OPERA! Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi June 7-10, 2012 #Vancouver
18 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, music Tags: arts, gianni schicchi, music, Opera, opera klass, Puccini, singing, the opera project, Vancouver
Woop! Less than 3 weeks away from this year’s opera production…and this year I’m actually in it…cover your ears now. I play Guccio, the dyer (who is, yes, usually a man, but hey gender bending is required in desperate times) and have approximately 5 (very short) lines.
This is an Opera Klass production, meaning that the entire cast (except me…i just do the website and flyers and stuff) is composed of students from Heidi Klassen’s voice studio. And they’re all effing BRILLIANT singers. They pay tuition to cover production costs and to develop their roles with Heidi over the course of several months…and the results are pretty darn good. If you’ve never been exposed to a wall of sound coming from a full cast of operatic singers, you’ve got to come see this show.
Tickets online (paypal) at http://theoperaproject.org or at the door (cash only).
April 16, 2012 – Big Sky Over #Vancouver
16 Apr 2012 3 Comments
in art, Photos, Weather Tags: art, autostitch, burnaby, camera+, iPhone, photography, photos, spring, sunset, Vancouver, weather
Another fun iPhone panorama captured using Autostitch app, edited in Camera+. 3418 x 1012. 
April 16, 2012 | Big Sky Over Vancouver
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March 23, 24, 25, 2012 – Not Much To Say
27 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Photos, Plants, Simon Fraser University, TV / Movies Tags: burnaby, canadian, cap's, car, cinema, cycle, dolphin, flag, katniss everdeen, photography, port coquitlam, SFU, Simon Fraser University, the hunger games, theatre, Vancouver, westwood
Just a few photos and one very short video (my iPhone camera was accidentally in video mode instead of photo, ha!)
March 23: There’s this picnic-appropriate patch of grass at SFU by the Robert C Brown Hall that I walk past almost every day. Last week was all sorts of weird adolescent can’t-decide-if-i-want-to-be-winter-or-spring growing pains, with all sorts of snow and rain and such, but then there was this one sunny warm day on March 23th, and suddenly, said patch of grass was covered in daisies.
March 24, 2012 | And suddenly, the field exploded with daisies, overnight.
March 24: Went to go see The Hunger Games at The Dolphin Cinemas with some friends on Saturday night. Yes. Saturday night and tickets were only $6.95 including tax. So to reward them for their reasonable prices, I bought the biggest popcorn I could (the profit margin on popcorn is very good). First time ever going to The Dolphin. I like it. It’s one of those older style theatres with only 2 screens, and a shallow incline (not stadium seating) with the screen up high. Like being a kid again, getting all excited for a movie, going out with a bunch of girlfriends, getting popcorn (I’m so stingy…when I pay $15 for a ticket at Cineplex/Silvercity there’s no way I’m overpaying for junk food). Note to go back on a Tuesday for “Toonie Tuesday” when movies are $2! I really hope they can make enough money to stay in business for a good long while.
March 24, 2012 | The Hunger Games @ The Dolphin Cinemas, Burnaby
And here we are in our Katniss Everdeen bow and arrow poses (yes, we are first in line, not so much for geeky reasons but because we just happened to go for dinner beforehand and were super early getting back to the theatre)
March 24, 2012 | The Hunger Games @ The Dolphin Cinemas, Burnaby
March 25: Trekked out to Cap’s Westwood Cycle in PoCo to pick up a pair of Skins brand spandex shorts. Loved their sign. Brilliant sunny day for it, seeing as March 26th turned rainy again.
March 25, 2012 | Cap's Westwood Cycle, Port Coquitlam
Then drove out to Surrey to watch Steve’s football practice. Here’s a 3 second accidental video of an uber-patriotic car driving over the Port Mann Bridge:
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March 20, 2012 – Why Am I So Hungry Today?
20 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Being a Woman, Linguistics, Photos, Simon Fraser University, TV / Movies Tags: art, bella, cafepress, district 5, drawing, games, hunger, id, identification, katniss everdeen, Linguistics, panem, photography, photos, salt, speech, twilight
March 20, 2012 | Why Am I So Hungry Today?
I have this class on Tuesdays that goes from 11:30-2:30. About an hour into class I start fading fast, and my concentration diminishes. And I start drawing.
And the answer to “Can you pass the salt?” is funnily neither “yes” nor “no”. It’s physically picking up the salt shaker and handing it to someone. 
March 20, 2012 | Can You Pass The Salt?
Speaking of hunger, look what I got in the mail today from Cafepress:
March 20, 2012 | The Hunger Games Panem District 5 Identification Card
Fun. I’m now on the grid, very much so. That’s more information than my doctor has. That photo of me on the card is from 2008. I haven’t really aged much in 4 years, have I?! Going to see the movie Saturday night with a bunch of friends. Not sure why people are comparing The Hunger Games to Twilight…well, yeah I can see why but DUDES hello Katniss Everdeen is a kick ass awesome survivor whereas that Bella Twilighty poor exemplar of a human female needs to stop swooning and blinking and generally being a doormat damsel in distress.
Ahem. Anyway.
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March 19, 2012 – Last Day of Winter
19 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in art, Photos, Plants, Simon Fraser University, Weather Tags: flowers, heather, iPhone, photo, photography, SFU, Simon Fraser University, snow
March 19, 2012 | Last Day of Winter
It snowed today. Then it melted. Heather finally hit full bloom today @ SFU.
iPhone photo edited w/ Camera+ app.
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