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25-3-24

 Pink is the new yellow. 

25-3-23

 

25-3-22

 This house. This type of house. It represented so much hope and optimism. A small, efficient home on a reasonable sized yard where you could raise a family. It's a little weather worn. A little rough around the corners. There's a lot less than a block away for sale. $2.5 million. The end is nigh. 

25-3-21

 

25-3-20

 Someone made a stencil. It was important that everyone who sucks, knows they suck. 

25-3-19

 Living his best life.

25-3-18

 

25-3-17

 I've taken lots of photographs of Ken Lum's East Van Cross. This one is a first for me. 

25-3-16

Colour. Something about "Sustainable Vancouver Neighborhoods" and " New Housing Complexes..." or, "Land Assembly Opportunity." 

 But I want to keep the black and white theme going a bit longer. The first image deserved colour. 

25-3-15

 

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25-3-11

 Lots of new monochrome cameras. Well, that might be an overstatement of fact. Pentax has released a new dedicated monochrome camera and Leica has released a gen 2 version of one of their monochrome cameras. I'm shooting raw. Converting to black and white. Apparently I'm doing it wrong. 

Oh, and Trump can fuck off. 

25-3-10

 Cars keep crashing into this hedge on the corner. The City of Vancouver has a solution. An orange pilon. This way drivers can see the hedge more clearly and avoid driving into it......

25-3-9

 

25-3-8

 Big cameras need a big handle. I've shot exactly one frame with this camera so far since getting it back. The cost per photo is pretty high. 

25-3-7

 Canucks vs Wild. The Wild played a better game but the Canucks won. It was a good game to see. 

25-3-6

I have a bike. It's an All  City. It's relatively new. It's not a special bike though it wasn't that cheap. It wasn't that expensive either. Today the derailleur hanger broke. 

It's an aluminum bit of crap. Proprietary. I could buy one. Well, the bike company has gone defunct, but it was owned by a conglomerate of a bike company. They may make the part for a couple of years. I want to ride the bike for more than a couple of years and, apparently, the hangers last about a year. 

That screw in the previous photo? Broken as well. It's reverse thread. There's a YouTube video on how to remove it. Mine was broken. The one on the other side is bent. I had to cut it out. 

This is a circa 2001 Independent Fabrication Crown Jewel. Omaha orange. I rode it a bunch. Sold it. Bought it back for cheap only to find out there were rust holes through the tubes under the paint. Garbage. Thankfully I didn't pay much for it to get it back. I'm going to use that dropout to fix the All City. 

Cut. Machined. Dry fit. I don't have a picture of it here, but the hanger is cut out so that it brazes on in the x and y axis. Lots of overlap for stability. 

Brazed. Clean. Eyeballing it, it looks like it might not even need any alignment. This is good because as I matched the geometry of the old derailleur hanger, there wasn't much room for a lengthy hanger that could be bent straight easily. 

Paint it pink. Instead of hiding the flaws I choose to enhance them. This bike is better now than it was yesterday. 

 

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25-3-2

 Fuji is known for their film simulations. Most of them exist in PhotoShop and Lightroom. 

25-3-1

 L.A. Chicken is legendary. 

25-2-28

 A hike this morning. An afternoon at work with me. Mico was tired.

25-2-27

 Cell phones made pay phones obsolete. ApplePay may be making ATMs obsolete. 

25-2-26

 This is a great print.

25-2-25

 PechaKucha night in Vancouver. Bob Sung was there.

25-2-24

 

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25-2-22

 Oscar's getting old. 

25-2-21

 

He can see the bird feeder from here. He's too old and slow to catch them, but he can dream...

25-2-20

4 Nations Cup. Go Canada. 

25-2-19

New painting. 

25-2-18

 

25-2-17

 All the happiness......

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25-2-15

 Carolina Pen Company. I ordered this before Trump was President because the Carolina Pen Company was taking some flack online for donating money to an LGBTQ+ cause in the USA. We're not supposed to be buying stuff from American now that Trump is threatening to invade my country, but I liked CPC for publicly supporting LGBTQ people and figured that probably made him decidedly anti-Trump. So I bought a pen. It's a lovely thing. 

Plus, it kind of feels like he's an ally. 

25-2-14