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.

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.

Solid week into my training for the 2010 year and getting pumped for some upcoming events.  As mentioned in a previous post the main focus of this year is the Ironman in Penticton, BC.  I’ll post most of my training and day to day shit on twitter, with more scenic training days and races via the blog.

Another fairly large goal I have for this year is to raise 5, 000 dollars for the Heart and Stroke Fountain in coordinates with the Ironman.  It took me a little while to figure out which charity to help out especially since  have dealt with others  with the Art Project.  I thought this one was a good fit and hope others can help along the way.

I have set up a third party page on the Heart and Stroke Fountain site for quick and easy donations.  You can print you tax form right from the site.  If you don’t feel comfortable donating online you can print and mail a form, or  you contact me directly.  I have also created a special section on this blog that will remain “sticky” for anytime donations or a quick link to check out the status of how things are going.

I am planning on designing a t-shirt to help spread the word,   I hope to have those ready for the Half Marathon in Feburary.  Let me know if anyone is interested in recieving one.

From Last Years Ironman

Been pretty busy these last few weeks getting the list around the house smaller, one of the big things that got finished up was getting power to the side shed on the house.  It was the last step towards a second workspace where I can do work that I can’t do indoors.

Once I got the locks and all the tools set up inside, I was able to finish up a few pieces that I wanted to fix up and get on to the art project.  I’ll be selling this as well as a few others on the site for 65 bucks. Click here to see it on the art project

Inside the little shop

Cedar Frame around the piece

Getting the frame fixed up

Final Product

Looking forward to a busy year, with a few things on the list to get ready for,  half-marathon in February, Full marathon in May, and  one maybe two half Ironmans in June and July with the Ironman in August.  The two major focuses are, another try at a Boston qualifier in Vancouver on May 2nd and a solid finish to the Ironman in Penticton on August 29th.  I’m looking at a top 100 finish for the Ironman but wouldn’t really know where I stand until I finish a half Ironman.  A 10 hour 15 minute race gets close to that list but might be a bit quick…I guess time will tell.

I’ll be using the Heart and Stroke Foundation to raise some money, and will be hopefully getting some shirts made up in the near future with a section for donation off this site.  Should be a fun and eventful year with some excitement mixed in.

Took a few shots of the after all the ripping and shredding.  It was a cool but beautiful morning and had  some sun creeping into the living room.  So very interesting light and makes the morning that more enjoyable when its not raining!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and are getting pumped for 2010.  Should be a great year with a lot of good things to look forward to.

The table full of chocolates, cameras, and Santas

The New cars are lining up

Doesn't want to stop playing for breakfest

Main Landing Page

After almost a year of testing, trying, searching, and coding, we have our new Art Project Online store up and running.  Its a stronger platform with a lot more flexibility, as well as a better layout and strong usability.  We are using the latest and one of the strongest e-carts on the net helping us deliver the Art Project Online the best way possible.

The new Features:

-Downloads in the Digital Section. if buy the digital image and we will send a link and you can get it printed yourself as many times with as many as sizes you wish.

-Sharing feature for friends and family on all products

-Easy Newsletter sign ups, for sales, shows, and new additions.  This is right off our main page.

-Wish list for any art or images you like, like a favorites area.

-Product size selections on prints.

-Double clicking feature for larger image viewing.

Still might have bugs or spelling, gammar, so pass that on if you see any.

The first snow of the year just makes everything look clean and new as well as insulates sound so it just seems so peaceful and quiet.   Grabbed a few shots when I did manage to get out of the basement.  Been getting some art together as getting a new site fixed up for our upcoming launch.

Just outside the house...

Old window from the house...piece of art for my sis. Photo is from Oregon Coast.

Headed out to Cuba last Monday, got back on pretty much a red eye flight Tuesday morning at 4 am.  Was a pretty long flight back, being tucked in a little space.  I believe the flight was a solid 6 hours, going there was about 5 hours 40 minutes.

Spent 7 days at a 5 star resort which would normally be about a 4 in Mexico, I think mostly because the US doesn’t have any influence on the country.  Beaches are a lot better then Mexico with flatter, warmer and clearer water.  You also don’t have Mexicans bugging ya every few minutes to buy shit.

We headed into the Capital of Cuba, Havana for a day trip.  Saw how a lot of Cubans lived and what they lived in.  Some very interesting structures as well as a lot of variety of vehicles.  Many 50’s Americana cars, Chinese buses and Russian sports cars with very old Spanish architecture.

Didn’t do too much of the culture stuff since we stayed at an all inclusive but it was still quiet an eye opener see how these people lived.

Grabbing some of my favorite shots, I’ll add more probably to flickr later on.

Havana city from the top of a hotel

City 15k from our resort. Ran there...running was tough in 26 degree heat

Havana market in the capital of Cuba

Beach by our resort

This last weekend spent my Saturday night before my halfer out in Delta at my little sisters wedding.  Some shots from the events.

squeezin in a few outdoor pix...

Keepin an eye on things

First Dance