Events

Donna Zazulak of Zazulak Marketing & Communications Inc. requested that I document Pure Pride Edmonton as produced by her and Greg Burns. I invited Corey along. The little Albertan homophobe in me was a bit apprehensive at first but I am glad that I accepted Donna's offer. Even though I am not a member of the target audience of this event, even as a regular attendee and not as a photographer I would have enjoyed the entertainment, atmosphere, and lighting. Oh yeah, lighting and sound by Axe Music. Below are two shots of the setup taken before an evening where my ass was slapped no less than five times.

Lighttools and Lightrein are hosting a lighting presentation and demonstration at Grant MacEwan Community college's Robbins Theatre on April 25, 2009 with Nick Vedros and David Montizambert. It's a full day affair and I booked off the day over a month ago and will definitely be attending. Check out their work and see for yourself why two of the world's coolest lighting companies would book in these photographers for a day in Edmonton. I have been casually told that the usual refreshments will be provided but there will also be lunch so that attendees can spend as much time as possible with the presenters and with representatives from the sponsoring companies. I hope to see you there.

I have waited two years for this day. We are here again Koelnmesse, at last.

It's 8euro (about $12) per hour for wireless internet access so I will likely be blogging more during the evenings but I am uploading videos to Youtube with very brief descriptions of interesting things I come across. Looking up videos with "Photokina" in their name on my Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Klyment

I feel that I should post this entry sooner rather than later and I apologize for not having yet delivered any of the previously-promised entries. Consider this entry my official offer for agents (preferrably Canadian) and media organizations (Internet or any physical geographical location) interested in Photokina 2008, arguably the world's largest and most important imaging trade fair, but may not be sending someone themselves. I spent most of my time in Photokina 2006 talking with manufacturers about printing and lighting and now I am looking for agents who are interested in importing products which may be presented at Photokina who would like me to research and relay product information and commentary back to the agent as well as for news organizations who would like to explore Photokina beyond consumer and small format digital capture products. My interests in Photokina (including, but limited to, some companies that I know I will be visiting at Photokina):

• Large format digital printers (primarily Epson, Canon, HP, and Roland for photography and fine art but also for signage)
• Raster image processors (RIPs) for large format printers (EFI . . . upon first glance, no other dedicated RIP companies will be represented)
• Color management (X-rite, Barbieri, Datacolor)
• New printing substrates (Breathing Color, Sihl)
• Medium format SLRs and view cameras (Arca-Swiss, Linhof, Sinar, ALPA, Silvestri, Franke Und Heidecke/Rollei, Hasselblad, Mamiya)
• Medium format digital capture products (Phase One, Sinar, Leaf, Hasselblad)
• Medium format optics (Schneider, Rodenstock, Fujifilm, Nikon)
• Continous lighting (Dedolight)
• Strobe lighting for both studio and location work (Aurora, Balcar, Bowens, Bron, Hyundae Photonics, Elinchrom, Photoflex, Profoto)
• Light modification (The above brands plus Chimera and California Sunbounce)
• Computer displays for photo editing and softproofing (Eizo, LaCie, Samsung)

What I need from agents: an opportunity to influence products that may be available to my fellow printers and photographers in the future.

What I need from news organizations: documentation fulfilling these guidelines Photokina has created to qualify journalists for the event. It could be as simple as a letter on your letterhead stating that I am collecting information and reporting back to you. I also welcome the opportunity to work with one of your journalists in the fields of interest above so that I may learn and assist by inquiring and offering insight.

I will be online almost continuously with wireless Internet access from the tradeshow floor and can send relevant information to those I am collecting information for live with Skype chat, voice, or webcam or in digested text, photo, and possibly video form. I am also fluent in Mandarin Chinese and can offer some translation which may be useful for agents wishing to communicate with a Chinese manufacturer.

Please contact me via e-mail or by phone. Contact information link is at the bottom of this page.

It's that time of the year again. Those interested in the newest grads from one of Canada's top industrial/visual communications design programs come go check it out.

The festival continues. If you haven't dropped by the theatre already you're missing out. :-) Full gallery.

It's that time of the year again - ten days of some of the best improv you'll see. More information at Rapid Fire Theatre's website. But in short, it runs from June 14 until June 24 8pm every night except for Sunday and Monday. Friday's and Saturday's there will also be 11pm shows. There's also a puppet improv matinee somewhere in there. Check it out! Here are a few photos from the opener. You can see the full gallery here.

Here are a few samples from one of the first three galleries to enter into the new gallery system. I won't be writing about the other two until a bit later but you can dig around the gallery and find them for yourself. You can see the rest of the photos here.

A couple shots from Whyte Ave. after the game. There are lots of others but I'm sure that none of my visitors would be interested in photos containing tasteless nudity.

 

Thin slices of time from Whyte Avenue.

Two days ago Bill Rancic, first winner of NBC's The Apprentice, Patrick LaForge, president and CEO of the Edmonton Oilers hockey club, Jim Dinning, past minister of Education and Provincial Treasurer of Alberta, LuAn Mitchell-Halter, Chatelaine and Profit Magazines Canada's Number One Female Entrepreneur three years in a row and chairperson of Mitchell's Gourmet Foods, and Kelly Hrudey, full-time analyst on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and former NHL player with the New York Islanders, LA Kings, and San Jose Sharks, spoke at the Alberta Professionals & Entrepreneurs Conference. I've included some photos and a short video clip. Photos are a bit bigger than normal at 250px tall. They'll be back to normal once the excitement of shooting with a P&S camera that can produce dSLR-like photos wears off a bit.

Right click and save a short clip of Bill Rancic's account of his life as an entrepreneur during post-secondary school and beyond. Going into the conference, I wasn't sure what to expect. In fact, I'm not a big fan of Donald Trump and wasn't interested enough in the series description to ever watch an episode of The Apprentice. But now I'll be looking for the show.

Rapid Fire Theatre's TheatreSports and Chimprov is back in session at the Varscona Theatre (103 St. and 83 Ave.) Shows are 11pm Friday and Saturday respectively and run for about an hour and a half to two hours. I'm tired so here's a list of some coming blog entries for which I already have photos:

• Theatresports Opening Night
• Chimprov Opening Night
• Sold my S2 Pro - tribute to a special camera
• Purchased S3 Pro - some bitching about Fuji, Nikon, McBain Camera, workflow and other stuff
• Printhuge.com - updates
• Burning thistle seeds - experimental photos