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In other news my friend liz months ago posted a note saying “The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me.”. I was one of those five people and as a result she made me some delicious Jams and I’ve really enjoyed them. But part of the deal was that I would have to do the same thing.

So the first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me. I don’t know what it will be yet and I’m not sure how long it will take but it will get done. Everyone is free to respond I dont need to know you.

Here is a random shot from the summer. Clay (the gentleman in this shot) is moving to Mexico with his girlfriend (my close friend Emily) in a week or so. So here is to you clay!

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So now for the spiel. this past Wednesday I stopped at my friend Brett’s place and we did a little bit of video recording of him and Scribbons playing some blues music. Check it out!

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These shots are from all over the map.

I’ve been taking a lot of shots for peoples web sites at work recently. I’ve also been snapping the odd shot of co-workers. There was a house warming party here a few weeks ago. I took some shots of my friends sisters baby last week. That was a new experience but a lot of fun.

In other news Katherine (My lovely girlfriend) and I recently got a car. We found it on leasebusters.com and it’s a nice 2004 volkswagen golf. We had to go up to Ottawa to get it. We will have it until december so we’re planning some road trips for the summer. There are some shots here from Ottawa the morning before getting the car, then the drive back, the countryside. Then the next day Graham Beasley and I went to London for mothers day and shot some 16mm film of cows. Very exciting stuff. Anyhow there are a couple shots graham took of me and the car.

As usual click on the image to check out the gallery.

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I’ve been trying out different web galleries from lightroom and I’ve finally found one I really like. Just click on the image below to enter the gallery.

One of the cool features of this gallery is it’s compatible with a browser extension called piclens. I strongly suggest that everyone get this extension. It literally  takes 10 seconds to get and is really amazing, it works with facebook and all that jazz too. One of the other nice things about this gallery is that it’s html so all you kids out there can steal my images by simply right clicking and saving as and use them on your facebooks. anyhow get piclens it’s cool.

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SO on roll one are some shots from san francisco from september, You’ll note in frame one that I’ve become a private investigator. The shot is just of the house where I was staying with friends of my parents, great people. We went to a highland games festival and saw all kinds of crazy people there. The Marines tried to get me to sign up, I liked that their giant inflatable marine was missing the lower half of his legs, you think someone would have picked up on that. I finished the rest of that roll this week, you can see my new winter bike I went for a ride up into this weird area of Toronto that seems like a crater on the top of a hill, all the houses there are 50’s style post war houses, pretty weird place, sure doesn’t feel like Toronto to me. The second roll is just shots from the last two weeks, parties mostly.

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IN OTHER NEWS!!

I saw a man from mars on the subway the other day, I think he was related to sun ra. Also I got my hair cut, here are some before and after shots (I wanted to see the back). Thank you Sydney, you did a great job. I took some photos of Emily today (my room mates girlfriend) she wanted some head shot type photos so we were messing around a bit. the end bye bye.

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OK so the story starts with Nick, Carl (our friend from Sweden) and myself all taking a day trip to Macao. At the end of our walking tour we decided to sit down at one of the water front bars. A real classy place. Drinks there were much cheaper than lang qui fong (the bar district in hong kong) so we decided to drink heavily until about 4 in the morning. We had some wonderful debates about music, culture all kinds of interesting things. After this I ran through some shrubbery and hailed a cab by standing confidently in the middle of the road. This of course was after I tried to convince a young man on a motorcycle to take the three of us to the ferry port.

The first frame of this story comes from the duty free at the ferry port which of course is open at 4am. Carl thought he might buy some more alcohol for our ferry trip back to hong kong. Crazy swedes. OH did I mention that throughout this whole period I am quite drunk.

We get back to Hong Kong at about 6 am only to find to our amazement that the subway system doesn’t open for about 15 minutes. This is where the story gets interesting. The hong kong subway system is one of the most heavily used in the world. I’ve had the opportunity to try public transit systems all over north america, europe, and other places in Asia and must state that the hong kong system is the best I’ve ever encountered. OK so back to the story. So the subway is about to open and this guy walking towards us is about to open the gates.

The man walks with a painfully slow pace. Nick and Carl are fading and the 20 metres he has to walk to open that gate feels like a kilometre.

Finally the gate is opened and we are let free into the system. Being the first person into the subway system was one of the most surreal things I’ve ever experienced. Sure I’ve taken the first train in Toronto, no big deal right. Well the Hong Kong stations are designed to accommodate thousands of people, the vast emptiness is nothing less than startling.

If you reference back to my other posts of Hong Kong you will instantly notice that these stations are usually packed full of people. Just to get down to the platform there are usually 2 or 3 escalators in each direction to keep the people flowing. Another interesting thing about the MTR is that they don’t accept cash fares, they don’t use tickets they don’t use tokens. Their whole fare system is based on two variations of pre-payment. The most popular is called an octopus card which is an rfid type card that you simply recharge with cash (this can also be used at most retailers in hong kong to keep small purchases easy). To enter the system you simply swipe it over the touch pad like you would usethe key fobs that we know here. The lcd panel tells you your remaining balance and your fare is charged depending on which station you exit from. The second type of fare is a paper card with a magnetic strip that you purchase at a vending machine by choosing your destination and inserting your cash or change. Both these systems are extremely streamlined and eliminate long line ups at toll booths simply to place your ticket in the box. Also it frees up the station staff to man a customer service booth where they are quite helpful and can give you everything from system maps to tourist information. They’re usually quite pleasant and why wouldn’t they? They don’t give out change, they don’t just sit there and watch people put tickets in a container, they are actually interacting with people in a positive manor.

Another nice thing about the Hong Kong system is they have these glass walls which prevent anyone from falling (or jumping) on the tracks. When the train pulls in the glass doors open in sync with the train doors. You’ll also notice the arrows on the ground to encourage people to make two cues on either side of the doors and to leave the area right in front of the doors free for people to leave the trains. Also everywhere in Hong Kong they have these rubber mats applied to the ground to guide blind people. The pattern changes from lines to dots to signify an intersection of routes. Obviously both these systems work because the trains stop at the same point every time they enter the station.

It was amazing to stand on the train and actually see right through to the end, something that at any other time would have been impossible. Side note: by the time we reached our stop (Mong KOK) it was impossible to see all the way through because the train had already filled up.

Carl and Nick were both pretty exhausted after our night of partying. So was I frankly.

Another thing I’ll point out which is really nice about the Hong Kong system is that there are usually two stations for each line transfer. So if you need to transfer east you get off at one station and simply cross the platform. The other line is on the opposite side of the platform so you don’t have to go up or down stairs you just walk across the platform. Likewise at the next station if you have to go west you just walk across the platform. It works from every direction and the interactive system maps on the trains remind you which ones go where by lighting up the transfer route.

So we finally got back to Mong Kok and the neighborhood that I called home for over 2 weeks was waking up for the day ahead, and I was going to bed!

The next day I decided to check out the soccer match down the road. While I was doing this Nick was working on his 2008 society for cinema & media studies conference submission, in the loudest internet cafe in the world. We now know that nicks project was accepted and he will be speaking at the conference in Philadelphia come March.

Here’s nick working away in the internet cafe on the 18th floor or something to that effect of the craziest fun house building I’ve ever seen. congratulations on your paper Nick, correct me if the above details are wrong. Let me know if I can link to your project somehow.

The next day we went out to the other side of town to go swimming in the pool at Sam’s parents building complex. But our plans were foiled by a potential electrical storm. The rest require no explanation.

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