and you've got Tom Traubert's Blues:
3.12.2009
3.01.2009
Clank & Randy
I know I just posted but my brother just emailed me this picture he'd scanned this afternoon of our dad playing backgammon with our grandpa. And I really like it.
Recent Consumerist Actions
It seems I've bought a lot of things lately, mostly old-type things. I will now show these things to you.
Fig. 1 - Marcel Dzama t-shirt, from Magic Pony, Toronto.
Fig. 2 - Super cheap Nike Waffle Racers, from Urban Outfitters, Toronto.
Fig. 3 - Vintage navy blue (w/brass accents) leather travel bag, from some store in Kensington Market whose name I forget, Toronto.
Fig. 4 - Vintage tan leather book bag, from Penny Arcade (I think), Toronto
Fig. 5 - Book bag interior.
Fig. 6 - Vintage wool cardigan, ivory with blue buttons (top two are smaller than the rest), Value Village, Ottawa.
Fig. 7 - Finally, new glasses: vintage French frames circa 1960s (stamped "Jules" inside the right arm), from EyeMaxx, Ottawa.
I feel sort of dirty now.
Fig. 1 - Marcel Dzama t-shirt, from Magic Pony, Toronto.
Fig. 2 - Super cheap Nike Waffle Racers, from Urban Outfitters, Toronto.
Fig. 3 - Vintage navy blue (w/brass accents) leather travel bag, from some store in Kensington Market whose name I forget, Toronto.
Fig. 4 - Vintage tan leather book bag, from Penny Arcade (I think), Toronto
Fig. 5 - Book bag interior.
Fig. 6 - Vintage wool cardigan, ivory with blue buttons (top two are smaller than the rest), Value Village, Ottawa.
Fig. 7 - Finally, new glasses: vintage French frames circa 1960s (stamped "Jules" inside the right arm), from EyeMaxx, Ottawa.I feel sort of dirty now.
2.25.2009
2.12.2009
2.11.2009
in Blue
Lately I keep listening to Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" while writing. I don't know if it's helping or not but I sure am enjoying it.
(from Woody Allen's Manhattan)
(from Woody Allen's Manhattan)
2.09.2009
the Dark Side of Fairey
You're not getting a picture with this post for a reason...
I just needed to get this off my chest: if I never see another riff on Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama graphic it'll be too soon. It's not that it's not a great graphic because it is and I've loved his work since (he's where I claim old-school legitimacy, ready?) reading about him in Transworld Skateboarding when I was in grade 9, but I'm getting older and crustier and something about sudden ubiquity just sticks in my craw (that's a thing that crusty old people say). Actually some of that is probably a reaction to the Canadian Obama-mania. Excellent news for the world, definitely! But! He's still got a lot of work to do! I think the best thing that excited people could do is maybe not buy an Obama t-shirt but instead be inspired to do something locally that echoes the hopes for a proactive, constructive term down south.
I just needed to get this off my chest: if I never see another riff on Shepard Fairey's red, white, and blue Obama graphic it'll be too soon. It's not that it's not a great graphic because it is and I've loved his work since (he's where I claim old-school legitimacy, ready?) reading about him in Transworld Skateboarding when I was in grade 9, but I'm getting older and crustier and something about sudden ubiquity just sticks in my craw (that's a thing that crusty old people say). Actually some of that is probably a reaction to the Canadian Obama-mania. Excellent news for the world, definitely! But! He's still got a lot of work to do! I think the best thing that excited people could do is maybe not buy an Obama t-shirt but instead be inspired to do something locally that echoes the hopes for a proactive, constructive term down south.
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