If you want to see what perseverance looks like, look at skaters. They’ll work on a trick dozens of times before they nail it. Impressive. I connected with skaters Jimmy and Adam in Waterloo Public Square when there were some hard shadows that looked interesting.
I like this image of Jimmy in particular because I imagined him continuing to float up into the sky. Landing the trick really wouldn’t matter because, unexpectedly, he could fly.
This is Waterloo.
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When Thursdays roll around, I’m really ready for fun. And the confluence of Bro Night, great food, great beer, and Tessa “Bobessa” Elise’s rockin’ regular Open Jam at Imbibe make it my go-to destination. Yes, I shot an iteration of this event only a month ago, but dammit this is such a fun intersection, and spring demands fun. In fact, there was a sufficient amount of fun had to disrupt the usual makebright turnaround time of next-day for photos/blog post. I blame my poor judgement and Stephen Preece.
Above, this dude was playing out front of Imbibe around dinner time and later inside.
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This is not a bomb, though considering it is embedded in a piece of hardshell luggage, you’d be hard pressed to find a TSA agent who would not freak out a bit upon seeing it. This is, in fact, a prototype of “smart luggage” from the guys at CaseSensitive.ca as presented by Kal Sobel and Stephen Kraemer. They gave the first of two talks at the first ever Internet of Things Waterloo meetup on Wednesday night, organized by my friend Ian Pilon.
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You know what photographers do when they’re grieving? That’s right: they shoot.
After an awesome tribute of a funeral service for my Pops in the morning, Friday night found me ready to snap out of my weeklong hiatus from shooting. Pop, the original photographer, always offered the same advice on photography when shown my work: keep going.
My cousin Kari had mentioned that her son Kraig’s band Substream was opening downtown at 10pm if we wanted to get out. When I heard the show was at the former Cheri Champagne’s strip bar of my youth… well, that clinched it. Off to the Trinity Lounge in downtown Sarnia went Brohemus and I…
(above: Sebastian Shinwell of The Holy Gasp out of TO)
Duncan McLean White, 1942-06-17 to 2014-03-31
There’s a hole in the world where my Pop used to be.
DW
This hand held my hand on my way into the world. Now I hold this hand on its way out.
This one’s for my Pops.
DW
Photo: David G. White
My very own brohemus, David G. White, has a new series of drawings underway that are awesome. Here’s a work-in-progress glimpse of a fragment of where this one is at now. Dave has a substantial background in drawing, having shown and sold his drawings at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition for a number of years and also sold pieces privately. I love this graphite with coloured pencil mash-up. Awesome effect.
I pleaded suggested that Dave stop where these figures above are now, but he assures me there is more to come. I particularly like the mix of faces that are rendered with greater detail alongside the faces that look almost like kabuki masks.
I got down to the Kitchener Studio Project on Wednesday for the opening reception for Pascal Dufaux’s piece The Cosmos In Which We Live, Chapter II. Pascal (left) gave a great talk to the assembled crowd on the concepts and motivation behind the piece.
You should definitely get there to see it, weekdays 4-6pm at 44 Gaukel St in Kitchener, running through to March 28. Pascal, being the awesome dude that he is, said he could also be swayed to open it up at other hours that are perhaps more conducive to those of us with day jobs. You can reach him here.
This whole gig, shepherded by CAFKA, was supported by a grant and gear from Christie Digital as part of their collaborative Artist In Residence program. Since this intersection of art and technology is right at the sweet spot for makebright, it was great to meet Charles Fraresso, Senior Manager for Research and Innovation at Christie (thank you, Tony Reinhart).
I’ve put up a lot of photos because this piece totally resonates with the maker/photographer in me and because I want there to be a lot more of these collaborations with a lot more companies here. And, as always, I want to get your feet on the street so you can see this work IRL. Trust me: looking at photos of this piece, you’re missing the whole delightfully interactive and thought-provoking nature of it. *You* complete this piece.
This post, part 1/2, is the reception and talk. The follow-up, part 2/2, will show an extensive pre-show shoot I did with Pascal on Monday.
Pascal reached out to me before the opening of his show for a little help to spread the word. I’ve found good photos to be pretty effective in that capacity, so I met up with Pascal on the Monday before the show to see the piece for the first time in its entirety and grab a few shots to blog a quick invite. The installation was so damned compelling that I shot a whole whack of frames over a couple of hours.
This piece can be viewed weekdays 4-6pm through March 28 or by contacting Pascal.
I love the makerly problem solving combined with the artist’s esthetic and philosopher’s concepts here. A moderately-unreasonable number of photos follow…
On Wednesday, after the reception for Pascal Dufaux’s installation, I tagged along with the CAFKA posse over to the Cork Bar for a press event. On the agenda was the double announcement of the 2014 CAFKA Biennial and Open Ears lineups. Going to be an amazing time in June. Karie Liao, artistic director for CAFKA.14, is going to have details up on the CAFKA site soon, and I suspect Gregory Oh, artistic director for Open Ears, will too. In the meantime, Robert Reid has a solid piece in the Record you should check out.
Ben Grossman (above), mesmerized the assembly with some hypnotic hurdy gurdy. Regular mb readers may recall the wicked fieldtrip we took to Ben’s Guelph studio way back in 2011. He’s in the lineup for OE14, so definitely catch his show.
