Canada Vignettes - The Egg

A good fried of mine recently reminded me of the value of National Film Board of Canada work. It prompted me to search out this piece. It's kind of amazing to me to remember that when I was a kid we didn't have commercials- we had these vignettes or the CBC symbol for 3 minutes. A lot of these vignettes stuck with me and this egg vignette in particular. Even though it's almost 30 years old it corresponds quite well with the present state of affairs across the world. It particularly reminds me of last weeks debacle in the Canadian Parliament. Here's hoping for better.

Video Stills

Efforts to edit my video are so far unfruitful but here are a few stills from the piece.

Nathan Keay's Work

Yesterday I saw a selection of Nathan Keay's work in the Made in Chicago exhibit, currently on at the Chicago Cultural Centre. I really dig this work for a number of reasons; it's awkwardness, it's forlorn-ness and it's humour. I also like the way it forms an intersection between performance and photography- something that I am obviously quite interested in. For more images check out Nathan's website:

http://www.nathankeay.com

Post Interesting Painting

A fellow Canadian artist and friend, Chris Millar, has recently launched his website featuring his extremely complex and amazing paintings. Pretty fantastic stuff and I highly recommend checking out his site! Here's the link:

http://postinterestingpainting.com/home.html

Installation Shots and Time Out Chicago Article

Here's a few black and white shots from my installation in the show.

And here's a link to an article written about Turned Intos in Time Out Chicago :

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/art-design/69355/turned-intos

Chicago in Black and White

An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago featuring some photographs from Robert Frank's series The Americans inspired me to load up my 35mm with some HP5 and go booting about town. The results are my version of tourist shots. I rarely go photograph 'just for kicks' these days so this was kind of fun. I love the graffiti from the underpass near Navy Pier. It really speaks about the feeling of optimism around the U.S. since Obama was elected.

I also took a few pictures of my installation at Three Walls which really makes it look like some sort of 1960s conceptual piece. Go black and white, go!