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13 April 2013

CATS ARE DANGEROUS

TEN YEARS AGO (hard to believe), I went on tour (Fun Tour!) with The Sick Lipstick (Toronto band who are no longer), as their roadie. We drove around the United States with An Albatross (from Wilkes-Barre PA), spanning miles in the summer highway heat, sleeping on dirty floors and staying up until all hours of the night in various rock venues and creative spaces.

I shot several rolls of film with my SLR and Instamatic cameras, and recently scanned a whole bunch of those photos and put them up for display HERE.








11 January 2012

Field Trip: The Russian Avant-Garde

Finally got around to seeing the Chagall & The Russian Avant-Garde exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It wasn't spectacular, but there were a few highlights in the show, making it a (mostly) worthwhile visit...

One of my most favourite artists is El Lissitzky, so I was quite excited to see this piece, up close and in real life!


I must confess, seeing it resulted in a lot of smiling (inside and out) and wide-eyed gawking!

And Rodchenko, love love love his work as well:



There was also a separate and smaller exhibit being shown entitled Constructing Utopia: Books and Posters from Revolutionary Russia (1910-1940). This collection definitely contained more of the kind of work I was interested in seeing:













20 March 2011

finnish school girls.

i suppose she was quite disliked by the previous owner of the photograph, my great aunt (unless she inherited it as such, as have i)... youthful friendship gone wrong?

16 January 2011

Tintypes from Bellefonte.

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania has one of the best antique centres I've ever seen. On a trip to PA in November, we went to the Plaza Centre Antique Gallery two days in a row. We spent several hours there each visit, and it still wasn't enough time to thoroughly look through everything. A collector's dream and worst nightmare all at the same time.

These are great: