Voltron sleeping. When he is not being the devil he is pretty cute. Sometimes I think it might be fun to be a pet photographer.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Since tomorrow is the first day of summer I thought I would look back on some winter photos. It's amazing to me that this past weekend I was swimming in the lake pictured in the top 3 images, and that the marsh full of tracks in the bottom 2 images is now full of frogs and tadpoles. Happy summer solstice!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I am currently reading "The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship" by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman. It's a great read about an egotistical and crazy man who's work I love. So I thought I would revisit some photos of his Florida Southern College that I took in the summer of 2008. The best photos from that visit here and here.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
For the past few months I had a wonderful gig at CBC. I worked for the radio show Rendez-Vous. This show brought together francophone and anglophone musicians and had them work together in the studio. And I got to be there to photograph them! Some great artists were present and it was a joy to photograph them at work. You can hear the recordings at the Rendez-Vous website.
Above are some images from the recording sessions:
#1 and 2: Sarah Slean and Jorane
#3 and 4: Luc De Larochelliere and Alejandra Ribera
#5 and 6: Daniel Lavoie and Jeremy Fisher
#7 and 8: Amelia Curran and Caracol
#9, 10 and 11: Marie-Pierre Arthur and The Barr Brothers
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
More from "Ulysses, a personal journey"
These two images were taken in Sandycove at the old swimming spot The Forty Foot. My father loves to swim there every time he goes to Dublin and for these images he agreed to swim in the cold Irish Sea just after sun rise (at about 5:30 am). In James Joyce's "Ulysses" the med student roommate of Stephen (the artist) swims at The Forty Foot in the morning while Stephen watches. And so having my father, the doctor swim while I photographed seemed appropriate to our adaptation and reclamation of the novel.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Another image from "Ulysses, a personal journey". This is a window in the Joyce Martello Tower in Dublin. Martello Towers are a ring of circular towers that were erected as a way of keeping an eye on the Irish Sea and fortifying Dublin. They were then decommissioned and rented out to citizens. James Joyce lived in this particular tower for a short period of time and "Ulysses" begins in the tower.
The show has had a good run but it comes down tonight. Hopefully it will travel and find another home in the future. Let me know if you think of somewhere specific that it should go!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
My friends own the great breakfast restaurant Le Vieux Velo. Last night they called me with an art emergency so tonight I went over and put up some Nightlight and Irish Grandmother photos.
Monday, May 9, 2011
An image from "Ulysses, a personal journey".
This photo is of a classrooom wall in Belvedere College, a Jesuit school in Dublin. James Joyce went to Belvedere (and this wall is unchanged since before his time there), as did my father and grandfather. In fact last summer we officially confirmed that Joyce was in class with my great-great uncle Edward Hutchinson. Edward was the son of Joseph Hutchinson (my great-great grandfather) who was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1904-1905 and is twice mentioned in "Ulysses". This is one of the connections that my father and I made to family history and my father's favourite book.
Only 3 books left. A qui la chance!
Friday, May 6, 2011
One more week till my exhibit at Warren G Flowers comes down (open till Friday May 13th).
Monday, May 2, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The making of my book
A few snaps from the book making process
First off the cover is made from a thick Japanese card stock and Chris brought the trimmed covers to our friend Paul's house so that they could letterpress the covers together. It was an intensive and full day process to get the 25 covers done and Chris took the photos below of the process.
I had the pages printed by a commerical printer who calibrated their machine for me so that the colour and density would be what I was looking for. This left me with a huge box of almost 1000 sheets of thick paper. They were trimmed but then they needed to be folded. Here is my folding station at Concordia:
After folding the sequenced and grouped pages would come home with me so that I could sew them while watching (more like listening to) movies or crappy TV:
Pencil marks added to where I will make my holes in the pages:
In the middle of sewing a group (the groups are also called signatures):
One book where the sewing is finished:
A cover that is scored and ready to glue to the body of the book:
So there you go. It has been an interesting process, and one that I have really enjoyed so far (still have some sewing and glueing to do!). Many people have asked me: Why a hand made book? Why not a blurb book? Why not a digital book? I guess I thought it would be interesting to try and do it myself, to see what it takes to put a book together. This way Chris designed it to my specifications, and I got the exact cover that I wanted, and the size that I wanted, and the paper quality that I wanted, and the printer calibrated the way I wanted it. And then doing all the work myself also makes it a bit cheaper in the long run. And I am so happy with how it turned out, much better that I ever could have hoped. There are still a few left to sell so let me know if you are interested in owning your very own copy!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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