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Dragging The Streets

I've wanted more than anything in these past few weeks, months even, to be working on gratifying, self-directed projects. The balance of life just doesn't allow it at the moment. However, I've got to revel in the efforts of others occasionally. What follows is "A split zine [between The Chew (whose real name I'll use on here one of these days just to bum him out) and Matt]Finner, of Blank Stare Hardcore. Printed for Not Dead Yet 2011 in Toronto."

Click on the flash object/whatever below and make it big to flip through it.



Check out The Chew & Matt Finner/Blank Stare in their respective holes on the internet.

Maybe if I get a chance I'll digitize the Right & Left photozine from a few years ago and throw it up on issuu but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.

Denim Repairs

My friend's pants totally ripped out at the crotch (picture no fabric touching from all four pieces that meet in the middle) and I love repairing jeans (or anything really) so I took them home and put in work bringing them back to life.

I also wrote up a piece about my visit to Dead Horse Bay for Songs and Cigarettes, awhile back so check that out too!

Making Things

Shout outs to Kyle Cucco (and Josh Healey) for reminding me that I have this, here is a few of the projects I've been working on in the past couple months. I made this coat rack out of salvaged board and insulators for my friends as a wedding present:

and here it is in use in their apartment:

Here are a couple items modeled off of things which I liked but don't have the funds/patience for, a key-hook (made out of a part of a belt buckle) and a triangle change wallet (made out of leather that was going to get tossed at work). (Lighter shown for size comparison):

One of the major presents I gave for Christmas was a set of 5 tea blends I made which I made from scratch essentially and sewed up bags for, one design for each of the 5 flavours with braided strings and fabric tags etc etc. I basically wanted to do the whole home made tea thing on a big scale with a lot of customization. Here is a picture of the ingredients that went into the Masala Chai blend and one of the teabag styles I did:

Not an overly serious update but still some (I hope) moderately interesting content. There are many more projects underway and more posts to come.

theallseeing (Nathan Enkel)

Nathan Enkel: D&C member, falcon thrower, avian aficianado, Planeswalker, printmaker. I've been watching his drawing change and develop for as long as I've known him. The way his style morphs over time and yet continues to carry certain trademark elements is something I find pretty neat to observe. I suppose that's true of most artists, but still, for me, observing his journey is a treat. He posted this new drawing of what he's been up to yesterday and I figured I'd share it. Click through for a link to his flickr with more of his art.

A Confession Letter (Sterling Healey)

Sterling Healey (he's not really using that anymore) asked me if I was still doing this blog the other day and told me he had something to submit. It was supposed to be for a zine that he was doing that never panned out. Check out his ALL MY FRIENDS GREW UP zine (probably unlikely if you don't have one already). The piece speaks for itself. I'm posting it at the full size, scroll along and read the whole thing.



I'm stoked to have someone submit something to be posted. If you're a friend I probably consider you a part of what I conceptualize to be Destroyers & Creators and I'd love to put your work up so shoot me a message.

Nuit Blanche

A few weeks back, I biked around the city for Nuit Blanche. Aside from going to a peculiar Open House, there wasn't really much to see or many things which piqued our interest. Usually, the people I go with to Nuit Blanche and I are interested primarily in finding the weirder/more bizarre stuff which oversteps the typical projections and installations that litter NB. We look for the odd experiences that only Nuit Blanche affords, ie Walking through a hallway of people masked in giant paper bags who bumped into you and apologized (it was way cooler than that description makes it sound) or people in mascot suits preforming for the duration of the night, among other things. Part of it probably links to our collective inability and disinterest in standing in line for long periods of time just to be let down. It seems like it was organized haphazardly this year. The addition of blocking off streets was nice but it was useless. Yonge was blocked off from Bloor to Front but when we rode down North to South we didn't see any pieces/performances/etc until getting South of Queen street. It was a really inefficient use of space. Here were the two things we saw worth capturing:





There will be a new contribution from a friend in coming days and I'm probably going to (Swedish) chef something up for Braden Rosner at Songs & Cigarettes International