La famille
C’est rare que ma famille passe du temps ensemble – surtout avec mon frère ainé qui habite à l’étranger. Voici quelques photos que j’ai prises au mois de septembre en préparation d’un cadeau de Noël pour nos parents.
MASTERKRAFT
Boxing day spent in Heaven featuring MSTRKRFT, Team Canada DJs and Jokers of the Scene.
Hope everyone is having great holidays!
Bonne année!!!
Norml Parties definitely got S.L.U.
Crazy Saturday last week. Norml Clothing in Ottawa hooked up with Redbull and Adidas to throw two parties in two venues. J Rocc and The Rub came in from LA and Brooklyn or whatever. Five cop cars showed up at Norml too but apparently it was no big deal.
Mustaches for Kids!
New portraits. What a hilarious night this was. Thanks to everyone who participated. Click the cowboy for more images!
I think most participants have probably shaved their mustaches off by now. Mine is still in tact for the moment.
For more info on the project, visit m4kottawa.org.
Sammy Bananas Photobooth!
I gave you a preview a few days ago…now, here’s the set…
After touring like mad this Autumn, Jokers of the Scene will be back in January. Come set off the new year.
exhibition and party
If you are in Ottawa, check out these three wicked events this weekend.
1. Photos I took in Canadian (arctic) and the southern United States will be up at Wurm Gallery until January 14, 2009. The vernissage is this Friday, December 12. from 7pm-midnight. Come say hello, wont you? Tomorrow at about 5:20pm, I’ll also be on Mitchell Caplan’s institution of a community radio show CLICK HEAR on CHUO 89.1FM talking about my photos and Foucault and other stuff. Thanks a lot to Nick and Jodie at Wurm for hosting this for me!
2. Redbull Wax Museum! Kind of cool…Redbull and Norml Clothing will be exhibiting a collection of art created using records as a canvas. My submission involves an old copy of New Order’s Low Life and also an Israeli musician that is appropriately quite like Ian Curtis (mixed with Elvis). The works will be up from Saturday, December 13 until Sunday, January 11 and sold in a silent auction. 50% of the proceeds will go towards the All 4 Da Kidz Foundation that offers resources to local youth drop-in centres. I’m excited to see everyone else’s submission…I think they’ve come in from all over North America.
At the opening of this exhibit, J-Rocc (Beat Junkies) will perform and an all-45 set and I’ll have a photobooth set up in the window display. Should be hilarious.
PS: I have two tickets to give away for this. Comment or email me something awesome (stories, photos, gift cards…) and they can be yours.
3. Norml Xmas Party! This will be the afterparty for the Redbull Wax Museum on Saturday, December 13. It’ll be going down at Babylon and featuring J-Rocc, The Rub and Stylusts (and me taking photos). This event is FREE if you go to Norml and donate an old winter jacket. Their goal is to collect 250 jackets to distribute to drop in centres in Ottawa. Amazing DJs. Good cause. Cannot go wrong.
Mustaches and Rabbits
Last night was nuts. Since I can’t wait to share, here’s an idea of ish to come in the next week or so…
Huge props to Mustaches for Kids Ottawa who raised $16 000 for the Make a Wish Foundation. Sammy Bananas also set it off at Disorganized. Totally nuts. My hands still smell like fake blood. Can’t wait to post more photos from both parties but gotta get some other work done first!
In the mean time, peep this live video projection done up by Ryan last night. LCDM x Ryan Stec!!!
Small show and a bigger one.
Saturday was the opening for the Urban Eyes show at La Petite Mort gallery. It’s only up until Thursday so be sure to check it soon! It’s pretty rad to be part of this group show. So many different sets of eyes on one over arching theme.
Here’s a photo Tony took of the wall. There’s about 30 more photos I think. Mine is the baskeball hoop in the bottom centre. This hoop has a pretty big story for me but I think the fact that its backboard was replaced by a No Trespassing sign sums it up pretty well. 15 years ago, this was a neighbourhood hotspot. No one really comes here anymore though.
Here’s my photo bigger…
Madonna said it best: “This used to be my playground. This used to be my childhood dream.”
You can read more about the opening on Tony’s blog. Unrelated but watch the video and look at Michelle’s photos too.
Walking around with the disposable camera I was given for the exhibit was an interesting challenge. Given the limitations, getting a good frame out of 27 exposures on 800 iso film using a fairly wide lens with an unknown aperture size (8? 5.6? 4?), I had very little to rely on in terms of control but whatever I made, I knew it had to count. I was racking my brain for something original and I think I got a bit ahead of myself. I wont go in complete detail but I had initially acquired 18 helium balloons for a related experiment that eventually failed. In the end, I opted for simplicity which is often how I work best (but I normally have to make things hard for me before deciding this). I might retry what I attempted next summer though. It was still fun and also funny.
Here’s a photo of me that Alex took before my spirit was broken by the reality that the experiment would not work. Note: The balloons knew it was doomed from the get go.
Anyway, since I got my first cell phone two years ago, I’ve quite enjoyed having a camera always at my disposal. Good for location scouting and generally capturing weird happenings. The lens might not be sharp at all and the auto settings might play tricks on you but you can also play some tricks on the camera. Here are three photos I shot in November.
Lately, I’ve been towing my mom’s old Minolta that contains a half-finished roll that probably expired three years ago. Curious to see what’s on it.
Finally, I’ll have more photos up at Wurm Gallery (319 Lisgar) from December 12, 2008-January 14, 2009. Come to the vernissage on December 12 from 7pm until midnight. No promises but I will probably make delicious vegan bite size snacks like chocolate peanut butter cups and also sesame balls (kind of like those Chinese ones but also a bit like halvah).
This will be the first time that some photos from my 17-days on the CCGS Louis S. St. Laurent will be exhibited in a gallery space which is something I’m pretty excited about because I don’t think DFO was actually super keen on having polar bears with bloody faces in their annual report. Roar.
Besides that, I’ve got some architecture stuff going on these days. Collaborating with Norml Clothing in Ottawa on some stuff this month too. December’s going to be fun. January too! 2009, here we come.
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