Poster Child is a bitchin’ street artist and promoter of all things nifty that coat our city’s urban landscaping. We recently got in touch with Post and he let us know that he was up to something nifty. On May 2nd Rebecca and Ryan set up shop at Nathan Phillips Square, awaiting the drop. Gotta say that we hope the pieces he followed with in the days afterward fared better!
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Poster Child’s Blade Diary
Music: Urban Tapestry’s “The Friendship Song”
Cut&Paste is a digital design tournament, putting designers head to head in a battle of creative digital arts. Their goal is to promote the idea that design is a tangible, real thing and to promote the people and who make all the magic happen. Each contender is given a few minutes, a theme, a set of tools including a digital camera, Wacom tablet and a suite of software including Illustrator and Photoshop. A live audience looks on as the designs are created before their eyes. The Toronto chapter of Cut&Paste happened this year at the FITC festival of design and technology and saw a couple of Toronto’s finest, Justin Broadbent and Alex Kurina take on New York’s Guillo Echevarria and Edward Ubiera. Look for me in one of the designs as I happened to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time with my camera.
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FITC
Music by Bitstream Dream (via the Podsafe Music Network)
The Bax Bears World Tour is hitting Toronto, bringing the DIY (design-it-yourself) toy-like bears to our city, and enlisting a number of local artists to take on the task of creating unique designs based on the bears. I stopped in to talk to Rafi Ghanaghounian, the owner and curator of Keep Six Contemporary, the gallery hosting the bears, and got him to show me some of the very creative designs on display. The tour runs March 28 to April 6 at the Keep 6 Contemporary gallery (938 Bathurst Street). On Sunday April 6 they’ll have several panel discussions with some notable folks from Toronto’s illustration community, as well as the owners of the Queen West eclectic design shop, Magic Pony.
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Music by Animal/Monster
Wintercity 2008 may have happened way back in January but that doesn’t mean that Nights of Fire isn’t relevant still today, particularly if you take into account the horrendous amount of snow the T-Dot received over the weekend. Super-snow-sweater-stopper in hand, we set out to get the story behind the nifty pyrocentric showcase that was Nights of Fire.
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Cie Carabosse
Wintercity
Music: Arkana (myspace)
Tanja Tiziana is a photographer in Toronto. She occasionally decides to have what she calls a “Freestyle Photo Shoot” wherein lots of people are invited to come in whatever getup they like with whatever props they want, and she proceeds to take some awesome pictures of the madness. One of her recent shoots had a noir theme, and Ryan was on hand to capture the event, as well as get a snappy pic taken (see about page). Thanks to Stephanie Tung for some of the footage!
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Music by Modernboys Moderngirls - MySpace
