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There’s nothing better than having a party surrounded by your friends. I remember when I used to shun my birthday, keeping the date a secret to avoid any potential for people wanting to treat it as something special. Now I’ve come to embrace it, I try and get as many of my friends in one […]
Chicken with beer inserted into anus = delicious. Came back to T.O. from a celebratory “Mel’s birthday week” which was full of great and awesome. It’s odd travelling back home FOR the weekend, I begrudgingly had to leave my ladies’ side to attend a funeral wedding today.
I had seen this guy at the Local before – I just kinda forgot until he started grooving on the non-existent dance floor…
Hung out briefly with the man from Philly outside of Philly this past weekend, Brad from Wasted Photos, along with Attila, Jonathan Greenwald, Aaron, and Xtina. It was basically a big photo blogger gang-bang where we went around pillaging downtown Toronto with our shutters, apertures, and Canon L-lenses.
Ernesto’s Bachelor party was Saturday night, and, blissfully so, strippers were not involved. We headed down to The Local for beers and music; since Ernesto’s life has always been deeply routed in music (who else would get a masters in Jazz percussion) the evening took on a sort of “Jam session” feeling. Very laid back, […]
I’ve always been terrible at picking out pants to buy and wear. I can never seem to get it right.Whether it’s fashion, or size, or whatever, I have a tendency to pick pants that are too short or, in the case of dress/casual, pants that aren’t fashionable. I seriously need a wardrobe consultant.
Attila got me doing yet ANOTHER thingie on the internet. I checked out last.fm and it’s as good as he said.Seeing as how I don’t listen to the radio, my exposure to new music is virtually nil, this is the first program/service that I’ve run into that truly allows interactivity and networking to merge into […]
During my entire trip in Iceland I was obsessed with the Unkle track “Lonely Soul”. It could have been because I took this trip solo, or because I can be quite morose. But it’s probably the last thing I listened to before I left for two weeks, abandoning my iPod at home. UNKLE – Lonely […]
Today is like the lull before a storm. A storm of pure AWESOME! Well maybe not a lull, Saturday is Ernesto’s bachelor party, as well, Brad from Wasted Photos will be in town and I hope to finally meet the man. Legend has is that just by standing near him, a man’s sexual potency will […]
I think, intrinsically, people err, and will err often. So it’s quite obvious that mistakes are and can be made quite easily. It’s understanding and, through understanding, forgiveness that takes true effort.
I’ve been fortunate enough to never have to undergo any significant surgery. I did have part of my big toenail removed, and of course your standard dental procedures (skin grafting to heal a recession in my gum line was by-far the worst), but nothing life-threatening.Sadly, I can’t say that a lobotomy at times feels like […]
I was in Ottawa for the weekend and Canada Day, we ended up driving home after the fireworks – which I didn’t really see aside from this last explosion (I was quite melancholy yesterday). Since I wasn’t wearing red & white, like a true Canadian, I was welcomed to the country a few times by […]
Whoops, missed a post there. I took a last-minute offer to come out to Ottawa for Canada Day so I hit the road early Saturday without having anything ready to post. This is an image I edited in Picnik while I was in Iceland.Considering it’s entirely a web app, I thnink it has some pretty […]
So yeah, this is a picture of a reflection of some glass on a building with a light post in Toronto – if it was a wider focal length it’d be like I’m trying for DDOI lookalike – I’m a total biter.
Admittedly I don’t think this is a particularly good photo, but I am perplexed as to why someone would just abandon a seemingly perfectly good (new) shoe. Maybe they only had one leg, I can’t really say, all I knows is that this shoe was sitting there, with no companion to be found.
I can’t wait to see the referrals I get with that title. The kid in question is my girlfriend’s son Owen; he likes Batman, Video Games, and his mommy – JUST LIKE ME! Attila said I looked like a pirate in the first of the photo-booth shots, but I think I’m just creepy lookin’.(They’re prescription […]
Iceland is basically a giant pasture for grazing animals (sheep mostly). The unique landscape affords some mountainous hikes, and it’s not uncommon to see a farm built right up into a cliff, with half-barn have caves. Sadly, many of the more photogenic locales I passed by on the bus (Like the abandoned barn & Silo […]
“I sit and watch it grow standin’ where I’m at…” I got my latest lens last week: grabbed the Canon 50mm f/1.4 – now I’m fully equipped to stop taking photos of random flora and START taking photos of professional models.
This was a waterfall at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. This is some mineral salt water that seems to pound down on you with the force of a strong masseuses fists. Though I barely felt it at all because I have the shoulder muscles of Goldberg
Skógafoss was the second major waterfall I visited on my trip, and the first place I set up camp (you can camp at the base of the waterfall, though I opted to move a bit back). I took many photos of it at the time, and the next day I decided to walk up river […]
Apparently the old Viking parliament of Iceland used to meet here, this was their spot, and the lawspeaker would speak on the law stone… or the speaking stone… or the conch or whatever. This is also the place where the North American and Eurasian continents meet… or split – geography’s all very confusing, but anyway […]
Reykjavik, for me, was a surprisingly dull city. Granted, I can’t party like I used to, so going out for the all night benders was out of the question (that and $10 pints are unappealing) I found the daytime city to be quite grey.Literally, since there was very little colour in the buildings and apparently […]
