same light, from direct. again, no editing

this is sunlight. i didn't edit this picture at all. cool eh?

so my company did a big production this last weekend - for a freshfire ministries conference. we provided all the production and lighting. on saturday a band called 'kids in the way' performed. here are a few fun shots from that.

look mom, i can climb!

she also throws balls at me and my camera. sigh.

this is a fun one. doogie jumps. a lot.

so, i'm finally using my camera again. this is up on the ol' eagle mountain... some park, with some friend, some summer night. you know, the stuff that makes life worth it. i love sun spots in the lens. makes me feel like there's more depth then what we see with our eyes,

so, for those of you who know doogie and aundre, you may be familiar with this. an excited doogie thinking that she can beat up aundre. she thinks its funny, i think of it more as abusive. anyways, pray for me ok?

megs, matthew - who is single, megs is workin it i think... - and doogie.

doogs - you got a lil shmutz on your shoe there...

i even found this amazing cowboy hat made of paper! it was free! they were handing them out in these dispensers in the american bathrooms! thanks america!

this is when we went to see matt wertz and dave barnes - to lovely singers. this is doogie and her sister megs. we had a lovely trip.

checking out the pics on the camera,

rapper pose.

aundre and doogie.

courtesy of a wonderful photographer who rides co-pilot in my passenger seat from time to time. this was when we were on our way to see the fireworks on the 4th with doogie and her friend danielle. it was a B-last.

Here is a thing from an old bible assignment i did in highschool. I did 20 or so pages similar to this one. I was supposed to write an essay, but didn't feel like it. - too ADHD. So made a 'creative' essay. heck yes.

This is my sister aimee. She is gorgeous. She is also currently bigger than a house. She's goign to have twins. in 2 days. (its not her due date, but guess) June 3rd is my prediction. This is a picture of her on the weekend she told me that i was going to be an uncle to their kidio. i'm pumped!

ok, so first thing is first. - we are not going to go over the fact that i haven't blogged in almost a month. I have 3 pictures for you to enjoy. I like the texture in this one. caught this on a walk around mill lake.

Yay Blogging!

Ok, so here's the deal. I haven't posted in a while and so i'm goign to explain how things work. While i post my pictures, the first picture of the series will be farther down on the page - so if you want to read the stories correctly you should scroll down so you don't read the stories and see the pictures backwards, get it?

but now i'm goign to cheat and tell you about what i did on monday, then i'm goign to make you scroll down and read the stories about sheree pletts new recording.

on Monday i got to go SNOWBOARDING! my friend court and i got to go up to grouse and take in some amazing night riding. The conditions were perfect, the sunset, the vancouver skyline, you name it! SO AMAZING! it was so much fun! we had such good times. When we went in for dinner the cafeteria was closed so we had to eat dinner in this fancy restaurant. we just got natchos - they were good... except for the scallions... and the bean dip that we found in the bottom... ew.

If you want to see a little bit more about what i do for one of my jobs click here to watch a video. you'll need quicktime player to view it! http://www.steveklassen.ca/movies/stevesjob.mov

I got tagged...

My friend jonathan tagged me, so i'm going to comply and fill out the ol' form here. I'm going to tag some of you as well.

4 jobs i’ve had:
1. camp counselor (i know... crazy)
2. barista
3. model
4. musician/everything (current)

4 shows i’ve been addicted to:
1. friends
2. americas next top model
3. american inventor
4. the block

4 places i’ve lived:
1. mission
2. hatzic
3. abbotsford
4. jones st. house

4 countries i’d like to visit:
1. iceland
2. thailand
3. chile
4. sweden

4 popular false assumptions about me:
1. i like my band (just kidding! i do)
2. i use a 35m camera
3. i'm an extrovert (i'm an introvert really)
4. i like chocolate a lot

4 people i look like:
1. the guy from the calvin klein underwear ad.
2. jack nicholson (YA RIGHT! someone told me that today, haah)
3. the kid from problem child
4. the bass player from sterr.

