Work It: Moving Images

Other than eating salad all the time, I have occupied my time by providing wardrobe to some moving pictures.  It's been good times, but busy times hence the (slight?) neglect of this blog.  Here's some images to make up for it; many of them are from my Instagram feed, feel free to follow (click to your right) if you fancy what you see!

If a cube truck that kind of looks like a moving truck parks on your street for a many days in a row, they are most likely part of a film production.  I've spotted this cube on my street with some crows on it, and took it as a non-ominous sign.

Instagram pics of director Eduardo Menz's customized macbook.  Digging through the drawers of costume rentals.

On set at a call center.  This project was shot on film (awesome!), which is becoming more of a rarity.

More instagram of the crew looking on to our young actors on bikes for the first day of another shoot.  Our script supervisor is all geared up.

Arts & crafts! Customizing bike bells as parting gifts to our young actors.

 The lovely ladies of la regie.  A set dog cozies up in sandbags after a long day.

More kids! On this project I had to protect the young actor from the breaking of a (real) glass of milk.  Slippers, socks, ace bandages, raincoat, plastic poncho, protective eyegear! Check! Check! Check!

Super sloooooow motion! 240 frames per second!  The multiples of pyjamas I had made for the milk explosion. Check!

Veggie Basket

Hi! Sorry it's been a little crazy with movie making madness and posting has slipped a bit.  But we are back today with a lovely image of my veggie basket.  This summer is the first time I'm ordering an organic veggie basket from the farm Les Jardins d'Ambroisie. 
This is basket number three and is actually not the entirety of the produce, as the rest was making it's way into a giant muthafucking salad!

See that funny looking ball with leaves on the left? It's called a kohlrabi cabbage or choux-rave in français for those who want to know.  I've never seen this mystery veg before and can't wait to figure out what to do with it.  If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know!

Oh and I'm so stoked that there's kale!

Alleyway Art

Alleyway art lingers in every corner.  A storm trooper and Darth Vadar in suits by Stikki Peaches (more here and here!)  In the back wall, one of my favourite grafitti artists OMEN, shows off his portrait skills.

Shoes on a Line

What is it about tossing a pair of Converse (or equivalent sneak) on an electrical line (or equivalent) so compelling to do and then to photograph? The world wide web offered some answers here and here.  How about a shoe tree? Crazy!!

Despite what meaning you may derive from it, they are pretty intriguing to look at. 

 Instagram of shoes in the neighbourhood.

Instagram with a new pair on the line.

Hey, artists are in on it too!

Yes, those are a pair of Olek knit shoes, photographed by Jaime Rojo from this site.

Sample Sale Bounty

The easiest thing for me to rationalize purchasing is at a sample sale.  And although I don't go CRAZY and I exercise a certain amount of restraint; I do walk away having to reassure myself that it was ok to jump on the spending wagon.

The sample sale in question: Jeremy Laing, Complex Geometries, and Arielle de Pinto

Rational #1: One out of the three designers I already have plenty of pieces that I love (Complex Geometries), so I pseudo-eliminated one third of the room.
Amendment: Unless of course something really, really called out to me.

Rational #2: I have never owned a piece by Arielle de Pinto.  I have admired her work for a long time and set out to rectify this. I awkwardly said hi to the designer and admitted this to her.

Two pieces by de Pinto.  Super stoked!

Rational #3: When would I ever pick up pieces by Laing at a steal? Next season? Maybe? Maybe never again?

Details of a wool dress with a shawl/collar and moon crater print pants. Moon pants!  I've seen enough flowers...

Olek x MTL

Olek is in town! A while back I posted about (finally) discovering knit grafitti or yarn bombing.  Well you can feast your eyes on the NYC knit mistress in good old Montreal.  These will be down before I see these beauties with my own eyes but here's a peek at the "Butter People" Olek style.

East vs West

Lifetime Collective, Ayden Gallery and Three Monkeys hosted an in-store exhibit featuring new works by a crew of Montreal and Vancouver artists.   My urge to buy art has not yet been quelled, so I have some serious pondering to do.   But in the meantime, cupcakes, colourful beverages and good times were had by all!

A line up of the artists and some floral shorts.

Vernissage fixings

To your left, a futuristic vision by Peter Ricq and right: a painting by Kevin Ledo

Artist (and musician!) Peter Ricq with a miniature (and functional) harmonica

Ohhh, I love this one! That funny little creature is called "Falafel" by Kristian Adam.  And one rad customized sewing machine.

A t-shirt by Kristian Adam and in the background, paintings by Evan Melnyk

Evan working on a collaborative piece.

Bam! Get your art on until July 1st!