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Topography photography
My buddy John “Storz” Storozuk gave me a Kinect-like distance-sensing camera a few weeks back. In his extensive travels of the tech world, many bits of gear get caught in Storz’s net and happily, knowing my interests in photography+making, he … Continue reading
1shot #223-photography as a gateway to adventure
Photo: Marc Dease – used with permission, scanned from print I always tell my kids that photography is really just an excuse to meet people. I didn’t invent that: I grew up observing it in action. My Pop started photographing … Continue reading
Lightroom workshop worked at kwartzlab
Why is this man smiling? This is my old friend Barry Reville. He was one of 14 peeps who came out to kwartzlab last night for my Guerrilla Lightroom Workflow workshop. Some people learned some stuff, so that’s always a … Continue reading
UW School of Architecture… Wow.
Last Saturday morning, my daughter Arden and I trucked on down to Galt to check out the open house at UW’s School of Architecture. For those of you who don’t have kids in high school and/or aren’t exploring what comes … Continue reading
Giving a lite Lightroom workshop at the lab
Hey friends, I’m giving an intro workshop on Lightroom as part of my artist-in-residence gig at kwartzlab. Sunday March 29 7pm-9pm. There are seven spots left. It’s free-no-pay and if you sign up, you gotta show up. Hit the doodle … Continue reading
kwartzlab is people
This week at kwartzlab’s regular Tuesday Open Night, I gave a talk about my photobooth project for the artist-in-residence gig that I’ve been cranking away on since the beginning of the year. The TL;DR is that kwartzlab is people. It’s … Continue reading
Structur3D Printing in new digs
It was almost a year ago that I met Charles Mire and Andrew Finkle of Structur3D Printing. I had heard they were by kwartzlab and chatting about their paste extruder attachment for 3D printers, but I only met them in … Continue reading
Hub Haps #017-our destination
Headphones on, medium volume. Puttin’ some familiar flavour in yer ear. Me being a photographer, you might reasonably assume that I’m visually driven. True, but I’m also a keen consumer of ambient sound. I think of places I frequent as … Continue reading
Hub Haps #016-Thalmic test-driving a variety of arms
I caught Victor Janzen helping out brand ambassador Deviya from Thalmic today at the Hub. Thalmic had multiple teams on site and no shortage of willing participants. The goal was to collect sample data from a variety of users wearing … Continue reading
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1shot #219-FOUND
The absurd work requires an artist conscious of these limitations and an art in which the concrete signifies nothing more than itself. It cannot be the end, the meaning, and the consolation of a life. Camus, Albert, The Myth of … Continue reading