Local Top Gear

Too bad the plate isn't on a much nicer car. Like that brand new Gallardo Spyder I saw downtown yesterday...yum!

Flickr Update

I have spent many days and countless hours painstakingly selecting photographs (scrutinizing images and asking myself things like; which one of these 219 nearly identical shots of Parliament Hill best evokes in the viewer what it is I want interpreted?), creating titles, descriptions, and tags for each picture (sometimes resorting to series' with names like 'Boats' 'More Boats' 'Boats Again'), and all the while marvelling at how many different places I was lucky enough to visit in such a short period of time.


Please enjoy these recently created sets on my Flickr page:

Moncton & Halifax (Nov/08)
West Edmonton Mall (Oct/08)
Victoria & Ottawa (Oct/08)
Seattle (Sept/08)
Montreal (Sept/08)
San Francisco & Berkeley (Sept/08)
Montreal (April/08)
Seattle (April/08)
Ottawa (March/08)
Edmonton (Feb/08)
Edmonton (Jan/08)
Seattle (Sept/07)
San Francisco (Aug/07)
Seattle (May/06)
Tofino, Ahousaht, & Hesquiaht (March/06)
Victoria (Feb/06)
&
Photo Walking Tours

...plus...

See new additions to Life In Macro (now conveniently organized by date uploaded, with the most recent displayed first!)

...but wait, there's more!

A new collection that I have been compiling at an excruciatingly slow rate for several years:

The Broken Umbrella Series

Schmap Publishes Spage

A tiny triumph: Schmap Guides Ottawa has published one of my pictures in the Historical Background section here. It's the in the top right corner and is the view of the roof of the Library of Parliament, the Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge over the Ottawa river to Gatineau, and Majors Hill Park as seen from the Peace Tower.

On a more recent trip, I took these pictures from Majors Hill Park looking back at Parliament Hill - a nice bookend to the Schmap picture, I think.

Flickr Update

I have uploaded four new sets to my Flickr page:

• Ottawa, Toronto & Saratoga Springs


• Halifax Does Vancouver


• PNE 2008


• Gorge 2008

Juxtaposition

After reflecting on Ma Ying-jeou's words I come across this photo essay of Benazir Bhutto's assassination narrated by the photographer. It is a stunning and shocking narrative of images.

Sets Galore

I've uploaded a bunch of new sets to my Flickr site as well as added to the Dave Work Tour ("Under Construction") set and Life In Macro collection.

New sets include:

• The Question Jar Tour (Vancouver)


• Hollywood Bowl 2007


• Gorge (WA) 2006


• NYC Summer 2006


• Gorge (WA) 2005


• Red Rocks (CO) 2005


• NYC Summer 2005


• NYC Winter 2005


• Following The Band - Toronto (ON), Darien Lake (NY), & Saratoga Springs (NY) 2006


• Riding to Lillooet & Cache Creek (BC)


• Alpine Valley/East Troy/Milwaukee (WI) 2006
  

...and there's lots more to come. But for now my eyeballs - and 'copy & paste' shortcut fingers, need a little break.

Man Overboard

This guy, in downtown Vancouver, took the local flood warning very seriously.

Collection Of Videos

• This one is a mash up of Bert & Ernie / De Niro & Pesci in a not quite seamless version of a scene from Casino.
  
  
• Then you've got an awesome vid of Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" dubbed over an old-phat hippie music video.
  
  
• Of course, who doesn't want to see what has been dubbed "The best five second video on the internet"? See The Dramatic Chipmunk here. It is all in the turn.
  
  
• Something tells me Fatboy Slim would like Walk It Out, Fosse.
  
  
• How is it that I never used this method to close and save a bag of chips...or any other bagged goods? I'm trying it right now.
  
  
• Firefighters are flying a car on jets of water!
  
  
• Japanese ads - gotta love 'em, same as it ever was. This one is from the early 80's for the Honda City car.
  
  
• Tell me men, does this battery hack apply to Canada?
  
  

It's no wonder that a recent survey of 1,011 American adults, conducted by advertising agency JWT showed, among other things;

While slightly more than half (55 per cent) of the respondents said they could go without connecting online "for a few days," only about a fifth (18 per cent) said they could abstain for a week, the survey found.

Similarly 48 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement: "If I cannot access the internet when I want to, I feel like something important is missing."

This is entertaining (I mean, important) shit! My friends don't spontaneously break into dance parody when a bouncing song is on the speakers. You don't want to go a whole week missing this stuff!

7 Amazing Holes

As the poster says, "if you’re expecting filth you’ll be disappointed".

