Sarah McLachlan Sound Check

Sarah McLachlan Sound Check, Ottawa.

Sarah McLachlan

Sarah McLachlan performs a sound check on Parliament Hill's main stage prior to the big show on Canada Day in Ottawa.

ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA 2009

Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall have accepted the invitation of the Government of Canada to undertake a visit in November 2009.
http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5806

Megan & Kelly Twins Thank You Card

Megan on the left, Kelly on the right. A photo that was inserted into Thank You cards recently.

Matthew & Chalk

Carleton Tavern

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Mike Spry

That's Spry on the right laughing.

David McGimpsey

Dave's coming to Ottawa on Tuesday, 23 June 2009!

Here's the scoop:
www.treereadingseries.ca/23jundavidmcgimpsey.html

Gillian Sze

Gillian Sze, center, is introduced to the audience at the pre Ottawa Small Press Book Fair book reading at the Carleton Tavern 19 June 2009.

jwcurry

Standing Room Only

I love it when poetry readings are full, full, full of people. Too bad for this young lady who had to wait in the other room by the door. Come early for the best seats or it's standing room only at the Carleton Tavern.

Sandra & Pearl

Pearl Pirie and Sandra Ridley (standing) in conversation post-reading at the Carleton Tavern. Calgary poet, Laurie Fuhr is just behind the counter on the right. Oh, and the peanuts are circa 1990.

Nick McArthur

"Nick McArthur grew up in Newcastle, Ontario, and currently makes his home in Montreal. He is a graduate of Concordia University's creative writing program, and his work has appeared in Matrix, Pistol, and on xtranormal.com. Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences is his first book."

Jason Camlot

http://www.insomniacpress.com/title.php?id=978-1-897178-61-4

The Duke of Carleton

From my impromptu cool-poets-on-the-rooftop-of-the-Carleton-Tavern series, I offer you a David McGimpsey triptych for your viewing pleasure.

Greg and Marcus

at WESTFest 2009

westfest

Saturday at WESTFest. An ideal day to lounge around.

Matthew & Trike

Mafiaboy - Michael Calce

Do a crime, write a book, pick up an award.

In this case, Mafiaboy - Michael Calce & Craig Silverman (not pictured) scoops the Best Non-Fiction Arthur Ellis Award for 'Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken' (Penguin Canada).

See The Hour interview with Strombo here: www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=882780325

Wiki article here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafiaboy
Crime Writers of Canada announcement here: crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/index.html

Another recent interview: http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/88fa73eb-2d00-4622-986d-e06abe0916fc.html

New Art Festival

Saturday June 6th & Sunday June 7th Central Park (Bank & Clemow) in the Glebe, Ottawa. 10am & 5pm, Rain or shine.

Formerly known as Art in the Park, the New Art Festival is Ottawa’s largest non-profit, non-commercial outdoor art exhibition. To honour our art community & all its hard-working artists & craftspeople, this year’s festival is fully juried. The event will remain in the Glebe district’s beautiful Central Park & will continue to offer free admission in a family-friendly environment. It will also feature organic food providers from the community. This year, prizes will be awarded for Best 2-Dimensional Artist, Best 3-Dimensional Artist & Best Student Artist, as selected by The New Art Festival’s 2009 jury. The New Art Festival is a place where you can see original art & meet the artists.

Fresh from the Toronto Contact Photography Festival the final event of ‘Beautiful Destruction – Alberta Tar Sands Aerials’ Exhibition is showing at the New Art Festival at Central Park in the Glebe this weekend. http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca

Marcus McCann

Marcus is a poet of the recently published book called "Soft Where" (Charles Earl did a nice job of his author photo) and he is the Managing Editor & Associate Publisher of Ottawa's Capital Xtra. In the above photo Marcus is acting as host of the season finale of his reading series, The Naughty Thoughts Book Club.
http://www.marcusmccann.com/

Lisa Foad in Ottawa

In the photo Lisa points out an eye injury involving a headboard I think it was. Nevermind.
It turns out that Lisa and I once collaborated on a book in 2006.

Foad was the production editor at the now defunct small press publisher McGilligan Books where she and Zoe Whittall published Oni The Haitian Sensation's acclaimed first book of poetry, Ghettostocracy www.mcgilliganbooks.com/books/ghettostocracy.htm which features my colourful Warholesque photos of Oni on the covers. www.flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/181530324/ I hadn't put two and two together till we brought this subject up while doing the photo shoot behind the Buzz restuarant where she just finished reading.

Nikon Presents: Headshot Help featuring Carson Kressley

Thought that this video series is cute and to the point, and it presents some nice to think about tips for shooting headshots and portraits. And who doesn't want to look good in pictures?

"A unique new series starring style guru and television personality, Carson Kressley. Carson shares entertaining and helpful insights and will give real practical advice on how to embrace photogenic qualities in a variety of everyday situations such as vacations, holidays, nights out on the town and weddings."