a stroll through spreepark

ok, first things first: redundant food. is there such a thing as cheese that doesn't put you in a good mood?

montreal flashback outside of the abandoned amusement park:
sable with camera (high on life):inside the park:





daniel with dino:
leg:
legs:

don't cry blood please.

don't come in please

more than half way there.

retro modern love

i know when to go out
and i know when to stay in
and get things done

a walk in the hood

fancy berlin things

fancy phone at the mauerpark flea market:


fancy salad prepared by elisabeth featuring green cheese, pink marble cheese and yellow cheese:

fancy rural camouflage car:

instead of a sears family portrait

franz liszt at the hamburger bahnhof.

oh christmasmarket oh christmasmarket

dinge

all taken today at the Museum der Dinge:

bust out the champagne

melanie champagne makes the coolest stuff. she's an emerging montreal-based textile designer (and my friend). her work is the ideal combination of function, quality and style. here are some of her felted hoods modeled by kim reichman and alec sutherland. you can see more at the salon de metiers d'art starting next weekend (http://www.metiers-d-art.qc.ca/smaq/).

dogs can

catscan

chicky, moments before activating her crystal ball.
at jim and ryan's beautiful place.

your life is about to dramatically improve

hallo hallo

my matthew barney/enterred apprentice costume from a couple years ago:

and an off-duty plumber costume from ... maybe 10 years ago (i especially like the mustard stain detail on the sweatshirt which unfortunately didn't photograph well):

deus ex sprinklers

There was a three-day cold spell a couple weeks ago. At that point, the vineyard was still green. These pictures were taken the morning after the overhead sprinklers were left on overnight (so that the waterlines wouldn't burst). Each blade of grass was individually preserved.

100% success

this was my sister janine's first ever written phone message. she was six years old. a year later she would go on to attempt the word success on a spelling test. she spelled it: s-e-x-s-e-x.

seems reasonable.

cremaster psycho

back-of-closet find: some of the cast-members from the puppetshow remake of the 3rd film of matthew barney's five-part gesamtkunstwerk, the cremaster cycle performed last year with friend and artistic collaborator chrissy "macho" musacchio:

starring....

The Entered Apprentice




1st Degree : Order of the Rainbow for Girls




3rd Degree: Aimee Mullins

sugar sugar

one thing that my friend alec sutherland and i have in common is that we both like to work with sugar.

here's alec's brilliant sugar cube:


this amazing sculpture is made of hundreds of cubes of plain white sugar. there are two eyeholes through which to view this piece (normally the latch is shut). the effect is an almost fish-eye scene of a small sugarcity.

it's tricky to photograph but here's the idea:




it's like the parthenon in a box, really.


my work is more conventional - cakes, pies, cookies, etc. if you can eat it, i will bake it.

this is for our friends kim & scotty's wedding:



chocolate tiramisu torte for melanie's birthday:


almond shortbread cookies for halloween:


rhubarb sour-cream coffee cake for me:

i hope that when i die, it doesn't look like this

According to the New Scientist, German researchers have proven that if people are lost, like really lost, in the middle of a desert for example, with neither sun nor landmarks as reference points, they will naturally walk in circles. Even if there’s a little voice (or a little German researcher) inside their head instructing them to do their best to walk in a straight line.


It’s kind of a nice idea that we come with a built-in mechanism that makes us go back to where we came from.