Upcoming exhibition at Toronto’s CONTACT Gallery as part of 2011′s Scotiabank CONTACT Photo Festival Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award:
The Friction of Distance: The Lillooet River Valley
CONTACT Gallery
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4
January 19 – February 16, 2012
Opening reception Thursday January 19, 6 – 9pm
Gallery hours Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 5pm
More info: http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/contactgallery
A short video from last spring’s visit to Lasqueti Island, produced to accompany a journal article co-authored with Phillip Vannini for submission to the new journal “Transfers.” For the next two years Phillip and I will be traveling to every province and territory in Canada to research the off-grid way of life, producing articles and a video documentary as we go. Phillip has a blog on the Public Ethnography site that you can follow here.
Many thanks to Nova Scotia’s Corey Hinchey for letting me use his quirky ambient track in the video. I came across “They threw some stones in the brook” while looking for something fresh on the CBC Radio3 website, which just further goes to show how incredible Radio3 continues to be as a venue for showcasing new Canadian music.
Poster and outtakes for Playing For Advantage, written by and starring the hilarious Noah Casey, and directed by my good friend Matthew Clarke. Playing For Advantage is showing at this year’s Vancouver International Fringe Festival. The show runs until Saturday, September 17 – check here for details.
From the Fringe site:
“You always start out with the best intentions: the competition’s just for fun and you play because you love them. But then there’s that one point that eats at you even after it’s over. You start trying to prove her wrong or to get him to see you’re right. In the end it’s not about the love of the game, or your partner. You know you should quit, or s/he should back down. But neither of you will. Somebody’s got to win, even when nobody can. Sometimes, you’ve just got to admit: you’re only playing for advantage.”
If you absolutely have to photograph a band in front of a fence, better make sure it’s an Arthur Erickson fence. Said The Whale in Vancouver’s Point Grey neighbourhood during a break in recording at Vertical Studios.
From the cutting room floor: a composite image from last month’s shoot with Dan Mangan. Dan’s going on tour in October in support of his new record, Oh Fortune, out September 27th – tour dates and more album info is available at Arts & Crafts.
