December 2011
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Kid Icarus Handmade Holiday Arts & Craft Show
Kid Icarus is hosting their annual Handmade Holiday show today. Crafters from all over the city will be selling and swapping their lovingly made high-end goods such as poster art, knitted items, soft toys and jewelery just to name a few things. It will be the perfect stop to find that special gift for that special person on your list.
Kid Icarus presents: Handmade Holiday Arts + Crafts Show...
October 2011
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Feeling fine at number 9.
Poster I whipped up for Murderboner! 9 is now out in cyberspace. Featuring our household favourites, Bun B and Pimp C of UGK in the style of American Gothic. Ghettogoldmatt has moved his new and progressive rap music night to Saturdays, so come out this weekend and get some early inspiration for Halloween.
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The Concerns Of Mindy Kaling: Welcome! →
My fellow book nerdz keep an eye out for “The Office” funny womans upcoming literary project. Can’t wait! In the mean time read her new-esh blog.
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About four years ago, I started a blog called “Things I’ve Bought That I Love”. I know, I know. You’re like: Mindy, of course we know your blog. We all lived and died to your postings on that site, you don’t...
September 2011
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Rodarte for Opening Ceremony FW11 Little Golden...
As the saying goes, better late than never. Its been well over a month that the Rodarte for Opening Ceremony FW11 look-book has been making its way around the internet. The Mulleavy sisters have masterfully created another cohesive collection that beautifully captures the essence of their inspiration, but is at the very heart is their own vision. This seasons was inspired by the...
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BadBadNotGood
BBNG (bad bad not good) is a three piece comprised of Matt Tavares on keys, Alex Sowinski on drums and Chester Stone Hansen on bass. Theses Humber College students have been generating a lot of interest on the internet, even landing them a recent write up in LA Weekly.
Tonight at Red Light (1185 Dundas Street West, Toronto) is their debut performance and was graced with the opportunity to...
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August 2011
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Tall Ships
Tall ships are a Nova Scotian icon in the summer time, lined up like soldiers along the Halifax harbour for tourists to salute. The image of such a majestic vessel on the cover of my guest book (more to follow on this) was a necessity. So once the book was completed I felt it would be a waste having only pulled the burnt image once. After some minor adjustments the prints were completed...
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Map of the World
I struggled for many months with gift ideas to give family and friends who’ve gone above and beyond in helping with pending nuptial planning. It was important that it be something thoughtful and personal, so in the end decided making a print would be the best course of action.
The print is a map of the world with editions in two colour ways. WARM: pink, ocra, burnt umber and COOL: pale...
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MURDERBONER!7 & getting to know your rappers!
Murderboner! is the all exciting monthly rap night brought to you by MattGoingHam (also known as my soon to be husband) at our favourite local bar Red Light (1185 Dundas Street W in Toronto). His next soiree is on Thursday August 11, 2011 - so if you are a fan of southern/progressive/new/obscure rap songs this is a night you should not miss. After the first 4 installments my partner came to...
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Nautiluss gets signed.
My dear friend Nautiluss was recently signed to Hemlock Recordings and ever since has been getting major play on the airwaves by some seriously heart-worthy dj’s (ie: Mary Anne Hobbs and Gilles Peterson). I was blessed with the opportunity to design the logo for this new musical venture. It is based on the diamond origami fold, the base step needed to create some of the most complicated...
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CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! tonight at SummerWorks
One of the other activities that I participate in is the wonderful sounds of the choir!choir!choir! (headed by Daveed and Nobu, now made famous by Brian Adams and Entertainment Tonight Canada)
Tonight we will be the opening performance kicking off Toronto’s Summerworks Theatre Festival. Show starts at 11pm at the MOCCA, drinks are cheap and the show is free!
If you can’t make...
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Bachelorette Thank You!
This past weekend my out-of-this-world-amazing friends threw me a bachelorette party that was filled with so many out-of-this-world surprises. The short version of the night involved a swimming pool hunt, animal prints galore, dancing, the police and queerabana grooves. A HUGE THANK YOU to all who participated for their tremendous generosity. It was the BEST BACHELORETTE EVER!
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Congratulations Maureen!
Congrats to my friend Maureen (and her team) on her (their) Gemini Award nomination for the hard work done to put together Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories.
July 2011
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Coast Toting
Finished up screen printing the wedding welcome tote bags for my guests from “away” (if you are not from Nova Scotia than you are from “away”.) My mother did a fantastic job fabricating them, so many thanks to The MOM. Now I just need to find some Atlantic goodies to fill them with, any suggestions?
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Sunscreen →
Anyone who knows me, knows that I do not like sitting in the sun. I will wear long sleeves any chance I get because the feeling of my exterior heating up like a bagel in a toaster makes my skin crawl…more like run, for shade or a large body of water. It also is known that the paler the skin in Chinese culture the bigger the dowry, so that should be helpful for my mother with my wedding...
