Old Man Winter (Extended Remix)

I haven't posted for over a month, but lots has been going on... things are in the works at the moment and I am biding my time for warmth and sunshine to return so I can get all energized and do lots of stuff all at once.

One sure sign that winter's days are numbered is the traditional Nuit Blanche festival, the night where thousands upon thousands of young antsy Montrealers find themselves jammed together inside the Belgo building. My personal favorite event is Monastiraki's awesome collage party; Billy and Emilie are co-owners and they are super-duper people. They have a new baby but they were willing to stay up 'til midnight so everyone could collage their brains out. Here is my creation:

The one thing I have been enjoying about the winter in a purely visual sense are the frost-flowers on my windows. I find them so pretty that I feel compelled to record them for potential visual references in my work.

 Some of them look like tiny sea creatures.

A couple of weeks ago I did a presentation at my school for the first edition of CABARETEXTILE, a sort-of Pecha Kucha night loosely based on anything textile-related. I showed some pictures of weird macramé jugs, ugly crocheted capes, matching sweater sets and also a photo of a banana cream pie that went over really well. Here's a picture of me from that event looking kinda crazy.

Credit goes to Adam Cantor for digging this one up.

Guess how old I is

Birthdayface had a party last week:

Here are some of the collages we made at the party (there are some that were too big to scan, I will try to post them later). You can also see collages from the 26 yr birthday party in 2011 here.

Oh boy oh boy! What nice friends have I.

My friend Lauqua kindly lent me some of her beautiful calligraphy to display here as I was so taken by it:

She was inspired by the calligraphy that she found in this beautiful little gem of a book - a French children's book about deep-sea diving written and illustrated in the '60s, when Cousteau-mania was in full swing. 

LIFE is good

Some collages made by Caissey, Shawn, Glenn, Trevor, Aimee and myself during a birthday collage party. Nothing goes together like cutting up old magazines with scissors while getting tipsy.