The Return of Sockhead

The Mayoress of Cloud Town

Messing around & preliminary sketches for a new logo.

Icing on the Cake-Hat

Just a couple of snapshots my table/end of year display at last week's vernissage - oh yes, and the famous cake hat that I knitted and hand-sewed. A lot of people tried this on over the course of the evening (including the director of my school) so there are certainly a few more pictures of it floating out there that I haven't seen yet.

You can see a bit of the "icing-flowers" reflected in the mirror at the back.

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.

Warning: This Post Contains Jamaican Bad-Words!

How 'bout a slice of partridgeberry cheesecake?

Wise words from a documentary about Wayne White, artist, set designer, puppeteer. I didn't realize until watching it that he was responsible for so much of the visual side of many a '90s TV childhood: Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Beakman's World, Shining Time Station and this video.

Last Thursday some friends held a zine exchange party - this was my contribution (you can click on them to make them bigger).

Since we're going to get rain all day today I might just stay in and listen to this great story-map from Battery Radio - stories about Water Street and its environs.