4 things i hope to do before i die:
1. tour across canada for over a month
2. record a band in a foreign country
3. jump off the high dive
4. read a WHOLE book

4 people i tag next:
1. rick & v
2. e&r - get a blog you guys!
3. alyne
4. platinumblonde
5. becker - welcome to the blog ring.

The Barn Tour

Hey everybody,

I've posted a video tour of the Barn Studio, where my band recorded a test track this weekend. check it out here.

If it doesn't load open quicktime player from your start menu (under programs). Then in quicktime hit 'file' and 'open file from URL' and then paste this into it - http://www.steveklassen.ca/movies/thebarntour.3gp

Post comments and enjoy the pictures!

Cheers,

Steven.

why am i so sore?

Recording day 2.

Last night we worked until about 2 am just getting drum sounds. When you get that tired though - you start to run in circles and start to over think things. Anyways, by the time this morning (10am start) rolled around wee seeemed to get the sounds undercontrol. It's sounding great.

Here's a funny story from yesterday about getting here. Originally Christian (the producer/engineer) had told us that there was a direct ferry from Tsawassen to Salt Spring Island at 4:25pm... well, long story short, there wasn't. We ended up taking the 5pm ferry to Schwartz bay (victoria) and had planned on taking the 7pm jumper fairy over to SSI. However, by the time we turned around and got back in line for the jumper fairy it was almost full. Infact, we were the first car that didn't make it on, so we had to wait until 9 pm for the next jumper fairy. Oh well, c'est la vie

Anyways, i'm going to try and do this place some justice with some photographs, but i'm sure it won't do.

steve.

Because I can...

Well folks, thanks for all your posts in the previous topic. I feel that some good contributions to the conversation were made.

But now onto the real story... because i can...

This story won't do the experience much justice because the only tool i currently have are these words... being typed on a keyboard connected to an older imac, plugged into a wall of a building that was once destined to be an Emu Barn.

However, it's not an Emu barn, it happens to be a recording studio on Salt Spring Island, where my band is recording a 'test track' The studio belongs to Randy Bachman (aint seen nothin yet, american woman, takin care of business - he wrote those). My friend Christian is his head engineer - He invited us out to do some recording.

The studio is such an amazing space, i'll for sure take some pictures with my camera, and post some videos from my ol' camera phone.

The 'because i can...' phrase has been said a lot today... for instance, i took a shower in this RAD bathroom which is like a rock wall bathroom with an open shower. While i was showering i turned around and saw a set of congas (which for whatever reason were in the bathroom) and saw some writing on them - FREAKING RINGO STARS AUTOGRAPH!! haha, is that not insane... i took the shower 'because i could'... right now we have a 15,000 microhone in the same bathroom to pick up ambient drum noises... 'because we can'... CRAZY

Anyways, more to come, i'll post a few more times this weekend - no pictures till at least monday night.

Hope you are all well.

Steven.Michael.Klassen.

It must be told...

Ok friends, lets see who can top this story from a tuesday night...

Imagine...

you get off work, head home - relax a bit - watch the first period of the canucks vs. oilers. Then, at the first intermission head over to your friends house and head out to a little ol' place in mission that we like to call 'the springs'.

Throw back a few pints with your friends and others and enjoy a gourmet california burger. with bacon. Then, someone gets a crazy idea of playing some mid-march volleyball out on the sand courts. Head out there and and play a great round of beach volley ball with your friends and a crew of new faces whom you've seen (every tuesday) but have not yet met...

IT WAS SO FUN! We had such a blast. The sand was so cold on our feet, but it was such a good time. Especially when a few of 'the springs' regulars who had a few too many came out to play with us. It was good ol' rowdy game of volleyball. Suprisingly everyone was playing by some form of rules and we even had a regular rotation.

That night definately goes down in 'the springs' history. oh, and for the record - 2.50 pints, 5.00 gourmet burgers. i'm in. most tuesdays anyway.

