Camp Nano feat. Carl Wagan Bookmobile

OCADU Student Gallery – 285 Dundas Street West, Toronto

June 28th – July 20th, 2012

Opening Reception Thurs. June 28th, 2012

Summer Camp / Camp Nano Workshops 12 – 2pm

Gallery Opening 6 – 11pm

Carl Wagan Bookmobile & Campfire After Sunset 

(Located in the parking lot beside Butterfield Park / South side of OCAD University – 100 McCaul Street)

Featuring zines and artist multiples by Shannon Gerard’s diverse Nanopublishing students, this years theme revolves around the great outdoors, keener culture, and the prolific Carl Sagan. Helping to kick off the Student Gallery’s annual Summer Camp program, us Camp Nano scouts will be holding workshops at the gallery on June 28th, from 12-2pm, where you can earn all your scout badges!

Carl Wagan Bookmobile, a vintage Volkswagen Van which has been converted into a gloriously wood panelled gallery space, will be parked in the parking lot beside Butterfield Park the evening of June 28th. Bring your friends, your neighbors, your lovers, and your dogs after sunset for a faux campfire, ukelele session, s’mores, and some all-around good quality camp-time in the heart of the city. Something like this will only happen once!

This will also be the release of my long-awaited  

Wood Panel That Shit zine! Be there!

Beaute Brut

Beaute Brut

Showcasing work by Canadian Artist Jean Romano-Ferderber

Opening Reception Thursday June 28th, 2012    7-10pm

Exhibition June 28th - July 15th, 2012

The Art Bar 1st Floor - Gladstone Hotel - 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto

Poster design by Krystina Plante

Planet Palmerston - TMRW!

Planet Palmerston - Saturday June 9th (moves to the 10th if it rains) 10-3pm-ish

There's going to be a HUGE street-wide yard sale on Palmerston tomorrow.

(stretching north from College to Bloor)

There's probably going to be some wicked stuff! I'm hoping to make it down there in time. Check it out!

COPYRIGHT!!!

I have some pretty awesome ideas...once in a while!

Sound Wave Killing Machine...I'm sure they already have a machine that does this: detects sound waves in the air and zaps them, diminishing them instantly. They must! But if not...Copyright!

Chicken Bully...In chicken coops the "pecking order" is a really big problem. There are always chickens that pick on the weaker ones; attacking, trampling and eventually killing them. I suggest that a new occupation be introduced into the equation: Chicken Bully. Someone dressed as a huge chicken who picks on these chicken bullies and puts them in their place, thus saving the weaker ones from attack and solving the pecking order issue. It would create new jobs...? Copyright!

Lastly, Toothpaste Honey...You know how when you get down to the last bit of honey left in the container it takes forever for it reach the nozzle? You have to stand there for ten minutes smacking it on the counter upside down just to get a little bit of honey. It's horribly annoying! Well, what if honey came in a tube instead? Like toothpaste. Then you could just keep rolling the end as you use it up, and you would always be able to get the honey out. Every last bit of it! Pretty clever eh? Copyright!!!

Sneak Peek - Carl Wagan

Sneak Peek!

Yesterday we started getting "Carl Wagan", Shannon's VW bus, ready for Nanopublishing's Bookmobile Event/Gallery Opening coming up in 2 weeks, by woodpanelling the hell outta him! The entire interior. All cupboards. The kitchenette. Everything! I'm even reupholstering the interior with woodgrain fabrics! Wood Panel That Shit!!!

                                        BEFORE                                                      AFTER

More BEFORE photos.

You will have to attend the event to see the reveal!!



KEEP CHECKING IN THIS WEEK FOR SHOW UPDATES

Tomek Baginski - Fallen Art

Tomek Baginski - Fallen Art (2004)

I was introduced to this short film during my first year of University, but I couldn't remember the title so I had been unable to find it until now. It's a dark piece, and quite vulgar, but beautifully done.