tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34413774150777913002024-03-14T00:47:10.024-07:00 DARE TO UNRAVELUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger317125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-47463909762736510512013-10-30T16:39:00.000-07:002013-10-30T16:40:43.336-07:00Storyboot Project<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the month of October, <i><a href="http://victoireboutique.com/">Victoire</a></i> displayed the <i><a href="http://www.manitobah.ca/">Manitobah Mukluks</a> </i></div>
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traditional Aboriginal arts. The initiative offers a 50/50 profit sharing agreement with the artisans – </div>
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providing a true partnership in the business of promoting their designs abroad. Each Storyboot is </div>
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generation, often taking artisans days to finish a single pair. The partnership with Victoire was the first of its kind for Manitobah Mukluks. And, if you ask me, a very fitting collaboration between two mindful companies.</div>
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I was given a pair of the moccasins to play around with and snap a few pictures of. It was hard not to fall madly in love with how beautiful they are, as well as simultaneously gush with appreciation for the craft, detail, materials and manner in which they're made and sold.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/40972394">Ken Burns: On Story</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/redglass">Redglass Pictures</a></span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-4964128284978624962012-06-28T11:01:00.002-07:002012-06-28T11:01:43.041-07:00the other side<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year, one of my nearest and dearest friends, Cristin, and I decided to throw an art show under a collective we started called UnderBelly Art. We organized the event kinda just because and kinda just to see what kind of magic we could make with some like-minded people in the city. Our first event Yards of Chinatown, although <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">made possible through no formal plan and the most minimal of budgets, was the cat's meow! We had a weird and wonderful group of artists, performers and patrons soaking up the community love (and spiked refreshments) and adoring local art all day long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Our big bang summer art show, PillowTalk (with Mr.Sandman) is taking shape and drawing near (Sunday, August 12! Woo!) </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Right now, we're organizing our community-driven art projects that are taking place all through July in preparation for the show. As well, we are sending out a call to all artists, performers, musicians, artisans, or anyone with an inspired idea or industrious spirit to participate in the show. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The atmosphere of the concept of 'pillow talk' simply breeds conversation, so we’re asking all participants to reinterpret, redo or reenact a moment inspired by the pillow and help us transform a space in order to explore the conundrum of sleep and dream life. If you're interested in participating or would like some more information, give me a hola! underbellyoutfit@gmail.com</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-left;">You can also keep up-to-date of projects and art opportunities by liking our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UnderBellyArt">Facebook page</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Or you can follow our every move via twitter @undrbellyoutfit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The UnderBelly Art Collective hosts large-scale and pop-up events that present the community with an opportunity to come together to initiate new thinking or weave a different social fabric for the arts. Taking the form of a gallery, a performance space, a gathering for miscellaneous ideas--you name it--UnderBelly aims to create a welcoming and highly accessible venue for artistic freedom and exchange.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Our creativity is expressed through the love of thought. Love of art. Love of sounds. Love of love. We are looking for the beauty in every moment--we cheer on the tug of war between artistic abandon and structure. We applaud the moments that are simultaneously chaotic and harmonious. We encourage the heroic experiments of the maniacally over-ambitious, while provoking curiosity and curating a new experience. Like a black hole, Underbelly wants to draw you in and make sure you can’t escape our pull. But this isn’t rocket science. This is magic.</i></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-63857860625954314882012-06-26T07:23:00.001-07:002012-06-26T07:24:46.277-07:00june<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If I said what I
meant all the time I would regret it, although feel better, momentarily, before
everything collapsed into hurried words and hot-headed agony. So I’m not. And I
haven’t. And as you can tell by the lack of activity here, I’ve been keeping it
low-key. How else am I supposed to keep you interested and consistently coming
back if I’m not shrouded in a bit mystery, huh? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Essentially, I’m
summing up this month-long hiatus from writing as the time I buckled napalm to
my actions and reactions in order to give you something good to read--a
vacation from scrutinizing thoughts and assessing behaviour and just carrying on
in a reckless manner regardless if I remember how or why. You guys cool with
that? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So as a 1-2-punch
update: life has been a parachute opened, impossible to shove back into the
case. So much has happened, started, stopped, and continues on in unknown
directions. Read a little, seen a lot. I’ve sat porchside, stoopside, poolside,
on the right, and wrong side of bars with my tight little clad of friendly bandits.
Some of the writing work I’m doing is chomping away at my senses and poisoning my
vocabulary, but then the art!…oh the art projects I’m involved in makes it feel
like I’m grabbing a brick and busting through the window of whatever’s making
me feel trapped—pure satisfaction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> My partner in crime is back from Scandinavia.
