Having fun with illustrator, and making sure my blog knows I’m still alive, here’s a little vector I threw together. Those of you who’ve flown into YVR (or have an obsession with Google Maps) will recognize this little lump of island nestled between Vancouver and Richmond: Sea Island!
Been a little slow on the posting/creating front as I settle in to my new home/city in Vancouver and my transition from undergrad to Designer. But as I begin to scope out the creative community out West, I’ve been accumulating a collection of new blogs (like vancouverisawesome and spacingvancouver), but one I wanted to mention is VANCVR.
It’s no more than a wall of self-submitted profiles of Vancouver-based designers/artists/photogs/the likes, but it’s a fun little platform that provides a portal to creep through the works of the creative minds in the city. VANCVR seems to be pretty quiet so far, but I just upped my profile (top left, MADNESS me…) and hope this site keeps expanding.
I’m usually more tuned to the visual arts, but tonight marks the beginning of a 11 day festival of performing arts in Vancouver. The opening night of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival theatre performances was tonight (Sept.8), and being the devout theatre fanatic I am (HA!), Shirley and I decided to head on down to Granville Island to check out the well-received act: Houdini’s Last Escape. /read more
From the skies, I wave goodbye to Edmonton. I know I move cities (and countries) every four months, but as I have graduated, my nomadic ways are coming to /read morean end a slowdown, so this move from YEG (my two week post-undergraduate home-visiting) to YVR (my home for the next year), is as permanent as it has been for a long while.
MOCA held a very welcome tribute to street art at the Geffen Contemporary: Art in the Streets. As street art has blasted past its roots as petty crime to much publicized and sought after work of legitimate art, so street art is no longer…street art, but art outside of the normal white walls – the streets.
I won’t even go into all the descriptions, as there was way too much too take in, but all the stars of the game came through – from Banksy to Saber to André to Krink – from East to West. /read more
I spent the afternoon biking from Culver City to Venice beach, stopping along the way to hit up some thrift shops and comic stores (yeah, I know nothing about comics, but I like them anyways). When I finally reached the beach, it was almost sunset, but I found the Venice Fishing Pier: a path straight out into the ocean!
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I guess it’s not vandalism if it’s all planned out with a film crew on standby and equipment rented out for it; street art has gained acceptance, if not complete legitimacy. A huge paste was just being finished near the corner of melrose/fairfax (saw this as I left the Melrose Trading Post, actually). I have been a little out of the graffiti world for a while, but I believe this is the work of JR (update: yes, it is!). /read more
Today, after waking up at 2pm, I rushed off to catch the bus (my bike is taking haven at the office) to the Melrose Trading Post. On the corner of Melrose/Fairfax in a school parking lot, $2 gets you into a street market bustling with hipsters. /read more
great. it’s finally the weekend, and it is unseasonably rainy.
my bike says, “stay in!”
on friday, i had the opportunity to help out at a photoshoot by Steve King of NAKAHOUSE by XTEN, and i ended up being pulled in by the crew to model in a model’s (very beautiful) home! /read more