Pictures and blurbs on seven holes found on the planet.

Flickr Update

I've got a few new sets up on my Flickr site.

Wookiee's Wedding Weekend



1208 Greatest Hits Tour



Gorge 2007

Boys & Construction

Edit/re-post: Yesterday morning, check it: 6 men, and the requisite uninterested woman.




Originally posted 6/sep/07.12:23
Vancouver has it's own Big Dig doing on right now, which may not exactly rival Boston's, but is nevertheless wreaking havoc on our city.

The Waterfront Station happens to be right outside my office - which means construction in a giant hole has been going on for many months outside my window. It's been one headache after another, especially when they bring out giant rock destroyers or massive vacuums to get the rain water out of the hole.

But I like the plus side, and that is that every morning I get to watch some Big Construction on my walk to the office. I told some girls at work that I'm such a boy because I like to take a pause to watch things like a back hoe dumping loads into a dump truck. They didn't understand that. Of course not.

I kid you not, every single morning, there is at least one male (and no females) taking a look over the edge at the men and machines in the hole.

This morning, there were two:




And it's not just "unprofessional" people either, one morning I saw one of the doctors/executives from my office down there taking a gander too.

Simpsonized

Over the past couple of months I've been slowly taking advantage of the public's ability to Simpsonize themselves. Finally I have a new profile picture! Wookiee thought the ad was for Simpson Size meals - sucka!

Here are my best friends in Simpsons style:

Wookiee


Brabe


Dave

& me, Spage!

New Feature

Blogger now allows me to upload video so I'm going to give it a shot. I'm told this video was taken by an intersection camera at 72nd & Scott Road in Surrey, BC. It looks about right, and doesn't seem doctored...just crazy.

Crash

So I managed to get into a motorcycle accident on Friday morning. It's taken up some of my time so I haven't posted in a long while. The next snag is that I leave tomorrow for the Gorge for three DMB shows which equals radio silence until next week. Have a great Labour Day long weekend!

-new pictures have been uploaded to my Life In Macro set on Flickr - my fav:

-still haven't got my last trip pics uploaded so I'm throwing one up here - let's go Iconic; this one is of my English friend, what he refers to as 'his' bridge, with San Francisco in the background

That's Revolutionary!

Get your clothes wet to wash them? How innovative!

Local God

Instead, this guy thinks that it's his job to master; "Thou shalt drive at the speed I decree - whatcha gonna do about it? You're trapped behind me! Bwah ha ha ha ha."


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Spage Images

Strangely, before this week I had never done a Google Image search on my name. A couple of days ago I was looking for an image to accompany a post and typed 'ask spage' into the search and the first two results were pictures I took and sent to Mike Doughty that he posted on his blog. I found that I get the same search results only when I type in the letter 'a' itself before or after 'spage' or a short word starting with the letter 'a'. ('art spage' yields three pictures I took for Doughty as the 5th, 6th and 7th search results, while 'are spage' gets the number one and two spots.)

Curious, I tried just searching 'spage' and the pictures end up in the number 3 and 4 spot. The number one result? A picture of a naked guy with his penis through a plate of noodles. It's titled 'Food Fuck'.

I won't post that picture, but I will post the second result from 'spage', and that is Scott Page's homemade replica of Mad Max's Interceptor.

Man I love the Internet.




Note: Wookiee reminds me that these search results can change drastically and quickly so I can't vouch for the searches after today!

So I'm Walking Down The Street...

...and I come across a puzzler of a house with two separate gated paths leading to it.
Virgin Mary statues guard over one gate while a *matching* pair of Snow White dwarfs sit atop the other.












I.Don't.Understand.

Altered?

Was it not a dog before?
Did it take psychotropic drugs?

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lovehatenyc

A multimedia artist living in New York created an awesome project called lovehateNYC "that chronicles a personal love-hate relationship with New York City".

When you enter the site, you are presented with the artists' map of Manhattan where you can select an area of the island and read changing lines of incohesive text. Next pick a specific location in that area and are you are brought to a beautiful 360 degree view of that spot, which is not unusual I know, but what is cool is that when you stop the rotational view at any point the image begins to cycle through a sort of blended stop motion of activity. Slowly the people and cars fade through their movements.

The Bowery & 2nd one shows you the day before CBGB's closed blend into its final night before becoming a vacant space the next day. The 'key' in the map shows how the colours on the map correspond to the love/hate scale (Times Square lands on the hate end of things, of course) and each scene is introduced with a few words from the artist.

It's like being in a disconnected dream of New York - something I really enjoyed, so I hope you do too.

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