Clothing? Yes. Silly? Yes.
What’s what?
1 - 4 = American Apparel, 5 & 6 = Nike Shoes, 7 - 12 = American Apparel again, 13 & 14 = Blood is The New Black (Milano Chow t-shirts), 15 & 16 = from Urban Outfitters.
What’s what?
1 - 4 = American Apparel, 5 & 6 = Nike Shoes, 7 - 12 = American Apparel again, 13 & 14 = Blood is The New Black (Milano Chow t-shirts), 15 & 16 = from Urban Outfitters.
Here’s polaroid #3: my girlfriend’s tattoos.
Some random photos for inspiration:
What’s what?
CSS’s Shoes, Dot Suicide, Heather Marks, Karen O, Some model from a Prada Ad, Heather Marks again, Alek Wek (super model), Adriana Lima (super model), A Fashion Model (can’t remember her name), Tegan and Sara, An illustration of Kat Von D, A Sailor Jerry Tattoo Design, A Post Secret Card (When you stopped love me; I stopped painting), Poet’s Walk by Henri Silberman, Across The Universe - Strawberry Fields Forever, Super Color 1000 Polaroid Camera
My polaroid projects are ready to go!
- A Polaroid 600 camera that my girlfriend got me!
- 60 Polaroid film sheets came in the mail today
I’m going to start the first shot soon.
Also: I might even leave the unopened polaroid films in the fridge so it lasts a bit longer (DO NOT freeze it if you have polaroid film sheets, it could go bad..).
My sister as a child, back in the 90’s. The only Polaroids we have laying around my parent’s house.
I randomly came up with another Polariod film project! My idea is to create a set of Polaroids that will capture memories from childhood (and my teenage years) from Winnipeg.
What I plan on doing is taking pictures of areas in the city where I have a memory/story to tell (which will then be written onto the Polaroid as a caption). For longer stories, I’ll figure out a way to place all of the text on the film sheet.
The subjects are going to be VERY simple… it will look meaningless, but the caption will explain the meaning of the photo.
Here’s a list of Polaroids I want to capture:
- The sidewalk block where I biked over the neighbor’s grandmother
- My old house I grew up in
- My old backyard
- Under the Maryland bridge
- On the Maryland bridge
- The walk home from highschool (Kingsway)
- Assiniboine Park’s Money trails (Devil’s Dip)
- Assiniboine Park: main field (Teddy Bear’s picnic & Kite Festival location)
- JMK’s foursquare
- Portage Avenue
- Kelvin High School: Bench/Field
- Kelvin High School: The White Shack
- Kelvin High School: Inside - > lockers
- etc, etc, etc
(I need to modify the list to add in more specific stories)
Set #1 will consist of 20 Polaroids.
Art is pretty and meaningful (an analogy to life).
There are people who think that some art pieces are really ugly (aesthetically). However, looking at the same “ugly” piece, there are those who think that it’s beautiful. Why do they think this “ugly” piece is beautiful? It is because they can relate to it or it has some sort of deeper meaning to the person which allows them to see it’s beauty.This is similar to humans and relationships in a way. As an example (that is to the extreme of course), there is a beautiful male that is dating an “ugly” female or male . Why would this beautiful male be attracted to the “ugly” female or male? It is obviously not for their physical appearance… The reason why the beautiful male is attracted to the other person is most likely because he can see the inner beauty of him or her (looking pass his or her physical appearances), loving and accepting the person as they are (such as a great personality for example).
You can take a look at some beautiful people. If there is an amazingly looking beautiful person, are they really beautiful and how meaningful are they if they have an ugly personality and treat people badly? It’s just like art & design: if there is a painting of a bowl of fruits that was painted so perfectly with the right colors and shading but the subject itself is bland and meaningless, how beautiful is that?
Here’s a cute “Valentines Day Record” illustration created by my gf! Check out her site for more work at denisekwan.com
(Yes that’s us :))
I’ve just booked my flight to Winnipeg. So it’s official: I’ll be in Winnipeg on the 20th of May!
I miss a lot of things about Winnipeg: breathing in the fresh clean air; Roaming around mindlessly around River Heights, Wolsley, Downtown and the West End; Strolling around empty streets with music on; The surroundings of grass and trees; Walking across the bridge over the calm river; JUST relaxing around with friends and laughing; Hanging out at The Forks; Walking around the West End with old friends and absorbing good old memories and so much more. I feel so home sick.
Winnipeg is the one and only city that will ever make me feel like home. Ever since I moved to Toronto, it’s always felt like a vacation there, I never felt that warm feeling inside of me that made me feel settled. I don’t think it’s the city itself that makes me feel it (though it is a factor) but it’s most likely all of the memories I have walking around area to area. There are stories that I could tell, memories that I could remember: the best part is sharing those memories with old friends that experienced it with you!
Winnipeg, to most: bland, boring, small, nothing-to-do, flat prairie city… But…
The simple things in life that can only be enjoyed in Winnipeg are priceless.
Maryland Bridge
I finally got the email for my OCAD admission 
It was a bit surprising (but not really.. in a way) because I haven’t really done art since I was a child (WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME?) and I’ve never taken it in high school either. However, I did get re-inspired last spring which lead me to exploring it which then lead to my decision to switch to OCAD. They accepted me (on the spot after the interview) with my first sketchbook ever I worked insanely for 2 months on it and it was sure worth it!!
OCAD will definitely be a different experience from the University of Toronto (sciences), which I took last year. I can’t wait to start taking first year there (exploring art & design). It’s going to be much funner than sciences: no more labs and “excessive” studying!
