Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bean Around the World Coffee
No, i don't do crappy puns. That is the name of a coffee chain, this location on Granville was full of cool staff, two of which are drawn here, the woman in the extreme lower right foreground and the manager in the striped shirt.
Local talent
There are many interesting people that i was able to observe and sketch. Melriches is a coffee shop downtown that has this amazing cross-section of people and cool staff.
This guy is from Yorkshire and probably has had more coffee than he needs for several lifetimes, one high strung Mother scratcher.
I cannot remember all the details but he wanted Blair and the entire parliament brought up on trial and i think he was a conspiracy type.
Otherwise, really sweet.
Vancouver by Sketch
We were talking about Vancouver and after suggesting a few places for a friend to go, it made me nostalgic and I looked through a recent sketchbook all done in Vanny's 10,000 coffee shops.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Old people in the front reading ancient books
These people were hard to believe. They had seats right at the front, before the show they argued like crazy while gesticulating madly at this canvas bag, which time revealed, was full of dusty books.
Books so dusty that the guy with glasses blew away what he could in a dramatic flourish.
I really thought they would have had pickled eggs in the bag.
What do I know?
Spiegel
Well, here it is.
After painting and drawing the people of the lovely Spiegel Tent and Tavern on several occasions, i have put down the brush and putting some images online.
If you had a chance to check out the show, you probably enjoyed the quirky production.
Of course, i thought it would be more an ode to the Weimar Republic. So, no Joel Grey no Liza Minelli but equally fantastic.
Velcom unt beinvenue, Hallo to Cabaret...unts da Spiegel.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Late Night on Granville
Sometimes its nice to get drunk with a camera near you. Sitting in Barney's the local bar near 14th on Granville, i drank a fair quantity of booze and figured it was time to get on the street for some air. Amazingly it was not raining.
Something about shooting at night with black and white, it always seems seedy, possibly surveillance footage-which is great.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Coffee Drinkers in Vancouver maybe
This was drawn in either the end of June or early July when I came back to Toronto, not sure. What I am sure of was I was really up close to be looking at the inside of this guy's coffee cup, jeesh that is personal.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Thursday, March 22, 2007
CN tower
I was talking to my friend Richelle Forsey who is a photo lady involved in various organizations across the city from the Twin Lens Club to Toronto photo groups on Flickr. We were talking about the Nuit Blanche from a few months ago and the opportunity to shoot from the SkyLab Observatory.
One of her picture were accepted and will be featured at the CN tower during Contact...check it out in May.
Mine, on the other hand, were not. So, i thought i would post them here, cause they will not be doing anything in May. The images were shot with a Holga camera and then sandwiched with 4X5 black and white negatives of myself and my father's hands.
The city was so dark and foggy at 4am when i was in the tower, it started to look like a mess and to me, took on the look on television static.
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