Creativity and working with it.

Today, I was sharing my worries on the phone with a friend and a storm suddenly swelled up and lightning flashed. Each shock of lightning punctuated the sage advice that she gave to me. With those transformative words, I was ready to see this video and take to heart what Elizabeth Gilbert had to say on nurturing creativity.

Packing it in to move on...

Happy Bastille Day. In honor of this day, I have photoshopped my friend Kay's lapin nain into a revolutionary. (My warm feelings have decreased since said lapin bit me last night.




Some sounds to reminisce to:
Random Musical Goodness


Moving and apartment hunting will take up the rest of the week, but I will update with shots of Vermont and Montreal Graffiti before the end of the week.

Montreal Move Making Music!

Listen to these mixes to get yourself moving when you're in the studio:

Popular Pop KULTURE
It's delish! An ecletric mix of pop, classical, contemporary arrangements and experimental. You'll get up, sit down and work, work, work!

POPKULTURE!

The Lacrimosa is totally worth it!

Hard Swinging Big Bands

I actually prefer Big Band and vocals, but instrumental sometimes just gets you in the right spot.

Give "Sister Sadie" a listen.

Where have I been?

Mostly here and there and out of the country. I think the radio silence can best be summed up in form of song and a Musical number from "Bye Bye Birdie."

Mode et Design Festival @ McGill University

Here are a few selected shots from the Festival Mode et Design Montreal

I only briefly attended the Festival, catching only Bedo (a chain store here in Montreal) and Tony Jordan for Lingerie Couture.

Here are some shots from Tony Jordan (Bedo was not exciting enough to warrant uploading here.)








My full flickr stream is here: Bedo and Tony Jordan for Lingerie Couture


On both nights that I went I got lucky to listen to some Montreal Bands. During the Tony Jordan for Lingerie Couture, Plastik Patrik played, all covers though. Glam as hell, but even in his g-string glory, he could only hold a candle to Fritz Helder and the Phantoms

First off:
Glorious fashion? Check
Ass long weave on lead singer? Check
Songs about fashion and poses on the catwalk? Check!
Actual dancing and striking of said poses that would put a model to shame? Check!

Was I totally in love? Check.

Here's a sample to goggle after!

Montreal Biennale Part 2

Shop Dropping:
Artist Natalie Reis and designer Vanda Daftari have a collaborative project that spanned the Island of Montreal. It was a toss up between this piece and "Obesessions are useful professionally but inane in real life"

Downtown Montreal Grafitti Part 2

More Grafitti from my favorite part of Montreal.

Downtown Montreal Grafitti Part 1

It's Summer here and it's not summer without some amazing work being done on the buildings downtown. It seems like it's just heating up. I'm finding more and more great work every time I go downtown.

Fresh From The presses: Death of Autotune

Jay-Z: D.O.A. Death of Autotune

Looks like Kanyezzy's Big Brother has something to say. Apparently so does he. Kanye and No ID produced this track.

My associate Kay argues that it is in fact a reference to the artists that brought us songs like: Birthday Sex and Pop Champagne, And annything Flo-Rida(I admit there is some hate because of his name). I'm not even going to get into Busta Rhymes and the hot mess that was "Arab Money." Seriously Busta, you have fallen off. Extinction Level Event was amazing.

The Montreal Biennale 2009 Part 1

For everyone that missed the Montreal Biennale (which is not terribly hard to do this year, since it crept into town and went out on a whisper) Here is some photo documentation:
To be honest, I was somewhat disappointed. Although the Themes of "open Source/Open Culture" seem so promising, the result felt a bit like a let down.
The Biennale Website

Some Highlights from the Bourget Ecole:

OPEN DESIGN

Stefan Sagmeister + Other artists
“Obessions are helpful professionally and inane privately"