Nathan Veldhoen

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.

Been another good week for adding artists at the Project. We just finished up adding Helen Bond to the mix.  She has a very distinct style that we enjoy and hope to see on some gallery walls in the near future.

She was trained in England and later emigrated to Canada where she works full time as an Artist from her Studio in Saint John, New Brunswick.  Hope your enjoy here work and look around the site while your there.

With all this heat hitting the Valley, it was about time to cut the hair off.  Went over toShoppers Drug Mart and picked up a new set of clippers and hacked the greesy doo off.  Nice little pile of hair once I was finished.  Feel A lot better.

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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

Spent my hungover ass with my pops getting the shed closer to completion.  Spent about 10-15 hours total and can’t wait to get my tools out of the house and into the shed.  It will end up being a 8×12, so a pretty good size.  Adding a little loft in the A frame of the shed giving me a few for extra square feet.

We used all reused form lumber for the walls and trusses, and then had to get 4 sheets of half inch plywood for the roof.  I’ll be using a used front door from my folks place and then once the door is set in place it, i’ll add the tar paper and siding.   I am not sure what type of siding I’ll be adding but kinda thinking i’ll be doing the same cedar type thats already on the house.  It’ll be nice to have the extra storage once its all finished up.

So far project project tally is under a hundred dollars.

As this week quick comes close to the end, so is the interior work on the house.  I’ve been clean and getting most of the dust out of everthing.  I have a small list and will hopefully have it done by the end of the weekend.  I’ve been going a lot of computer work, hense no house updates.  But here are some of the things I’ve been looking at in down times.

Redbull has some crazy events.  One that went on on the 5th of this month.  A giant jump in New York.  Looks crazy, but I havent seen any footage of the actual event. You tube has 200 plus video just from them alone.

whoaaaaaa

Here is a link to the snowbaording in New York.  100,000 dollars on the line

The team

They also sponsor air racing-when guys do some crazy ass flying.

Then Justin passed this clip on to me, on my late night work days.  Pretty freaking cool.

So last saturday was the big UFC fight.  I did not watch it but I did get into all the hype of the big match.  One of the sources is Dana Whites video blogs.  I think since ufc 84 he has been doing 10 minutes blogs of behind the scenes.  Here is the pre fight blog.

number 99′s wifes wants to meet St pierre is pretty funny.

The post fight blog is even crazier.

Here is the sources for all the videos he’s posted

Over the last few days we’ve been getting the art project freshened up.  We’ve added another gallery to the main tool bar to show some of our events, as well as some new programs to get more online exposure.  Take a look around.  There has been new work added by me as well from Tamara Lukie.