THIS IS A CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Extempore presents
The Art of Vend Show and Sale
one(or two) days only
@ The Kensington Mall
If this sounds like something you want to get in on, send Extempore S.G. a message…the details are coming!
Here’s the Gist:
Artists of all kinds are invited to set up shop on walls and tables provided. We welcome [...]
Girl Talk is coming up soon in Montreal, Nov 13 at Metropolis. Watch the man dirvish and mashup himself into laptop oblivion!
More info on Girl Talk? Check out the downloads on his Illegal Music site (you have to login).
Photo is by docmostereyes.
Hi Everybody! We were lucky to get some fantastic shots from our set at the Frosh concert on August 29. Check em out, we posted them here in the Gallery. Also can be seen on our Facebook site.
This photo was taken by Canadian photographer, Jeff Wall, with reference to the design of commercial window displays of clothing and furniture circa 1978. In the words of Wall, “I think of these as tableaux morts as opposed to tableaux vivants. At the time, they had become very violent, mainly because of an influence from [...]
Children’s clothes dry on a line outside a quaint home in Zab, Poland’s highest inhabited village. Who knew laundry could be so darling!
Photograph by James Stanfield.
Photo of the day is just something we’re trying out- a collection of interesting and inspiring photos from here and there. Click here for some previous posts.
This photo, taken by Adam Makarenko, was part of an exhibition entitled Apiaries at Pikto Gallery earlier this year in Toronto.
A common theme that runs through Adam’s work is the human manipulation of nature. In this series, he explores the exploitation of bees in a fictitious world he’s called the Langstroth Range.
Photo of the day is just [...]
La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in a town called Buñol, in the Valencia region of Spain. Apparently the tradition started in the mid 1940’s when a food fight broke out between two dudes near a vegetable stand in the town square. [...]
This is a photo of a man named Omer Stringer, unwittingly, Canada’s first person to canoe solo. I did not know who Omer Stringer was prior to reading this article, and stumbled upon it while searching on a canoe rental site. Among the other photos, I found this to be so charming, and fit [...]
This photo is taken from photography.ca, which is a site dedicated to fine art photography. The artist goes by the last name Hag. He is an illustrative photographer who uses traditional dark room techniques, without the use of computer manipulation to create surreal images.
This powerful photo reminds me of three things: most of the summer [...]
Chris Jordan’s photographs provoke a response by making visual the mind-boggling numbers of statistics. In his series, Running the Numbers he deals with the epidemic scale of the physical and ecological effects of human habits. The photo above is a detail of Barbie Dolls (2008).
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation [...]