Canada's Biggest Fan
Tonight was the award ceremony for the Hypercube contest, the one @PhotoJunkie had entered and mentioned in our movie.
june 23 2009
There was a big to-do at Circa Nightclub where they stretched out announcing the winners and the anticipation was intense; they called his name, out of fifty, last. He chose a blue one, like this.
Congratulations Rannie, looks good on you.
june 23 2009
A successful exploration of Hearn Generating Station (see the previous post to learn about it). Used the entry point I’d found, a run through some open space and we were in.
The place is giant and totally empty. They’d removed the machinery a long time so now it’s just cavernous and full of puddles and wires. Notably absent was any graffiti; rare, I think.
Top left is the control room, our favourite part (we pretended to operate it all… “imagine the power you’d feel?” and “too bad Toronto, lights out!”). Top right are some souvenirs I grabbed us from said room.
That’s Sean with me, the force behind Generation Go and my interviewer. Guess I did okay for my first-ever interview, although I did have to be told to give more than one word answers. And then more than one short sentence. Pumped to see the finished product, I’ll post it here when it’s live.
Generation Go is “an online community for all active urbanites living in the Greater Toronto Area”, and they asked to interview me (!) so that is happening tomorrow.
They also asked me to pick a location for this interview; I mulled and googled, found a place and drove by tonight to see if it would work.
That’s Hearn Generating Station, a de-commissioned power plant which was once Canada’s first 100 MW producing plant, opened in 1951. At its peak it was producing 1200 MWs but it was shut down in 1983 when burning coal became unpopular. It almost turned into a movie studio in 2003, but didn’t. Its smokestack is 205m, making it one of the tallest things in Toronto.
I don’t know if we’ll be able to get in, heard there’s guards there. But the photo bottom right might be a good entry point. If that fails, the backup plan is some great climbing trees across the road. And the backup backup plan is the beach.
june 22 2009
june 22 2009
june 22 2009
So far so good. But then I opened up my “big interview file”, aka “the ending to this episode” and NO AUDIO.
That’s Jamie, the head instructor at the school for 17 years and all-around great guy. He’s presenting me with my “you completed racing school!” certificate and look how much fun we’re having.
I was still beside myself at this point, from my big day, so he took over the interview and even led us to espouse the merits of Bridgestone tires, to which I exclaimed, “Yup! They’re the only reason I was able to stay on the road!”… “too far Keri, too far”.
Remember I said I was nervous to film this episode, so much going on? Maybe that’s how I screwed up so bad, maybe it was the rain, I don’t know. I had it all worked out in my head… I wasn’t able to get shots of me driving (can’t put my camera out in the rain) but Colour Tech Photography took shots of me and I’ll use them instead, but there is sound missing all over the place.
I am not taking this well. I twittered last night something like, “There’s no audio, I’m close to tears” but deleted it this morning because I didn’t want the internet to tell him what happened, I wanted it to come from me face-to-face. Because I’ve cancelled everything today and am about to drive back up there, tell him, and hopefully he’ll do a re-shoot with me.
Jaime, I’m sorry.