First successful implementation of the Gorillapod, on the sidewalk outside C’est What after a few pints of “Hop Addict.” Note how, like the party guest that no one remembers inviting, the CN Tower insinuates itself into another photo of the Toronto skyline.
Martha Wainwright performs at Harbourfront Stage as part of Canada Day celebrations. She told the all-ages audience that she was wearing red and white to celebrate Canada’s birthday, plus, “I just got my period backstage.” Click on the image to view more pictures on flickr.
Scrambled down to Harbourfront after watching a couple schooners cruising in from the office window. Caught up to this one with an EFS 10-22 lens and a Hoya polarazing filter on the Rebel XT. Click on the image to jump to my flickr account.
I’ve come all this way
Caught Otros Aires, the modern Argentinian tango ensemble, at Lula Lounge last Sunday night. Took some pictures. Check out the video for “Milonga Sentimental” on YouTube. Click on the photo for some of my pictures from the show.
It took a year and 450 photos but i finally made flickr’s explore page – essentially their “500 best” of the day. Small feat perhaps, but I’ll hang my hat on it for the moment, as flickr is currently posting in excess of 4,000 new uploads per minute.
In a rare moment of repose.
If you’ve visited my flickr page you’re already familiar with my sobriquet Steve of the Web, which I use not only for that purpose but as a general catch-all for the various and sundry domains and sub-domains that my web host has foolishly allowed me to devise, under the somewhat indulgent and wholly inaccurate label of the Steve of the Web Web Empire.
And what’s the obvious thing to do in this day and age once you have a catchy new brand name? Keeping in mind that trademarks are tools of the oppressors (and I’m just guessing here but I think they cost real money too), the correct answer is “register yet another domain name.”
SteveoftheWeb.com is a music and photography portfolio site coded in Panic’s excellent Coda application with freely available open-source multimedia scripts and applications. It currently features some of my favourite photographs from the past year, including shots from the Spiegeltent’n'Tavern, the Toronto International Circus Festival, and a variety of portraits and miscellaneous images from locations around Toronto and southern Ontario. The playlist accompanying these slideshows consists of a mix of mp3s currently available from this site as well as a few ambient instrumental compositions that you won’t find anywhere other than SteveoftheWeb.com.
For those of you who are interested in the code side of things, the slideshow is currently running on Lighbox2. I’m planning on migrating over to Lightbox Slideshow, which is based on the same code but has some added features I’d like to incorporate like automation and looping, as soon as I track down the source of some show-stopping JavaScript errors – which may take some time as I’ve already forgotten most of what I ever knew about JavaScript, which was never very much to start out with. Music is running off Franco Zuardi’s Hideout XPSF Music Player.
Best viewed, like all images, in something other than FireFox, which sadly does not understand colour profiles. Go figure.
Made it out to the 107th annual Mohawk Fair in Shannonville Ontario last weekend for the first time in 25 years or so. This beautiful raft on wheels was on display as part ot the “car show’n’shine”.
I’m just posting a quick note for anyone visiting from the Toronto International Circus Festival and/or Zero Gravity Circus. Lynne and I had a great time at the circus this weekend and are also grateful for the hospitality you showed us at the wrap party, with special thanks to Eli, Jen, Dan and Peter. I’ll upload pictures to my flickr page as soon as I can, and I look forward to seeing you all again soon. Congratulations on an amazing show!
