Archive for Pictures
March 24, 2007
Percussion Update
10:59 pm | Music | Pictures | Comments: 8
Much excitement this past St. Patrick’s Day as my band Fennec Fox played its first show, exactly one year to the day after I began learning drumset. It was great fun. Another way to describe it would be a great learning experience. In other music-related news, I’ve added a new voice to my drumset as well as a new cymbal. Let the good times roll!
Here we are at Dillenbeck’s at the beginning of the show. Sadly, because certain people were way at the back and we didn’t hear their request at the end, we did not manage to play Freebird.
Yes folks, this is a cowbell.
The Paiste Signature 19” Full Crash.
October 3, 2006
A Multimedia Extravaganza
12:05 am | Pictures | Comments: 5
I finally found out how to coerce my stupe-diculous phone into letting me get my pictures onto my computer. Notice how it’s all mine, and yet it continues to disobey me. Is that what having children is going to be like? These pictures may seem random, but each one is connected by nebulous strands of strange-matter which binds our universe together.
First off, we have an important reminder scrawled on my desk at GVSU.
This is Bus 50, the GVSU campus connector, on its last trip of the semester.
Jason Kuiper, a GVSU student, gets a ride on a home-made rickshaw immeidately after his wedding.
A random drunk in downtown GR, wearing a tire that we had lying around. Downtown GR, as you know, is home to GVSU’s Pew Campus.
Among the generally lame sculptures foisted upon Grand Rapids’ Downtown area is this little guy, a squat Grim Reaper sitting on top of one of the pedestrian bridges.
Yet another ridicu-pretty Saugatuk sunset. The strands connecting this picture to the rest are so nebulous that I have my top people working round the clock to detect them.
Me, Pete, and John, surrounded by our devoted fans.
And lastly, here’s Oma rocking out on my drumset.
April 27, 2006
Cool Tapes
12:14 pm | My Life | Pictures | Random | Comments: 12
No tapes, just pictures.
Took a walk with a friend into GVSU’s ravine a few days ago. I’ve never been down there before, and it reminded me of my youth when we would go into the woods and come out covered in mud calling it the best day ever.
The fact that I fit my ever-growing drum set into my room is a modern miracle for which I shall no doubt be sainted after my death by the Roman Catholic church.
The lockers in the Calder art building are pretty big.
March 28, 2006
Images from the Calder City
2:19 pm | My Life | Pictures | Comments: 12
Otherwise known as the Furniture City, the River City, Gd Rapids, and the Hometown of J. Dub, Grand Rapids is a pretty cool little town. In the last 10 years, the downtown area of Grand Rapids has gone from slum to sleek, from a few scared people wandering from an office building to their car or vice versa to hordes of shoppers, couples, harmless bums and venue-goers ambulating hither and yon in search of urban pleasantries. Grand Rapids is now a walking city, and recently I took to the streets, armed with a camera phone, with a top-secret team of experts. Here’s a few Grand Rapids landmarks that we happened to walk by. If you pay careful attention, you will find a message hidden somewhere in this post.
The Date Tree; containing a tile marked with every year of Grand Rapids history, dating way back to 1790 or something. I don’t know. Tradition mandates that you find your birth year and stand on it. Tradition!
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Gerald R. Ford Museum Spaceman. These days he has a security guard bumbling around at all times to keep people from climbing on him. Now that must be an exciting job.
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The Calder! Love it or hate it, it’s only in Grand Rapids.
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Me on the Tire Swing. You can’t really see the tire swing, but it’s big and I’m sitting on it. You can see the head of a little brat that I kicked off the swing shortly after the picture was taken. Please note that I do not have, nor ever intend to have, half of a mustache. That’s just lighting.
March 15, 2006
The Revolution Begins Here
6:30 pm | Pictures | Random | Comments: 8
Salt the Fries!
March 10, 2006
Allow Me to Illustrate
3:52 pm | Pictures | Weblogging | Comments: 14
Any questions?
January 17, 2006
The Good Old Hockey Game
1:29 am | Pictures | Sport | Comments: 13
Posting some picture action from the Red Wings game Saturday vs. the New York Rangers (not the Chicago Blackhawks as I originally thought).
Joe Louis Arena
The Red Wings during warmups - most notably Brendan Shanahan (14), Niklas Lidstrom (5), and Pavel Datsyuk (13).
Chris Chelios (24) is the oldest active player in the NHL this season, seen here skating with Niklas Lidstrom and Kirk Maltby.
January 6, 2006
Congratulations
3:14 am | My Life | Pictures | Relationships | Comments: 4
On New Year’s Eve, 2005, my cousin Michelle married Bryden Ouwendyk. I wish them God’s grace and mercy as they set out on their path as husband and wife. Bryden is a good man, and will no doubt be a good cousin-in-law. Welcome to the family, Bryden. I still lament that there was no open mic at the reception, but there will no doubt be more open mics in the future. Huzzah!
December 26, 2005
Parting Shot
1:41 pm | Culture | Pictures | Religion | Comments: 4
“Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.”
September 9, 2005
Rocking the Bridge
11:12 pm | Culture | My Life | Pictures | Comments: 7
Yes folks, tonite was Celebration on the Grand. For any outlanders, Celebration is something Grand Rapids does at the end of the summer for some reason which nobody really seems to know. It’s a party for a party’s sake. At any rate, the main attraction is the fireworks display. It’s well-known that the Celebration fireworks display is way better than the Independence Day display, but this night it was better than any other fireworks display I’ve seen in the city. And I’ve seen alot. The effect of the fireworks was amplified by the fact that we were within a few hundred feet of the detonations - the grand finale literally shook the bridge we were on for several minutes straight. Not bad for Grand Rapids! Some pictures of the event follow, along with actual video (taken on my phone) of the fireworks.
To start off, we have a picture of a random high school girl (one of John’s friends, I think). Shortly after this was taken she knocked the phone out of my hand. Further proof that women are evil.
Just to give you an idea of the crowd, we were on the Pearl Street Bridge. It was, as usual, jammed to the rails with the yoots of America.
Yay for fireworks.
What follows are three video clips taken during the show, and they can be viewed in Windows Media Player. The last one is a small segment of the grand finale, which seemed to go on for five or ten minutes. The only dialogue to be heard in the clips is “Oh my goodness!”, “Holy crap!”, and “We’re all gonna die!”.
