Archive for September, 2009

There are so many awesome photos that you’ve added to our FLICKR POOL that we can no longer pick just one a week, so from now on we’re going to be showcasing one every single day!

Day #23 is a photo courtesy of Robyn Hanson:

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As the growing season almost draws to a close I would like to share with you one of the single best things that came out of my amateur garden this year: zucchini! Almost no maintenance, I pulled like 20 of these off of two plants over the span of a few months.

At the beginning of the season I think I just might have promised a detailed report on what type of veggies grew the best in our my garden/our local climate but that full report is going to have to wait a few years until I am far more learned on the subject of Lower Mainland horticulture.

But if all goes according to plan I will have one more garden post this season.

I truly wish I could tell you that I went to this sale on Arbutus, but I didn’t. Maybe the mystery of what was is better than what actually was?

In short: awesome sign, dudes.

There are so many awesome photos that you’ve added to our FLICKR POOL that we can no longer pick just one a week, so from now on we’re going to be showcasing one every single day!

Day #22 is a photo courtesy of Teresa Nieman:

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A few times a year our sports editor, Jef Choy, brings me to a hockey game. Always an awesome time, we’ve been to the Giants once and the Canucks a ton of times (and the Grizzlies a few times if you want to look way back into our sporting event past) and even though I love watching hockey on TV and have a pretty decent grasp on the rules of the game, I always have a couple of dumb questions for him. He plays ball hockey (AHEM!) and is jock enough to enter a hockey pool every year and follow trades and stats and stuff like that so I always assume that he has all of the answers to my hockey rules questions… and he usually does.

This week we checked out the Ducks Vs ‘Nucks preseason game (which we unfortunately, barely, lost in OT), and the best dumb question that I had for him during the game was:

“If a dude’s stick breaks, is he allowed to keep playing with a half of a stick? Like is it legal to bat at the puck if your stick is not intact?”

in this photo: the canucks just scored and there is a dude named Bliznack sitting in the foreground

Sadly the answer is no, you’re not allowed to do that. You can go to the bench and grab another stick or play stickless, but rolling around with a broken stick (a bat, essentially) in your hands is against the rules and you’ll get a penalty if you do that.

Stay tuned until after the next game I attend with Choy for another edition of Dumb Hockey Questions!

Photo by Julia Kozlov

BC Fashion Week Spring 2010 is on for another season! I attended last fall as a photographer and had a blast. With a change of a team, this season should be even more exciting. The fashion craziness along with all the sweet swagger and models will be going strong all week with shows lined up every day with after parties included. The schedule of all fashion shows is available HERE

Most of the shows are INVITE ONLY but the following are public and cost money:

Variety – Monday @ 5pm / $50
Youth in Fashion – Wednesday @ 11am / $15
Generation Next – Wednesday @ 2pm / $15

For tickets please contact: contact@bcfashionweek.com although I bet just buying tickets at the door will also work.

I will be doing photo coverage of BCFW for V.I.A. so tune in on Sunday to check out all the madness – but even better, actually come out to some of the shows.

I’ve had the chance to work with Ali recently on some videos for her upcoming album and wanted to let you all know that she is performing October 1st at the Chan Center in Van.  If you have never heard of Ali, check out the interview we did below for a little more info about her.  I will post her upcoming videos as soon as they launch online.  Here is a link to some stills from the one of the video shoots

For info on how to buy tickets go here

The cats rule East Vancouver. They’re everywhere…sidewalks, roads, hiding in doorways, supervising stores, sprawled out anywhere to have a bath. The cats I meet while wandering through East Van are probably all house-pets but it’s not clear who ‘owns’ them. Cats are all about territory, but all space is public to them.

Stay tuned…When the project is finished I hope to have photographed every one of the East Van Cats!