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Vandalized Vintage and Space

Today I bought some art from New Zealand artist trixie delicious. I've had an eye on her stuff since I first came into contact with it on flickr.

So Mike and I have been working on a collaborative art project together for a show in December at Art Central. We were super gung-ho about it at the beginning, loads of concepts and excited to start on it. However, Mike and are are the same personality type, we love creating ideas and starting projects, but as time wears on, we lose interest. Both of us are a little afraid, because in 4 weeks we have to have a body of work to present in a glass gallery. Yikes. Our concept revolves around the idea to create images completely without glass, the entire process. This presented a huge challenge to both of us, as we are hugely involved in digital photography, relying on glass to capture our images, and then relying on digital tools to heavily process them, making them as beautiful as we wanted and creating them exactly as seen in our heads. We decided to make the content of our photos about the dependant nature of space and objects. About withrawing attention from the objects in space and becoming aware of space itself. Today we climbed on the roof of ACAD and shot the open landscape of the dark sky setting over West Hillhurst.

Here's the camera we're using to shoot it and a gallery of the kind of images it creates:

empty hallway

So after months of unassembled bits and pieces of an Ikea wardrobe have been left unassembled and sadly sitting in my hallway, I decided that organizing my clothes was a priority. Matt reluctantly agreed to be my assistant assembler and our efforts failed. Blood, sweat and pouting ensued and it was agreed that a professional needed to be called in. I called "Steve" and he showed up with his miniature wife and her mom. A worthwhile $150 and an hour and a half later they put us to shame. It's an enormous piece of furniture, but I can now see what skirts I have and I no longer need to rummage for tights.

On another note, Matt joined the army last week. Congrats! He says he is shamed by his haircut.

popcorn paws

New thriftstore finds:

After spending the morning with 4 children, a dog, an ex-boyfriend and some watercolours, the ex-boyfriend brought me to Toys R Us to buy Alicia a skipping rope. It was during this time we discovered a hidden Goodwill. Lately I'm in love with patterns on plates.

Then I was lucky enough to spend a lovely afternoon with Leroy "Popcorn Paws" Olah during which time we played dress up.

Holy Fuck

My new pretend boyfriend is the keyboardist/knob turner in Holy Fuck which Mike and i witnessed live on Thursday night. He used a miniature Barbie piano he found at the Value Village in Regina to make one song.

Also, in my quest and obsession for new art, I rececently received in the mail 2 beautiful prints from ohmycavalier. They're prints of pencil drawings on beautiful printmaking paper. *swoon*