Pain Gain
Be creative with your downtime.
Fresh Prints (of Belle Aire)
This past summer, the ever-so-versatile Andrew Patterson organized a Canada Day Chalk Party on the freshly paved Belle Aire Terrace, the most treasured block in the entire Greater Bloomfield Area. Half lane, half amazing. This was the second colour roll that I took with the Holga – and the light turned out quite right. I had a double dutch breakthrough that afternoon and ended up skinning my knee in a skateboard crash. Oh that summer feeling.
The Chosen Land
Nova Scotia is a chosen land. It is not a home of convenience or habit. It is a place that people deliberately choose, and a place that often demands a sacrifice to stay. Those elements of choice and sacrifice bring a shared commitment to community that is rare in this world, and that will or should guide our future more than any consideration of what riches like hidden under land and sea, what construct of politics will enhance our bottom line, or how we can use our unique geography to best advantage.
It is true both for those who were born here, and for those who came from away.
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I began to see my friends and neighbours with new eyes, began to realize how many of them had deliberately turned down more money, more power and more fame to stay in Nova Scotia. No one who is focused solely on expanding his or her own personal wealth is going to stay here. No one who seeks public office for the sheer pleasure of the power itself is going to build an empire from this province. That is all good for those of us who choose to remain.
We spend a great deal of time and energy looking at the need to increase opportunity here, but we should remember that the meagreness of possibility has also shaped the culture in a positive way, and made Nova Scotia what is today. The limited opportunity of this place has left a residue of community values.
- Kelly Toughill, “The Chosen Land”, Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future
Girl Walk // All Day
Girl Walk // All Day is being distributed like an advent calender of dance videos! Every few days they are releasing a new chapter of brilliance. Full screen that ish, turn it up and wait in squirmy anticipation for more. Don’t worry, there have only been two so far – so you can get caught up to speed in a mere 15 minutes. Let’s all take a moment to give thanks to Kickstarter, enabling dream projects to get funded, one beautiful backer at a time. Tis the season!
Backyard Digging
This summer I bought a Pentax K-1000 from the Parade Antiques Dude’s semi-permanent yard sale on John Street. I shot this test roll with black and white film and decided early on to only photograph people. The following were taken in various backyards around the North End of Halifax in the summer of 2011.
A Chris Foster Construction
Eva’s Eat Easy
Hannah’s Homemade Haircuts
Nina’s BB-G
masterpiece of pizza
Life is better when you slow it down a little.
via Marishka Rawanski*
* Marishka Radwanski fell into my lap. She sublet-ed a room in a house I lived in a few years back on Henry Street and we easily fell into a blissful domestic partnership. She’s since moved back to the big dirty Toronto and is doing good work in the image proliferation department. Here’s a sneak peek of a photo-book she launched with a friend earlier this year called Witch Water. I want one for ye olde bathroom pile of treasures.
viktor makes shit happen
My man Viktor makes real shit! Damn son!
Le petit video clip is a snippet of my time spent visiting him at Emily Carr in Vancouver last December. I had hardly uttered a hello before he put me to work helping out with the shoot. And how I love to shoot the shit with that guy! Larger than life.
Big tings! DG, where you from?
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