In Vancouver!

8pm local time here in Vancouver, I have arrived! After a 4 hour flight, we have arrived in Vancouver... there were athletes on our flight -- we believe a number of them were curlers from Switzerland, and there was a Croatian cross country skier.

We are settled into the rental house, and looking forward to tomorrow. We are heading downtown to check out the sights and sounds of the Olympic buzz.

VANCOUVER 2010

Hi all,

as of Monday February 15th, I will be on my way to Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics. I am working for the Yukon First Nation's show "What The Land Remembers", which will be featured at the Aboriginal Centre on the 21st of February with 4 shows. We will also be performing the show at two live sites as part of the Olypics in Richmond and Surrey. I will be updating the blog here on my site on a daily basis while I am in Vancouver, and letting you know how things are going over in Vancouver. I am very excited to go and be part of the celebrations, even if only a small part in a much larger event.

David

Millworks Presentation

On Saturay February 6th, David gave a presentation to the "Canadian Tool Group". The presentation was well received, to a full room of participant's from the group. The presentation ran for approximately 1 hour. David would like to thank all of those members of the Tool group that attended the talk. The feedback from the talk will be great for future presentation's. David will be presenting the MILLWORKS project to the Beach Photo Club on June 3rd 2010.

MILLWORKS upcoming presentation.

The Tool Group Of Canada will be hosting David Sweeney on Saturday February 6th, 10:00am at the Victoria Square Community Centre in Markham. David will be presenting images, and some history on favourite mills including the Tyrone Mill, Hope Sawmill, Robert Nesbitt Sawmill, and more.

You can see the advertisement for the upcoming meeting on the tool group's website: www.thetoolgroupofcanada.com

David is busy preparing images for a slideshow, and powerpoint presentation which will last approximately 1 hour. A longer version of this presentation will be presented at the Beach Photo Club on June 3rd 2010.

Finding a mill can sometimes be a happy accident!

Sunday December 27th 2009: Today I went for a drive east of the GTA to explore some mills with a friend of mine. Our objective was to first head to Tyrone Mill, where we spent some time working on some HDR captures. I love visitng Tyrone Mill, as it was the first mill I ever visited as part of my mill project. I find myself returning to Tyrone over and over again, as I fell in love with that mill from the very start.

We were heading across sideroad 4 after leaving Tyrone travelling east. After sometime of travelling we passed a sign which made me do a double take. I wasn't sure what I had just seen, but I knew I had to turn around to find out what it said. Now here is the happy accident. The sign read "Fudges Mill, Hallelujah Books Gifts & Crafts". After a short drive down the road titled "Grist Mill Road", we came upon a bonified water powered grist mill! This mill would have only milled grain turned into grain for animals. From my observations, it looks like this mill provided a service to local farmers in grinding and refining grain. The mill still has most of its artifacts intact, making it an awesome visit. The mill is however quite cluttered with a lot of articles of belonging to its previous owners. For example, in the main part of the mill there is a 12' long church pew which was obviously part of the religous articles business that may have previously occupied the mill. I am going to be trying to do some research on the history of the mill, and I will report back as I find out some information. For now, here is a picture of the mill. There are more images to be seen in my flickr gallery.

Update: MILLWORKS in 2010

Announcing my upcoming exhibition in May 2010 at TAN COFFEE - 992 Queen St. W. MILLWORKS 2! The second installation of my historic mill photographic project will be presented at Tan Coffee in May of 2010 along Queen West. The second installation of my project promises to be bigger and better! More information to come.

Queen West Art Crawl

Thank you to everyone who stopped by this past weekend at the Queen West Art Crawl. To those of you who took my card. Please check out some of my images from the Millworks project. The link will take you to my Flickr page. I am hoping to rebuild my website coming soon. In the meantime, you can also email me at lxdesign@rogers.com with any questions. I'd be happy to email you some sample contacts of my work. Custom sizes are available for all of my prints.