pennsic XXXIX: bender’s night out
August 17, 2010
Posted by jodi on August 17, 2010 at 7.37pm
August 3, 2010
I have been waiting all year to bring y’all a photo of this beautiful velvet painting that hangs on the wall of El Rey Azteca restaurant in Lyndora, PA.
I’m pretty sure there’s an interesting story in this painting, as it’s obviously a real mountain range with some sort of legend attached to it. Something to be investigated later, though. Right now, we’re on vacation!
Posted by jodi on August 3, 2010 at 6.24am
mixed messages
August 1, 2010
Posted by jodi on August 1, 2010 at 6.18am
the pre-pennsic quiet
July 31, 2010
The Friday night before the mayhem starts is when we walk down to our campsite, check out the lay of the land (shifts every year) and chain up a picnic table or two to a tree (take that, thieves!). We’re not allowed to bring cars in or start setting up until the land negotiations are finished on Saturday (jumping through bureaucratic hoops is just part of this kind of vacation). Walking through this place when it’s just like any other campground is a little eerie when you know just what it’ll be like in a few days, when the twelve thousand other people get here.
The first few mornings after Land Grab (Saturday), there will still be a few Canada geese on the lake, but by Tuesday they’ll have retreated to quieter places. One of my favourite parts of the early days of Pennsic, which are mostly taken up with the heavy grunt work of setting up massive pavilions and building walls and digging holes, is to take my tea up to the lake in the early morning and wave the last few geese off home. Imagining that they come from the same place I’m from, because I’m sentimental like that.
Peter and Claire in our campsite, block E24, with the lake behind them.
This is a good table. We chained it to a tree before we left.
Posted by jodi on July 31, 2010 at 6.18am
self portrait with map
July 22, 2010
Little lakes, big lakes.
Posted by jodi on July 22, 2010 at 9.09am
toronto visit, friday
May 29, 2010
Under the Gardiner Expressway:
Macrame in a clothing shop window makes me happy:
An old friend:
Ampersand, butts and a stranger’s toes:
Land of cranes. If they ever finish building Toronto, where will all of the cranes go?
Posted by jodi on May 29, 2010 at 8.46pm
video
April 20, 2010
I figured out how to switch the Harinezumi digital to black and white video mode, which involves a complex sequence of button pushes, a few incantations and a bit of waving a dead chicken around. This video was shot while flying into Toronto a few days ago. Sitting at the airplane window watching the mediated version of the experience in the camera display instead of out the window itself is strange enough, but add in the low-fi Zumi video’s resemblance to black and white 8mm film, and it’s almost possible to fool oneself into believing that flight was in a zeppelin instead of a plane.
Posted by jodi on April 20, 2010 at 9.25pm
arrival
April 18, 2010
Flying into Windsor Friday afternoon. It’s awfully shaky, but the turbulence was nasty. About two minutes before the video started, the plane did one of those stomach-flipping drops. Fun!
Windsor sure has a lot of swimming pools.
Posted by jodi on April 18, 2010 at 6.38pm
goodbye, north bay
April 16, 2010
I’ll miss you.
Posted by jodi on April 16, 2010 at 6.00am
three videos
March 28, 2010
I’m having a lot of fun with this little Digital Harinezumi camera. Below are three videos from a day of travel. The camera records sound but I prefer to take the sound out; it’s more dreamy that way.
Taking off from Windsor Airport:
Taking off from Pearson Airport:
Coming in for landing in North Bay (that’s Trout Lake at the beginning, with most of the ice still intact although it’s been an unusually warm and early spring):
Posted by jodi on March 28, 2010 at 8.34pm
