Monday, April 10, 2006

anniversaire

Pues, se nos olvido comentar que ya llevamos un año perdiendo el tiempo juntos! Y que bonito es poder expresarse! El pasado 20 de Marzo fue el primer aniversario de este su querido blog. En un año hemos:
-perdido pelo
-perdido dinero
-ganado dinero
-cortado el pelo 5 veces
-visitado mexico 2 veces
-hecho 3 paginas web
-estudiado un diplomado
-jugado hockey
-ido a un partido de hockey
-cocinado pasta fresca
-tenido una exposicion de fotografia
-probado distintos tipos de cerveza
-reprobado mas tipos de cerveza
-ganado un angel
-perdido un papa
-comido langosta
-upgraded a Mac OSx TIGER
-ido a pascuales 1 vez
-ido a una boda
-ido a un Gran Prix
-ido a 2 desfiles de san patricio
-conocido los dates (ya soy adicto!)

En fin, ha sido un año de noticias y comentarios que no dejan beneficio economico (a menos que le den click al banner de abajo) pero mucho beneficio socio-cultural y emocional.

animo lectores! Dejen mas mensajes!

saludos,

JAVO

Friday, April 07, 2006

Exhibition


Exhibition 4
Originally uploaded by javomzt.
Well, my first exhibition has started. The gallery in the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts is amazing! I had already visited an exposition for “le mois de la photo” and others that they have mounted there. Its true that it is on the same building where my classes take place, but it looks as professional as any I’ve seen. The amount of work was a bit overwhelming and crammed though. The pieces where too close to each other, and it resembled that of a crowded livingroom more than that of an art gallery, but the exposition looks good.

My piece really stands out not just for its greatness (hey, Im being modest) but for its contrasting colors and cyan tone (blue for the inexperienced eye - it cost me to get the difference). The pieces exhibited are pictures I took with the Holga camera (see the post holgastic). I cross processed the pictures to enhance the effects. There are four pictures in total, two of them where of an object in the foreground with the sun in the back, which created a cool aura, which with the holga’s tunnel feeling looks great. Another picture is a double exposure of a model (guess who) in a yoga pose with a window in the background, this caused an extreme over and under exposure, with mid tones where the exposures didnt match, causing a halo efect, kinda like the same picture being placed one on top of the other without being perfectly aligned, looks cool! The last picture is a shrub (round short plant) in the middle, surrounded by snow, some tracks and a gorgeous background of a lake and a mountain. This was the only shot I had to process myself to get the same tone of cyan in the darkroom, which is so fun I could spend days in it without feeling time passing by.

Anyways, it has been a great trip this photography class. Who knows what is on the future, but I certainly improved a lot. I already have a photoshoot lined up for saturday night. Shawna’s yoga instructor is giving a workshop with some yogis from Toronto in a specific yoga style that is getting popular. I’ve already been in the studio and the ambiance is great! I cant wait to see the layout and start shooting like Dick Cheney on a hunting trip.

You can see more pictures on my flickr website. Just look for the tag “exhibition”.

javo “shutterbugger” vazquez - out!

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

vernissage

Por fin! Se acaba la escuela! Tambien termina mi curso de fotografia, y tendremos una exhibicion. La exhibicion tendra lugar en el Saidye Bronfman centre for the arts (http://www.saidyebronfman.org para informacion de como llegar) del jueves 6 de abril al lunes 17 de abril. El vernissage (presentacion) sera este jueves a las 6pm y ahi estare hasta las 9pm, asi que ahi los espero! Y si no pueden el jueves, tienen bastante tiempo para ir! Para los que por obvias razones no podran ir, esperen al proximo blog donde tendre un recuento de la noche y fotos.

Saludos!


Hello my friends, I participated in a photography course over the last semester and we are presenting our work in the school's gallery. The exhibition will take place at the Saidye Bronfman centre for the arts (http://www.saidyebronfman.org for directions on how to get there) from thursday april 6 until monday april 17. The vernissage will take place this thursday at 6pm and I will be there until 9pm. This is a great opportunity to explore the arts, not just photography as there are also paintings, sculptures, and other, so go take a look and have fun! Hope to see you there! If you cant make it, be sure to come back later and check my post of the presentation, ill include pictures!

ciao!

javo - out!