Guess what? More 12X12 Film Marathon information. I was interviewed by Dave Gerry for TelusTV (Mike’s cool with that even though he works at Shaw.) and oh happy day! I didn’t get left on the cutting room floor. How did that happen? I guess they wanted to highlight someone in bad need of a tan on their show. Seriously, my face is white, white, white.
Here’s where I got mentioned: (SNORT! I don’t think this post could be more self-centered if I tried at this point.)
2:08 – my interview. I hope you notice my wide open eyes. I don’t really talk like this, do I? Also, I don’t ever recall using the word, “intolerant” before, let alone, “low light conditions”. I think the problem here is that I was trying to “act natural”. Oh boy.
But on the plus side, I can’t very well ask people to do things I’m not able to do, so I felt compelled to accept this invitation for an on-camera interview. I guess this means now I can ask even more people to take their photos.
Enjoy the video! All kinds of participants are interviewed and they highlighted various photos in it, too. 4 minutes well spent for sure.
We just got home from the big 12X12YVR exhibition. We all got our negatives to take home, so I couldn’t wait to get home to use my new scanner. That was a well attended event! My buddy (and frequent commenter) Leah arrived and hung out with us for a bit. We stayed long enough to see the big reveal as to who won. There were 16 winners in total – 1 for best photo in each theme (that’s 12 winners there), 1 best photo of all , 1 runner up best photo of all, 1 winner for best theme of all and 1 runner up winner for best theme. There were lots of great photos – I’m sure they’ll be posted up soon. The winner of best picture was excellent – it was very cool portrait of a guy smoking. Also, Mini-Fig Monday Kenny swept with his theme all in Legos! It killed. I cannot wait to get started on my Christmas Lego set now.
I’ve scanned in few of my negatives and picked this one – theme number 11 – Easy As Pie. I know, it’s not very original – just buy a pie and rest it on a structure in Yaletown. But by this time it was hour #11 out stomping around in the rain, so this is the best I could come up with. The good news is that pie is in focus! Huzzah!
More good news – all my photos came out. 3 were VERY underexposed and a couple were cut off – that pesky viewfinder. I still need to practice with it. I’ll put up more tomorrow. I’m getting up early tomorrow with Mike to drop him off at work. He starts at 7:00 am. EW. I’ll head back to bed after I drop him off, that’s for sure.
I did it! And now it’s time to sleep. Holy man. The Vancouver Photo Marathon was long, but fun. It was 11.25 hours of good times. I a photo of the Lions Gate Bridge, the giant severed head in Yaletown, a pie and my favourite theme, “vague”. If there’s one thing I can do well, it’s vague photos with the toy camera. I was interviewed by a guy I recognized from the Breakfast TV show from a couple of years ago. I think he said he’s working for Telus TV now.
I took some of the photos I tried to take with the Diana and I’ll post them later – kind of like, “What I hoped I’d taken a photo of.” and then “what the film photo really turned out to be.”.
Also, I have one question, and that’s why was there no theme for a “giant sparrow” today? Because I totally found 2 of them… [click to continue…]
Way back on December 12th, Mike and I spent 12 hours taking photos around Vancouver with our little toy cameras along with 58 other photographers. Man. That seems like a long time ago now. We drank lots of coffee and I snoozed on the Blenz stuffed chairs in between the announcements of the next theme for the next photo. What a day that was. Exhausting. But you know what? I forgot all about that when I saw my photos on display tonight. EEP! It was so exciting! Somehow I managed to get 8 out of the 12 shots and they were not bad at all. In fact there were 2 that I really liked. YAY! I believe all the photos will be on display on flickr in the near future. I’ll let you know when they are up in case you want to see them. All the photos were great with all the different interpretations of each theme and it was good to see those now well-rested and warmed-up photographers again.
I don’t mean to brag, but these people were looking at my photos:
