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Polaris Music Prize

One of Canada’s best bands just surprised a lot of people and won an award. This is huge.

Now a bunch of journalists are scratching their heads about how to write an article about a band whose name they cannot mention. Not a single question was asked at the press conference.

Every year, a poster is commissioned for each nominee. In 2006, Ottawa artist, Michael Deforge designed the poster for winner Final Fantasy.

This year, another set of Ottawa natives, Doublenaut, designed the poster for the winning artist. Awesome

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.

Slayer

Matias recently wrote about an awesome blog called Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot that collects images of Slayer’s logo appearing in random and modified places around the world. This blog is really a testament to the Slayer’s success in graphic design in making a memorable logo that anyone can carve out anywhere and with anything. The blog hasn’t been updated in a little while. I doubt this is due to a lack of worthwhile content.

Here’s my fave:

I was probably six years old the first time I saw the Slayer logo. One of the older students had branded the grade 5 door of my school with it and “Pink Floyd” written in a similar fashion. I had no idea what either of these meant at the time but I was eager to find out.

This all reminds of of something I made about four years ago. I thought I was so funny. Check it out:

It took me forever to make those letters.

Here’s the original artwork:

Huggs on a flyer

A designer working for DJ LA*Jesus in Chicago used a photo I shot last year of Montreal/L.A. DJ Huggs in a flyer.

Pretty into it!

Indian Express business card

Check out the design of a business card for an Ottawa shop. They were printed in India which is pretty far away even if the owner is from there. Each card is bit different since the stamp with the business info isn’t always perfect. To boot, the reverse features a handy 12-month calendar with a useful list of Hindu holidays. Obviously, major props are given to Shiva too. Kind of charming.

Anyway, if you’re in town and looking for an awesomely intense dessert, check out Indian Express for real. They sell sweets by the pound and don’t really taste like any same old same old cake or pie or cookie you might normally have. Tonnes of dairy-free options too. 1104 Somerset St. W near Wellington.

Boards of Health

Just borrowed these from my girls at Victoire for Disorganized tonight featuring Vitaminsforyou.  They’ve gotta be pretty old. Pre-swine flu anyway. Loving the type on them.

See you at tha party. Get ill not sick.

all day i dream about sneakers

Electronic Evangelicals Photos

What happens when you throw some of Canada’s most interesting live video and experimental artists in a decommissioned church? Find out!

There were a good have dozen video cameras present that night as well. It’ll be interesting to see what comes out of these.

Electric Fields is still on for a few more days. Don’t miss!

Someone buy this for me.

I haven’t read the DaVinci (or seen the movie) but I like the (idea of the) Golden Ratio. The shirt is a cotton-polyester-rayon blend too. I bet it’s super soft.

Get it at Brooklyn Industries. I didn’t really get excited about most of their other designs but I do like this anchor.

Found on t-critic.

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