The moon is increasingly more influential. I’m finding new nerve endings I
never thought I had. The city! The city is alive and degrees away from exploding
some days. I love it; but also am burgeoning in time spent out of it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some days are like
cinematic feverous dreams, like fireworks in th eyes and swollen kisses and
hallucinations that certain moments will last forever. And then there are days
spent with my head in between my knees, gently rocking, trying to find balance
again. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 11.5pt;">Another nothing. Another something, Another summer. </span></div>
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I'm not going to tell you what I've been up to, I'll just let you draw your own conclusions based on these images--all of which I love and kinda sum up life these days. I know the writing has been moderate lately but I'm so enamored with all things off-line that my beloved blog has been shuffled down my list of priorities. Regular scheduled blogging and all other digital self-indulgent practices will resume soon enough. Thank you for checking in consistently regardless of the lack of updates. Love y'all. </div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-69048740042938453202012-05-16T10:02:00.000-07:002013-10-21T07:13:14.983-07:00is this real life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Oh the word 'efficiency.' Bane of my existence sometimes. So often we're encouraged not to linger over ideas for too, not to slow down and ruminate. Instead it's action, reaction--hurry up and complete one task so there's time to move on to something else. What else? Anything else--the new, the now, the next. </div>
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Celebrated the life and times of dear friends with a good ol'fashioned birthday bash, party hats and all.</div>
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<a href="http://samanthasavagesmith.bandcamp.com/">Samantha Savage Smith</a> at Raw Sugar.</div>
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I haven't been able to write anything in the last week. I'm too happy, which makes me too fucking complacent that I have no inspiration. Champagne problems, I know. But thinking, even for a second, that you're losing your voice is like vertigo--at least it's the lovely kind of vertigo that feels like being drunk off whiskey, but without the maddening blindness and consequential hysteria. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-76727595234770524792012-04-26T08:02:00.000-07:002012-04-26T08:02:04.252-07:00osolee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been meaning to post this forever ago but heck, better late than never. Earlier this year I was asked alongside a few other local bloggers to intrepret and create the lookbook for the very talented and very lovely Lee Ann Lacroix's newest initiative <a href="http://osolee.ca/">Osolee</a>, an online jewelry shop that offers pieces with just the right amount of tough luxe. </div>
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I just so happen to love lookbooks that transcend the garment or piece and are, instead, relevant to the style or overall vibe of the brand--which is why I was so excited to be asked to be part of Osolee's launch. Each blogger was asked to represent a piece from Lee Ann's collection based on their own style. Be sure to check out the Osolee website to see the entire lookbook. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">I left my job yesterday. Not a big deal except I loved my job, I loved the company I was part of, I loved my boss and all my colleagues. I spent the last year and a half involved in some fantastic projects </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">on behave of an incredible organization . And I was actually w<i>riting</i>. For any of you reading this who are also writers, getting people to pay you in things other than favours to write for them is not always easy. But regardless of all of this, there was</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> something important missing and there had been for a long time--I couldn't bear to settle with longing for the unknown any more.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">I've always</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> felt like I've been one of those heroines too high strung for a normal* (*read: steady, stable, fixed) existence s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">o now that the cord that tied me to some semblance of a structured life has been cut, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"> the world is, as they say, my oyster. I have no plans at all. In fact I have no idea what I want, I only know what I don't want--and the things I don't want are to feel too comfortable and too complacent. Reaching a sense of satisfaction is like reaching a state of happiness--you get there and then what? A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">s scary and exciting as it is to tear life up without having any idea of what to do with the pieces, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;">I'm strangely comforted by the fact that I haven't stopped looking for something different. Something more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Think about it. Scratch it on paper, a napkin, the back of your hand. Let it keep you up all night. Grab the materials without thinking. Lay it out. Lap it up. Cut it. Destroy it. Mend it. Reunite everything. Peel away the layers slowly. Rip into the meaning quickly. Tag it. Scrutinize it. Hang it on your wall. Try to ignore it. Wake up in the middle of the night and look at it in the dark. Take a picture of it. Take 20 more pictures of it. Edit. Re-edit. Keep it simple. Kiss it goodbye. </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-27808756830588043392012-04-10T17:30:00.000-07:002012-04-10T17:30:30.389-07:00pink<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I was reminded of the importance of not falling in like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Falling in like is the worst. Falling in like will lead to things such as bruised hips, sleepless nights and hallucinations of a marching band passing through my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sure, it’s poetic but it’s also exposing. Falling in like leads to saying things I mean but shouldn't say. And I need control.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So here's the problem: do I let myself continue to fall helplessly in like, or do I start to sabotage it and slowly pick at it like a scab? Or what's worse--do I even get to choose--will I find myself potentially ruining something because I lack the willpower not to? Or will I tear it apart little by little just to beat him to the punch?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not a cute dilemma. This is something that is going to end in a rich flavor of hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cue the marching band. Cue the blurry vision and careless decision making. We’ll leave the sabotage-talk for another late night as I contemplate the ins and outs of hour-long kisses and gazes that singe my lashes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Two weeks ago my friend <a href="http://remitheriault.blogspot.ca/">Remi </a>asked me to help him out for a photo project commissioned by <a href="http://www.milkshop.ca/">Milk</a> for their <a href="http://www.milkshop.ca/post/19695102573/hello-prom-season-the-dresses-the-dancing-the">Prom Switch Photo</a> contest. He said "cross dressing in the street?" and I said "I'm in!" As you can see by the results, no regrets were had. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Remi and I had spent a wonderful afternoon dressing up, and down, while amassing a small neighborhood audience and experiencing only minor humiliation and few accidental gropings. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: white;">To get in the spirit for Prom 2012, we want YOU to get a little bit creative and take part in Ottawa’s funnest contest of the season!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><i style="background-color: white;">Welcome to <span style="line-height: 17px;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Prom Switch!</strong></span> Inspired by Hana Pesut’s “Switcheroo” series, we decided to take a spin of our own.</i></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441377415077791300.post-58133904593760854302012-03-26T11:18:00.000-07:002012-03-26T11:18:14.015-07:00later, at the bar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sometimes just going for a drink can change the course of your life. Instead of pacing back and forth in your apartment tallying up your to-do list or trying to think of a word that describes the thing you have no idea you're trying to write, go drink some fine grained liquor. </div>
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Good things happen to those who go for a drink. Which is why I went to Whalesbone recently with a <a href="http://www.carlidisano.com/">whimsical lady friend</a>, who sings lovely songs, and a <a href="http://www.remitheriault.com/">talented gentleman friend</a>, who takes lovely pictures. </div>
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