DEVIL’S NIGHT: exhibit this Saturday
Halloweek is done! Still sort of piecing together parts of Saturday night. I spent about 90% of it on top of a ladder and photographed about 100 people. Huge thanks to everyone who came out!
From these photos, I’m having a one-night exhibit at galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa this Saturday, November 7.
So, I’m having an art show. Please come. It won be the same without you
le samedi 7 novembre 2009 de 19h à 22h.
galerie La Petite Mort Gallery
306, rue Cumberland Street
Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 7H9
Here’s a sample. Still sort of a work in progress. Mounting a show a week after the photos are taken…Tonnes of work to do before Saturday!
While I’m at it, here are two photos I took on Friday during a Clean Shave Day event for Mustaches for Kids.
What a pair of fresh faces!
Nite Ride video
Did the Nite Ride on Friday. Some of the photos I shot for Artengine got used in a video…
Nite Ride is running all week. Don’t miss it!
On Saturday, I biked over to la rue Hanson in Hull to visit Justin Wonnacott’s studio, which is upstairs from galerie AXENÉO7 in the old Hanson Hoisery building. Amidst the good conversation, there was also a very impressive array of snacks which provided the fuel necessary to bike home across Booth Street bridge. Hull pour vie.
Wednesday night, I’m taking photos at a Halloween party at Mercury Lounge in Ottawa and then again on Halloween night at La Petite Mort Gallery. Show up in an awesome disguise and step in front of my lens.
The Gatineau Hills like you have never heard them before
I don’t have a copy yet but these were printed with photos I was commissioned to take for a rad event called Nite Ride. It starts tomorrow.
From Artengine’s website:
From October 23rd to October 31st Artengine will present these new audio works on a 5.1 surround sound bus tour designed by the artists themselves. Starting from Arts Court a tour bus equipped with a special stereo system will take passengers on a creative driving experience unlike any other. The routes and sounds, designed and scored by two of Canada’s most innovative sound artists, will fuse sound sculpture and a cinematic road trip into a lush hour-long tour of the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
Sounds good, right? I actually think it might end up being kind of scary. I can’t wait! Vroom vroom.
Here are a few more shots from our Nite Drive poster photo sesh… You sort of have to double check when your client says “I want blurry photos.”
PS: Updated le site web
L’Halloween arrive avec une petite mort
Pretty excited about this. For Halloween (one of the best holidays after Decemberween), I’ve been asked to take portraits at Galerie La Petite Mort’s Fourth Anniversary party. There’ll also be a one night exhibit of these photos sometime in the weeks that follow Halloween (details to come).
This is special not only because Halloween falls on a Saturday night this year but I’ll be finding myself among rather good and talented company.
Here are two photos from the summer:
My pal Rio at House of Paint. On most days, you can find him making Led Zeppelin-inspired tea flavours in the Byward Market.
Lac Heney makes relax.
Xtra & Nuit Blanche
I have the cover of the latest Capital Xtra. Read about Faizal Deen.
Here’s a two-hour timelapse I took of the CN Tower during Nuit Blanche. Some friends were responsible for this installation. It really was a brilliant accomplishment.
While I remember them, I might also post some funny moments from the weekend on Twitter.
Nouvelles cartes & X
verso et devant.
Imprimées à Toronto par Traffic Marketing & Design (“World’s Greenest Business Card“).
Pas pire.
Rapidement… Demain soir, le Festival X (de la photographie d’Ottawa) présente une discussion qui a comme sujet, le portrait contemporain. De plus, le 23 septembre, Marie-Jeanne Musiol offre une présentation à propos de ses aventures en électrophotographie (en autre mots, photographie Kirlian) – un genre qui m’intéresse un peu depuis un bout de temps. Pour plus d’informations…
Baggy Bottom Boys & Pride Parade
After several months of production and post production, Jokers of the Scene’s video for Baggy Bottom Boys finally dropped a week ago. Bummer. I’m not in it a single time…
Jokers Of The Scene “Baggy Bottom Boys” from Mr Goldbar on Vimeo.
OK, I made it into the video… the spirally thing was a blue balloon that I inflated for ten minutes to a size of over a metre in diametre. I then threw it into the crowd where it didn’t even last five seconds.
To brighten things up, here’s a photo (also involving balloons) from this Sunday’s Pride Parade in Ottawa. Somehow, this pyramid of balloons and colourful parasols completely eclipsed the National War Memorial looking north on Elgin Street. A few more photos on xtra.ca but you’d already know that if you followed me on Twitter.
Calgarian Wolpertinger: Crappy Taxidermy Win!
A photo I took of the fantastic rabbit-creature blessed with fangs, antlers and wings, aka wolpertinger, I found at Eternal Image Tattoo in Calgary two years ago got published on the latest blog people love, CRAPPYTAXIDERMY.COM. Clearly, this is a major accomplishment most photographers can only dream of!
Have a look at this hideously beautiful beast…
In other news, I am thinking of organizing a swap meet. Anyone in Ottawa think this is a good idea?
Joker of the Scene & A Trak & video
1/2 JOTS x Ryan Stec x CineCitta x Le champion du monde x 2/3 Stylusts
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This video. Basically, I was running around taking photos and then sequencing them with a live stop-motion animation tool called ToonLoop which then broadcast the images on a collection of LCD panels. The original video had no audio so I added one of the latest Jokers of the Scene remixes to liven it up a bit. The song is around 8-minutes long and sounds very evil and absolutely nothing like the original song (which sounds like it was written by Freddy Mercury & Michael Jackson’s hypothetical baby, writing the theme for a television series aimed at gay children – amazing). The actual video image loops at about 90-seconds. Watch/listen, however long you want!
Ryan had three projectors connected to project single images over three screens. I was working with Vancouver VJ CineCitta who has been embedded-in-Ottawa as a Graffiti Research Lab operative taking sanctuary in the ArtEngine lab, cooking up crazy like the mobile graffiti iPhone app he’s working on.
Here are the photos from that night. Some of them didn’t make it into the video…
As a bonus, here are some photos from A Trak’s stop into Ottawa.
Final bonus…Here is the song used in the video
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Mika – We Are Golden (Jokers Of The Scene ‘Are Not Who You Think They Are’ Remix)
July Tour Recap
Recently, I went on a 20-day tour with a band I mention on here perhaps more often than I should. We left Ottawa on Canada Day (July 1, Yanks!) and left Winsdor back to Ottawa at 3:30am on July 20 morning. Even as a passenger, this was the most painful 8-hour drive ever.
Besides driving, there isn’t much to do on tour except watch bands and eat so here are some highlights.
Best eats of tour:
The Naam (Vancouver)
Pizza Luce (Minneapolis)
Mondragon (Winnipeg)
French Meadow Bakery & Café (Minneapolis)
Budgie’s Burritos (Vancouver)
Best bands of tour:
KENmode
Battlefields
Hewhocorrupts
KENmode (again)
Frontier
Portraits of Past
Crossing into the USA was nuts. Long story short, despite having visas and the necessary papers (uh, you know, uh, papers, business papers…), the whole ordeal took about 12 hours and a pair of two-hour searches to get six Canadians into the United States. Yikes.
We stopped in Grand Forks, ND for a bit and after spending some time in a cafe, I crossed a river by foot to East Grand Forks (Minesota!) to see The Hangover at a theatre with a snackbar that looked like a log cabin. Crossing the bridge, I’m pretty sure I witnessed a police boat searching for a dead body too. Thanks also to the girl with the green hair at the organic coop for hanging out and feeding us.
Here are a few photos. See more by clicking the banner at the bottom…
Camping near Swastika, Ontario.
Swastikas on top of The Royal Albert in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Driving in Saskatchewan.
Mike and Tweedy got thirsty. The only swimming of tour.
We thought this house was vacant so we parked in its backyard.
We were wrong.
Kamloops was awesome (no it wasn’t…but this dude was)
F(r)actions of Buried Inside enjoy Beyoncé
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