Happy Holidays!

Well, exams are done (not that I actually had any) and I've been back home for a week or so now. Very glad to have finished my final projects and take it easy for a bit. I had been meaning to put up some images from my last few projects but I have been very distracted.

This is my final screen print project, in various stages of completion. The final images being it installed on Queen St, just west of John St. With the help of some good friends (MUCH THANKS!) we made a bunch of cardboard, 3D letters that spelled 'Freedom From Want'. I had a hard time nailing down the idea for this project, but finally I decided on confronting consumerism it's self. I also thought it was timely that Christmas is coming up, but I wanted to install something that would confront shoppers in the act. I was reading about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Freedoms and if we're supposed to be free from want, how come our biggest holiday is based on buying stuff? And how come success is measured in dollars? And why does everyone buy so much stuff all the time, and how come advertisements sell us desire instead of informing us of product?

Sadly the installation didn't last very long, although the nails holding it in place are still there. If anyone knows where the letters went I'd love to know.











I think I've got more pictures kicking around, but I don't know where they are yet. I'll renew my search soon, as I'm still fighting a cold.

Listening to:
(this time dedicated to Laura and the inclusion of track titles)

Emalkay - When I look At You
Matthew Good - Hospital Music (saw live, twas grand)
Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind (also saw live, it was awesome)
BBC Radio 1 - specifically the Rob Da Bank show and sometimes Annie Nightingale
Amnesia Amnesia - The Eating Disease (also saw live, don't miss em!)
The Kinks
Latino Health Crisis
Brand New - Daisy (live+Glassjaw=AWESOME)
Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
FLYING LOTUS - The Reset EP and LA (SOOOOO GOOD!)
Mother Mother - Also saw live (good month eh?)
A Tribe Called Quest - Best Of

The Faces

Aloha,

So as one could imagine, I've been keeping busy. Finished this screen project recently and had been meaning to post something for a while. Each of the four layers has been printed on transparent duralar, 9"x9", the idea being the viewer is intended to rearrange the order of the layers. Bone represents spirituality, muscle physicality, skin personality and the mask society and it's constructs. Although we are all always composed of these things, different layers take precedence in different circumstances. If you're at the hospital, you are likely to be regarded by your physicality first - if your sick, healthy, etc. Or at a place of worship, one might have their spiritual side exposed with their social, physical and personal selves underneath. Or maybe the spiritual side would be exposed at the hospital?

This project was an 80% success, in that it didn't print exactly how I had intended due to some unfortunate miscalculations. Overall, however, I'm quite content.






Listening to:

The Clash
Eels
Lovage
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Cursed - Two
Ohbijou - Swift Feet For Troubling Times
Beck - Guero
Nation Of Ulysses - Plays Pretty For Baby
Nightmares On Wax - Mind Elevation
The Herbaliser - Blow Your Headphones

Remember remember...

...the fifth of (updating your blog) November.

Well, I have been keeping busy. I finished a print today, which was very pleasurable. Then I saw 'Where The Wild Things Are', which was also pleasurable.

That didn't come out right. It was a good movie, not what I was expecting. I suppose it wasn't as Disney as I'd expected it to be. Good though, 3 of 4 stars from me.

I don't have any good images of the prints I finished, so I shall photograph them tomorrow. But I will include one of the layers from it, which took a lot of time but turned out well.



Listening to:
Ricky Gervais Podcasts (amongst his other works)
Dizzee Rascal
Converge - Axe To Fall
Bjork - Volta
The Miles - Blood On My Blazer (Excellent!)

So much for regular updates...

Aloha,

Very busy week. Make that weeks. Lots of time spent on an essay and Thanksgiving. However, I'm pleased to report that I have successfully made roast duck, in light of less productive printmaking attempts. I've been working on this screen project for ages, but it doesn't want to be finished. If it's not one thing its another.







Listening to:
Mother Mother - Hayloft
Bloc Party - One More Chance/Intimacy
The XX - XX
The Herbaliser - Blow Your Headphones
The Slew - 100%
Nightmares On Wax - Mind Elevation
Roots Manuva!
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein

Work In Progress

Aloha,

In trying to keep this blog updated regularly I'm going to have to include some work in progress.


My floor isn't normally this messy. And the mess that is usually there isn't as nicely laid out. This is prep for a collage/screen print for my Screen Printing class. I've been collecting as many news papers as I can find from recycling bins throughout the subway every day this week. It's a gross idea and feels really weird to be snooping through waste on the platform with people giving you weird looks. But overall, it's been pretty good (no diseases yet!). I'm really looking forward to turning this one out.




This one, if you can imagine it turned 90 degrees clockwise, is for my digital print class. Right now it's a combination of ink and collage, although I'm really not sure how I like it. It's due soon and needs a lot of work still, so I'll just have to make it good some how. Playing it pretty close to the influences on this one I'm afraid. Can you guess who?



PS: Please pardon the low quality photos. It IS almost 3AM and I didn't want to dig out my camera and stuff. Still pretty good effort I think. All things considered.

Listening to:
Roots Manuva (So good!)
Dizzee Rascal
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Dan Deacon - Build Voice
Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven (awesomely lame)
Brand New - Daisy
The XX (purchased because the cover is rad, turns out to sound great)
Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind (still great!)

MOAR

A few more highlights of last years efforts. Not that great, but sort of interesting.

The Empire Stikes Back!

Or is this more of a Return Of The Jedi? Naw, this post is definitely not the climactic ending of a saga.

Also there's no Ewoks.


I'm back! Or rather, I've decided to continue posting! I'm starting 3rd year at OCAD, still in Print, and figured it would be a good idea to keep up with the ole blog and see what happens. My busyness/distractedness/summer/lost-the-cable-to-my-camera/broke-my-scanner stopped me from putting any images up here for a while, and aside from that, whats the point right?

Above are a few pieces from last year, hopefully more to come now that I've got a fancy new scanner!

PS:

Listening to:

Moneen - The World I Want To Leave Behind (went to CD release show, AMAZING)
Hunter - 4
Tricky - Maxinqaye
Goldie - Timeless (on casette!)
Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
Art of Fighting - Wires (because it was half off at Value Village and had cool artwork)