Aaron Pederson (the eye behind 3TEN Photo) and I have teamed up for an impromptu art show at Elm Cafe, where some of Edmonton’s best espresso can be found. Aaron takes photos of sexy people and generally draw tough, rough, and ulgy people. Perfect match. These are roughly 16″x20″ in real life. Buy the prints today – the show is only up for about a month.
Poketo and Booooooom teamed up to create a series of wallets known as the Afterlife Series, and I was asked to take part – which is flattering, because they both promote some seriously awesome creative stuff.
You can buy the wallets for $20 each, knowing they will hold your mad stacks of bills in the most cool of fashions. Super damn cool. Really cool.
I bought a Fuji Instax 210 while in Toronto, and I’m in love with instant physical copies of photos. Also while there, might I add, Genevieve won Best Spot Illustration at the NMAs, and pal Byron won 2nd best Spot Illustration. Go team!
The Royal Bison is complete. Fresh wares from the previous weekend include: International Beauty Saloon 5: CATS Issue and We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home PART ONE (which includes Chapters one through three). I really think IBS5:CATS is the funniest one yet. Buy it now at our ETSY store.
Purchaseable editions of WHTP will appear shortly. In store in Edmonton, and Toronto.
I made this poster for Gabe Wong‘s really solid Where Are We Going? poster show at Latitude 53, here in Edmonton. With a total of 21 artists involved, there is an incredible range of work at this show. Much of it digital print, which I think is nice and validating. Though there are a few serigraphed posters in the show, and they made me wish I had a bit more time this month to do the same, as it has been an incredibly busy May.
1) Transport Tycoons opened last weekend at the Artery.
2) Where Are We Going?, also opened last weekend, at Latitude 53.
3) A new rock project I’m involved with, Camembert, played their first actual venue show last weekend.
4) The Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair is this coming weekend (new IBS!)
5) I have a full time job now, at the Art Gallery of Alberta
Busy.
This bike has been locked up and abandoned for a couple years now. Right beside Highlevel Diner on 109 st.
This month, OWL is celebrating their 35th year in market of inspiring Canadian youth with science facts and funny jokes. I’ve said it before: I’ve loved this magazine ever since I was a wee boy, so I was more than honoured to work on the cover of this most celebratory issue. They brought back the retro logo (which is such a classic image) and asked me to draw up a bunch of birthday related imagery to sprinkle around. Big thanks to Caroline Versteeg at OWL- always so fun to work with you!
Wesley Roberts is a good man. I met him at the Royal Bison a few Bisons back because his zines really caught my eye. He’s part of the Nowhere Fast Collective - a group of image and zine makers who make this city that much more awesome than many people take it granted for.
I was hanging up my Transport Tycoons show at the Artery on Sunday, May 15, and Wesley stopped by with camera in hand to snap a few photogs of the process of hanging. Really, it didn’t take too long – hanging 8 pieces of paper on a wall is fairly straightforward – but still, it’s stuff like that I neglect to document.
He made a really nice post on his blog HERE, and I guess he’ll be showing more of them once the opening goes down.
OPENING: Friday – May 20th – 8 pm – the ARTery, Edmonton, AB.
image cred: Wesley Roberts