The Grand Porch Party is this Sunday! Check out their site for the line-up and then come out and listen to some great music. Don’t worry: I’ll be shooting pics, not playing this guitar.
DW
1shot #130-imagine artists working here in Waterloo
The old post office, King and Bridgeport, uptown Waterloo. Lots of light, tons of parking, on the public transit mainline, and right in the core of uptown. Totally empty.
What’s the next step?
DW
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King Street Art Market-DTK shows the way
The first King Street Art Market rolled out Friday night in downtown Kitchener. Great music, art, and food in the street. Really great vibe chatting with everyone. I think we were all happy to be out in the evening with the temperature finally above 20C. High-five to the sponsors!
Click through for an unreasonable number of photos.
1shot #129-cloud maker
King St between Francis and Water St.
Just happened to be looking up and saw the cloud maker…
DW
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Only 2 Weeks to The Grand Porch Party!
Want to know how anything cool gets done in the community? It’s no secret: just plain old hard work. The Grand Porch Party is Sunday, June 9, just two weeks away. The hard-working volunteer crew was busy creating signs and buttons today, only a few hours before the GPP came home with a Waterloo Region Arts Award for Best New Event on Sunday night.
GPP is live music on front porches in a great Waterloo neighbourhood, free-no-pay. Having shot some photos of the GPP last year, I was eager to support this great cause again this year with some more photography and blogging. Get out to this event!
You are invited to a talk on Looking Up and In
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You are invited to a 20-minute talk I’m giving on my piece “Looking Up and In” Thursday, May 23 at 8:30pm out in front of Kitchener City Hall in the Civic Square. Please RSVP to either the facebook event or to hilary.abel@kitchener.ca. Just need to know rough numbers for snacks!
Really hope you can make it. -DW
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1shot #128-the thing about scale
is that it is often inversely proportional to what is important.
DW
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My photos atop Kitchener City Hall–starts today
I just delivered my latest piece in the Looking Up and In series to the City of Kitchener for projection atop City Hall on The Cube. I believe this show runs nightly from mid-May to mid-June, 8:30pm to 10:00pm. Brohemus and I checked out the final deliverable last night (photo above) and at current sunset times, the piece looks really good by 9:15pm.
Next week, I’m going to give a talk on the project at City Hall, all are invited. Just confirming a date for that. [Update: talk is Thursday, May 23 at 8:30pm. Here’s the invite.] Deets will be here, and fb, and tw. I’m going to speed-talk through the concept, the technical and creative photography challenges, and the design/construction of the rig I used to illuminate and shoot the photos. All that in only 20 minutes, because honestly, who can pay attention for longer than that? And, in true maker spirit, I’ll bring all the gear with me so you can check it out and ask questions.
What’s this all about? I put together a statement back in September 2012 when I started this series. And since every photographer needs money to buy more gear, I’ll mention that I have prints available of these photos and others.
DW
1shot #127-best Mom ever.
You are the rock under all of us, Mom.
You hoe a tough row with grace, and compassion, and courage.
Thank you for your love.
DW
Globe Studio tour tonight!
David G. White and his painting “Checkpoint”
My brohemus, David G. White, is showing at Globe Studios tonight (Fri) from 4-9pm. Come down to the end of Cedar St and talk with us about art, politics, and love.