21-4-20

 They found a small rock in the path of the new sewer they were planting under the street near my house.

21-4-19

Click here if you want to see more of the Lion's Gate Bridge. Click here if you want to see less of it. 

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21-4-16

 I rode a motorcycle to Harrison Hot Springs. First time on a motorcycle in nearly 3 years. It was good. I think. I think it was good. 

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21-4-12

 Best watch I never wear. I should sell it. Maybe I'll sell it. 

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21-4-9

 default photo. 

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21-4-5

 Sourdough continued.

21-4-4

 

21-4-3

 The majestic Oscarus Domesticus surveys his domain.

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21-3-31

 I'm done buying watches now. Probably. Maybe. 

21-3-30

 Vertical format. Portrait format, photographers and artists like to call it, as opposed to landscape format. So rare. I don't like turning my camera sideways. The ergonomics of it are such that it feels purpose built to take landscape photographs. Maybe one day I'll be rich enough to own a camera with a vertical grip on it so I can more honestly take portrait photographs. Maybe not. 

21-3-29

 Found photographs of other people's sunsets. 

21-3-28

 I've read a lot of Raymond Carver short stories over the years but never any of his poetry. Until this. It's good. He's a favourite. 

DRINKING WHILE DRIVING

It's August and I have not
read a book in six months
except something called The Retreat From Moscow
by Caulaincourt.
Nevertheless, I am happy
riding in a car with my brother
and drinking from a pint of Old Crow
We do not have any  place in mind to go, 
we are just driving.
If I closed my eyes for a minute
I would be lost, yet
I could gladly lie down and sleep forever
beside this road.
My brother nudges me
Any minute now, something will happen.

21-3-27

 Waffles for breakfast with this rock star.

21-3-26

This glass has been cracked for at least a year. There are no sharp edges. I notice it every time it ends up in my drinking water rotation. And here it is again.
 

21-3-25

 Stan Douglas homage....

The Hogan's Alley "photo" is actually been digitally modelled and created. I've stood in front of it, and stood in the space where Hogan's Alley is located. I've been in the bar that still has a "Hogan's Alley" neon sign in their lobby. The intriguing part of the Stan Douglas photo is that in its construction, it is perfectly exposed. The blacks are just black. The whites are just white. And the grey tones are complete and full spectrum. The print is so large that your eyes will adjust depending on what part of the print you're looking at. 

The flaw? The Stan Douglas model is so large and complex that to model it at a time when it was modelled, it was too difficult to model vegetation. At least that's my theory behind the fact that there are no trees, no grass, no plants of any kind in the Stan Douglas piece. The image was created in 2014. That doesn't seem like that long ago. But the picture is huge. It's ten feet wide, and five feet tall. And you can get your nose 1 cm away from it and not see digital breakdowns or muddiness or loss of resolution. I suspect every square inch of it is printed at 300ppi. It's part of what subverts it as an art piece. Photographs aren't that big, aren't that detailed, don't have that perfect range of blacks and whites, and the missing vegetation is just one more factor that makes it feel a bit unreal. 

And it is unreal. It's a picture of a place created some decades after it had disappeared. It's a thoughtful recreation, but it's all made up. 

My picture? It's real. But only because I took it today. The way this city, this neighborhood is changing, it won't be there much longer. Two blocks away they are building condo towers some twenty plus stories tall. In five years all of this will be slated for development. In ten it will all be gone. And that will be that. 

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21-3-23

 Covid 19 Economy.

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21-3-18

 Quality goods for a quality amount of time. 

21-3-17

Day 4 in a row of pizza. I'm figuring out slight variations in the crust and alternating toppings under or over the cheese. This one turned out better than the last three. The crust needs an herb or maybe some sort of rock salt, and it could be thinner. I'll want a pizza steel and a pizza peel before making the next one. This one was pretty great. Peppered salami, mushrooms, and sundried tomatoes. There are a few anchovies on there too. 
 

21-3-16

 Some bars are open. Some sense of normalcy returns. Some appreciate the efforts. 

21-3-15

 

21-3-14

 Every so often; a self portrait. This one is of my hands. 

21-3-13

 The back yards of homes worth $1.6 million. So.... glamorous? 

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And the hours, well, I don't mind
How they creep on by like an old love of mine
It's the years that simply disappear that are doing me in. 

- Cowboy Junkies

Missed another day. I'll miss more. Probably. 

21-3-8

 Trimmed a fig tree today. The tree doesn't look any smaller. It feels like there is two trees worth of trimmings in the back yard. 

Damn boring photograph. Blown highlights. Bad composition. 

What else was I going to do? 

Or something like that.

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21-3-6

 I have a new desk. Breaking it in properly...

21-3-5

 I bought a painting. This is the view from my couch. It makes me happy. 

21-3-4

 Ramping up to putting this Tein suspension on the car. New brakes and rotors too. Next winter a turbo? I think next winter a turbo...

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21-3-2

 Ken Lum.

21-3-1

 I've added Eames chairs. I look at them more than I sit in them, but that's alright. I like looking at them.