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Sadie May Crash

Andrew Louis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:05:56 +0000

I finally edited some photos from a Sadie May Crash concert taken at a show at Sneaky Dee’s earlier this year.

If the 32 comments on the Varsity’s profile of the band are any indication, they have some pretty rabid fans.

01_Five%20Years.mp3

University and College

Andrew Louis — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:22:29 +0000

University and College, Toronto, Ontario from the MaRS tower

Dance Yourself to Death

Andrew Louis — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:27:49 +0000

Jen of Dance Yourself to Death plays a show at Supermarket

New Glass

Andrew Louis — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:49:37 +0000

Got my first L lens (albeit used): the 17-40 f/4. I’m usually not someone who swoons over lenses but I’m getting the Canon 5D in a few weeks which will render my EF-S lens useless. Thanks Pat for the great deal. (Let the record be known on the internets: he takes ridiculously good care of his lenses). Twenty minutes after picking it up, I put it to good use by taking this rather boring shot for today’s Varsity front page.

Biking

Andrew Louis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:22:11 +0000

I finally have a bike downtown. Friends and family, fret not — I usually have my hands on the handlebars

The other scramble intersection

Andrew Louis — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:08:36 +0000

Painting a scramble intersection in Kensington Market during the latest Pedestrian Sundays. Most likely, this wasn’t authorized by the City.

Update: Got a message from the painter:

The city by leaving the Yonge Dundas Barnes Dance “incomplete” by painting only two wolid white bars each at the diagonals, inspired me to wanna paint a “complete” scramble somewhere.

Toronto Criterium

Andrew Louis — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:47:58 +0000

A few months ago, the annual Toronto Criterium took place in the St. Lawrence Market area. I wasn’t expecting the event to be so pro — great race.

Guinness

Andrew Louis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:37:21 +0000

Having a Guinness after Newmindspace’s Capture the Flag game (the purple thing is a glowing team marker)

De Young Museum

Andrew Louis — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:06:14 +0000

Perforated copper plates of the De Young Museum, San Francisco

The designers Herzog & de Meuron also did the Birds Nest stadium for Beijing. Because of San Francisco’s coziness to a fault line, the building was designed to be able to shift almost a metre on ball-bearing sliding plates. Apparently, the Getty Museum in LA (and others) uses a similar technique:

The bottom layer is bolted to the floor, and the upper layers move horizontally on ball bearings in different directions — east-west and north-south — while springs keep them from sliding too far.

Neat stuff.

Lonely Tree

Andrew Louis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:02:36 +0000

Mouth of the Rouge River, Scarborough, Ontario

Grand View Park

Andrew Louis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:55:14 +0000

Also known as the poor man’s Twin Peaks. The only thing at the top was a lonely bench and a great view. From a previous trip to San Francisco.

St. Mary’s

Andrew Louis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:48:32 +0000

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, California

This church came around the time of the Second Vatican Council, an exciting time of change for the Catholic Church. The famous international architects, Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi were brought in to spice up the design and the result is breathtaking. Mathematically speaking, the roof is in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid