All Stars

My best friend Becky and I went to a lovely little festival called All Stars last weekend. We live 6 hours apart now, but the festival just happened to be smack dab in the middle between us so we couldn't pass up the opportunity. I didn't really take any photos myself - except of mushrooms and slugs - so these aren't mine but ones I pilfered from others sharing their own of the event. I had a fantastic time and I'm glad we were able to come together for it!



We both seem to be pretty stealthy/unnoticed by photographers and I haven't seen a single photo of myself - not even in the background - and this below is the only shot of Becky I could find. She's really a smiley happy lady but we both get into our dancing-serious-face poses without realizing it. I love my Beckinoodle!

The vibe was cozy and intimate, with only a few hundred people in attendance. It was refreshing after having gone to some really big festivals in the last few years. I saw a few familiar faces, but this festival being further South into Ontario rather than North into Quebec, I didn't know too many people.



This is definitely a weekend I'll remember fondly in years to come. These are the moments I live for and the experiences I strive to live. I hope you all have good weekend. Cheers!

Past Pandemonium

I can't believe I never got around to posting my photos from the Pandemonium Festival! Apparently I just take forever to do just about everything these days, unless it involves food or laundering my school uniform. So here, months after the fact, are the photos (a whole whack of them) from my time spent with my wonderful friends Becky and Marty at the Pandemonium 2012 music festival back in August.

I consider this to have been my very best and most favourite festival experience so far, in the few years I've been attending. It's one of those times that will stay with me until my very last, a joyous time I take out and turn around in my hands and smile in gladness, knowing it is mine and no one can take it away. I love my friends, so very dearly, and I love that we shared this experience together. I hope you may all know such joy and goodness. Cheers!

Pandemonium

I just got back yesterday from the Pandemonium outdoor electronic music festival in Quebec. I had an absolutely amazing time once again. And I even managed to take more than 6 photos this time!

I've been having computer issues though and I'm heading back to the shop a second time to trade up for a stronger unit after replacing my old dinosaur of a desktop. My poor hard drive kicked the bucket (thank goodness for my external hard drive). I hope you're all having a good week, and I'll leave you with this until I write something more later. Cheers!

Motion Notion Part 2

I'm headed to a friend's cabin for the weekend, but here's the other half of the photos from Motion Notion to tide you guys over for a while! A large part of Motion Notion is about visuals, art, crazy creations. The Main Stage had some fantastic psychedelic art on display.










Unfortunately, due to some rather negative events, my boyfriend and I wound up spending most of Saturday away from the festival. We were at his grandfather's nearby farm so there aren't many daytime festival photos from that day. Once night hit though, we were back out and dancing again. And I got to dance with this guy! My boyfrie- I mean, Anonymous - really loves glowsticks.





There was an awesome workshop where you could go paint these clear plastic butterflies with UV paints, and they were then put up around the Main Stage. So cool! And I just had to share this woman's costume... the Alien!

We spent most of Sunday just hanging out at the beach or chilling around our campsite. And there are a lot of photos of me because my boyfriend said he refused to let me share shirtless photos of him :p I still managed to get him to agree to let me squeak one in though, heh.








This guy had a ton of Super Mario Bros. themed tattoos all over his legs, they were awesome! I also really loved the guy with the didgeridoo, just playing off to the side along with the music, which was pretty cool. Artists and musicians everywhere!







This land really is a working ranch though, and there were horses aplenty. These ones had the entire field to roam in but they seemed to like hanging out near the road to check out all the crazy people.



We went to go dance to an awesome set by Electrypnose around 8PM, and had a blast. Definitely one of my favourite sets from the whole festival. And I went and daringly wore not only a pair of shorts, but a crop top! With a bare belly! A first EVER for me.






After the set, we headed back to camp to cook up some horrifyingly greasy but ever so delicious burgers. Shpongle was that night, and we needed to be properly fueled!




I danced my heart out that night, for over two hours. It was amazing. If you want to listen to something that will blow you away... listen to Shpongle, seriously.

And that's that folks! I took a lot of photos this year, and I'm happy about it, but I still think I could have taken more heh. It's just so hard to communicate how it feels to be there through something like a photo, no matter how I describe it.



I hope you enjoyed this second round of photos! And if ever you have the chance to hit up Motion Notion... or any similar festival, do it! You won't regret it, I promise. Cheers!