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alexei always knows how to cheer me upppp

we're slowly getting where we want to be. go team. the next few posts will likely include shots from this series. i'd put it into one entry, but we've been shooting sporadically.

I'm going to be installing this photo, as well as others in the Learning Zone at OCAD as a part of an exhibition of fakes that Maddy, edison and I put together. I want to print on thin transparent sticky paper so they can go on glass, I just don't know where to get that done from, or if it's possible.
The photographs were inspired by Wong Kar Wai, and I worked in a team with Sam and Step. I'm not sure if I dig all of our content, or even the look, but meh

Christine Davis installation, room painted red with Victory lipstick:

i don't post too much work because i get lazy to upload, but franchesca wanted this set uploaded. she's an incredibly talented 2nd year environmental design student. she made this model for a project, and i picked up the leftovers to help her out. coincidentally, it paid off for me because i got to shoot with the model in the end.

Funny how I had to photograph seeing Martin Rondeau for the first time.

before there was gareth pugh,



there was missy elliot (circa 90s). i don't think enough people recognize how amazing she was.
still from "she's a bitch". respect.

i'm totally in one of those "jyoti, you have to quit smoking and loose weight" phases. we know these thoughts aren't going to amount to anything, and yet they are as persistent as those pop up advertisements on my fathers unprotected PC labtop. honestly, jyoti. ahhhhhh.

the crowd in lab 1430 are annoying the shit out of me. ALRIGHT CHILDREN- CALM DOWN. PLZ USE YR HEADPHONES. NO EATING IN HERE.
"THATS OBVIOUS" replies one of the first years
me, NO it's not obvious if i have to tell your sorry ass to use headphones. NOW PUTTA EM ON

GIRL, don't even TRY to give me tude, i've got nuff attitude for TWO people.

Here's a pathetic, and vain photobooth pix to prove it. I'm saying "WHAT THE _____"

i see you working on yourself, and with sticky seething resentment i think, you good look

I'm exhausted, but happy. Most days I wake up cranky, thinking, what is all of this for? I have this negative attitude I'm trying to work on. It's hard. I am spoiled. Cheer up, kiddo, life's good.

Two hundred and eighty two pages into Family Matters, and I'm finally feelin' it. Family Matters. The title just makes so much more sense now after spending the past few weeks at home, working along side my father. Our relationship is once again rekindled. We are trippin' to Richmond, British Columbia for a week, fulfilling obligations as a franchisee. I get to stay an extra two plus weeks there after. I'll be in Prince George, a city 9 hours north of Vancouver, for four days. After that, couch surfing, art seeing, relaxin'.

My sister asked me today if I would ever move to Vancouver, and I didn't know how to respond to that. I've never talked about wanting to move to another city, or country. The only remark I've made to a friend is "I just don't see myself here". I gave her a similar response, "Maybe. I love Canada, but I don't know... I just don't see myself here. I can't explain it" And I can't explain it! I have no motavation to move, but I always feel like This Isn't It.

I am finally seeing a Diane Burgoyne sound installation in BC!! She recently moved there after aquring a TA position at Emily Carr. Is it werid if I email her and Thecla Schiphorst for a coffee? A tour around their studios? An interview? I DID write an essay on one of Thecla's art pieces, and she's kind of a babe, more than enough incentive for me to want to meet her. Behold:



I have such a boner for wearable technology! Artist like Hussein Chalayan and Burgoyne will be life long inspirations! It's people like them that I intern for The Phonton League/ Phoenix Imaging, even though I don't do many "hands on" things. Chasing the "dream" in baby steps.


-Performer and Light Sensors, Diana Burgoyne



UM HI, THIS IS PRACTICALLY PLUKCED OUT OF MY LITTLE BRIAN. If you're into fashion, you've probably already seen these Chalayan shots.



And since I'm talking about technological inspirations, I'd just like to say how much I love Alexandre de Betak production on the John Galliano Fall 09 collection. White lasers have never looked so beautiful. Never mind if front row-ers like editors of Vouge, and Vanity Fair were nauseous because of it.



Relating to artists from Vancouver, technology, and art, I would like to add that despite the economic tough time (which everyone keeps mentioning) that Douglas Coupland's solo exhibit at Monte Clark (now known as Clark and Faria Gallery) sold like hotcakes. RLLY? I never did finish reading Microserfs... But I'll leave you with one of his Couplandisms quotes that made me laugh

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Forunatley power has a shelf life. When the time comes, maybe this mighty empire will, like others before it, overreach itself and implode from wihtin. It looks as though structural cracks have already appeared. As the War Against Terror casts its net wider and wider, America's corpeate heart is hemorrhaging... Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-frist century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.

-The slightly optimistic? Arundhati Roy

One of my favorite Toronto artist, Alex McLeod. Everything he creates is so whimsical, fantastical, impossible, theatrical, things that I only associate with fashion shows. His images constructed with 3D programs make dizzy with awe, pull me in a state phantasmagoria (history of new media reference,YOULIKETHAT?). I recently asked him if he has future plans at animating, and he told me to check back in a couple of months. He has two openings coming up, for more information Alxclub.com

PURGE
DELETE

!!!FUCK OFF

SURF ROCK
suppppppppppppp

RECENTLY GOT INTO A BIKE ACCIDENT, was out of comission for a couple of days. my hand can once again hold a pencil. MONDAY NIGHT LIFE DRAWRING. i have nasty scabs that'll make you squirm.

SO OVER IT/ YOU
gonna get my purge delete onnnnnnnnn, bitches.

still a linda reeves fan, sorry

My parents are collectivist, & it is impossible to separate myself from this influence.
Within this collectivist nature of my parents, one complies to teachs, rituals, and laws of ancestors. Although my parents have been amazingly handling a balance between this, and the individualist of Western society, I ultimately side with them. I'm not saying we need to blindly follow rules, or that we should, I'm gettng at something els here... My first two years at OCAD, like high school, have been times of indulgence. A few days ago, for whatever reason, I reread Hsun Tzu's Man's Nature is Evil, & I posit myself that one needs conscious activity to combat the desires of indulgence.
Perpahs my time in Mississauga has replenished me with daily disipline of some sort of soberness that needs to be maintained throughout my life for happiness.

Can it be- A Life without Drugs? Are desires, and indulgences are Evil? My Sikh parents, like Tzu, said it must be so. While I doubt my ability to whole heartily practice this, I thought I'd record the thought.