Can anyone top that story? Drop a comment if your tuesday night was better then that - i'll give an iPod Nano (2gig) to the person who can top it.

has anyone read the davinci code? I heard about it tonight - it sounds really interesting. I might have to go by it... then again - i haven't fin ished ANY of the books i've bought - even the ones i'm super interested in. I've been trying to read this book where bono (u2) has these conversations with an old friend and "tells all"... BUT - i just can't finish it. It's unfortunate really... LK owns a huge bookstore and i can't even finish 'a' book, let alone many... sigh.

SK

jonathaninc

ok so i lied. Jonathan inc is truely one of my favourite bands. Jon plays with a ton of passion and i really enjoy his writing. Michelle adds some great bgv's and some awesome keyboard ideas... the drummer has so much energy and the bass play holds down the fort. haha, i really like this band a lot. truely. please check them out. visit the website - www.jonathaninc.com and listen to some of the tunes. they are playing at richards on richards on thursday april 27th. lets all go - i can take 4 people in my van. sign up here.

Goodnight,

Steven.

VIDEO BLOG!

ok, so i don't have a picture for this blog - for which i do apologize.... HOWEVER - i do have a video. (you'll need quicktime to see it...)

I was at a house concert last night and this girl named Karla Adolphe played with her percussionist Caleb. It was awesome. In the video listen to the cool drum that the percusisonist is playing. Most of the sound you hear is coming from the box that he is sitting on.

Pretty sweet eh?

http://www.steveklassen.ca/movies/karla.3gp

thats where you can see it.

no resonance in this kick drum! when we go to camrose for rehearsal we found the kit that Kenton would be using for tour. We immediately took it apart because we could hear that there was a lot of 'dampening' going on. Inside were these blankets!! keeping all the air inside the drum from moving and keeping it from sounding good! we remedied the issue!

We saw this view for about an hour and a half on a layover in the calagary airport. BUT! we met Earl Hughes (earlhughes.com) he says he's the first canadian to record dualing banjos. haha!

Calagary airpot... Well folks - last wednesday Myself and Kenton departed abbotsford and headed to Camrose alberta where we would meet up with my brother in law - Lance Odegard for a small western canadian tour. Here are a handful of shots from that trip!

Thats it for now anyways. i'm pretty tuckered out today. My band had a big all ages show here in abbotsford with the band Lillix. It went really well - tons of people showed up and we got to play a lot of new material. I forgot to eat this morning though - so i'm feeling really sick and i have a major headache. hope you are all doing well.

perfect form.

AND THATS HOW YOU DO IT! i just had a strike...

i had convinced lyss that i used to be part of a league and would give her pointers all the time... pretty funny. i slayed her. both games.

pre game stretches.

After pizza at ChuckECheese we had hoped to go see a movie - however, we couldn't come upon one that we both wanted to see.... soooooo....... what'd we do? drove to superstore to get socks - and in turn, boxers that we could wear over our pants while bowling..... what a bunch of dorks we are. . . the following are some sweet shots that i hope i never have to show anyone again....

pizza pizza. this is a posed photo. i took it with my long left hand. We also had to take 3 because i have bad aim.

SHOWTIME! remember the good ol' days of chuck e cheese? with the cool robotic concert show thing? (thats what i've heard anyways...) well the only show now was this dumb guy and 3 tv screens. what a dissapointment. :(

Now lets be honest - is this animal not a freaky beast or what?!? sheesh. I used to have nightmares as a kid that a Rat would come down into my play pen and try to get me to follow him up this freaky latter - there are two real-life things that remind me of the rat from my recurring dreams - Chuck e cheese and Risky Rat from the Psalty kids videos.

so here I am trying this blog thing again... The other day in an attempt to be creatively social my friend alyssa and I ventured to a little ol' kids place called CEC. (chuck e cheese)

the family that prays together stays together