PARTIES by Le Cheval Marcel & Jali

Written by Jake. Posted on March 23, 2010. Filed under Exhibitions. No comments.

A very inter­est­ing paint­ing exhi­bi­tion by Le Cheval Mar­cel (Mélodie Vachon Boucher) and Jali (Julia Luc­ch­esi) com­bin­ing live musi­cal per­for­mances and gor­geous paint­ings. Def­i­nitely not to miss.

More about each artist

Le Cheval Marcel

Jali

What: Par­ties — Comme dans s’en aller, com­mencer, jouer, couper et rêver.

When: From March 27 to April 2nd 2010

Where: Galerie Crys­tal Racine 1701 Gil­ford street.

Vernissage: March 27 from 4 to 11 PM

Other: Live musi­cal per­for­mance by Le Cheval Mar­cel around 7 PM. They are also giv­ing away 2 paint­ings through a lottery.

Art Matters presents Materials Applied

Written by Jake. Posted on March 11, 2010. Filed under Exhibitions. Tagged , . No comments.

Well well, here we are again. Mate­ri­als Applied is a brand new show curated by Sean Yendrys (same cura­tor as last year’s Nar­ra­tives in which I was par­tic­i­pat­ing) and is part of the famous Art Mat­ters fes­ti­val. For those who don’t know what Art Mat­ters is, it is quite sim­ply the biggest art show in Mon­treal. It is run by Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­sity stu­dents and hap­pens all over the city in par­tic­i­pat­ing venues.

Mate­ri­als Applied is a show that con­cen­trates on Design Art and explores dif­fer­ent and cre­ative iter­a­tions of chairs. (Yes you can sit on them!)

I highly rec­om­mend going to this show as it will be incred­i­ble. Also go take a look at what The Con­cor­dian thinks.

What: Mate­ri­als Applied curated by Sean Yendrys

When: From March 11 2010 to March 20 2010.

Where: Les Ter­ri­toires in the Belgo building

Vernissage: March 11 from 6 — 8 PM

LIFT

Written by Jake. Posted on February 22, 2010. Filed under Video. No comments.

Here’s a beau­ti­ful short film made in 2001 by UK film­maker Marc Issacs who doc­u­mented the res­i­dents of a tower block in Lon­don. Isaacs sets up at the most impor­tant com­mu­nal space: the ele­va­tors (or the lifts as the brits elo­quently call them). As the movie pro­gresses, famil­iar faces pro­gres­sively open up to the film­maker and reveal a vari­ety of details about their pri­vate lives.

This deserves to be watched. Put it on your to-do list for when you have half an hour to spare. (fullscreen it)

You most likely won’t see this in time

Written by Jake. Posted on January 29, 2010. Filed under Photography. No comments.

Valid for Fri­day Jan­u­ary 29, 2010

Com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­pher Chase Jarvis is cur­rently doing a pho­to­shoot and broad­cast­ing it live. You will get a very rarely behind the scenes look at the cre­ative process. The cam­era­man is also ask­ing spe­cific ques­tions through­out the ses­sion so tech­ni­cal peo­ple will also ben­e­fit from watch­ing this.

http://blog.chasejarvis.com/live/

Yeondoo Jung brings children’s drawings to life.

Written by Jake. Posted on January 27, 2010. Filed under Photography. No comments.

An amaz­ing project from Korean pho­tog­ra­pher Yeon­doo Jung in which he brings some children’s draw­ings to life using com­plex setups and his camera.

Check it out here

Oil in Water

Written by Jake. Posted on November 20, 2009. Filed under Video. No comments.

Oil in Water from Shawn Knol on Vimeo.

I didn’t make this video but it is strangely sooth­ing. (also I wanted to try embed­ding a video in a post)

A rather extensive list of art galleries in Montreal

Written by Jake. Posted on November 20, 2009. Filed under Exhibitions. No comments.

Here’s a list of art gal­leries and other art venues in Montreal…

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So here we are

Written by Jake. Posted on November 20, 2009. Filed under Update. No comments.

done

Finally. It’s done! We finally have a brand new web­site that works and looks much bet­ter than the old one. The major advan­tage this update brings is that I am no longer tied down to Rapid­Weaver. Don’t get me wrong, RW is won­der­ful but Word­press allows for so much more. (hello enlarge­ment pills spam in the comments)

For those of you who are new to this web­site, don’t panic.The lack of con­tent is due to the new tran­si­tion, it’ll get filled back up in no time.