drink. Now time to try and catch up on some sleep. Photos attached.
Getting on the ship around 7ish I think.
Heading out for the night.
Sunetting on our first night.
I ended up sleeping in my tent on the top of the boat. 7am
Same morning at about 8am
Afternoon drinks and hot tub
afternoon sun tanning...(not my feet )
Forest Fire Sunset
Morning after a solid party night.
Sitting on the front of the boat
Floating store...
Nother sunset pic.
Drive home just outside of Kamloops
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Beach Running Route :: Sandlake Oregon
So while I was down in Oregon I was able to get a few training sessions in. I always enjoy looking for new places to run, but more importantly places to run with good scenery. So on the Saturday afternoon I ended up running a good route that I scouted in the morning. This run had everything, hills, beach, trail, and sketchy roads.
I strapped my backpack on with my camera and head out right from the camp site at Sandlake. I headed East, back to the main road and then jumped on the 101 hwy. This was a nice flat section which was about 2 miles. Once I got to the 101 is was all up hill. I’ve been doing a lot of hill training in the last two weeks but this was a lot more then what I wanted to do!.
The looped running route
So it was a straight up hike to the top of Cape Lookout. This area of the run was a welcome cool down. Cape Lookout usually has a lot of cloud and moisture hanging around it, Saturday was no different. The camp site had hot sun while the top of cape lookout was cloudy and felt like it was raining. I finally reached to top after about an hour and 40 mintues. At the top of Cape Lookout there were three trails. I want to explore them all but only one was able to make in a loop run and jet me back to the site. South Point trail was a 1.8mile straight down hike back. I think it took me about 20 minutes or so to get down.
about 3 qauters down
About Half way down, Cape Lookout to the right
Looking South...Sandlake is to the right
End of the trail. This sign was at the bottom of the trail.
Took my shoes off and ran the 3.11 miles along the beach. Great run. More shots here.
Some surfering going down at the bottom of the trail
Half way down the beach.
Tide was out-lots of room to run.
3 hours round trip-with photo stops.
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Another Oregon Weekend…
I headed down south for some play time in Oregon. This time the weather wasn’t a problem, if fact it was cooler down there then our average 30 degrees, so it was a welcome change.
I started my trip with a good old search from the US Customs. I hate going through the boarder., After my 30 minute run around I headed straight for Seattle were I was meeting my parents. They where already in the states with the trailer and quads. I left my truck at a park and ride at Sea-Tac and jumped in with them. We blasted to Portland for a night and a stay at Janzten Beach, a usual stop for us. It’s always fun to stop in there, go for a run around that little island and check out all the floating houses on the Columbia River.
Shot From the running Path
In the morning we headed off to Sandlake just outside of Tillamook. Its about an hour and a bit West from Portland. (We fast tracked it to the coast instead of taking the 101 along the Ocean.) As per usual we did our stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory, Its a must if your rolling thru. ( Saturday was their 100 year party.) After we got our cheese and ice cream we headed for our final destination and where we will be staying til the Monday morning.
Sandlake Campground is one of the only, if THE only campgrounds on the west coast that lets you ride your quad thru the camp and onto the dunes. This makes this a very popular spot when its dry. You use to be able to ride 24 hours day but now its getting heavy regulated and more supervised. I ended up getting pulled over on my quad by a f-250 on the dunes! Had a background search and all! (I believe its 12-6am now.) I got a shot of another dude get hauled over too.
same guy cop hauled me over, this guy didn't have a flag on his truck=fine.
Our Camp site...all sand!
Once we got set up we headed out for some riding.
Dad doing some donuts for the camera at sunset
After our first day at Sandlake we decided to do some driving to check out some spots we haven’t gone to before. First stop was to check out some trails at Cape Lookout State Park for some trail running later on, some very cool views from up there. (I’ll post about the run later on on the week.)
After checking out a few routes, we headed over to the air museum in Tillamook. My Dad was told that it was a must see, and man was it ever. The Hanger was unreal, something you need to see in person to understand the size. Totally built from wood so they could use all the steel for the planes in world war 2. what!? Entry fee was 7.50 and with a stamp you can enter multiple times in one day. I guess you get really board in Tillamook. They also apparently have the best burgers in Tillamook… Museum Site.
The Tillamook Air Museum from the inside.
After all the tourist crap we headed back for more sand blasting
Dad taking it in...
Sunset Riding
Roots on the beach
Sun Setting in the clouds on the Saturday night
Last Day of Riding
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