poop

yesterday i met ham.
i think i'm a little in love with him. he's like a little teddy bear, but actually he's a dog. he's sooooo soft.
grace and i took him for a walk in steveston. it was the first day of summer. and it couldn't have been any better. it was beautiful out. and although we were down by the water it wasn't even windy. poor ham got too hot tho.
on our way back we got pooped on. yeah, pooped on, both of us. at the same time. that seagull had a good eye. he really got us. thank god for starbucks washrooms. grace washed the poop out of my hair. now that's true friendship.
after starbucks we split a delicious wrap and watched daytime tv. then we headed to gastown to the fête de la musique to see some leave the lion (pictures coming soon!). things didn't really go as planned but we still had fun.
later lyell joined us for mexican food, mango margatitas and bridesmaids. bridesmaids as in the movie bridesmaids. hands down best chick flick i've seen in a long time. 
they say being pooped on is good luck and i had an awesome day, so....thanks seagull!!

first day of summer!

ham and grace! i realize they are out of focus (oooooops) but i love the photo anyway

ham got too hot and hid in the bush

beautiful sky

can't beat em you gotta eat em

firewood cafe has the best pizza.
this is 100% biased cause i work there. but still, it's the best pizza.
firewood's the way to go!
you know joseph wu? he's pretty awesome. he's an origami artist. he was at the last pecha kucha back in april (tomorrow night is the next one, i'm excited to go and get inspired again!). he did a great presentation, his work is super impressive. and he's funny and a really nice guy. i think he's prettty rad. he has good taste too, he's a regular customer at firewood!!
during the playoffs when vancouver was soooo close to winning the stanley cup joseph wu made the firewood-staff a dozen canucks-origami-jerseys. we sent him a free asiago pizza. awesome collaboraton.
thanks joseph wu!!!!

firewood-joseph-wu-collaboration

june special was the boston pizza. too bad the canuck's didn't win. can't beat em you gotta eat em.

best pizza

porto street art

i love street art.
banksy is pretty cool. i guess everybody knows that now. if you haven't seen exit through the gift shop get on it!! margaret kilgallen is great too. watch beautiful losers everybody. it's a great documentary. you won't regret it. trust me. watch it. like right now.
i was going to write a whole paragraph or two on street art here but i just ain't in the mood for it. all you gotta know is that street art is amazing and portugal is covered in it. sure enough some of it is just tags and big bubbly letters, but there's also lots of really awesome art out there. it's so fascinating and impressive to me. i love it. i wish i could have photographed it all. most of it was me seeing it through the backseat window driving through town, so it's mostly photographed in my brain.
i could probably devote a whole trip to just photographing street art.
next trip to portugal i'm heading out with spray cans and stencils.
that's right, i'm going to be a street artist.
here's some street art from porto.

in disguise

paisley, this one's for heather

love wins

this is depicting some sort of historical happening....too bad i suck at history and can't remember what it was

love this

i love this photo. so much. so very much.

backstage bubbles

friday night was leave the lion and jack mercer live at the anza.
grace and i decided to make our friendship official by signing the walls backstage.
the friendship ceremony was followed by a bubble-party.
it was amazeballs.

backstage at the anza

grace gettin started

grace&ali forever!

stencils rock

celebration!

i like stickers

monsters are awesome

rain, clouds, sun

my trip to porto is pretty much summed up by rain, clouds, sun.
you'd leave the house in the morning not sure whether you should put on jeans or shorts, bring your sun tan lotion or your umbrella.
here's a few shots from my first afternoon in porto. this is a little park by palácio, which is just down the street from teresa's house.
i'm feelin black and white today.

clear sky on one side...

....clouds full of rain on the other

porto-street-art-post coming soon

thunder was on it's way

love birds

this is miguel and his gorgeous girlfriend carol.
miguel is an old high school friend of mine. him and carol have been together for a few years now. they're awfully cute together. i had promised them a little couples shoot when i'd come to visit, so one sunny (yet windy) afternoon we met up in belem.
carol is absolutely stunning. besides being beautiful she's a natural at modeling, she's just got it down.
here are the results of my first official couples shoot. i'm quite happy.
thanks carol and miguel, it was fun :)

she's gorgeous

did i mention it was windy?

we were sitting at the edge of a fountain and every now and then the wind would blow water our way, rather refreshing.

just chillin out infront of mosteiro dos jerónimos

goofin around

say cheeeeeese

carol is from brazil. we made sure to get a few shots with the cristo rei in the background.

by the padrão dos descobrimentos

beijinhos