June 2011
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The (not at all Royal) Wedding Thank Yous
Looks like all he printing for my (not so royal) wedding is wrapping up. Spent most of the morning cutting up sheets of paper in order to obtain one hundred plus A2 sized cards. The illustration ties back in with the place cards and wedding invitation - fisherman and his mermaid bride after then marriage is what I like to think. Now that Canada Post is back up and running I can start writing up...
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WatchReally pumped I do not wear make-up on a daily basis after having watched this video done up for NOWNESS by Dutch directors Lernert & Sander. They enlisted the expertise of make-up artist Ferry Van der Nat to apply 365 layers of “face” in one day.
Towards the middle of the video I couldn’t help thinking of my female classmates from high school and their obsession with...
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WatchI’ve never been a fan of wedding videos, but maybe I should start paying attention to them because this one by Shark Pig is THE BEST. It has a beautiful style that lends to some seriously dreamy nostalgia, reminds me a lot of the opening for the wonder years but romantic. I’m going to need one of these done up for my wedding. *super sigh.
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F*CK DANCE LET'S D*INK: Canada D'eh ed.
The fourth installment of F*CK DANCE LET’S D*INK will be jumping off on Canada Day (July 1st) at Red Light (1185 Dundas Street W, Toronto), so I thought it would be great to screen print a small run of the posters for the big occasion. I based the image on vintage Canada Pacific posters mixed with a touch of fubar spirit. Nothing says True North more than Canadian tuxedos (head-to-toe...
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The (not at all Royal) Wedding place cards + favor...
After a month filled with social events, I was finally able to get back into the swing of screen printing and banged out 50 sheets of place seating cards plus tags for the Stephanie + Matthew wedding favors. Favors will be confectioneries from Robertson’s Candy, a family run candy shop in Truro - Nova Scotia (home of the groom). Robertson’s is well known for their barley candy...
May 2011
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Pardon My Hindi is LIVE!
My fellow comrade in choir! chrime, Neha Thanki, is one part of the newly launched Pardon My Hindi. The website with ecom shop offers mixtapes, interviews, tasty imagery and more - a sure cure to soothe your South Asian itch.
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The (not at all Royal) Wedding Invitations
Here are the complete Stephanie + Mathew wedding invitations and accompanying map with directions. More pics after the jump! Along with taking the “scenic” printing route I also decided to try my hand at calligraphy and wrote all reply plus guest addressed envelopes myself. The calligraphy could use more practice, perhaps when place card crafting time comes I’ll have nailed...
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Wedding Screen Printing
I spent the most part of last week cooped up screen printing my wedding invitations. It was my first time printing outside of a proper studio and I have to say I am pretty pleased with the final results. I set up a small printing station in my office, turned the bathroom into a dark room for an hour and made the shoe shelves into a make shift drying rack. If this could be my full time gig I...
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WatchFriend and fellow die-hard Habs fan, Will Lew, has made a criminally gorgeous video that has a sorrowful romanticism that seriously got me choked up. Check out more of his work here.
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Every spring, Amsterdam is covered with little golden seed leaves from the local Elm trees. They make the city even more dreamy and wonderful as they fly around in the wind. Here’s a short video I made...
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WatchAn impressive amount of folding work went into this stop motion by Erin Jang (art director of Martha Stewart Living Magazine). The synchronization of the visuals and xylophone notes makes me happy and full of smiles.
April 2011
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WatchThe video for their song “Fish” is a collaboration between the band Wye Oak, local Baltimore artist Katherine Fahey who the created stunning paper cuts to illustrate the song and Michael O’Leary responsible for the photography and cinematography. The meticulous detail in this collaborative work is fantastic - if you are in a creative rut this video will definitely help pull you out. Click here...
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Rosemary Scanlon, Artist (Whitehorse, Yukon...
My great friend Rosemary Scanlon is participating, along side twelve other artists, in the forthcoming exhibition entitled Land of Magic: Artist Explore Make Believe at the Beford Gallery in San Fransisco, California.
If you are in the Bay area please go see her watercolour fantasy-scape artworks. Also check out the preview article of the show in the SF Chronicle.
To view more of...
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Letterheady: John Hughes →
It is no big secret that I am a huge John Hughes fan, so I was excited to see this post from Letterheady:pop up in my dashboard. My fiance and I have spent the last year building our Hughes DVD collection and slowly working through every piece of work he has written, produced and directed.
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Above: Hughes Entertainment, c.1990 | Larger Version
Above: John Hughes, c.1990 |...
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Release Ai Weiwei
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing Airport as he tried to board a plane to Hong Kong on Sunday April 3rd, 2011. The artist remains unreachable and his whereabouts are unknown.
Tate Modern, who is currently showing Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds installation in its Turbine Hall space, has posted a message of support on the museum facade and is encouraging people to sign...
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Gilles Peterson’s taste in music spans an...
