Montreal - HLAP second edition

Across the street from SAT is this lot.


Darryl and I show up to the SAT building only to find no one there.


Darryl on some random street in old Montreal


Andrew and Josie make Darryl and I lunch.


The layout of SAT.


Scrambled porn is used as a background for writing messages to be broadcast on the various projection screens at the party.


Some of the girls that dressed up.


Darryl's female fan club.


Monica and Natasha strike a pose.


"Tennis Anyone?"


Alex and a Betty Page look alike decide tennis is not their thing and dance.


Dinner at Crepe Way at 4:00am.

Montreal - Day 3

The "Something Button" breakfast


Chez Cora - I liked the happy sun logo


Darryl at his workstation


Posters for Les FrancoFolies de Montreal


Would you play the lotto?


What about now?


No one seems to notice this juggler


Martin Deschamps performs on the FORD stage at FrancoFollies de Montreal








Poutine at "Pipeline"


Monica, Erin, Natasha and Christos arrive in Montreal.


Natasha - "tres ham"

Montreal - Day 2

Bus Shelter Ad

This morning we started off by trying to find something to eat. We walked south through the china town and into the old part of Montreal where there's cobble stone roads, narrow streets, a bunch of tourist traps.

It was in front of the Notre Dame Church that we ran into Linsey. Linsey, an anglo speaking Montreal native, was handing out flyers with the caption "I love Montreal Smoked meat". It was the answer to out starving question of where to eat.



Notre Dame


Hey it's Linsey! Our guide to breakfast.


Eggplant - Darryl's Kryptonite.


Corned Beef, a Montreal staple

The smoked meat place in the advertisement was just one of many in a open food court type of building. I ordered the King combo or "Le Roi Trio". The plate had a salad, fries and a smoked meat sandwich on a rye type bread.


Who is that guy out the window?


China town dog statue


Free chips being thrown over to the silver car.

After the feast of food (which is starting to seem common in this city) we went back to the hotel (student residence) where I noticed a girl in a van flinging or maybe throwing something at a nearby vechicle. As it turns out it was a bag of chips. She wasn't throwing the bag but trying to hand over the bag to the passenger of the other car.


Darryl works in SATs basement

After grabbing our stuff from the hotel we crossed the park over to the SAT building. It's very convenient having the building so close to where we were staying. My first task was to help out by putting french subtitles over the english entries. Someone was nice enough to actually type in the translation pre-Montreal. It made my job easy.


Pacman welcome sign

We found ourselves doubled booked and left the SAT at around 6:30pm. This worked out as it was getting to the time of eating. We took a cab up to an intersection on Saint Laurent. Then we walked north, then a block east, then south. Darryl was determined to find a restaurant we had eaten at last year.

After about an hour of walking we actually found the restaurant. It was one block directly east of where we got out of the cab. D'oh!


Arg! We walked for an hour in a big circle to find this restaurant was one block from where we started.


Holy Fatty Foods!
I felt really full after eating this sandwich.
Notice the tiny 8 oz cup of water in the background.

I ordered a triple decker sandwich about half the height of my face. It was huge. I actually had to force myself to eat the second half. To those that know me that says a mouthful.


Back to Les FrancoFolies de Montreal's Ford stage.

After eating, Darryl went back to the hotel, and I went to check out the Music festival. Compared to yesterday it was packed.


The crowd behind me.


Luck Mervil taken from the same place I was standing in the previous picture using a 400mm zoom.


Money for nothing and your chicks for free


Fire fighter waits on call in the darkness near the main stage.


Lead singer of Mika sings reggae


Mika performs on the "Les Spectacles multiculturels" Hydro Quebec stage


One last look out my window at Saint-Laurent before falling asleep.

To Montreal

Darryl at Toronto's Union Station

Today's blog entry takes us to cloudy Montreal. I'm typing up this entry from a work station located in the basement of S.A.T. (society of Arts and Technology). Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn film festival will take place this coming Saturday upstairs.


"Hey, we're moving."

Montreal right now is 12 degrees (C) outside. Clouds loom over us and it looks like it's going to rain. On the plus side we've arrived in the city just in time for the french music festival, "Les FrancoFolies de Montreal". They've blocked off a couple of streets to set up seven music stages.

Surrounding the stages are smaller tents with vendors. Food, CDs, cars on display. Did I mention food. The music festival according to the free program just started today. I'm not sure what's playing tonight.


Speeding away from Toronto



"Hello Montreal"


Montreal train station


"Wow! My room is huge!"


"Geez, Darryl's room is tiny."


Luck Mervil sings at the Ford stage, part of Les FrancoFolies de Montreal


Dancer at the Ford Stage


"It's Jesse Cook!!!"

What's going on here?

This is Darryl's Apartment


I dropped off a firewire drive at Darryl's today. Darryl needed it for storage to bring data to Montreal for the upcoming Hard liquor and porn film festival.

In the foreground, Jessica Joy and her friend were editing this week's video object. There's a computer behind the door.

Why Darryl is holding up a piece of celery? You'll have to tune into video object to find out.

Final Push

James watches over the final compression

Today we were in James' basement doing final renders and fixes for a massive display for Microsoft to be featured at Globalcom, a telecom convention taking place in Chicago this week. Bagged from putting in hours of work previously we (David, Zoe, Neil, James and I) managed to push out the final delivery.

yea.

Morning Crawl

Snails crawling along from a worm's eye view.

This morning I had to go to Cherry Beach Sound, a building with sound rooms and audio editing bays, to drop off some animation on a hard drive. My final delivery for the project I was working on. After about three hours sleep I woke up at 6am to do some last minute revisions and make my way to the soud studio by 9am.

Leaving early, around 7:30, I decided to walk down to the studio from the closest queen streetcar stop. It was about a twenty minute walk south from there. Passing a bike trail I noticed a hoard of snails squirming along. Where were they coming from, where were they going? No idea. But since I just read an article on how to eat snails I decided to take some time out and shoot them.


another angle

It's interesting to note that being at the end of the project this was a good sign to slow down (to a snail's pace) and enjoy shooting again.