Friday, June 29, 2007

Jann Arden Uncover Me Tour 2007


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Some great shots from the Saskatoon show @ TCU PLace.
Great shots Nicol!

http://flickr.com/photos/nicollischka/
http://www.nicheimagecapture.com/


Friday, June 22, 2007

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sunset from my window...


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Another beautiful sunset tonight. I'm so lucky that I get to see them almost every night!

Monday, June 18, 2007

Commuters


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Commuting at Dusk...
Overlooking the Gardiner/Lakeshore/Go Train.

Sunset from my window...


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A beautiful sunset from my studio.


Below is a shot from LAST year, June 6th 2006...


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Friday, June 15, 2007

My New Dutch Gazelle


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My new ride. Thanks SO much Anouk! I LOVE it! Gonna pimp it out...



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It's just like these ones I saw in Holland and Germany...



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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Mercury Espresso Bar


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They have a new look. They have exposed the once
covered windows above the original ones, and taken the ceiling all the way up
to the original tin roof. There is so much light now and it seems so much bigger.
There are lots of changes happening here in Leslieville. It's so nice to be back!
I'll post more photos soon.


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Eve and Alice. The original woman visits wonderland...



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Alex pulled me the BEST shot the other day! WOW!



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I wrote on my cup, so no one else would drink it.

Hen



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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

More Hen



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Monday, May 28, 2007

Jacquelin in Leslieville


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Sunday, May 27, 2007

JB in Parkdale


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Friday, May 25, 2007

Hen



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What else can I say...

Monday, May 07, 2007

Jann Arden in Brandon Manitoba


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A great shot from Photo Philosophy on flickr from our Brandon show.
AND she posted this entry in her blog about the show
Cool lights, we never really see them like this...

Monday, April 30, 2007

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Jann Arden @ Massey Hall

The Toronto shows have been fantastic so far.

Massey Hall is such an amazing place to play.

There was a nice article in the star about the show...

Lyle's laptop is back from the shop and in working order again, so I feel much better now.

If you ever need anything MAC related, check out my good friends at digital prototypes
More to come...

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Jann Arden Uncover Me Tour 2007

Well, we've been on the road for a week today. We are in North Bay for a show. So far we have spent three nights in Moncton, rehearsing for two, playing a show on the third night. The show went really well in Moncton. Really great for a first show!

Then after the show, we hopped on the bus and travelled to Halifax, we played the same arena there as last tour. I took some time lapse photos there last time. It was another really great show! Then right after THAT show we hopped on the bus and headed for Montreal, for a day off. Our tour bus' transmission broke down near quebec city (lucky there was a provost dealership/service centre there). So we went for a nice trucker stop style breakfast there (veggie pizza for me) , and continued on in another bus (since we have THREE tour buses on the road).

In Montreal I spilled my soy latté in to Lyle's computer at an internet café. That was a low point in the tour for SURE. We rushed the laptop back to my room and borrowed Gary's screwdriver set, and started the operation! The keyboard had lots of the once delicious, now destructive soy beverage inside it. But when we removed it, the motherboard was untouched. Just a couple drops on the DVD drive.

I rinsed the keyboard under warm tap water with a final distilled water rinse at the end. And dried it with a warm blow dryer. It's been sitting drying for a few days now. I might try to re-assemble it tonight. I hope it works. Otherwise I will be buying lyle a new one. Anyone looking to sell a used mac book?

It's such a pleasure singing a playing with such an amazing group of musicians. I feel really lucky to be out on the road with these guys. I'm always trying to play up the their level. And the singing is starting to sound really great too.

I miss my friend Maury on the road, but I am so happy for him to be at home with his wife and beautiful new baby Hen. And I'm looking forward to playing with them again in the monkey bunch (dot com).

More stories to come....

And hopefully I'll take some photos too...

Friday, March 30, 2007

Sea Otters Holding Hands

I had to post this, even though I feel sorry for any animal in captivity. At least people can see this and realize that animals have feelings too.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Hen Day 24



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Hen is starting to look like a little person now.
You can almost imagine him saying his first word soon.
"Graham" (or muma.....whatever...)



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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Hen Day 11



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He's already flipping photographers the bird!




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There are some more photos of hen here

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Dyslexics of the World UNTIE!!

Maybe you've come across this bit of text before, but as a dyslexic person, I find it quit amusing...

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Hen...day one...



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Shoshana Sperling (mostly her) and Maury Lafoy (a BIT him) gave birth to their FIRST baby boy. Hen was born around 5am this morning (March 4th 2007).
He is 19 inches long and weighs 6 pounds 11 ounces. I'm so lucky to have been able to see him on his very first day on this planet. I'm so happy and proud of my two best friends (and now, my third).

