UE #2

Josh, Matt and I went to explore an abandoned factory near us. Super scary, 10 floors and a boiler room tower of awesomeness. There was some amazing graffiti in there that I snapped photos of and will post at a later date for you to see the wondrous art that lies inside. It's called the Tower Automotive Building you can read it's history and what is happening to it in the future here.

Lots more on flickr here.

Music Dump

Paul, Sonia, Monkey, Sonia, Me, Paul

Last night was pretty cool. Through various connections at so hip, I got invited to go see Korn. I'm not the biggest fan, I used to listen to them a fair bit in high school and earlier but not so much these days. However, the owner of so hip is very good friends with the band and we weren't just going to watch the band we were going to "see" the band. We got our backstage passes and watched from a private balcony to the right of the stage, not the VIP floor, this was like six people private, pretty surreal. Then it got even more surreal as after the show we went back into the dressing room, drank beers and chatted with the whole band. I must add though, like I said I'm not a Korn fan at all really, but they played an awesome show and I was thoroughly entertained. Certainly was an experience.

As I was uploading photos to my computer I found some others that I hadn't posted of other shows we've been to recently.

This photo is shit, but you get a good idea of the dark mellow mood of the XX so I'm posting it. I thought these guys were great, room for improvement, they need to gel together a bit more. Although, it kinda just furthered that lo-fi feel. I said hey to the lead girl at wrong bar later that night, she stopped to chat and everything, pretty sweet.

The Friendly Fires were wicked! They really did suffer from having a tough crowd. Nobody really wanted to groove, and that's what these guys are all about. I will definitely see them again and try and start a dance storm.

Last but most certainly not least is Bonobo. It has been a long time since I have been to a show that contained as much musical talent as this. The whole band was on point and so tight, each member bringing something unique and special to each song. All of there sounds and notes were just so true and rich. I got super hunger towards the end, which kinda took away from it (I was that hungry) but, the whole experience still prevailed and it was amazing.

Further Decay

This is a roll of film I shot at the abandon homes from the previous post.

Abandonment Issues

There is a strip of houses between Oakmount and Pacific on Bloor, maybe about 11-12 homes. All but one are boarded up and abandon old rental houses that fell into disrepair. The one being lived in, I'm pretty sure are squatters, but could be wrong. There wasn't an application for a new development to go in the houses place once they were gone, so the demolition permit was rejected and now they sit, rotting. Spencer, Josh and I walked around and took photos then we got into one of the house and took some more. Fun times, I'm pretty sure I accidentally stood in human poo.

Tons of photos on flickr

Forum!

Jareth the Goblin King

Found this today and thought it was amazing, even though it was on ugliesttattoos.com

Tear Knee

Tierney came to school with me and modeled for some Broad and Short lighting shots. We had a pretty fun time and the shots didn't turn out to bad either.

Lomography

This is my product photo I recently took for my studio lighting class.

Stereograph

Spencer and I took this 'stereograph' stylied image for a class. Our teacher asked to keep it she liked it so much.

UPDATE: I posted our other stereograph that we took to go with the suit one because everyone seemed to like it so much.

Winter City

This happened a while ago now, but Sonia and I braved the freezing cold back during those couple of weeks of sub zero temperatures we had here in Toronto, bundled up with camera in hand trekked out to the Winter City Festival at Nathan Phillips Square. There was this dance troop from France called Compagnie Les Passagers that did this crazy performance on a wall suspended by climbing ropes and harnesses. We lasted about 25 mins and then our appendages got to cold and we retreated to pints and pub grub.

Reduce the Juice....In Qatar

So my good friend Sara Wicks, whom I don't see nearly enough, made big news! For a good while now she has been devoted to an effort to limit energy consumption called Reduce The Juice. After much growth and leaps and bounds of progress, Sara has set her targets to the East and in March she will be travelling to Qatar to act as a workshop leader as well as a presenter to teens from around the globe. You can get more details from the article here, it's a good read, so give it a look.

Three Men and a Surfboard

In case some of you don't know my parents moved back to Australia last year after being in Canada for 13 years (I think). Anyways, my dad never learned to surf as a kid, body surfing yes but that was the extent of it. Since then he has always wanted to learn to surf and now that he is back in Oz he's bought him self a board and him and two mates of his who also long to surf are diving in nose first and learning to surf together.

They have set up a blog to follow their adventures and progress called Three Men and a Surf Board check it out. I'll be adding it to the links at the right >.

Reshoot

A shot from a re shoot we did in class for a previous assignment. This is Josh.

High Park Bi-Cycling

I developed a roll of film I shot in early December, here are some pictures of a bike ride through High Park.


It was pretty cold and we had to rug up, but we had fun. I'll probably post some more from this day in the future.

Old Home

A picture of my old house in Orangeville. I found this photo on my old hard drive when I was backing it up the other day.

Window Light

You all know Tierney by now. She helped me by modeling for a window light portrait for school in which I had to incorporate the usage of hands.

Studio Out Takes

This was taken between serious shots while shooting for Will's Bio pic on his website Will Fournier PhotographyThis is the one he ended up choosing. You can see it again here.