Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Folk Fest Videos
I have two short videoclips from the 2006 Winnipeg Folk Fest stored on the server that hosts my website. You can download them by clicking on these links:
Leonard and Zeke, backstage
Terrance Simien, mainstage
The original files look much better than the windows format files here, but they are also about 60 mb each.
Leonard and Zeke, backstage
Terrance Simien, mainstage
The original files look much better than the windows format files here, but they are also about 60 mb each.
The Auspicious Hour
Come one come all for a celebration of the Auspicious Hour.
This Saturday night at the Label Gallery.
Doors open at 10:30
Doors close at 11:00
Show starts at 12:00
3 $ expense at the door.
Featuring:
the taming of the Smoky Tiger by the Champion Captain Goldstar
a musical happening directed by Andrew Courtnage and Dug Strange
The auspicious hour will be audio and video recorded for the purpose
of creating a music video. Please come dressed in a costume and bring drums, chimes, etc.
Be ready to dance and raise a raucous good time.
Now is the time to awaken your glorious shining beauty.
This Saturday night at the Label Gallery.
Doors open at 10:30
Doors close at 11:00
Show starts at 12:00
3 $ expense at the door.
Featuring:
the taming of the Smoky Tiger by the Champion Captain Goldstar
a musical happening directed by Andrew Courtnage and Dug Strange
The auspicious hour will be audio and video recorded for the purpose
of creating a music video. Please come dressed in a costume and bring drums, chimes, etc.
Be ready to dance and raise a raucous good time.
Now is the time to awaken your glorious shining beauty.
Ike
Here's Mr. Righteous at the festival. I consider hto be my second father, though we don't talk much.
My Gang
Here's my folkfest gang.
upper left:
Lauren Sharma, Julia Sharma, Tony Hisco, Daniel RobinsonJesse Quesnel, ?
Matt Robinson.
bottom left:
Anita Sharma, Me, two strangers
More Folk Fest Photos
Well, finally recovering from the week of festival-going. I was actually working with the backline company, so we were going from Wednesday until yesterday (Monday) loading equipment - close to 60 hours just for myself. Unfortunately, not too much time to see anything except the mainstage, although we could hear a lot from there, depending on the direction of the wind. I've got a collection of photos uploaded here (I didn't take too many shots all weekend). One of the highlights for me was Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience - great music and atmosphere. Bruce Cockburn was also great. Here's a few of the better shots I managed to get:
Monday, July 10, 2006
in the morning
spaces in between
wanting
open and mouthing your words
I run rightly so I can just feel the distance between our skin
vows to keep
me cascading into
hair brushing
on cheek
soft hands
on knee
the moment
washing me with a heat wish
to fill that old claw foot
feeling the slow cooling of the rain
I stumble to get away water glass and all catching the drops
kept awake on my memory
and the steady embrace of my empty bed.
wanting
open and mouthing your words
I run rightly so I can just feel the distance between our skin
vows to keep
me cascading into
hair brushing
on cheek
soft hands
on knee
the moment
washing me with a heat wish
to fill that old claw foot
feeling the slow cooling of the rain
I stumble to get away water glass and all catching the drops
kept awake on my memory
and the steady embrace of my empty bed.
Music, People & Open Sky
I tried to capture, with my inexpensive digital camera, the awesome sky of Saturday evening at Folk Fest. The moisture of a very hot afternoon clashed with a chilly wind, creating a drama unique to the wide open prairie. To the west the sun's setting cast a rich red-orange glow on the clouds, as if it were trying desperately to hold on to the last remnants of a glorious day. To the east it was blue-dark, brooding and overcast, foretelling what would be an ice-cold, misty night with not nearly enough rain to quench the dusty ground.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Horray for us!
This is from the Thunder Bay Source newspaper, last Thursday.
Treeplanting art show in Heart of the Harbour
by Jodi Lundmark
Thousands of young Canadians travel to the Thunder Bay area each spring for an experience that will change their lives – treeplanting.
And now everyone can see what the life of the hard-working planter is really like with a touring art exhibit that will be in Thunder Bay until July 22.BUGS: A Treeplanting Art Show can be found in the Heart of the Harbour downtown area in several businesses starting at Definitely Superior Art Gallery, where you pick up a map that will lead you on a walking tour.
The artwork of photographs, paintings, 3D pictures, sketches and even journal entries covers pretty much every aspect of treeplanting from camp life, working in the clear cut forests, fingers protected with duct tape and of course bush parties.
BUGS organizer and veteran treeplanter Lorne Roberts says artists are really drawn to the world of treeplanting.
“It’s such a different kind of life than living in the city. Because it’s such a unique world, people who are artists want to document it. It’s great subject material,” he said.
Roberts said for most artists, treeplanting is unique to anything else they ever do in their lives.
“No one else really ever says they have anything that’s like treeplanting once they’ve done it,” he said, adding that one artist in the show, Paul Zacharias, told him once that treeplanting was the stick he measured the rest of his life with.
“Most people find that it’s changed their lives, how they think, how they act and it changes their approach to work a great deal just because it’s so hard,” said Roberts.
Photographer Charlene Heath has portrait photographs in the exhibit and is working with the theme of the treeplanter as a Canadian myth.
“The treeplanter is something that is definitely associated with northern Canada and this rugged Canadian landscape that goes along with our entire history. It’s something that I’m working to tap into and see what I can bring back to earth,” she said.
