Nathan Veldhoen

While I was in Calgary I was able to spend my last day getting in a good size run.  The weather was amazing so it made it pretty easy to get outdoors and enjoy the sun.  I was lucky enough to stay at a place that was a near the Glenmore Reservoir, so I made my way over.  I was told it was about a 20km tour which felt a little shorter but none the less, one of the better paved trails I’ve ran.  The scenery was amazing, with high up views  over looking the reservoir on the north side, to rolling hills out in the country and ended off with a  quick run thru of heritage park.

Heritage Park

Feeder into the Reservoir

Shot from Glenmore Trail

We got in Thursday night and hit Artlife Friday afternoon to hit the walls with our Art.  Things turned out really well, and the space was amazing for our little show.  I still have to get show images up but here are some shots of what we had to deal with as well as some of the set up to get the show ready.

Store Front Friday Afternoon

The Space before we started hanging.

My Shit on the Wall

Getting things in Place...

Artlife is located  at 1312 1st SW Calgary Alberta Canada.  Website is here.

Flexisonic will be rocking our show down at Artlife in Calgary on July 17, and these guys have made an absolute gem of a mix.  So good that I will probably be listening to it on loop 6 times for the drive from Vancouver to Calgary.  Check out there site for the mixtape.

LINK!!!!

If your in the Calgary area while we are there look us up on the 17th.  I am scrabblin to get my art in gear for this one-Game on…

Also check our the groups listening ear on the rest of their blog.

Here is the official post for the upcoming Art show put on by theartprojectonline.com.    We are less then two months away from the big event.  It will be hosted at Art Life in Calgary Alberta, address: 1312  1st SW.  Our music will be handled by none other then flexisonic .  Show starts at 7pm.

This is going to be one of our most anticipated shows yet, with the pilot project of Projections being launched.  We hope to have this a regular part of our future shows, and have visions of this being a big part of the growth of the art project.  You will have to come check it out to see what its all about.

I will be getting three origial pieces together just for this show.  One of the three piece with reprinted in a smaller print to be given out for those who give more then 20 dollars as a donation at the door.  Entry is by donation, with a silent auction with all proceeds going to the women in need society.  (wins)

Projections!!!

Nate Veldhoen

When I was in Calgary I made a stop at a store called Heritage Posters and Music.  It was only a few short blocks from the friends place I was staying at.  Apparently they just moved from across the street to a much larger store.  We had a few words with the owner, and was well worth our time.  He was very knowledgeable and knows the industry.  A good bulk of these Heritage posters are  signed either by the artist who created them or the band.   There had to be hundreds if not thousands of posters littered all over the walls with even more music and accessories.

Store is located on 1502 11th Avenue SW, in Calgary, Alberta.  They have a website at www.heritageposters.ca. Like his online store, the actual store is cool on its own.  They have jammed every inch with posters, music, cars, and anything that looks cool that deals with all those things. One of my favorite  feature of the store  was an old vintage car inside the store. The outside of the store is no different. Bright colors and posters all over the walls of the exterior.   Its pretty hard to miss if your driving down 14th because the store is a piece of Heritage art.  I had some fun taking pictures of the outside.  This was one of my favorite stops on my trip.

The few days in Banff managed to be a pretty successful with a mix of good luck with the weather.  Had a lot of snow every day I was there but did manage to get some good shots from the top of Sulphur Mountain when it finally broke for a bit.  It climbs to 2,281m at peak and then a few more meters after you walk up their skywalk.  Pretty cool set up, I’m not sure that its worth 30 bucks for an 8 minute gondola ride.  I ended up riding for free since I stole my buddies drivers license, apparently if you live in Banff or Canmore you can ride for free.  After that did some spa clubbing up at the Rimrock resort with their pretty insane pool and hot tub combo since we knew someone saying there.

Rimrock Pool ---

After my few days in Banff I managed to ram into Calgary yesterday afternoon.  Did some walking around later in the evening and picked up a new backpack to go running with so I can carry my camera on my back while I’m out pounding the pavement.  Ended up getting the mec Drangonfly 17 litre daypack, ran with it today and was pretty happy with it and also got some pretty good shots at the same time.  Weather is nice and warm, nice change from the snow storm in banff that was going on a few days ago.

Later on the night turned to drunkered party with a stop a new pub then a trip to the saddledom to watch the Roughreck lacrosse team win the league championship.  Pretty crazy game, good time and looked like it was close to being a sell out. Here  an article about the game…  After the game we ended up a some bar, was pretty fun til they blew the fuse on the sound system and took them for ever to get it up again.  After that not sure what happened but my head hurt when I got up.

Check out my flickr for the updates on my shots of the week.  Took some nice shot while running today, we’ll see if I get around to adding them today.

Shot close to COP