Check out my friend Sarah's blog, great shots of hen and the parents...

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Nora The Piano Playing Cat



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Thanks for the link Maury!

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Sunset from my window...


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Sunsets are starting to get more beautiful now. Spring must be on it’s way.

Friday, February 16, 2007

JOKE OF THE DAY


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What do you call it when you find pickling bottles at the side of the road made by a secret society?

FREE MASON JARS!

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Mercury Espresso Bar


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Eve is the newest employee at Mercury.
She is super cool, and can actually SPEAK as many languages as I can say "I love you" in....

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Emer O'Driscoll


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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Played it till my fingers bled


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It was the winter of "0" seven...

I've been practicing so much my finger started to bleed today. I think I MAY have cut it on something before, but it seems COOLER to think it's JUST from playing guitar....Pete!!!

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Friday, December 15, 2006

New Headshots

These shots of Alana turned out great.I'm working on my colour correction and workflow right now. I'm trying to create some cross-processing levels/colour settings for Apple Aperture. I can't find anyone who's done this so I am starting from scratch. I have some great curves I've tweaked in Adobe Photoshop, but I can't get them into Aperture. Any ideas?





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Sunday, December 10, 2006

My Celebrity Look-Alikes

This is funny. I've always thought andy mcdowell was cute. Now I find out it's because she looks like ME! ewww...

Ha ha ....

Thursday, November 23, 2006

More Jann on youtube

This is us in Mannheim opening for Michael Bublé

Jann Arden Casino Niagara Falls Feb 2006

Look what I found on YOUTUBE!

Monday, November 20, 2006

Stella Panacci on Breakfast Television

Man it was an EARLY one! But we rocked it anyway.

Check out Stella's WEBSITE

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

On the Farm

It’s beautiful out here on the farm. Pretty snowy and cold, but beautiful. It’s worth lugging around my big camera (Nikon D200) to get some shots of the landscape. It’s amazing how COLD the camera gets when I’m out with it.

I’ve been teaching my dad how to use his new Apple MacBook. He is a freelance journalist, and we have set him up with a microphone and GarageBand to record his stories with. It’s taking a while for him to make the transition from analogue tape machine to digital computer! But I think he’s starting to get the hang of it now.

Rowena is making cookies right now that smell AMAZING… Their cat Bonnie is really cute. She’s dreaming now and her paws are twitching as she catches imaginary birds by the birdbath.

They have done some great work on the OLD farmhouse out here. They have added a HUGE addition that’s all wood with lots of windows and skylights. It’s made the whole place MUCH larger. Plus a sunroom of the back (way too cold to enjoy it now).


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Sunday, November 12, 2006

Back in Regina

It’s always so nice to come home to Regina. Things always seem to be ALMOST how I left them. I’m always amazed how much SKY you can see in Regina. My mom lives in the Cathedral Area 13th Avenue Between Albert Street and Elphanstone. They are NOW starting to call it THE VILLAGE (sound familiar New Yorkers?) Well FORGET Grenich Village, this is Regina’s Cathederal Area I’m talking about. What was wrong with Cathederal Area? Maybe too many religious overtones? “Shops won’t even be OPEN on Sunday?” people might mistakenly suppose. The even have a website, I think it’s shopthevillage.ca.

It’s a great neighbourhood to be sure. Some nice cafés and cothing stores, even a cool modern furniture store. My mom, though retired from the Regina Public Library, now earns minimum wage at a cute little shop called Indigo. It’s kind of Regina’s version of Frock (in Toronto’s Polish area).

I can only ever seem to find two or three people that I still know, who are here. This time I called Jason Plumb, Grant Roland and Shelley Kambeitz. Jason was in Saskatoon, but Grant, Shelley and I went out on the town one night. Grant’s a dentist and Shelley’s a nurse, guess I’m a musician. I felt a false sense of security, that if I got into a fight, and lost some teeth, I was with the right people! I’m sure they felt the same about me (if we ever needed to sing for our supper etc).

Anyways, here are some shots of Regina, all with my little point and shoot (Fuji F10). It does the job, but I really should just carry around my BIG camera more often (Nikon D200).

When I head to my dad’s farm I will take more with that camera. Besides, my Fuji F10’s battery is almost dead and I didn’t pack the charger. It’s amazing how many shots you can get until it’s dead though!

It’s great to be visiting my mom. We are BOTH dyslexic, so I’m always fascinated by some of the things she says. Here are a few quotes…

“Do you like that new jazz singer…Coly Hole?”

“I’ve had a few ciders so I’m a bit TISPY…”


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The geese here never leave. Because they keep PART of the lake unfrozen. They look like notes on a music staff.




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SGI Building


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Victoria Park


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Regina City Hall