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East Side Culture Crawl

Posted January 3rd, 2009 | Filed under: Exhibitions, Photography

Run Around Art November

Posted November 30th, 2008 | Filed under: Exhibitions

Jeff Wall Exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery
This was a V event so there was a large group of us discreetly trying to hide our cameras from the security guards. I liked that the largescale photographs were also lit by oversized lightboxes with the photos themselves printed on transparency, creating an illumination of the detail and scenery. Overall, his abandoned rundown slices of urban life were interesting if I was viewing these from an historical or anthropological perspective but otherwise, it was pretty boring. Also, most of the photos were either from the gallery’s collection or donated by patrons who only bought the photos based on their tastes (which sucked or were cropped too much).

Vancouver East Side Cultural Crawl
My photographer-friend Jen and I spent 3-4 hours walking through the different studio shops and artists homes before. There was a wide variety of different artworks from display (paintings, statues, wood) to utilitarian (furniture, jewelry, wallets) but I didn’t really feel safe taking photos of other’s livelihoods. I did manage to snap a couple photos of the studios which I’ll post when I’m back on flickr.

Front & Co. Re-opening
I’ve loved this store ever since my first year of college and was super-happy when I saw the displays back in the new building, which had a burned down last spring. If you live in Vancouver visit them at 3772 Main Street.

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Studio Shop

Posted October 15th, 2008 | Filed under: Exhibitions

Studio Shop
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
July 4-6th 2008
Concourse Gallery, 1399 Johnston Street

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The Stairs Shift

Posted July 26th, 2008 | Filed under: Exhibitions, Life

While running up the stairs at the skytrain station today, there was a happenstance moment when I realized that for the normal flow of movement to continue uninterrupted on the steps the busybody strangers must walk upwards/downwards to their right position, leaving the left space open for others.

Why was that, exactly? Is it a rather unusual norm of synchronicity that we learnt as a child, or the biased advantages of our regular right-hand society? There was also the random thought of subconscious desires of having a solid barrier or obstruction between others on one side and ourselves on the other. That truly is a design of the mind and social cultural conditioning that is a part of western culture..

Or, you know, everybody is like me and has this insanely ridiculous fear of heights