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FOOD: mussels in an aromatic coconut broth
I can not believe it has taken me this long to make a food post, the ol’ball’n’chain and I are huge foodies. Rule of thumb when it comes to mussels, they are in season during any month that has the letter “R” in it. So if you have never cooked mussels before, March and April is as good as any time to get your hands dirty! I have never had a better mussel than one...
March 2011
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Exhibition: R.S.V.P.H.R.H.
Prince William and I were born only a couple of months apart. So it only makes sense that we also will be getting married to our respective fiances in the same year as well. I suspect my royal wedding invitation will show up any day now…
With wedding planning in full swing, this exhibition is a welcome break for my over frill-o-fied mind. R.S.V.P.H.R.H. puts into perspective how...
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RISING FUND
Back from Montreal. On this weeks agenda, big push for our Japan disaster relief fundraiser. My fiance ghettogoldmatt and our good friend grahmzilla will be playing tunes, joined by Dougie Boom, Dj Booth and your boy Brian.
Look out for special guests + free give-aways from Tiger Distribution and Stussy.
If you can’t make it out on Friday, please visit our fundraiser page...
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True Colours
Despite the huge relentless dumping of snow we got yesterday, spring is still on my mind. Not sure how the “fashionistas” of my neighbourhood will take to this spring/summer bold colour trend, but I for one would be happy to not see the pouty dark ghouls of last summer. Who wears black in the summer? Com’on!
Creamscicle orange, ultramarine blue, emerald green and bubblegum...
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WatchBike season is here! So in the spirit getting back in the cycling saddle I’ve included a stunning film about the Keirin speed racers by Jonathan de Villiers for NOWNESS. This school of speedsters have been pushing the limits of riding fixed-gears way before they became a hip accessory, since 1948 in fact. The outcome? a roller-derby vibe of a state run industry that brings in millions of...
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The Gentlewoman issue no.3
I have been a huge fan of The Gentlewoman since its release a year ago. Smooth crooning UK pop star Adele vacantly stares out from a light and airy seafoam green tint cover, dreaming of spring around the corner perhaps?. Distribution of the publication in Canada doesn’t seem to reach far, if you live in Toronto try your luck at any of the Drake General Stores or Good Egg Bookstore. Let...
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Rodarte on the range
I recently got engaged, I am by no means a bridezilla but the occasional wedding related post will find its way onto this blog. That being said, I want to get married in a dress from Rodarte’s AW11 ready-to-wear collection. drool, sigh, double drool, double sigh.
With a colour palette that references dreamy prairie blue skies along side creamy beige wheat fields, geometric shapes...
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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Yohji Yamamoto at the V&A
This week the Victoria and Albert Museum opened its retrospective into one of fashions most influential and mysterious designers, Yohji Yamamoto. Made famous in the eighties with his avant-guarde style, he was master of pushing the boundaries of gender identity with his use of exaggerated form and non-traditional fashionable textiles.
The exhibition only runs until July 10th, 2011 so do not...
February 2011
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Ride It
http://dancingalonetopony.tumblr.com/
Dancing Alone to Pony is a blog that has compiled video upon video of solo dancers grinding it out to the crotch throbbing base of Ginuwines Pony. Seeing videos posted as recently as last week is a testament to Pony’s eternal flame-like presence in popular culture.
Released in 1996, the song was a high school dance anthem for teenagers around the...
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Happy Valentines Day
Happy Valentines Day! If you’ve dropped the ball and haven’t professed your e-love to that sweetie you’ve been eying, its not too late. Jump over to Kate Spade’s B Mine for the cutest love notes of 2011 you should send to your shorty.
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Are you really asking who is Arcade Fire?
Congrats to our hometown heroes Arcade Fire for winning Best Album of the Year at last nights Grammy awards show. Montreal represent! Big love to Neil Young too.
This tumblr site went up last night http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/ , it is both funny and sad. The ignorance to recognize amazing music is dumbfounding.
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Hockey Love
CBC’s Live Right Now is a Canadian wide initiative to change our nations health habits.
I was asked to submit a couple of words for their blog about how I started playing hockey and why I love the game, the submission was in conjunction with Hockey Day in Canada. Check out the post http://www.cbc.ca/liverightnow/blog-entry/my-game.html
Now get out there and enjoy the winter too!
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January 2011
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My Great Canadian Landscape 2011 Calendar
I designed a print calendar to help my friends & family stick to their 2011 resolutions. The monthly images comprise re-worked shapes of our nations provinces and territories. See some examples and get your own copy after the jump!
Having your own copy is super easy.
Download the file: http://hulkshare.com/yhewb65oo9v2
Best to use legal paper size (8.5x14), in a card stock would be...
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Newfoundland Crush
While in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Christmas holiday, I was introduced to the “Newfoundland Store” - a quaint corner store specializing in delicatessen from Canada’s most north-eastern province. The specialties available included varioius pickled fishes, and most surprisingly two Crush flavours I never knew existed.
Pineapple Crush and Birch Beer Crush are hailed,...
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