I decided way back in June that I'd probably end up taking a pass on the Toronto International Film Festival this year. It has gotten very expensive, more than $20 a film depending on what pass you buy. This year I just think if I'm going to take some vacation it needs to be somewhere there's a reef of some kind. As much as I love watching oodles of movies crammed back-to-back, it just doesn't cut it this year. Plus I'd rather spend that money on other things, or not spend it. As well I'm taking care of someone's cat, and not being home except to sleep for 5 hours a night for a week doesn't seem fair.
To all going to TIFF this year, have a great time and maybe next year I'll be back.
According to my Administration Panel I set-up [sub]PIXEL.ca in November of 2002. I can now say that 4.5 years later it's time to take it down. I was going to wait until I had made a book out of the images/copy/comments, but as I went through that process I realized I just wasn't that interested anymore. A lot of the images are just bad (to be honest) , out of focus or otherwise examples of an immaturity I'd rather leave behind.
I still have the site backed-up, so nothing is really lost. It was however, time to stop paying to keep the site up. Both financially and artistically it didn't make sense to keep it up any longer, the traffic just didn't justify it. I'm much happier with the current bostich.com homepage being the repository of my work. True I lose the ability to comment on my photography the way I could on [sub]PIXEL a slideshow is not a photoblog.
So, R.I.P. [sub]PIXEL.ca
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The first time I learned to dive in Tamarindo, Costa Rica I had a blast. I think that was one of the best experiences to my life at that point. I'm not sure why it took me 4 years to get back in to the water... other priorities I guess, but I know it won't be 4 more years now. There really isn't anything I can compare diving too. It really is a completely marvelous and different world under the surface.
Having not gone diving for a while, and travelling with my Sister, I decided I'd also sign-up for a learn to dive course. The seemingly obvious choice from an internet search perspective was Pro Dive Cairns. The price was right and they seemed to have pretty good boats, plus their schedule worked well with what I thought ours would be. This turned out to be the right choice. I really can't say enough good things about our experiences with Pro Dive. Our great instructor Annelyse, had tonnes of experience and a really good teaching style. Both a lot of patience and a wicked sense of humour got everyone through the land and sea sections of the course.
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We landed in Cairns today, Melbourne is but a memory. It wasn't looking like it was going to be a good one either, it turns out things look a lot closer on the Internet than they may be in real life. The accomodation I arranged in St.Kilda was waaay far away from the beach though some not so super-nice looking areas. Schlepping our 2 suitcases that far (even rolling) was not looking appealing. Luckily we managed to switch to something closer. Still, St.Kilda was not so suiting to my sister's very non-bohemian tastes, plus it was very out of the way for doing any touring. We decided to move in to the city for our last two nights. We were getting up at 6:30 and 5:45 respectively, and that was with a good location.
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It's hard to believe it's been almost a week already. It's been so busy. Kim and I actually got about 14 of the 19 top things to do in Sydney (Rough Guide) done.
What was yesterday? Oh yeah, the Olympic Park. We headed out there early since it takes about 45min including a transfer to the special 1 stop Olympic Park line. The first place we headed was teh Aquatic Center, so Kim could have her moment of glory in the pool. An Olympic Park is basically filled with huge impressive structures looking for a continued use. The Aquatic Center was quite busy however, it seems the schools have an 8 week program for swimming lessons near the end of their school year. They have quite an ingenious system too, the bathing caps indicate what level the swimmer is at.
After that we wandered around the park looking at more buildings and generally being tourists. It was a weekday and pretty dead though, so after photographing a few buildings and the Flame we decided to head back to Sydney. It looked like there were a lot of really cool bke trails, but we were just too tired.
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