The (un)project plods ever-onward, though my motivation continues to ooze like so much… well, I forget exactly where I was going with that simile. Alas, the Fringe Festival wound to a close for another year this past weekend, and though I spent most of that weekend locked in a dark, curtained room sorting other people’s photos on a computer, I did manage to sneak out once or twice to grab a few shots of my own. I won’t claim that this year’s pics are among my better works. Most were trying too hard. You know how that goes, right? You try to do something funky, and it bites. It’s that Gap question again, though. Filling The Gap with creative fodder. Every bad picture is a [...]
…because I’m gonna be here ALL DAY… If you’re just stumbling on this post, you might want to start at the bottom. It was my meager attempt at a live blog for my last day at this year’s Edmonton Fringe Festival… and it is in reverse chronological order. Enjoy. 0057AM Another awesome performance of DieNasty over, and we’re back in the car on our way home. Another Fringe done… for me at least. Sigh… and now back to reality. 1112PM In. A pile of licorice on Karin’s lap. Settlers game still unresolved. Lady Gaga blaring from the speakers. This is likely my last update until after the show. A full house tonight tho. 1057PM Line is getting lots longer. Some guy just stood up on [...]
Another bunch of days shooting photos and another set of images to explain: the photo-per-day (un)project continues… and it’s getting really hard coming up with something new everyday to shoot. Highlights? If you paid any attention to the theme of this blog (as it currently looks, here, now in August 2011) you might have noticed that I have a think for silhouette these days. Yes, you can create them in PhotoShop, but occasionally I get an opportunity like this, the crisp clear shaddow of something recognizable against the backdrop of the setting sun. Pushing my image settings way up to maximum contrast and down to minimum saturation, my pics on the 11th popped right out of the camera just as you see them. These are [...]
First day back after a nine day break. You’d have thought I would have written more given that I was off, but it’s funny how the opposite is often true. Exacerbate that fact with the lack of useful Internet connections whilst hanging about the Fringe and it slowly becomes more obvious why I’ve been mostly quiet. The rundown goes as such… Last Sunday morning I pried myself out of bed quite early and made my way downtown for the much-anticipated half marathon. I ran. I prevailed. I didn’t set any speed records, particularly since my knee gave me grief around the nineteen kilometer mark, but I finished within a few minutes of my goal time. Had I not hobbled my way over the last two [...]
Yes, it’s that time again. The Edmonton Fringe Festival is upon us and I, with a mere day and a half of work to go, have the whole of the week off to spend my forty-odd odd-odd hours wandering the grounds and snapping photos. Orientation was the other night and I guess they’ve been showing the video they put together for promotion this year. The seven minute show is worth a look on it’s own, but if you’d like to have a look at some of the stills we take I’m pretty sure that nearly every photo in the video (with the exception of a few of the performer shots near the beginning) are those taken by our team. And there are about a half [...]
Just out of interest, if you check out the “Scrapbook” page of this year’s (2008) fringe festival, one of my pics of Claire and Lola made it into the website. http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca/index.php/festival/scrapbook/P60/ I have some other photos there as well, but you can view those as you see fit.
