finshing the studio:
yay! we’re heading off to IKEA to pick up the workstation/studio table and cabinets that will hopefully get me closer to finishing off my artstudio! i’ll take pics once the workstation is complete. so looking forward to finishing off the space. there is still a bunch of purging and work to do, but i’m up to the challenge =)
let there be light:
last weekend, black eye and all, we went to a local lantern festival. it was a quick tour with our friends and their girls, only about a 45 minute walk around. it was interesting enough, but i confess that i was disappointed that the organizers did not spend more time prepping and sprucing up the site. admission of $20-25 per person is pretty steep for what you are getting – thank goodness our admission was free and we had 6 passes for me, t and our friends. i certainly wouldn’t have paid $20 for that… maybe $10, but definitely not $20.
the grass lawns and boulevards needed MAJOR maintenance and trimming. shrubs were outta control and the morning glory in the garden area is taking over in a big way… that said, thank goodness the best way to see the festival is in the dark lol! if you’re not a ‘parks’ person like me, you probably didn’t notice as much in the way of ‘oopses’ as i did… but some of areas were in pretty sad shape. at least the lanterns were interesting enough.
the other thing that killed me about the richmond lantern festival was that the signage in many areas were fraught with ‘engrish’ and major typos! the one that made us laugh out loud was the description of the ‘cartoon’ characters being referred to as ‘catoons’ lol! at first we were confused, then we realized that the spelling was messed up. ah well, that’s what happens when you rush an installation of an outdoor display.
i did manage to take a bunch of photos in the dark and let the glow of the lanterns, some of them [the lanterns that is] were HUGE. so instead of using a flattening and deadening flahs in the shots, i lit the pics with the ambient lantern light. they turned out really great… here are a few for you to enjoy.
to check out all the lanterns from the 2008 richmond lantern festival, click here and you will be magically transported to my flickr account. enjoy!
Those pics are so cool, and it is pretty funny that you notice those little park faux pas. The girls look like they loved every minute though, so those moments alone made it worth it I am sure!
B-