Thursday, June 29, 2006

I Can't Believe It's... tomorrow already!

Things really heat up when daCapo works crazy hours. We are all stuck here at the studio doing some really funky audio for our (lovely, really we love you, LOVE!) clients: FatKat, Byte and Unilever!

Nolan realizes that the audio has to be mixed in COLOUR... It's 1:00 AM.. do you know where you sanity is?

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Very Late Banff Update

Due to a delinquent blogger (me) we are really behind with our blog update from the Banff International Television Festival.

All went well, and Olaf had the opportunity to meet with many exciting producers and directors in the conference centre while I met with many directors and producers on the golf course!

The golf is amazing. Here's a shot from the Kananaskis Golf Course which I played with Cookiejar Entertainment, XMC Sports and Entertainment and Heenan Blaikie. Among the few events we did not forget to bring a camera to was the Banff Awards night. Olaf, his wife Ange, myself and Sherri my spouse on our way to the awards night. Hanging with Ralf-Peter and Corolla from ZDF in Germany! Here I am with Heather Watson in a really sexy flapper dress (Heather not me... I save that kind of thing mostly for at home). Olaf and I discussing who is going to look cooler in this shot. Note his look of quite resignation.

The other really freaky thing from that evening was that we found NOLAN'S EXACT DOUBLE! Assuming of course that Nolan was black, about 25 years older and about 50% cooler than he really is. Check it out... the resemblance is UNCANNY! The real Nolan Balzer who we know and love in a completely platonic sense... AND... his UNCANNY and COOL DOPPLEGANGER!

Monday, June 12, 2006

On Our Way To Banff

Unfortunately, due to the studio being REALLY busy these days, my cunning plan to cycle from Winnipeg to Banff in time for the Banff International Television Festival has been thwarted. Instead Olaf, myself, and our spouses all crowded into a VW golf, and undertook the 16 hour drive to Banff for the festival. When we hit Calgary, Olaf and Sherri debated directions, while we endeavoured to hook-up with our newest employee, Kevin Aichele (starting in September!), who is wrapping up a run of Jesus Christ Superstar in the sprawling oil city. After finding the Aichele, we grabbed lunch... easier said than done in downtown Calgary on Saturday (or the-day-every-single-store-is-closed-day) afternoon. We ended up scavenging out of rubbish bins, while Ange hid under a palm frond to keep an eye out for other marauding bands of other hungry non-Calgarians that might have designs on our hard-won nutrients We finally said 'Goodbye' (for now) to Kevin, and hurried on to Banff to have dinner at the worlds-longest-sushi-table with the gang from Frantic Films. The staff at the sushi restaurant evidently had no idea that 30ish people were going to descend upon them that evening, and wanted to throw us out, until I managed to defuse the situation with some clever chop-stick acrobatics. ... more to follow as Andrew Dunn and I show the rest of the television world how golf is REALLY meant to be played...