ugly bag of mostly water

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It was really exhilarating to be walking around in there, whispering and trying not to make too many new tracks in the snow, hearing my shutter cut through the silence and echo off the crumbling walls.

a juan.



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Took a break from my day-off chores to make myself a late lunch:



I bought ricotta cheese because it was on sale, forgetting how mild and boring it is. I like my cheese really old and ripe, so ricotta is of no use to me as a cheese. So now I'm scouring the internets for recipes that I can make to use it up. Luckily, ricotta is good for savoury and sweet foods. Thus, ricotta pancakes with bananas and espresso maple syrup. The espresso maple syrup is left over from my birthday breakfast - Richard baked up that idea on his own. Also, I totally stole the heart garnish idea from a_muffin_story. I couldn't post this photo without saying that. Oh, and the recipe is from here, so this entire lunch was really someone else's idea.

We made a pot of flowering tea last night. It was almost cold by the time I was done photographing it, but... yeah.

In this example, we’re adjusting for a yellow colour cast created by tungsten lighting. The photo in the example is property of a_muffin_story. I did my best with the colours, but if they look dull and ugly on your screen, I'm sorry. I hope that the tutorial is still helpful without the visuals.

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i made these from scratch, bitches.


this photo had potential, but it just looks WEIRD to me. the longer i look at it, the less i like it.


the heart is one of those marshmallow candies.



juan wanted some cupcakes. his nickname right now is squints mcgee because his eye (the one you can't see) is infected. poor muffinbum.

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the show went on until past 1am. tim got tired.


Every time I go to the Ford Plant, I come home feeling so refreshed. The bad mood that I was stewing in a few days ago had almost vanished by the time I jumped into Garry's car at Kipling station last night, but by the time we left the Ford Plant that mood was far behind me, eating my dust.

One of the newer members of the Ford Plant collective, Kyle Rose, was asking me what it's like to be a "Ford Plant Original". I was at the first Ford Plant, the one that was across the street from the now-Ford Plant. I was at the Ford Plant's pre-re-opening in the new location, where Arcade Fire played on a school night and only 10 or so of us were there. I remember when Ryan Stanley and The Majesties opened for just about every band that came through. I remember the pink walls and the huge painting of Brad Pitt that used be propped up against the old bar. I remember going to parties upstairs in Tim and Chris' apartment and playing fooseball in the kitchen. Things are different now, but I still feel at home in that place, and I owe so much to them. I wonder how I would have grown up in Brantford if there wasn't a place like the Ford Plant there to blaze the path.

I haven't said anything about the show itself. It was good, but there isn't too much to say. Wax Mannequin was superb, Bob Weissman was incredibly entertaining (he showed a video that he made with Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall - "eat the body! eat the body!") and the Bartmitzvah Brothers were adorable.

Woohoo! This is so exciting!

I don't know if I'll be able to download the beta because I'm still running OSX Panther on my iBook and this needs OSX Tiger. But still. Waa waa wee waa! It's like the love child of Adobe Bridge, Apple's Aperture and Capture One Pro!

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

This is when I feel like a legitimate photo nerd.

My photos, along with the photos of the other people I went to Israel with, are going to be in the Koffler Gallery on April 1st, 2007!

Yippie! My first exhibit!

Go to http://www.thefp.ca/ and click on "shows". Those are my photos on the righthand side. Finally, somebody is using my Arcade Fire photos for something. Even if only people from Brantford will ever see them.