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
Time: Saturday December 3rd 2011 (one day only)
Time: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Location: St. Stephen-in-the-Fields, 103 Bellevue Ave (College and Bellevue)
General Admission $2.00
or $5.00 with a mystery swag bag (Limited Quantity)
Kids 12 and under free
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.
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 have to tell us. We love you. You’re an angel.
For those of you not lucky enough to…
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.
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 design the poster for the show. I felt it was a pretty big deal, a first gig and all, and I thought it would be special to screen print the art work as a congrats gift to the band. Its a two colour screen print inspired by 1940’s advertisements.
You can listen to their latest recordings here and more info about their debut performance can be found over at MATTGOINGHAM.COM
Poster I did for the debut performance of badbadnotgood is up on their blog. The show is tonight and it will be amazing. Looking forward to meeting the guys in the band, you know my profound love of all things teenagers.
Toronto at the Red Light at College and Ossington
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 consisting of four editions. Each colour represents a certain aspects of these crafts . Bronze embodying the immortalized magnificence of the tall ship. Porcelain blue the colour of the deep ocean waters they crossed. Dusty rose for the romantic tales each vessel tells and aqua for the exotic locations these explorers discovered. I have an online store in the works, so these will be available to purchase soon!
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 blue, aqua, forest green. It was a long and grueling process writing out all the countries, their capitals and major cities but satisfying at the same time learning new possible places to visit. I was inspired by the cartography of the 1950’s, so hopefully that translates through this work. Can’t wait to see them framed!
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 his matrimonial senses and asked me to take over the poster design job, so here is the latest visual installment along with the two previous gig flyers. We have been running with the theme of rap as religion, which my mother will eventually scold me for being blasphemous, which never fails to make for some humorous imagery. For you rap nerds out there try and guess the artists in each poster! (answers after the jump)
