August 2010
6 posts
bring back the cyanotypes!
The other day (last week?) I stopped in to see local photographer Graham Ward’s show “Camera Obscura” for which he created his own camera (obscura) using glass plate negatives and all the chemicals. Funny how now that we’re ‘blessed’ with all of these new technologies designed for making things ‘easier’ we discover that the quality is lacking and we...
“The invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
fuck octopi, give me iceland.
I just found out that Iceland has a Sea Monster Museum. I now want to go there even more than I did after the first time I watched the Sigur Ros doc “Heima”. Also when Icelandic people speak it sounds like they’re choking (in a nice way), and the landscape suggests to me an alternate version of nova scotia with fjords where everyone is beautiful.
i have a t-shirt addiction...
i think I bought three this week alone… that’s the problem with going to festivals /concerts, etc… i thought i was safe at home and I found these: http://www.speakoutpoetry.com/about/merchandize/
I had to support SpeakOut Poetry— a poetry slam initiative going on in the GTA. I saw a slam last winter in Kitchener and it blew my mind. The experience inspired me to write...
“Pray to god I won’t live to see the death of everything that’s wild.”
– arcade fire, ‘half light II (no celebration)