Hey beautiful day...
...and when the day is done, say goodbye to the setting sun....
Strange how everything can be going to shit all around you, but one good song turns everything around. Ok, so Bedouin Soundclash won't give me a passing grade in my finance class, but it's at least cheering me up. Enough so that I might in fact be able to walk out the door and handle my last contribution to university media of the day. Wait, it's in the club district and I don't have a bulletproof jacket--maybe not...
Speaking of university media, today was fun. I did a shoot with competitive skateboarder Elise Manolakos for McClungs magazine. She was a lot of fun, and had no trace of the bitchy attitude that many skateboarders seem to posess. We got a few really good action shots on the sidewalk at Yonge & Dundas beside H&M, in the passageway from Dundas to St. James Square, and in St. James Square itself. The last action shots, which turned out incredibly well, were from inside Sears.
Yeah, that's right. Inside the Sears store at Eaton Centre.
We walked about 2/3 down the aisle, where Elise dropped back and pretended to look at shoes. I walked to the end of the aisle, near the North doors that open towards the square. When I gave the signal, she jumped on her board and rode towards me while I snapped pictures. As soon as she was past me we made a run for the doors and onto the sidewalk.
About two minutes later, two skater chicks walked up to us and started talking to Elise. We ended up going back into Sears, one level lower, and did some more "sk8r shopping" shots. We were just about to start a second run through the store when a corporate cyborg dressed like an Elf walked in the middle of the frame and told me to stop taking pictures. Never mind three punks on skateboards--fuck'em if they hit a customer--but god forbid a corporate spy find out the price of satin pillowcases. Someone remind me of this when I'm old and tasteless enough to shop there.
My second shoot was a rock show at Riley's, for the Eyeopener. The performance was by Fourthwall, an up-and-coming rock band out of Richmond Hill. The images turned out better than I expected, the music was good, and I ran into music critic extraordinaire Jessica Ford. OK, so she's our music critic, but she's still wicked fun.
In short, it's been a fun day save for the futile attempt at doing homework. Amazing how un-Emo life can be if you forget about B-school once in a while.
Strange how everything can be going to shit all around you, but one good song turns everything around. Ok, so Bedouin Soundclash won't give me a passing grade in my finance class, but it's at least cheering me up. Enough so that I might in fact be able to walk out the door and handle my last contribution to university media of the day. Wait, it's in the club district and I don't have a bulletproof jacket--maybe not...
Speaking of university media, today was fun. I did a shoot with competitive skateboarder Elise Manolakos for McClungs magazine. She was a lot of fun, and had no trace of the bitchy attitude that many skateboarders seem to posess. We got a few really good action shots on the sidewalk at Yonge & Dundas beside H&M, in the passageway from Dundas to St. James Square, and in St. James Square itself. The last action shots, which turned out incredibly well, were from inside Sears.
Yeah, that's right. Inside the Sears store at Eaton Centre.
We walked about 2/3 down the aisle, where Elise dropped back and pretended to look at shoes. I walked to the end of the aisle, near the North doors that open towards the square. When I gave the signal, she jumped on her board and rode towards me while I snapped pictures. As soon as she was past me we made a run for the doors and onto the sidewalk.
About two minutes later, two skater chicks walked up to us and started talking to Elise. We ended up going back into Sears, one level lower, and did some more "sk8r shopping" shots. We were just about to start a second run through the store when a corporate cyborg dressed like an Elf walked in the middle of the frame and told me to stop taking pictures. Never mind three punks on skateboards--fuck'em if they hit a customer--but god forbid a corporate spy find out the price of satin pillowcases. Someone remind me of this when I'm old and tasteless enough to shop there.
My second shoot was a rock show at Riley's, for the Eyeopener. The performance was by Fourthwall, an up-and-coming rock band out of Richmond Hill. The images turned out better than I expected, the music was good, and I ran into music critic extraordinaire Jessica Ford. OK, so she's our music critic, but she's still wicked fun.
In short, it's been a fun day save for the futile attempt at doing homework. Amazing how un-Emo life can be if you forget about B-school once in a while.