Well, I wont say with much sadness that I will miss 09.  It was a hard year hear for most of us in Whistler.  Some more than others.  I wish everyone well in the new year and that it will be better than 09.

                                                  Hi ya’ll.  Well if you didnt know, Whistler is opening on Saturday the 14th of November!  Yippee!  Now, I hope everyone plays safe and has a great year cuz it will be a big year for us in our little/big tiny town.  What with the world coming to play in our sandbox!  Please keep it clean! Thanks, ohh, and please pack out what you brought in, especially you military folk, cheers.  Now lets have some good clean winter fun!

Well, they said it is a great place and I didnt know before know, but Maui is great.  This is Aki’s first step on to a black sand beach just outside of the town, Hana.  Craziest darn road in N. America, yup!  Awesome.  There will be many more soon, unfortunately we are still here sooooo,  I gots to back to the beach and will upload more later, Mahalo ya-ll.  Ch                            eers.

  Well some of you know that I do more artistic things besides photos, not many others know.  Heres a pair of shoes I did for one of the Blind Mute shows a couple of months ago that I thought would look good on the site.  This was a german collage consisting of material that I picked up there.   It is a variation of some shoes I did a year ago that were an applique of pure hemp sublimated to the shoe.  Very Awesome!  Will have pics of that soon as those shoes turned out fantastic!  Check out the Blind Mute page  for previous shows at www.blindmuteproductions.com .  Don’t forget, art can be worn and should be!

  Hi everyone!  Hope everyone  is well and having the start of a great summer!  Back at the fort I have decided to change the world, or at least try.  Reason:  not enough people are and I thought I would give it a go, so!   A friend told me not to buy Nutella the other day, I said why!  They said, check out the palm oil situation.  So I did, ouch.  No more Nutella.  Check it out for yourselfs.  Then I started to think of all the big companies that are mass-producing all these processed foods, do we need them?  We did so well without them, why can we not live without them now?   So…. say no to processed foods and all those big companies, sorry.  Didnt have those types of food before and probably wont need them in the future.  Look at our for-fathers and relatives, they did fine without them.   Auto companies, industrial  whatever,  question everything and anyone!  Read the label, read between the lines, call any politician on anything you want to discuss or disagree with.  Stand up, its your right!  Sorry to be so preachy but we can change our world.  Good luck, cheers!

                                                       Everyone has a different perception of what a highlight is.  In particularly photography.  My highs and lows are a little more uncategorized though they do have a uniformity to them.  This series is the way I saw the big air and the surrondings that night.  I really enjoy the abstraction of the contents and hope you do to!

 This pic had to be published here.  It was on a walk in Offenbach that I saw this set-up.  I stopped and wondered.  Then I took the picture.   I started thinking of what kind of person would have a window dressing like this!  Not that it’s bad, just a little untypical for a window like this in a place like that.  Then I decided not to think of it anymore.   It erked me a little when I first witnessed it’s weirdness and my friends to date, but I really do like it and I think it is a really genuine photo, if not weird.

I noticed that I did not include some holiday type photo. This one might not seem to festive for most but it means heaps to me.  When I first made Mr. Man,  I laughed.  Then I knew I had something, what, well, just an idea.  So I set some shots up and snapped them up for uz.  I hope you like him and what he stands for….. beer!  Happy whatever you want it to be.

Were getting to the time of year when we do a heck of to much reflecting, I know it’s our nature but.  I have a different take on that thinking being out here and putting the season in to terms.  Not forgetting the recent issues, I wont linger, why, cuz we don’t need to, we all know the facts, so.  What I am thinking is that the start and early season conditions in Whistler have not been the best but that maybe our future prospects might look even worse!  I wouldnt want to sound like a bummer, but, I have and continue to see it.  Whether it be some cycle or pattern that is irregular or that the damage is starting to set in is maybe another realization.  That’s a buzz-kill.  Really!  Did I and the people I know have that much affect on the outcome of our survival? yup, obviously.  Wake up!  It’s another year ahead.   Welcome 2009?