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My bud Jess’s new website Atomic Sex is rad! Listen to a very well-produced audio entry about toys & gadgets right here.

Almost the end of January! I’ve never been so hot at New Years resolutions, Top Ten Lists and the like but maybe I’ll try to sum up some stuff here.

I’ve been up to:

• Booking and touring with my band, Nightwood
• Planning a trip to Europe!
• Learning to drive. Kind of. This is taking a while.
• Learning to knit and crochet
• Slowly making a one-off zine with my writing, drawings and collage
• Procrastinating on finishing up and sending out a bunch of mail
• Working on new songs
• Improving on my finger tapping technique!
• Growing my hair long
• Planning more events for 2010 with my film collective

I hope to post more about this stuff and more right here on this blog! Do check in every now and again, OK?

xo

The organ bike!

Watch/listen to the amazing organ bike in action!

Found this over on The Selby as part of the photoportrait of the instrument-makers Joel C. Robinson and Leslie Ross.

THIS IS NOT AN ANCHOR, THIS BOAT IS NOT AN ANCHOR (2007)

• I’m very excited about this new series called project:or by Yen-Chao Lin! It’s a film screening series! It’s a zine launch series! So cool. Equally cool are the films that have been selected for the next edition of the series which features Double Negative Collective members as well as Marianna Milhorat, whose film is quite amazing in my opinion…I just love her sense of pacing and rhythm.

Scattered  Grains

Landscape, an increasingly complex term to define in the modern world, has been worshipped, romanticized, industrialized and made abstract. As we continuously readjust ourselves to our ever-changing environment and as images of the purely pastoral disappear, we must re-envision the meaning of landscape.

Please come join us on Thursday, December 10th for an hour of finely curated landscape films, as well as the launch of Artemis’ Garden : The Land and its Tales, a hand crafted zine on folk traditions and fairy myths.

Filmmakers Émilie Serri and Daïchi Saïto will present their works on 16mm!

The screening is FREE. Facebook event is HERE.

THIS IS NOT AN ANCHOR, THIS BOAT IS NOT AN ANCHOR
Marianna Milhorat
Canada, 2007, 16mm to dv, bw and colour, sound, 11:10

400’ WIND
Zackary Finkelstein
Canada, 2005, 16mm to dv, colour, sound, 08:20

WESTERN SUNBURN
Karl Lemieux
Canada, 2007, 16mm to dv, b/w, sound, 10:00

GHOSTS AND GRAVEL ROADS
Mike Rollo
Canada, 2008, 16mm to dv, colour, sound, 16:00

À L’EST DES VENTS
Émilie Serri
Canada, 2009, 16mm, colour, optical sound, 06:16

CHIASMUS
Daïchi Saïto
Canada, 2003, 16mm, b/w, optical mono, 08:00

Dawn as my avatar on Body Double Explorers Club (photo Astria Suparak)

Well, that was nutty! Maybe they’ll show the video here soon.

via smut-to-go

I am taking part of this satellite bit of programming relevant to the EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY exhibit entitled BODY DOUBLE EXPLORERS CLUB as a guest speaker…um, well speaking while someone in another city relays what I’m saying in person to a captive audience in an interview context. Cool! This Saturday!

• “Join us Saturday night at the Waffle Shop when six fascinating people from around the world will take our stage for a not-to-be-missed edition of the talk show. The only catch is you, the audience, have to sit in for guests or their voices won’t be heard. Audience members will act as local physical avatars for global guests from countries including Iran, Finland, and India. As our host asks questions, participants in the shop will wear headphones and repeat the virtual guests verbatim.THE BODY DOUBLE EXPLORERS CLUB is an open league whose members explore the world through the bodies of others. THE BODY DOUBLE EXPLORERS CLUB is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition Experimental Geography, Guest curated by Nato Thompson at the Miller Gallery.

• Facebook event
• Waffle Shop
• Miller Gallery

From the exhibition notes for EXPERIMENTAL GEOGRAPHY, guest curated by Nato Thompson at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (my bud Astria Suparak is the Director there):

• “The manifestations of “experimental geography” (a term coined by geographer Trevor Paglen in 2002) run the gamut of contemporary art practice today: sewn cloth cities that spill out of suitcases, bus tours through water treatment centers, performers climbing up the sides of buildings, and sound art of the breaths exhaled in running Boston’s evacuation route. In the hands of contemporary artists, the study of humanity’s engagement with the earth’s surface becomes a riddle best solved in experimental fashion.”

(Vivienne Westwood)