Earlier I wrote about the feud between the two Latvian mic makers, Blue & Violet. Since that time, Blue is still developing their own mics & now Violet has come back on the scene as Violet Design with a few more specialty mics in their arsenal from their main engineer Jūris Zāriņš (who originally designed the guts of Blue mics). I got to meet the guys of JZ Mics & Violet Design at NAMM 2008 in Los Angeles, which was a lovely & auspicious opportunity. I’m a happy supporter of those two companies & I am happy to boo down Blue for their poor business practices. Boo Blue! Yay Violet!
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Phenomenal voice… incredible anointing…
We returned to Latvia on March 7th very late at night. But before we got that far, we had a 9-hour layover in the London-Gatwick airport where a good friend of ours came to spend a lot of that time with us & help us deal with the worst of the jetlag. As we talked, we realized that there is a one-carry-on-bag-per-person-leaving-UK rule & my wife & I had two each. So, we did quite a lot of consolidation to get us down to one each. Our friend was willing to take my camera bag for me, since it isn’t collapsible, & would give it to her husband, also a friend, who would be coming to Latvia in just 3 weeks.
So, this is where my bag’s adventure really began. Our friend, Dana (who’s American), took it home to her husband, Andy, who’s English. 3 weeks later he brought it with him to Latvia where he was going to the opposite side of the country from us for a guitar workshop in the town of Madona. A mutual Latvian friend, Baiba (said like “BY-bah”) was going to the same guitar workshop. Since Andy had a very short amount of time in Latvia (& we’re still without a car & couldn’t get to Riga very easily), we asked Andy to give my bag to Baiba to take back with her to Riga.
So, Baiba took the bag to Riga & then met another mutual Latvian friend, Elita (said like “ELLIE-tah”). Elita called me one day to let me know that she had met with Baiba in Riga & that she had given her my bag. A week or so later, Elita’s boyfriend, Pēteris (said like “PEH-teris”) went to Riga to visit her. Pēteris is another very good Latvian friend of ours, so it worked well, since he lives in Talsi just a few kilometers from us.
Well, last night, exactly 6 weeks & 5 people later, my little grey camera bag made it home safely. Since we’ve returned to Latvia 6 weeks ago, my camera bag has seen more of this country than my wife & I have!!
Thank you to all of our friends (American, English & Latvian) who got my little bag home!