jolephoto – Joel Adria

Fringe 2012: Echoes

Fringe 2012: Echoes, a set on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Photos from Floating Stones Theatre’s production of Echoes, at the Edmonton International Fringe 2012.

T. Erin Gruber, a collaborator of mine asked me to shoot a few photos for Echoes, a project that used projection as a narrative dramatic feature. Check out some of the stunning visuals that came out of it!

More info about the show:

"There is a new story to be told…" The trickster. The protagonist. The helping hand. Stolen relics and magical lands

PERFORMERS:

Ainsley Hillyard
Colin Matty
Dylan Parsons
Morgan Smith

PRODUCTION TEAM:

T. Erin Gruber, Co-Director/Production Designer
Kate Koziewicz, Co-Director/Marketing and Publicity Manager
Molly Pearson, Stage Manager
Elijah Lindenberger, Sound Designer and Technical Director

WRITERS:

Cindy Pereira
Colin Matty
Morgan Smith

CHOREOGRAPHER:

Ainsley Hillyard

Nextfest: Mother Pisslegs (She Shall Be Praised)

Nextfest: Mother Pisslegs (She Shall Be Praised), a set on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Erin Gruber (eringruber.com) invited me to come shoot a few pictures for a show she was designing for, Mother Pisslegs (She Shall Be Praised) as part of Nextfest 2012 in Edmonton, AB.

Nextfest has a bit of a contest on, encouraging shutter bugs to take photos during the festival and submit them for inclusion in the 2013 program, with credit. Pretty awesome!

It was a bit of a challenge balancing the exposure of the performer with the projections, and some of the shots I regret locking focus on the screens. Grain was a challenge on my little D40 in such a dim environment, but some of them turned out ok! Here’s the best of the shoot.

Migration to Flickr

So, in an ultimate move of irony, I’ve decided to migrate my photos to Flickr. About 5 years ago I started there, but was too bothered by the need to pay for a Pro account just to store my photos. I haven’t bought a Pro account yet, but will likely in the coming weeks. I’ll keep organizing the sets over on my Flickr Page, and you can enjoy the nicer UI, geotagging, sets, and other features that never really materialized in the (officially defunct) flickrer.

The move comes from the desire to simplify my workflow, while making the interface to various destinations simplified. Without a doubt, this move to Flickr will mean it’s one-click to get my pics from iPhoto to the Web, and simplify the integration of my photography into WordPress and jole-v3.

Gallery Updates!

This photo is one of my favourites 🙂

I realize that I’m not posting enough to the good old jole gallery, which, after all has been the cornerstone of jole.ca since the very beginning and the “jolephoto” monicker. It occurred to me today that there are a fair amount of people who come to my site to look around, but will just go straight to the gallery out of fear of my technical bloggy goodness, so I might as well keep it fresh for them.

Often I have photos that I’m quite proud of but that simply don’t have enough energy to go through and name and describe. While names and descriptions would be nice, I’m pretty sure it’s the photo that counts. So moving forward, I’ll be just uploading the pictures as-is with just the plain-jane DSC-o-rama title and (no description). I may however provide a brief update such as this one that describes some of the photos in the upload.

The ones from February 2010 are mostly of Snow Valley which lights up overcast skies beautifully with its bright white light. I’m not sure the photos I took did it justice, but I found it pretty neat.
Some are from Vancouver such as the one in the post and the trees by the ocean.
The sepia-looking shots are in fact not sepia-adjusted but actually the true colour with all the sodium lights illuminating the night at that time of day. I could adjust them to look white but then they simply look like day shots, so enjoy the feeling of a chilly Edmonton at 7pm.

I’ve been having urges to rework flickrer a bit, which I may or may not do at some point in the future, but for now just enjoy the photos I’ve dug up from 2009 and a few fresh ones from this month, and look forward to more frequent (albeit less descriptive) photo updates.

Finally, a shout out to the Edmonton Journal Student Photo Contest. Submit one photo from 2009 to the journal for a chance to win some cool prizes! (Students Only). I’ve already submitted mine!

jole Logo Lookalike – Canada Post

jole-canada post

In attempting to look classy while writing “Joy ” in French, Canada Post ended up infringing on jole.ca logo territory. Good thing I’m not registered!

Whiteboard of the Week – 8

So I’m thinking the WotW is quite inversely proportional to my actual thoughts or something, because this was probably the biggest week for me ever, just…learning so much about myself and the world around me, and yet the reflections on the board are far from inspirational. Maybe that’s a good thing, because we can’t have amazing weeks all the time, so most of the time the whiteboards will be good? I’m not sure, but here’s this weeks in all it’s grayscale glory. (I’ve been keeping my camera in B&W mode, and noticing that a lot of other people do too. It’s a good idea: you can focus on the color balance without being distracted. Plus when you shoot in RAW it is still kept color once you download it.

So the main scene here is my closet. I reorganized it recently and thought about the giant multi-function printer thing I have in there that I use exclusively for scanning. (I got it from Kevin, and the printer fails and our house doesn’t need more faxes so…) Anyway essentially everything has sort of grown around it, because I keep all my rolls of tape in it’s paper feeders, and it makes me think of a jungle growing around something abandoned in it. (Notably, the abandoned truck in this book from my childhood.)

To the side in that square is Kevin “steaming” the inkjet heads of our old printer. Inkjet spa.

Some interesting thoughts from this week: WordPress has won my heart. My dream is to have all the websites I manage on my Safari toolbar, so that anytime something needs to be changed I can hit Command-# and be in their admin area. I’m starting with elderadvocates.ca, where I’ll be merging all the documents into a giant RSS feed with a bit of PHP and then importing them into WordPress as posts, then converting them to pages using the lovely p2pConverter. I did notice a glitch with it though: it doesn’t seem to handle converting pages with quotation marks in the title. I suspect there’s an escaping issue in the JavaScript somewhere, because it asks you to confirm changing from page to post. (Which, quite honestly isn’t that necessary considering you can switch it back just as easily…)

I’m pretty sure it’s just as easy to do it right in the SQL database too, which might be more efficient for bulk conversion.

Have a good week everyone!