Heath is just beginning her journey in exploring this theme but said she first began it by just wanting to document the people.
“A lot of the time the work you see is about the landscape and about how hard it is and sort of this inside struggle to put trees in the ground. I was more interested in the people and naming the people that put the trees in the ground,” she said.
The idea for BUGS came from Roberts, who works as an art journalist in Winnipeg and helps run an independent gallery, the Label Gallery.
“Because I treeplanted for so long, I’m so interested and I’d met all these artists who were treeplanters. I thought it would just be a good idea to put a show together.”
Roberts began researching and then emailing people he had worked with, asking them to contact people. It was a long process but it was worth it.The exhibit showcases the work of artists from coast to coast making it a very national show.
Thunder Bay is its first stop after Winnipeg and Roberts chose the city because of its treeplanting culture.
“I worked here for so many years as a treeplanter. I have so many good memories of days off in Thunder Bay,” he said, “I think it’s a good time to show it and I think it’s a really good place to show it. It’s the best place I would want to show it right now.”
Treeplanting art show in Heart of the Harbour
by Jodi Lundmark
Thousands of young Canadians travel to the Thunder Bay area each spring for an experience that will change their lives – treeplanting.
And now everyone can see what the life of the hard-working planter is really like with a touring art exhibit that will be in Thunder Bay until July 22.BUGS: A Treeplanting Art Show can be found in the Heart of the Harbour downtown area in several businesses starting at Definitely Superior Art Gallery, where you pick up a map that will lead you on a walking tour.
The artwork of photographs, paintings, 3D pictures, sketches and even journal entries covers pretty much every aspect of treeplanting from camp life, working in the clear cut forests, fingers protected with duct tape and of course bush parties.
BUGS organizer and veteran treeplanter Lorne Roberts says artists are really drawn to the world of treeplanting.
“It’s such a different kind of life than living in the city. Because it’s such a unique world, people who are artists want to document it. It’s great subject material,” he said.
Roberts said for most artists, treeplanting is unique to anything else they ever do in their lives.
“No one else really ever says they have anything that’s like treeplanting once they’ve done it,” he said, adding that one artist in the show, Paul Zacharias, told him once that treeplanting was the stick he measured the rest of his life with.
“Most people find that it’s changed their lives, how they think, how they act and it changes their approach to work a great deal just because it’s so hard,” said Roberts.
Photographer Charlene Heath has portrait photographs in the exhibit and is working with the theme of the treeplanter as a Canadian myth.
“The treeplanter is something that is definitely associated with northern Canada and this rugged Canadian landscape that goes along with our entire history. It’s something that I’m working to tap into and see what I can bring back to earth,” she said.
Heath is just beginning her journey in exploring this theme but said she first began it by just wanting to document the people.
“A lot of the time the work you see is about the landscape and about how hard it is and sort of this inside struggle to put trees in the ground. I was more interested in the people and naming the people that put the trees in the ground,” she said.
The idea for BUGS came from Roberts, who works as an art journalist in Winnipeg and helps run an independent gallery, the Label Gallery.
“Because I treeplanted for so long, I’m so interested and I’d met all these artists who were treeplanters. I thought it would just be a good idea to put a show together.”
Roberts began researching and then emailing people he had worked with, asking them to contact people. It was a long process but it was worth it.The exhibit showcases the work of artists from coast to coast making it a very national show.
Thunder Bay is its first stop after Winnipeg and Roberts chose the city because of its treeplanting culture.
“I worked here for so many years as a treeplanter. I have so many good memories of days off in Thunder Bay,” he said, “I think it’s a good time to show it and I think it’s a really good place to show it. It’s the best place I would want to show it right now.”
Monday, July 03, 2006
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Drugs and Art
I'm curious, what is everyones thoughts on art made on drugs, or art made after drug use or even the appreciation of art during/after? How does your opinoin change (if it does) of a piece (or the artist) when you find it was created by someone on drugs? Is it less valid or just different? Or is it different at all? Is it different than other life experiences in terms of influencing art? I know my opinions on the subject but I'd like to hear yours first. This is a pretty open ended question in that you could ask 5 people what drugs are get 5 different answers and however you define it, theres lots of that could fit any definition.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
SPAR
This is for a new X-Box arcade opening on Pembina. The owner prefers the green one.
I like the orange one, but it`s his $$$. Either way, something has to be done with the cheesy gun(s).
I never got into drawing guns or cars.
Salutations
I have returned from the wilds. Let us drink and be merry. Rejoicing it the greatest summer that any of us have ever seen. Let us fest. Let us sing and smoke and dance. Let bachus and all the fairy-folk awaken from their slumber and join us in our raving.
label-design
These black and red designs were my favorite. Encorporating tile designs would be awsome.
90th Anniversary of The Somme
Today, as you may know, marks the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in WWI. Perhaps more than any other battle, it typifies that first world war approach of "throw more men at the guns"-- on the first day, the British forces (including Canadians, Indians, Irish, Scots, and Newfoundlanders, who weren't then part of Canada) suffered 60,000 casualties, with the Germans suffering about the same. By the end of the battle, in October, 1916, somewhere in the neighborhood of a million men had been killed, with no real territorial gains by either side.
On the first day of the battle, the Newfoundland Highland Regiment started out with 810 men. By the end of the day, only 78 were able to answer roll call, with all the rest killed or wounded.
The war to end all wars, they called it.
(picture from www.whatalovelywar.co.uk
also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5136064.stm
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